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posted 10/10/06 by Dave Simeone Back to School?
So I’m relaxing over my black, Green Mountain Coffee (purchased from the local Mobil station) trying to think of a topic for my Blog, and I get an EMAIL with statistics on the Autodesk Student Engineering and Design Community portal. I scanned around to see the numbers of student downloads of Civil 3D 2007. Then I checked out some of the Civil Engineering job postings (no – I’m not looking for me… I’m doing “research”). Then it hit me… maybe I should talk about this cool resource in my Blog. My guess is that most of you aren’t aware that it exists, so…

Tale of the Tape
- http://students.autodesk.com/
- 17,100+ registered members (as of this morning!)
- many, many, software downloads (sorry, I can’t tell you how many!)
- 290 job postings in the Civil Engineering category
- Student resources including course discussions, industry links, learning materials, etc.
- More…

Friends tell me I talk too much, so I’ll get to the point. I hear repeatedly that it’s impossible to find staff and there’s a shortage of trained Civil 3D users in the market. This Student Community is a central part of a broader plan to address these serious business issues. Hear are the actions that I hope come from this.

1. Make sure that students you know are aware of this portal. (I told my 15 year old son about it… he kind of grunted… not sure what that means)
2. Make sure schools you’re connected with are aware of this community.
3. If you’re looking for quality people, start posting jobs up on the site.

Thanks
Dave S

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  • Dave, good info! The software downloads, are they educational versions or are they something else?

    Posted 10/12/2006 8:38 AM by Kevin Spear

  • Hi Kevin - you install with an educational serial number which results in a banner if you plot noting that the drawing was created using an educational version of software.

    Posted 10/12/2006 3:18 PM by Dave Simeone