Autodesk in Further and Higher Education

Preparing for the transition into your professional career can be daunting. Autodesk offers the technology and resources to help you build the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary to become architects, engineers and digital artists.

The new Autodesk 2012 Education suites are designed around industry and discipline-oriented learning paths to assist you preparing for your chosen career.

Autodesk Product Design Suite for Education

The Autodesk® Product Design Suite for Education offers you a design workflow toolset that helps you understand Digital Prototyping and product data management. With Autodesk® Inventor® software at its core, this suite provides you with a complete set of design, engineering, visualization, and simulation tools that enables you to go beyond developing 3D solid modelling to developing Digital Prototyping workflow.

Benefits to you:

Provides you with the tools to sketch, simulate, optimize, and validate your coursework as you learn to predict how your designs will perform under real-world conditions.
Features Autodesk Vault software, which enables you to manage your coursework and lab assignments in the same way that you would be expected in industry.
Provides you with a comprehensive and flexible set of tools to develop your skills in the way that employers operate.

Autodesk Product Design Suite for Education contains the following products:

AutoCAD®
AutoCAD® Electrical
AutoCAD® Mechanical
AutoCAD® Alias® Design
Autodesk® Inventor® Professional
Autodesk® Moldflow® Adviser Advanced
Autodesk® Mudbox™
Autodesk® Showcase®
Autodesk® Simulation Multiphysics
Autodesk® SketchBook® Designer
Autodesk® Vault
Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design

Click here to download the Autodesk Education Suites Guide 2012

Autodesk in Secondary Education

Creating an effective and relevant learning environment for secondary school students requires educators to adapt their approach in the classroom and embrace a world altered by technology.
If you work in a secondary school, both the Autodesk® Animation Academy software and Autodesk® Design Academy software have a set of products and pricing designed for your needs with access to curricula (English only) designed to support science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) concepts appropriate for this learning level.

Click here to download the Autodesk Education Suites Guide 2012

Autodesk Animation Academy

Encourages secondary-school students to explore their creativity and discover 3D animation in an engaging and interactive way.

Autodesk Design Academy

Prepares today's secondary-school students for the design challenges of tomorrow with fun, interactive learning tools that help enhance understanding of science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM).