3D test SSPP software predicts static strength requirements for tasks such as lifts, presses, pushes, and pulls. The program provides an approximate job simulation that includes posture data, force parameters and male/ female anthropometry. Output includes the percentage of men and women who have the strength to perform the described job, spinal compression forces, and data comparisons to NIOSH guidelines. The user can analyze torso twists and bends and make complex hand force entries. Analysis is aided by an automatic posture generation feature and three dimensional human graphic illustrations.

Research stuff for 3DSSPP to be shown to users

The Abaqus Unified FEA product suite offers powerful and complete solutions for both routine and sophisticated engineering problems covering a vast spectrum of industrial applications. In the automotive industry engineering work groups are able to consider full vehicle loads, dynamic vibration, multibody systems, impact/crash, nonlinear static, thermal coupling, and acoustic-structural coupling using a common model data structure and integrated solver technology. Best-in-class companies are taking advantage of Abaqus Unified FEA to consolidate their processes and tools, reduce costs and inefficiencies, and gain a competitive advantage.

Adobe Creative Suite (CS) was a series of software suites of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications made or acquired by Adobe Systems. The collections consisted of various groupings of Adobe's applications (e.g., Photoshop, Acrobat, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects)

As of the Fall of 2019, Adobe is using a federated login. Details for this can be found here: https://kb.wisc.edu/library/93947

The Adobe license is handled by DoIT. For information on obtaining Adobe products, please see software.wisc.edu, then click on Campus Software Library.

Advanced Design System is the world's leading electronic design automation software for RF, microwave, and high speed digital applications.

The CAE lab version of ADS allows academic research, however, research with outside funding is not allowed. 
Students may install Agilent on their own machines through the Student License Program. The student version prohibits research. Information can be found here: http://www.keysight.com/main/editorial.jspx?cc=US&lc=eng&ckey=2175659&nid=-34360.0.02&id=2175659

Altium develops electronics design tools – software and development hardware – that unify the entire electronics design process in one application.

An Academic Use License is one that is licensed: (i) in the case of employees (faculty and academic staff), for performing software administration, teaching, and non-commercial, academic research only in their ordinary course as employees; and (ii) in the case of enrolled students is used only for meeting classroom requirements of courses and study where the student is enrolled. Any other use is expressly prohibited, including but not limited to any use by any person for purposes of supporting research and development for any commercial (for-profit) entity, even if a portion of such research and development is for pure academic reason and any use by any person for purposes of supporting any governmental agencies or not-for-profit entities.

The ANSYS Workbench platform is the framework upon which the industry’s broadest and deepest suite of advanced engineering simulation technology is built. An innovative project schematic view ties together the entire simulation process, guiding the user through even complex multiphysics analyses with drag-and-drop simplicity.

Requests for research should be directed to Jake Blanchard jake.blanchard@wisc.edu

Ansys software is used to design products and semiconductors, as well as to create simulations that test a product's durability, temperature distribution, fluid movements, and electromagnetic properties.

CAE holds an instructional license for Ansys. Research of any kind in the CAE labs, remote software or download from the software library is strictly prohibited.

Requests for Ansys research licenses can be directed to jake.blanchard@wisc.edu (this is old info in DEV)

ArcGIS brings together maps, apps, data, and people to make smarter decisions and enable innovation in your organization or community.

For more information about the ERSI Site License, please see: https://gis.lic.wisc.edu/esri/

Arena is a discrete event simulation and automation software. It uses the SIMAN processor and simulation language.

In Arena, the user builds an experiment model by placing modules (boxes of different shapes) that represent processes or logic. Connector lines are used to join these modules together and specifies the flow of entities. While modules have specific actions relative to entities, flow, and timing, the precise representation of each module and entity relative to real-life objects is subject to the modeler. Statistical data, such as cycle time and WIP (work in process) levels, can be recorded and outputted as reports.

Arena can be integrated with Microsoft technologies. It includes Visual Basic for Applications so models can be further automated if specific algorithms are needed. It also supports importing Microsoft Visio flowcharts, as well as reading from or outputting to Excel spreadsheets and Access databases. Hosting ActiveX controls is also supported. 

