Simulation Story Contest

We want to hear what you are doing with MSC software at your school. Tell us your story and be entered to win an 8GB iPod touch! A new lucky winner will be selected and announced every 3 months. The guidelines for submitting your story and the award criteria are straightforward. Take a look at our existing University Success Stories to see just how fast and easy entering can be.

Entry Guidelines:

1. You are eligible to win if you are a full- or part-time university student or faculty member in any part of the world.

2. Your story should involve the use of one or more MSC software products that are currently included in the MSC University Bundles . Your name and story must be publishable by MSC.Software. Do not provide any confidential or sensitive information with your story.

3. Write your story in 500 words or less, and email it as a .doc,.ppt, or .pdf file to university@mscsoftware.com . Include the words "MSC Simulation Contest" in the Subject line of your email. Be sure to attach files for your model and as well as image or movie (multimedia) files showing your results. With any files >5MB, place them on MSC's public FTP site and include instructions in your email regarding how we can retrieve them.

4. All contest entries must be received by the 30 th day of February, May, August, or November to be entered for that calendar-quarter. Work performed by a team may be submitted, but only one prize will be awarded.

5. There is no limit to the number of entries you can submit, though quantity will not be used to select the winner. If you do not win during a given quarter, you may submit your story again during a subsequent quarter. (When interviewing for your next job, you may want to call recruiters' attention to this story describing your impressive simulation work with MSC software!)

1. 50% – Amount of realism associated with your simulation; applicability to "real-world problems". Extra credit will be given to multi- disciplinary simulations such as thermal-structural, structural-motion, or motion-controls, for example.

2. 30% – Effective use of movies & images (multimedia) to help tell your story.

3. 20% – Effective written communication. Extra credit for describing the value of your particular simulation work.