{"id":19216,"date":"2014-09-25T18:58:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T18:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=19216"},"modified":"2025-01-28T21:53:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T02:53:37","slug":"students-faculty-learn-the-benefits-of-new-ansys-software-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2014\/09\/students-faculty-learn-the-benefits-of-new-ansys-software-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Students, Faculty Learn the Benefits Of New ANSYS Software Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that engineering students have nearly unlimited access to valuable ANSYS software, officials from the company gave an introductory presentation on how to use it.<\/p>\n

ANSYS, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based company that\u00a0develops engineering simulation software, is providing free of charge its powerful engineering simulation software to UConn\u2019s students.\u00a0Because\u00a0ANSYS\u00a0software is used extensively\u00a0by engineering companies around the world, access to it will greatly boost\u00a0the students\u2019\u00a0value as potential employees. The ANSYS software will also be used extensively to support research activities across the School.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a win-win for everybody \u2013 UConn, Ansys and the industry,\u201d said Sean Harvey, Lead Technical Services Engineer for Ansys. \u201cWe\u2019re building an ecosystem of simulation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harvey said officials from other companies tell him that students often come out of school without knowing how to use ANSYS software – that’s a significant disadvantage because\u00a0it’s used extensively\u00a0by engineering companies around the world.<\/p>\n

One of the benefits of the 3D simulation software, Harvey said, is that it gives students a better sense of what they\u2019re working on. \u201cWe find that students can better grasp the concepts \u2013 seeing fluid dynamics in 3D images helps them understand.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Duke, Director of Aerodynamics for Pratt & Whitney. speaks at the workshop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He told the students that the software is just one of many tools to do their work and cautioned them not to rely too heavily on it. That said, he also pointed out that it can\u00a0provide surprisingly accurate representations. For instance, he said, Disney once hired his team to develop a simulation of a new ride. The simulation predicted different results from the experiments conducted by Disney\u2019s engineers. As it turned out, the experiment had an inherent flaw, and it was the Ansys simulation that presented the most accurate outcomes.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Duke, Director of Aerodynamics for Pratt & Whitney – one of the many companies that uses Ansys – also spoke to the students and faculty members.<\/p>\n

She called the new partnership \u201can exciting opportunity for the UConn Engineering Department.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to open up a lot of possibilities for us to partner with you,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The workshop also featured sessions on using the software to work on computation fluid dynamics (CFD), high-frequency electromagnetics presentation and electromagnetic presentation. It ended with a hands-on tutorial in which participants were given a chance to try out the software for themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UConn and simulation software giant ANSYS strike up a partnership that benefits students and industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":224154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[40],"class_list":["post-19216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 06:30:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224162,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19216\/revisions\/224162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/224154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19216"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=19216"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}