(From Wikipedia)

AspenONE is a unified web and mobile environment for searching, sharing, viewing, interacting, and collaborating using  the content produced by Aspen’s engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain products.

Athena provides a convenient platform for simulating processes used in semiconductor industry: ion implantation, diffusion, oxidation, physical etching and deposition, lithography, stress formation and silicidation.

Atlas enables device technology engineers to simulate the electrical, optical, and thermal behavior of semiconductor devices. Atlas provides a physics-based, easy to use, modular, and extensible platform to analyze DC, AC, and time domain responses for all semiconductor based technologies in 2 and 3 dimensions.

Autodesk's 3D CAD design software helps users design ideas, visualize concepts, and simulate how designs will perform in the real world.

Obtaining and installing AutoCad: https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/page.php?id=24455

Autodesk Inventor 3D CAD software has tools for product simulation, 3D mechanical design, tooling creation, design communication, and engineer to order.

BioWin is a waste water treatment process simulator that ties together biological, chemical, and physical process models. BioWin is used world-wide to design, upgrade, and optimize waste water treatment plants of all types.

Current Status: CAE will communicate with Professor Doran to get info needed for software db. DoIT doesn't have an action item at this time (11/9/2016)

Industry-leading EDA software and custom IC design. IC, PCB, and SOC design tools, verification and more.

Primary Technical Contact- Ian Sadkovich
Secondary Technical Contact- Ken Hahn
Faculty Contact- Azadeh Davoodi?

CHEMKIN is the gold standard for modeling and simulating gas-phase and surface chemistry that is used for the conceptual development of combustion systems in cars, trucks, jet engines, boilers and equipment used in materials processing applications.

Professor Rietz is retired. Professor Rothamer no longer uses Chemkin.

Sage Kokjohn:
I will use Chemkin for ME 769 in the spring. Below are my answers to your questions:

Which courses use this software? ME769
What other instructors depend on this software, and are any of them primary contacts for the software? I do not know
Please indicate if this software used for Instruction, research, or both? Instruction
Do you know of other departments that use it? I do not know.
Is there any special relationship you have with the software vendor that helps us get better pricing or use terms? No. 
Would you find it helpful for your instruction to explore acquiring licenses that allow students to install on their personal laptops? Not necessary.

Used by Professor Choi

You can model and simulate any physics-based system using software from COMSOL®. COMSOL Multiphysics®includes the COMSOL Desktop® graphical user interface (GUI) and a set of predefined user interfaces with associated modeling tools, referred to as physics interfaces, for modeling common applications.

CAE holds the Academic Class Kit License. The CKL version of the Program is for the sole purpose of teaching in an ordinary course, provided the Programs are used in classrooms for instructional purposes only by enrolled students meeting classroom requirements for courses and study offered by the Institution. Any other use, including academic research, is expressly prohibited.

CoventorWare is an integrated suite of design and simulation software that has the accuracy, capacity, and speed to address real-world MEMS designs. The suite has many MEMS-specific features for modeling and simulating a wide range of MEMS devices, including inertial sensors (accelerometers and gyros),microphones, resonators, and actuators.

PTC Creo Parametric provides the broadest range of powerful yet flexible 3D CAD capabilities to accelerate the product development process. By automating tasks such as creating engineering drawings, you’re able to avoid errors and save significant time.

DeckBuild is an interactive runtime and input file development environment within which all Silvaco’s TCAD and several other EDA products can run. DeckBuild has numerous simulator specific and general debugger style tools, such as powerful extract statements, GUI based process file input, line by line runtime execution and intuitive input file syntactical error messages. DeckBuild contains an extensive library of hundreds of pre-run examples decks which cover many technologies and materials, and also allow the user to rapidly become highly productive.

Design Compiler Graphical uses advanced optimizations combined with accurate net delay modeling to achieve 5% faster timing post-placement. It extends DC Ultra™ topographical technology to provide physical guidance to IC Compiler, tightening timing and area correlation between synthesis and placement to 5% while speeding-up IC Compiler placement by 1.5X.

DevEdit can be used to either create a device from scratch or to remesh or edit an existing device. DevEdit creates standard Silvaco structures that are easily integrated into Silvaco 2D or 3D simulators and other support tools.

