'Digital Enterprise Technology' Conference in Seattle, WA

Dr. Bill Reiter at Oregon State University will be hosting a "Digital Enterprise Technology" conference in Seattle, WA on September 13-15, 2004 and is looking for papers to be presented. Boeing, NIST and Oregon State University will be the co-sponsors of this event which will feature the integration of Product/Process/Resource. Any schools that are utilizing "Simulation" in their curriculum are being asked to participate in this unique event that will focus on "Digital Enterprise Technology."

California State University, Los Angeles and Northrop Grumman Project

A team of three senior mechanical engineering students in the College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology at California State University Los Angeles comprised of De San, David Meyer, and Jose Cano are involved with an exciting project. The project is sponsored by Northrop Grumman and requires the student team to design a handling fixture to move the James Webb Space Telescope during its development at numerous facilities. The telescope will launch in 2011, yet construction begins in 2005. It will be the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope but, much more powerful.

The final product will be modeled using CATIA V5 and analyzed using some of the tools available through the program. The fixture must be analyzed to meet stress, stability and material requirements as provided by Northrop Grumman.

The IBM PLM-HEAT Program for Academic Institutions

The IBM PLM-HEAT Program (known before as HEAT program) provides IBM PLM solutions (CATIA, SMARTEAM and more) for curriculum purposes.

Please join us on the IBM PLM-HEAT website at www.ibm.com/university/plm, for information, courseware components downloads, and member worldwide forum.

For further information about the "HEAT Program", contact information is listed below:
Q. W. (Buz) Nowicki
CATIA Higher Education an Training (HEAT) Program Manager
Product Lifecycle Management Solutions
18000 West Nine Mile Road
Southfield, MI 48075
(248) 552-5981 IBM Tie Line 896-5981 Fax (248) 552-6886
e-mail qnowicki@us.ibm.com