For Immediate Release posted on June 12, 2010
Sewickley, Pa. — Simio, a developer of 3D object-oriented simulation software, has awarded an $11,880 grant to the Universidad Nacional del Litoral Industrial Engineering Department (UNL). The school is the first institution of higher education in Argentina to join Simio’s academic program. UNL’s significant new approaches in research and the permanent transference of science, technology and culture have given this institution of higher learning a strong social recognition, serving as a bench mark of intellectual and cultural resource to the community.
UNL is now one of over 140 universities worldwide to join Simio’s academic program, which offers Simio’s 3D modeling software to schools at no charge. Simio Academic Edition is fully capable software with no model size limits and includes discrete and continuous modeling, object library development, and 3D animation.
“The faculty at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral is committed to providing the best environment for their students to learn simulation,” said Dr. Dennis Pegden, Founder and CEO of Simio. “We are honored to provide them with the best software available to teach their students.”
For more than 100 years, UNL has carried its mission as “a gateway to meaningful life” by expanding its higher teaching and learning activities, research and scientific promotion, and cultural activities from Santa Fe City to the littoral region in Argentina.
The school’s graduates’ excellence, significant new approaches in research and the permanent transference of science, technology and culture, have given this institution of higher learning a strong social recognition, serving as a bench mark of intellectual and cultural resource to the community.
“As of 2010, Simio’s tools and components will be studied in the simulation course of Industrial Engineering at UNL,” said UNL Professor Carlos A. Méndez, who teaches the course. “Simio’s environment represents an excellent opportunity for undergraduate students to cope with a wide variety of complex industrial decision-making processes.”
Simio will also be used to conduct Prof. Méndez’s advanced research in the modeling, simulation and optimization laboratory at the INTEC Research Institute.
Students at the school will be able to model systems using intelligent objects and the software’s direct connection to Google’s 3D Warehouse — two features unique to Simio.
The intelligent objects are built by modelers and then may be reused in multiple modeling projects. These objects can be stored in libraries and easily shared. Simio’s connection to Google’s 3D Warehouse gives access to a free online library of thousands of graphic objects — providing students with the ability to solve real-world problems in visually-rich environments.