DFMA allows you to generate accurate part and tooling cost estimates for new designs and alternative materials and processes; evaluate supplier quotations against should-costing estimates; generate realistic estimates for target costing initiatives; and benchmark competitors’ products.

Used by Kim Manner in ME 349

Dytran is an explicit finite element analysis (FEA) solution for simulating short-duration events like impact and crash, and to analyze the complex nonlinear behavior that structures undergo during these events.

Accurately simulate control systems, hydraulics (including thermal effects), pneumatics, gaseous flow, thermal, electrical, mechanical, refrigeration, environment control, lubrication or fuel systems, and sampled-data/discrete-time behavior.

Eclipse is an integrated development environment (IDE). It contains a base workspace and an extensible plug-in system for customizing the environment. Written mostly in Java, Eclipse can be used to develop applications.

EES (pronounced 'ease') is a general equation-solving program that can numerically solve thousands of coupled non-linear algebraic and differential equations. The program can also be used to solve differential and integral equations, do optimization, provide uncertainty analyses, perform linear and non-linear regression, convert units, check unit consistency, and generate publication-quality plots. A major feature of EES is the high accuracy thermodynamic and transport property database that is provided for hundreds of substances in a manner that allows it to be used with the equation solving capability.

ETABS is the ultimate integrated software package for the structural analysis and design of buildings. Incorporating 40 years of continuous research and development, this latest ETABS offers unmatched 3D object based modeling and visualization tools, blazingly fast linear and nonlinear analytical power, sophisticated and comprehensive design capabilities for a wide-range of materials, and insightful graphic displays, reports, and schematic drawings that allow users to quickly and easily decipher and understand analysis and design results.

FEHT is an acronym for Finite Element Heat Transfer. FEHT was originally designed to facilitate the numerical solution of steady-state and transient two-dimensional conduction heat transfer problems.

For more information about FEHT, and how to obtain it, see https://feht.cae.wisc.edu/

FLOW-3D provides a complete and versatile CFD simulation platform for engineers investigating the dynamic behavior of liquids and gas in a wide range of industrial applications and physical processes. FLOW-3D focuses on free surface and multi-phase applications, serving a broad range of industries including microfluidics, bio-medical devices, water civil infrastructure, aerospace, consumer products, additive manufacturing, inkjet printing, laser welding, automotive, offshore, energy and automotive.

IF YOU ARE AN ACADEMIC USER, YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE OBLIGATED TO RESTRICT YOUR USE OF THE SOFTWARE TO TEACHING, ACADEMIC AND/OR UNSPONSORED RESEARCH, OR SPONSORED RESEARCH THAT CAN AND WILL BE FREELY PUBLISHED WITH NO PROPRIETARY RESTRICTIONS.

The General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) is a high-level modeling system for mathematical programming and optimization. It consists of a language compiler and a stable of integrated high-performance solvers. GAMS is tailored for complex, large scale modeling applications, and allows you to build large maintainable models that can be adapted quickly to new situations.

HTTP Commander is a web based file manager known since 2002 and used by 100 000+ end users. This software is intended for fast and easy integration of web site functionality with sharing and management of files and documents on a Windows server through a web browser over net.

ICE was designed to reduce take-off time, develop more bids in less time, improve bid accuracy and enhance productivity.

Replaced by WinEST

The µVision IDE from Keil combines project management, make facilities, source code editing, program debugging, and complete simulation in one powerful environment.

Kiwi Syslog Server offers busy IT administrators a robust and affordable syslog server. Easy to set up and configure, Kiwi Syslog Server receives, logs, displays, alerts on, and forwards syslog, SNMP trap, and Windows event log messages from devices such as routers, switches, Linux and Unix hosts, and Windows servers.

LabVIEW software is ideal for any measurement or control system, and the heart of the NI design platform. Integrating all the tools that engineers and scientists need to build a wide range of applications in dramatically less time, LabVIEW is a development environment for problem solving, accelerated productivity, and continual innovation.

LTspice IV is a high performance SPICE simulator, schematic capture and waveform viewer with enhancements and models for easing the simulation of switching regulators.

Free software with no restrictions for use. See RT 421864 and 433106

The result of over 30 years of cutting-edge research and development, Maple combines the world's most powerful mathematical computation engine with an intuitive, clickable user interface.

