MSC's University Bundles recently updated to include MD Patran and MD Adams, as well as MD Nastran MSC announces in-kind sponsorship worldwide for student teams in competitions SimOffice, designed for Desktop FEA, is a natural fit for university use SimOffice is now being sold commercially and will soon be sold to universities worldwide starting in 2008. So now through the end of this year, as part of a special limited-time-only "try before you buy" kind of offer in North America only, you can obtain a no-cost evaluation copy of SimOffice. These SimOffice evaluation licenses are full-featured (not watered down) and will remain active for 12 months, but must be requested no later than December 15, 2007. SimOffice can be licensed locally or across a network at universities and so it is well-suited for use by students as a complement to the principles & theory learned in basic FEA, structural analysis, and strength of materials type courses. Obtain more details about SimOffice on MSC's corporate website. If you are a faculty member interested in trying our SimOffice product, request additional information here. If you are an interested student, encourage a faculty member to contact us; when faculty members request evaluation copies, their students can get their own licenses as part of the same deal.
Additional tutorials and sample models are available to help you teach and learn Adams The Michigan examples for Adams were developed over several years by Professor Sridhar Kota and are stored in the MSC Knowledge Base (KB) with his consent. (Note that access to the MSC KB requires an MSC account – username & password.) The Purdue examples for Adams were developed by Professor Mileta Tomovic as part of an SME Project and through collaboration with Professor Weidong Guo at Beihang University in China.
"University Track" at 2007 MSC customer conference well received Robotics applications take the prize in most recent MSC University Simulation Contest Tremendous job opportunity for young engineer with Adams experience
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If you are part of a student engineering team looking to gain a competitive edge, you may now be able to obtain MSC software at zero cost to help you virtually design and test your mechanical components & systems – to make them as good as they can be so they perform as expected during your competition! See 
MSC's new SimOffice product for desktop FEA is powered by MD Nastran for proven results yet offers Windows-native graphical user interface (GUI) that works well with CAD & Microsoft Office applications.
At MSC's recent customer conference on virtual product development (VPD) in Detroit (Oct 11-12), faculty in attendance leveraged the opportunity to discuss best practices related to facilitating the teaching and learning of engineering fundamentals through use of MSC simulation software. See the 
Research Assistant Boris Mayer-St-Onge is spearheading the use of Adams by a team of students and faculty in The Robotics Laboratory at Laval University. Boris and his teammates are making good use of MSC's Adams software for numerous innovative robotics applications, including controlled dynamic simulations achieved by coupling Adams with MATLAB Simulink. Read the 