Solid Edge Academic Program Overview

Helping to Grow the Siemens Footprint Across the U.S.

We are Siemens: Delivering competitive advantage

You are an employee or supporter of one of the largest companies in the world and one that makes significant investments in education. Siemens is a global engineering company that has more than 343,000 employees worldwide. The company designs, develops, and manufactures a wide range of industry-leading products, from MRI scanners to traffic management systems, gas turbines to rail systems, and the best CAD software on the market.You can helpensure that these business areas grow and that Siemens has a secure future by being an Ambassador for our products and program.

What does being an Ambassador mean?

Many of you have children in our schools systems around the world. You also have contacts in education and with our customers in other industries. As an Ambassador you can help promote the Siemens brand by engaging with these schools and contacts.

What we have to offer:

  • Industry leadership – Siemens is a recognized brand, providing a significant competitive advantage when promoting software in education.
  • Accessibility for students and teachers – Students of all ages can obtain their own copy of Siemens Solid Edge Student Edition, at no cost, for use outside the classroom to support their studies and extra-curricular projects. Solid Edge is available at no cost to all high schools and middle schools.Siemens PLM also provides extensive training materials.
  • Industry-recognized certification – Students can obtain industry-recognized certification in Siemens Solid Edge.

The Siemens Solid Edge Academic Program is a long-term strategic initiative aimed at increasing the use of Solid Edge at all levels of education. The main goal of the academic program is to build a strong and sustainable talent pipe-line of graduates entering the workforce familiar with Solid Edge.

Siemens Solid Edge Student Edition is available at no cost (free) to all part-time or full-time students, regardless of age. This edition is intended to be used by individual students to support their studies.

Siemens Solid Edge High School Edition is available at no cost to all secondary schools and provides the school with an academic site license, enabling them to use Solid Edge on as many computers as required for academic purposes.

Siemens Solid Edge University Edition provides academic institutions with an annual academic site license, allowing the installation and use of Solid Edge on as many computers as required for academic purposes. Solid Edge University Edition is one of the most competitively priced solutions for the academic market.It’s important to emphasize to academic institutions that all Solid Edge academic software is at the same release as our commercial software.

Solid Edge Certification

To better prepare students to enter the workforce,two levels of Solid Edge certification have been created:

  • Associate Level I is intended for students between ages 16 and 18.
  • Associate Level II is intended for older students within colleges, universities, and vocational and apprenticeship programs. This certification level helps potential employers recognize the abilities of the students to use Solid Edge effectively, enabling them to recruit with confidence.

How to help promote PLM Academic programs and Greenpower

Siemens is working to increase the number of students entering the workforce familiar with Solid Edge and available for them to hire. For example, you can use some of the following approaches to engage your customer or prospect:

  • The HR perspective. Contact the person in charge of recruitment and ask if you could gain a better understanding of their recruitment activities. At which colleges or universities do they typically look for interns or graduates? What is their projected hiring requirement over the next few years? By subsequently providing an overview of the Solid Edge Academic Program, you can demonstrate how Siemens is proactively engaging with academia to increase the flow of talent entering the workforce with the relevant skills.
  • Community engagement or corporate responsibility.Ask if the company has any community engagement activities or a corporate responsibility program. While many people think this is an activity more typical in larger organizations, many small and medium businesses operate within the same community where its senior management and workforce live. In many cases, the company wants to support and engage their local community and may be willing to support the introduction of Solid Edge into a school, community college, and university.
  • The enemy within.Staff and senior management within your customers or prospect pool most likely have school-age children. If these children are not using Solid Edge in subjects such a Design & Technology, Product Design, Engineering, or TechED, they’re using competitive CAD software. Encourage them to take a look at Siemens software.

Many universities also have outreach or community engagement activities focused on secondary education, with the goal of encouraging students to study STEM subjects and ultimately hoping to attract these students to study at their university. The Greenpower challenge is a great outreach project for a university to use with secondary schools.

  • Hosting events at academic institutions. Many colleges and universities want to collaborate with industry and often have facilities suitable for hosting external events, from User Group meetings to product demonstrations.
  • Community engagement or corporate responsibility. This may seem like an overhead you could do without, but many academic institutions already collaborate with local companies and can leverage this to engage with both customers and prospects outside of the sales process, and often at senior levels within companies. Also, students have parents. In some cases, your customers may be required to have a demonstrable corporate responsibility program when undertaking work from state or government agencies, and in some cases OEMs.

The Greenpower Electric Car Challenge

The growing focus in education today is STEM and project-based learning. Project-based learning activities help develop soft-skills such as team-work, presentation skills, decision making, collaboration, leadership, responsibility, effective communication, and reliability. Many companies, including Siemens, recognize the importance of some projects/competitions to prepare students for employment (workforce development).

TheGreenpower Electric Car Challenge is a key project in the Siemens Solid Edge Academic Program. This proven and unique project-based learning activity appeals to all grade levels and helps provide a way to implement Solid Edge software into the classroom.

Since Siemens PLM is the exclusive global technology partner, all academic teams (outside the UK) designing a custom car, must use Siemens PLM software for the CAD design.


Huntsville City Schools custom car, Ares /
The Greenpower Formula 24 kit car

For pricing and shipping information on the Formula 24 kit car, contact the Greenpower organization in the U.S. () and/or contact the Greenpower Education Trust in the UK ().

Spread the Greenpower message to your schools and communities

Companies often support their community, whether it’s by supporting academic teams, the local football team, baseball team, or a team taking part in an engineering/design-related competition. Sometimes this support may be a formal part of the company’s community engagement activities or a few employees mentoring students at local academic institutions. Greenpower fits into all levels of education. Use this Ambassador pack to contact schools in your area to let them know about this program.

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