EULA: http://www.maplesoft.com/documentation_center/Maplesoft_EULA.pdf

Marc is a powerful, general-purpose, nonlinear finite element analysis solution to accurately simulate the response of your products under static, dynamic and multi-physics loading scenarios.

PTC Mathcad is the single solution for solving, analyzing, and sharing your most vital engineering calculations.

PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 allows bigger problems to be solved, faster. With hundreds of built-in mathematical functions and the unlimited ability to define your own, the capability to solve equations both numerically and symbolically, and the proficiency to solve complex systems of equations, this release will support your advanced engineering design exploration.

Mathematica is a computational software program used in many scientific, engineering, mathematical and computing fields, based on symbolic mathematics.

MATLAB Compiler™ lets you share MATLAB® programs as standalone applications or shared libraries for integration with common programming languages. Applications and libraries created with MATLAB Compiler use the MATLAB Compiler Runtime, which enables royalty-free deployment to users who do not have MATLAB.

Spreadsheet Link™ EX connects Excel® spreadsheet software with the MATLAB® workspace, enabling you to access the MATLAB environment from an Excel spreadsheet. With Spreadsheet Link EX software, you can exchange data between MATLAB and Excel, taking advantage of the familiar Excel interface while accessing the computational speed and visualization capabilities of MATLAB.

SimMechanics™ provides a multibody simulation environment for 3D mechanical systems, such as robots, vehicle suspensions, construction equipment, and aircraft landing gear. You model the multibody system using blocks representing bodies, joints, constraints, and force elements, and then SimMechanics formulates and solves the equations of motion for the complete mechanical system. Models from CAD systems, including mass, inertia, joint, constraint, and 3D geometry, can be imported into SimMechanics. An automatically generated 3D animation lets you visualize the system dynamics.

Simscape™ provides an environment for modeling and simulating physical systems spanning mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and other physical domains.  It provides fundamental building blocks from these domains that you can assemble into models of physical components, such as electric motors, inverting op-amps, hydraulic valves, and ratchet mechanisms.  Because Simscape components use physical connections, your models match the structure of the system you are developing.

Simulink® is a block diagram environment for multidomain simulation and Model-Based Design. It supports simulation, automatic code generation, and continuous test and verification of embedded systems.

Simulink Control Design™ lets you design and analyze plants and control systems modeled in Simulink® and automatically tune PID controller gains to meet performance requirements.  Simulink Control Design provides tools that let you compute simulation-based frequency responses without modifying your model.

Stateflow® is an environment for modeling and simulating combinatorial and sequential decision logic based on state machines and flow charts. Stateflow lets you combine graphical and tabular representations, including state transition diagrams, flow charts, state transition tables, and truth tables, to model how your system reacts to events, time-based conditions, and external input signals.

MATLAB® is a high-level language and interactive environment for numerical computation, visualization, and programming. Using MATLAB, you can analyze data, develop algorithms, and create models and applications. The language, tools, and built-in math functions enable you to explore multiple approaches and reach a solution faster than with spreadsheets or traditional programming languages, such as C/C++ or Java®.

Bioinformatics Toolbox™ provides algorithms and apps for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), microarray analysis, mass spectrometry, and gene ontology. Using toolbox functions, you can read genomic and proteomic data from standard file formats such as SAM, FASTA, CEL, and CDF, as well as from online databases such as the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus and GenBank®.

Control System Toolbox™ provides industry-standard algorithms and apps for systematically analyzing, designing, and tuning linear control systems. You can specify your system as a transfer function, state-space, zero-pole-gain or frequency-response model.

Curve Fitting Toolbox™ provides an app and functions for fitting curves and surfaces to data. The toolbox lets you perform exploratory data analysis, preprocess and post-process data, compare candidate models, and remove outliers. You can conduct regression analysis using the library of linear and nonlinear models provided or specify your own custom equations.  The library provides optimized solver parameters and starting conditions to improve the quality of your fits. The toolbox also supports nonparametric modeling techniques, such as splines, interpolation, and smoothing.

Data Acquisition Toolbox™ provides functions for connecting MATLAB® to data acquisition hardware. The toolbox supports a variety of DAQ hardware, including USB, PCI, PCI-Express®, PXI, and PXI-Express devices, from National Instruments, Measurement Computing, Advantech, Data Translation, and other vendors.

