Available Software
The Mechanical Engineering Department provides access to the following software to the designated people. All listed software packages are available for general use in the computer labs (MEB 232, 233, ILF 101).Matlab, Mathematica, and Maple licenses are maintained by the College of Engineering. Visit their page here. C&C maintains additional software site licenses and their page can be viewed by clicking here.
Available software can be picked up by contacting Computer Support.
Software Matrix
| Software Title | Students | Grad Students | Staff | Faculty | |
| Instruction | Research | ||||
| Adobe Acrobat Professional 7 (Win/Mac) Free Alternative: PDFCreator |
No |
No |
Case-by-case | No |
No |
| Adobe Photoshop CS (Win/Mac) Free Alternative: The Gimp |
No | No | Case-by-case | No | No |
| All Other Adobe Products | No | No | Case-by-case | No | No |
| ANSYS 11 | Labs | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| CATIA V5 R17 | Labs | UW Owned | Yes | Yes | No |
| FeatureCAM | Labs | No | No | Yes | No |
| LabView 8 | Yes (Home) | Yes (Home) | Yes (Home) | Yes (Home) | Yes (Home) |
| Maple 9 Free Alternatives: Maxima and Mathomatic |
Labs | Yes (Home) | Yes (Home) | Yes (Home) | Yes (Home) |
| Mathematica 5.2 Free Alternatives: Maxima and Mathomatic |
Labs |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Matlab 2007b Free Alternative: Octave |
Labs | No | No | Yes | No |
| Microsoft Office 2003/2007 Free Alternative: OpenOffice.org |
Labs | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Office 2004 for OS X (Mac) Free Alternative: NeoOffice |
No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Visio, Project, FrontPage | Labs | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 | Labs | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Windows XP | Labs | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise | Labs | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SolidWorks 2007 | Labs | Instruction | No | Yes | No |
| TecPlot 10 | Labs | UW Owned | No | Yes | Yes |
