PTC EDU Tech Webinar Archive

The PTC Education Advanced Technology Team works with thought leaders from around the world who are pushing the boundaries of what is possible with digital transformation and Industry 4.0 in research and teaching. Along with a team of student researchers, we work with technical teams around PTC to develop integrations between various technologies and enable academic users to more easily get started connecting and using their digital threads.

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Internet of Things

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Chris Rogers, Tufts University
Dr. Chris Rogers talks about teaching IoT to first year engineering students.
Layout for First Year IoT Course, includes weekly overview of the semester for first year engineering students learning the Internet of Things.

Smart Manufacturing

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Yuri Hovanski, Brigham Young University
Dr. Hovanski discusses strategies and the implementation of a smart factory initiative within the university
A collection of articles on the theories motivating the push for smart manufacturing, from digitizing and connecting machines to visualizing information in augmented reality.

Design Education

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Alison Olechowski, University of Toronto
Dr. Alison Olechowski presents the findings from a series of experiments which explore new ways of designing collaboratively in CAD. These experiments consider not only design outcomes like quality and speed, but also designer emotion. Further, she shared preliminary results which indicate that collaborative CAD tools can open new opportunities for the way we teach and learn to design with CAD.

Product Design

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Karthik Ramani, Purdue University
Dr. Ramani talks about teaching engineering design to university students by having them build toys.

Digital Twins

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Horst Orsolits, UAS Technikum Wien
Horst Orsolits discusses strategies for integrating IoT and AR in research and teaching.
Matt Mueller & Peter Zink, PTC Education
The team from PTC Education shows some ways that Onshape can be used to do more than just computer aided design.

AR in Education

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John Liu, MIT
Dr. John Liu, a lecturer and scientist in the Mechanical Engineering department at MIT who leads a group in the Digital Learning Lab, discusses the protential of using AR to teach complex concepts and train the workforce of the future.

Research in Spatial Computing

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Reality Lab, PTC
Researchers from the PTC Reality Lab share some of their projects and discuss the open-sourced Spatial Toolbox platform for exploring spatial computing.

DX Engineering

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PTC Education Advanced Technology Team
The PTC Education Advanced Technology Team shares their latest framework for understanding how Digital Transformation fits in with traditional engineering disciplines and show off some of the integreations they are developing to enable DX Engineers to solve problems with connected technologies.