Database Toolbox™ provides an app and functions for exchanging data between relational databases and MATLAB®. You can use SQL commands to read and write data or use the Database Explorer app to interact with a database without using SQL.

MATLAB Distributed Computing Server™ lets you run computationally intensive MATLAB®programs and Simulink® models on computer clusters, clouds, and grids. You develop your program or model on a multicore desktop computer using Parallel Computing Toolbox™ and then scale up to many computers by running it on MATLAB Distributed Computing Server. The server supports batch jobs, parallel computations, and distributed large data. The server includes a built-in cluster job scheduler and provides support for commonly used third-party schedulers.

System Identification Toolbox™ provides MATLAB® functions, Simulink® blocks, and an appfor constructing mathematical models of dynamic systems from measured input-output data. It lets you create and use models of dynamic systems not easily modeled from first principles or specifications. You can use time-domain and frequency-domain input-output data to identify continuous-time and discrete-time transfer functions, process models, and state-space models. The toolbox also provides algorithms for embedded online parameter estimation.

Image Processing Toolbox™ provides a comprehensive set of reference-standardalgorithms, functions, and apps for image processing, analysis, visualization, and algorithm development. You can perform image analysis, image segmentation, image enhancement, noise reduction, geometric transformations, and image registration. Many toolbox functions support multicore processors, GPUs, and C-code generation.

Instrument Control Toolbox™ lets you connect MATLAB® directly to instruments such as oscilloscopes, function generators, signal analyzers, power supplies, and analytical instruments. The toolbox connects to your instruments via instrument drivers such as IVI and VXIplug&play, or via text-based SCPI commands over commonly used communication protocols such as GPIB, VISA, TCP/IP, and UDP. You can also control and acquire data from your test equipment without writing code.

Mapping Toolbox™ provides algorithms, functions, and an app for analyzing geographic data and creating map displays in MATLAB®. You can import vector and raster data from a wide range of file formats and web map servers. The toolbox lets you subset and customize data using trimming, interpolation, resampling, coordinate transformations, and other techniques. Geospatial data can be combined with base map layers from multiple sources in a single map display. You can export data in file formats such as shapefile, GeoTIFF, and KML. By incorporating mapping functions into MATLAB programs, you can automate frequent tasks in your geospatial workflow.

Neural Network Toolbox™ provides functions and apps for modeling complex nonlinearsystems that are not easily modeled with a closed-form equation. Neural Network Toolbox supports supervised learning with feedforward, radial basis, and dynamic networks. It also supports unsupervised learning with self-organizing maps and competitive layers. With the toolbox you can design, train, visualize, and simulate neural networks. You can use Neural Network Toolbox for applications such as data fitting, pattern recognition, clustering, time-series prediction, and dynamic system modeling and control.

Optimization Toolbox™ provides functions for finding parameters that minimize or maximize objectives while satisfying constraints. The toolbox includes solvers for linear programming, mixed-integer linear programming, quadratic programming, nonlinear optimization, and nonlinear least squares. You can use these solvers to find optimal solutions to continuous and discrete problems, perform tradeoff analyses, and incorporate optimization methods into algorithms and applications.

The Partial Differential Equation Toolbox™ product contains tools for the study and solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) in two-space dimensions (2-D) and time. A PDE app and functions let you preprocess, solve, and postprocess generic 2-D PDEs for a broad range of engineering and science applications.

Signal Processing Toolbox™ provides industry-standard algorithms and apps for analog and digital signal processing (DSP). You can use the toolbox to visualize signals in time and frequency domains, compute FFTs for spectral analysis, design FIR and IIR filters, and implement convolution, modulation, resampling, and other signal processing techniques. Algorithms in the toolbox can be used as a basis for developing custom algorithms for audio and speech processing, instrumentation, and baseband wireless communications.

Statistics Toolbox™ provides statistical and machine learning algorithms and tools for organizing, analyzing, and modeling data. You can use regression or classification for predictive modeling, generate random numbers for Monte Carlo simulations, use statistical plots for exploratory data analysis, and perform hypothesis tests.

