Academic Licensing Process
Complete details about and application instructions for Simio’s Academic Licensing Program
Simio offers no-cost (free) Academic licenses that are functionally equivalent to Simio RPS and pose no limits on model size or complexity. Academic licenses can be obtained through Academic Grants. Academic Grants are valid for one calendar year and can be renewed upon expiration.
*Reminder: Academic Grants are available only to qualified faculty members, instructors, and IT Staff who support faculty (verification of faculty status is requested within the Academic Grant application).
How to Apply for an Academic Grant
Determine your licensing needs
- See “Licensing Explained” and “Licensing Examples” below to determine license type and number of license seats
Gather the following information for Academic Grant application
- License type (see Licensing Explained)
- Number of license seats for each license type (see Licensing Explained)
- Number of Student Licenses to connect to Academic Grant (claim code is provided for students to redeem)
- Academic email address (ensure this email can receive email from outside your institution)
- Web link verifying your faculty status (university profile page, LinkedIn profile, Google Scholar page, etc.)
- [If renewing your Academic Grant] Grant Identifier
Enter information into Academic Grant application (see bottom of this page)
- Approval may take up to (5) business days
- Upon approval, a grant award email will be sent to the provided academic email address. This grant award email includes:
- Link to download Simio software
- Grant Identifier
- License key(s)
- License activation instructions
- [If requested Student Licenses] Student License Claim Code and instructions to provide to students for how to apply for a Student License
Licensing Explained
The two types of license types available are Network and Node-Locked:
Network License
- A license hosted on a computer server, from which clients borrow the license through proximity (i.e., same network).
- This license is commonly used for computer labs due to the quicker setup of multiple computers.
Node-Locked License
- A node-locked license seat is tied to one specific computer. Once activated, it cannot be transferred to another computer.
- If needed, license seats may be added to your license. Please email [email protected] and provide further detail.
- This license is commonly used for faculty members’ personal computers.
Licensing Examples
The licenses requested by a professor applying for licenses for a course taught in a computer lab with (45) computers as well as for the professor’s (1) personal computer may look like:
- Network license seats: 45
- Node-Locked license seats: 1
The licenses requested by a professor applying for licenses for a course taught to (30) students using their personal computers as well as for the professor’s (1) personal computer and teaching assistant’s (TA) (1) personal computer may look like:
- Node-Locked license seats: 1
- Student Licenses: 31
The licenses requested by an IT staff who is applying on behalf of multiple professor’s teaching a total of (120) students using their personal computers as well as for (5) university-owned computers in five different classrooms and (5) professor’s personal computers may look like:
- Node-Locked license seats: 10
- Student Licenses: 120
The licenses requested by a faculty researcher applying for licenses for their (1) personal computer as well as for their research group of (2) faculty researchers and (5) student researchers using their personal computers may look like:
- Node-Locked license seats: 3
- Student Licenses: 5