University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Implements First Educational MasterKey License System in Europe
January 13 2005 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Implements First Educational
MasterKey License System in Europe The Friedrich Alexander
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Its Regional Computing Center
(RRZE) Implement MSC.Software SimOffice Products Into Classroom
Education and Research SANTA ANA, Calif., Jan. 13
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MSC.Software Corp. (NYSE:MNS), the
leading global provider of virtual product development (VPD)
products including simulation software and services, today
announced that the Friedrich-Alexander University of
Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Regional Computing Center (RRZE) have
signed the first MSC.MasterKey license agreement by a university
customer in Europe. The agreement includes access to MSC.Software's
SimOffice products MSC.ADAMS, MSC.Nastran, MSC.Patran, and
MSC.Marc, which can be all accessed and used via the flexible token
based MasterKey License System. Students of different university
departments, including engineering, material science, engineering
mechanics, quality management, engineering design, production
engineering, and systems engineering can now take advantage of the
breadth and depth of MSC.Software tools for research and science
within a single, cross-campus licensing system. "The education of
future designers and engineers is very important for MSC.Software
and a key focus of our educational sales and training activities,"
said Frank Perna, chairman and chief executive officer of
MSC.Software. "We opened the MSC.MasterKey system to universities
around the world in the last half of 2004 and I am very pleased
that we are already starting to have success implementing more of
our technologies across more university departments, classes and
research teams. We are committed to ensuring that graduating
engineers are proficient in VPD technologies and we look forward to
working with the professors and students who are using MSC.Software
technologies via MSC.MasterKey." "We are very happy with the
MasterKey license System from MSC.Software because it really meets
our needs," said Dipl.-Ing. Hans Cramer, Director of the regional
computing center (RRZE). "We at the RRZE serve several universities
in the region of Northern Bavaria, all of them with many different
departments in the engineering field. Our students need to get
familiar with CAE and VPD products, and this can only be done by
offering them a broad base of many types of software. We appreciate
the MSC.MasterKey license system offering this broad range of
solutions at a convenient pricing scheme for universities as well
as the consultation we are receiving from our software partner. We
feel that MSC.Software really speaks our language and expect our
students' research to benefit greatly from the new possibilities."
About the University Erlangen-Nuremberg The hallmark of the
Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg today, 260
years after its foundation is its commitment to both tradition and
innovation. The university offers a wide spectrum of subjects, the
diversity and interdisciplinary integration of which is unique in
Germany. "Integrated diversity" is seen as the key feature that
enables the university to enhance its profile in research and
teaching while at the same time promoting the process of
internationalisation more intensively. Thanks to the breadth of its
subject range, the university offers an ideal environment in which
to generate innovative research. This has enabled the university to
secure a leading place among the German universities in the German
Research Foundation (DFG) rankings and to attract a large number of
Humboldt scholars, who have chosen the university as the place to
pursue their research. The university is committed to the constant
improvement of its infrastructure, study and research conditions
and its service-oriented administration, all of which are essential
as the university forges ahead on its way to becoming a first-class
university of international renown. For more information please
visit: http://www.uni-erlangen.de/. About the Regional Computing
Center (RRZE) Being the IT service provider of the
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) the RRZE
provides since several decades a functional IT-Infrastructure to
the University. It supports, within the frame of the regional
concept, also other universities in the region. Being the interface
between research and technology the RRZE understands itself as the
center of computing competence in the university environment of
Northern Bavaria and as the partner of science. For more
information please visit: http://www.rrze.uni-erlangen.de/ About
MSC.Software Corporation MSC.Software (NYSE:MNS) is the leading
global provider of virtual product development tools that help
companies make money, save time and reduce costs associated with
designing and testing manufactured products. MSC.Software works
with thousands of companies in hundreds of industries to develop
better products faster by utilizing information technology,
software, services and systems. MSC.Software employs more than 1400
people in 23 countries. For additional information about
MSC.Software's products and services, please visit
http://www.mscsoftware.com/. DATASOURCE: MSC.Software Corp.
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