Symbolic Math Toolbox™ provides functions for solving and manipulating symbolic math expressions and performing variable-precision arithmetic. You can analytically perform differentiation, integration, simplification, transforms, and equation solving. You can also generate code for MATLAB®, Simulink®, and Simscape™ from symbolic math expressions.

Wavelet Toolbox™ provides functions and an app for developing wavelet-based algorithms for the analysis, synthesis, denoising, and compression of signals and images.

Marc and Mentat combine to deliver a complete solution (pre-processing solution and post-processing solution) for implicit nonlinear FEA.

Microsoft Office is an office suite of desktop applications (including Word, Exel and Powerpoint), servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and OS X operating systems.

Microsoft Project is a project management software program, developed and sold by Microsoft, which is designed to assist a project manager in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads.

Microsoft Visio is a diagramming and vector graphics application and is part of the Microsoft Office family. The product was first introduced in 1992, made by the Shapeware corporation.

Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs for Microsoft Windows, as well as web sites, web applications and web services.

Analyze your data and improve your products and services with the leading statistical software used for quality improvement worldwide.

Mentor Graphics was the first to combine single kernel simulator (SKS) technology with a unified debug environment for Verilog, VHDL, and SystemC. The combination of industry-leading, native SKS performance with the best integrated debug and analysis environment make ModelSim® the simulator of choice for both ASIC and FPGA designs.

Moldex3D is the world leading CAE product for the plastic injection molding industry. With the best-in-class analysis technology, Moldex3D can help you carry out in-depth simulation of the widest range of injection molding processes  and to optimize product designs and manufacturability.

The rapid modeling technology used by MPX is based on the most recent advances in network queueing theory and reliability modeling, branches of engineering applied mathematics that are especially suited to the modeling and evaluation of the factory floor.

REMOVED FROM THE LAB MACHINES. NO LONGER AVAILABLE

ADAMS is a multibody dynamics simulation software equipped with Fortran and C++ numerical solvers.

As the world's most widely used Multibody Dynamics (MBD) software, Adams helps engineers to study the dynamics of moving parts, how loads and forces are distributed throughout mechanical systems.

FTire focus on:

- Modelization (tire belt structure and tread description)
- Advanced modelization (tread wear and thermal model, tread pattern)
- Road modelization (3D road surfaces, flexible road surfaces, spatial parametric road descriptions)
- Input/Output data file handling (tire and road data handling, additional result files)

(Source: http://www.mscsoftware.com/)

EMCO MSI Package Builder is an installation authoring tool designed to help administrators to create, maintain and distribute Windows Installer packages. It can be used to create MSI packages easily, to modify existing installations and to repackage setups from the EXE to MSI format.

MSC Nastran is a multidisciplinary structural analysis application used by engineers to perform static, dynamic, and thermal analysis across the linear and nonlinear domains, complemented with automated structural optimization and award winning embedded fatigue analysis technologies, all enabled by high performance computing.

Navisworks Manage project review software helps you holistically review integrated models and data with stakeholders to gain better control over project outcomes.

NX provides key capabilities for fast, efficient and flexible product development: Advanced solutions for conceptual design, 3D modeling and documentation, Multi-discipline simulation for structural, motion, thermal, flow and multi-physics applications, Complete part manufacturing solutions for tooling, machining and quality inspection.

In the research community, as well as among EDA and fabless companies, NanGate’s Open Cell Libraries (NanGate OCLs) have become the de-facto option for exploring new algorithms, methodologies, design flows and circuit implementations that will eventually transform our industry tomorrow.

Apache OpenOffice is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more.

OpenSimulator is an open source multi-platform, multi-user 3D application server. It can be used to create a virtual environment (or world) which can be accessed through a variety of clients, on multiple protocols.

- Which courses use this software?
ME/BME 415
ME/BME 603

- What other instructors depend on this software, and are any of them primary
contacts for the software?

Joe Towles (towles@wisc.edu)
Corinne Henak (chenak@wisc.edu)
Heidi Ploeg (ploeg@engr.wisc.edu)
Colin Smith (crsmith25@wisc.edu)

- Please indicate if this software used for Instruction, research, or both?

both

- Do you know of other departments that use it?

