Hello! We hope everyone has had a good summer and is getting excited for the upcoming school year. The university research team at PTC Education has spent the summer developing new ways of bringing digital transformation into research and teaching and we are eager.

Please reach out to us at EduTech@ptc.com with any questions, or if you would like to share opportunities for collaborations in this newsletter. If you did not receive this letter directly, please complete this form to be added to the mailing list. 
 
Announcements
We are excited to announce a new webinar series this fall, starting with a session on Monday, September 20th at 9am EDT on creating Digital Twins with Onshape. Click here to register for the webinar, and feel free to share with anyone who may be interested. A recording will be posted to this page on our Github Pages site after the event. 
Key Collaborator Highlights
Research
Click here to check out some of the projects that the student research associates with PTC Education worked on this summer. The developed new and exciting ways of using gaze tracking in Vuforia Studio and integrating it with ThingWorx, building and deploying machine learning models with ThingWorx Analytics, and connecting edge devices with the Edge MicroServer. 
Teaching
Click here to see the new “Solutions” section of our Github Pages site. We have mapped our open-sourced resources for using PTC’s digital transformation technologies to teach students about digital twins, robotics & mechatronics, smart manufacturing, and IoT & AR. 
PTC Resources and Product Announcements 
  • Onshape’s latest release support PVZ file exports to allow for better integration with Creo and Vuforia Studio. Check out a full list of the new features included in the latest release of Onshape
  • The source of 3D video and audio widgets can now be dynamically set in the latest release of Vuforia Studio
Please reach out if you would like to share any announcements or recruit research partners through PTC’s academic collaborator network.