ME and BME

- Is there any special relationship you have with the software vendor that
helps us get better pricing or use terms?

software programs are well developed and supported open source packages, so there is no charge

- Would you find it helpful for your instruction to explore acquiring licenses
that allow students to install on their personal laptops?

not necessary, students can download and use independently

Thanks,
- Darryl Thelen

PrecisionTree helps you tackle these types of complex, sequential decisions.  With PrecisionTree, you can visually map out, organize, and analyze  decisions using decision trees, right in Microsoft Excel. Decision trees are quantitative diagrams with nodes and branches representing different possible decision paths and chance events. This helps you identify and calculate the value of all possible alternatives, so you can choose the best option with confidence.

Primavera P6 Professional Project Management, the recognized standard for high-performance project management software, is designed to handle large-scale, highly sophisticated and multifaceted projects. It can be used to organize projects up to 100,000 activities, and it provides unlimited resources and an unlimited number of target plans.

PuTTY is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform. PuTTY is open source software that is available with source code and is developed and supported by a group of volunteers.

Quartus II is a software tool produced by Altera for analysis and synthesis of HDL designs, which enables the developer to compile their designs, perform timing analysis, examine RTL diagrams, simulate a design's reaction to different stimuli, and configure the target device with the programmer.

Per Chris in RT 436106:
So according to the website, the Lite version falls under the same SLA as the full-blown version.  There is only one section that references use, but it is decidedly slanted towards purchased software.

"You may: (i) use the Licensed Software on a single computer (or, if You have purchased a Floating Node Seat, the number of Concurrent Users for which You have obtained licenses from Altera may use the Licensed Software on networked workstations); (ii) use the Licensed Software for the sole purpose of creating, simulating, verifying, placing and routing, and programming designs on logic devices manufactured by Altera and sold by Altera or its Authorized Distributors (although if You have obtained the Licensed Software through Altera's University Program, You are only permitted to use the Licensed Software for educational and academic purposes and cannot use the Licensed Software for any commercial purposes); (iii) make one copy of the Licensed Software in any computer-readable or printed form for back-up or archival purposes, or as otherwise permitted under this Agreement; and (iv) modify the Licensed Software, provided that all Intellectual Property Rights notices (including all copyright and restricted rights notices on the Licensed Software) are included on any modified, merged, or combined portions of the Licensed Software.  Any copy of the Licensed Software or portions thereof that are merged or combined into another program will continue to be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

Your end customers may use Altera Devices that have been programmed with the Licensed Software."

So, to that end, I licensed software may be only installed on one machine, or on the machines that will have concurrent access to the license.  Seeing as the Lite version is specifically remarked upon as being "Non-Licensed", I would think installing it in a lab situation would be perfectly fine, as long as the purposes for it were only Educational and no commercial activity would ever happen.

Thanks-

R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.

RETScreen is a Clean Energy Management Software system for energy efficiency, renewable energy and cogeneration project feasibility analysis as well as ongoing energy performance analysis.

Rhinoceros (Rhino3D) is a commercial 3D computer graphics and computer-aided design (CAD) application software. Rhinoceros geometry is based on the NURBS mathematical model, which focuses on producing mathematically precise representation of curves and freeform surfaces in computer graphics (as opposed to polygon mesh-based applications).

Rhinoceros is used in processes of computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), rapid prototyping, 3D printing and reverse engineering in industries including architecture, industrial design (e.g. automotive design, watercraft design), product design (e.g. jewelry design) as well as for multimedia and graphic design.

RISKMAN incorporates the four major steps of PSA analysis into one package: data analysis, system analysis, natural hazard analysis and event tree analysis.

Archived on 3/16/2017
RT 423377, this is no longer needed

features a very sophisticated, intuitive and versatile user interface powered by an unmatched analysis engine and design tools for engineers working on transportation, industrial, public works, sports, and other facilities.

Must be used within the United States. Use outside of the USA is a violation of our license agreement.

SIMUL8 simulation software is a powerful, visual process simulation tool for modeling business improvement ideas and testing them in a risk free environment. Www.simul8.com

https://rt.cae.wisc.edu/Ticket/Display.html?id=293127

Professor Jingshan Li

Sinda uses a conductor-capacitor network representation approach to thermal analysis that offers numerous benefits when solving thermal problems. www.mscsoftware.com/product/sinda

SketchUp is a 3D modeling program for applications such as architectural, interior design, civil and mechanical engineering, film, and video game design. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SketchUp

SOLIDWORKS leads the global 3D computer-aided design (CAD) industry with easy-to-use 3D software

Solidworks may not be used for research, academic, or otherwise. 
From the EULA: "You will not use the files created by the Software for research or commercial purposes or enable others to use the files created by the Software for research or commercial purposes."

Synopsys provides a comprehensive portfolio of tools for digital and mixed-signal IC design, implementation, signoff, verification, test, and design for manufacturability (DFM).

End users may use the Licensed Product and Design Techniques, during the License Term, solely for the purpose of creating, modifying, and simulating your own Designs solely for academic instruction and academic research purposes. The University may not use the Licensed Product for commercial purposes (regardless of for profit or non-profit); use the Licensed Product for the commercial benefit of third parties or allow third parties to use the Licensed Product; use a Licensed Product or its output to create, modify, or simulate Designs for third parties or to develop or enhance any product that competes with a Synopsys product.

Systems Tool Kit (formerly Satellite Tool Kit), often referred to by its initials STK, is a physics-based software package from Analytical Graphics, Inc. that allows engineers and scientists to perform complex analyses of ground, sea, air, and space assets, and share results in one integrated solution. At the core of STK is a geometry engine for determining the time-dynamic position and attitude of assets, and the spatial relationships among the objects under consideration including their relationships or accesses given a number of complex, simultaneous constraining conditions.

http://www.agi.com/downloads/products/product-literature/1110_EDU_Flyer.pdf 

-Academic research is allowed.

Taurus Medici is a 2D device simulator that models the electrical, thermal and optical characteristics of semiconductor devices. - See more at: http://www.synopsys.com/tools/tcad/devicesimulation/pages/taurusmedici.aspx#sthash.hJhz8iCm.dpuf

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TonyPlot is a powerful tool designed to visualize TCAD 1D and 2D structures produced by Silvaco TCAD simulators. TonyPlot provides visualization and graphic features such as pan, zoom, views, labels and multiple plot support. TonyPlot also provides many TCAD specific visualization functions such as HP4154 emulation, 1D cut lines from 2D structures, animation of markers to show vector flow, integration of log or 1D data files and fully customizable TCAD specific colors and styles. http://www.silvaco.com/products/tcad/interactive_tools/tonyplot/tonyplot_br.html

TonyPlot 3D is a powerful graphics tool, capable of displaying 3D TCAD data generated by Silvaco TCAD process or device simulators and Silvaco's 3D parasitic products. It provides visualization and graphic features such as zoom, pan, views and different drawing modes. TonyPlot 3D provides a user-friendly environment to view 3D structures in various TCAD specific display modes such as regions, contours, rays, isosurfaces and vectors.

These libraries are free of charge and can be downloaded from TSMC's library distribution partners, Cadence Design Systems, Synopsys, Inc., Artisan, and Virage Logic. They provide easy, no-hassle integration, maximum cost savings, faster time to market and, ultimately, faster time-to-revenue. TSMC's high-density libraries and unique circuit under pad (CUP) I/Os allow designers to build functionality in the smallest possible chip area

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WaveForms is a powerful suite of virtual instruments that brings analog and digital circuit design to your PC desktop. WaveForms seamlessly connects to our Analog Design products, such as the Electronics Explorer™ board and the Analog Discovery™ Kit. WaveForms provides a clean, easy to use graphical interface for each instrument, making it easy to acquire, store, analyze, produce, and reuse analog and digital signals.

Waveforms is free to download, and is available for Windows, Mac and Linux (although it is only installed on Windows machines at CAE).
http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?NavPath=2,66,849&Prod=WAVEFORMS&CFID=6529835&CFTOKEN=de25659007ebda6-1165B989-5056-0201-023471C06D655FCE

WinEst is an on-premise database-driven estimating solution that helps estimators in businesses across various industries to manage and integrate project estimates using cost-knowledge management. Key features include construction takeoff, estimating, audit trails and reporting.

ZZ Test - a great way to break everything in a test environment.

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