Software

Software used in Mechanical Engineering

Adobe

Adobe annual subscriptions for Acrobat Pro and the Creative Suite are available to UCSB faculty and staff (including those in a research group) with a valid UCSB account number. To request a subscription in the ME department, please email your department advisor to confirm the funding source, then using the template below send the request to mepurch@engineering.ucsb.edu:
    
    Recharge number/account/project code: MECE-######-8-######-#####
    Software title: Acrobat or Creative Suite
    Name: First Last
    Email: your UCSB address

Once funding has been verified you will receive an email when your Adobe account has been created. If your funding source is not in the ME
department, then please check with that department on their process for Adobe subscriptions.

Ansys CES Edupack

CES EduPack is a set of teaching resources that support Materials Education across Engineering, Design, Science and Sustainable Development.

Availability

CES is only available on Windows computers in the ECI Labs for instructional course work.

COMSOL

COMSOL is a cross-platform finite element analysis, solver and multiphysics simulation software.

• COMSOL for academic non-research use is offered in the ECI labs only
• COMSOL for research is part of a shared license pool

Mathematica

Wolfram Mathematica software: Is a campus site license covering all Faculty, Staff, and Students at UCSB. More information is available here:https://software.ucsb.edu/info/mathematica

Matlab

Matlab is a campus license covering all Faculty, Staff, and Students at UCSB. More information is available here: Matlab

National Instruments Labview

Labview is a system-design platform and development environment for a visual programming language from National Instruments.

• Labview academic non-research use is in the and the Mechanical Engineering Instructional labs
• Labview for research is not covered by the academic license.

Labview for Research::

• Each research group will need to purchase their own license for Labview. Most groups will find the Professional covers what their requirements. Review which version you are looking for the product features list: https://www.ni.com/en-us/shop/labview/select-edition.html
• You will need to generate a quote from a reseller such as Test Force.https://www.testforce.com/brands/national-instruments/labview-series.html
• Once you have your quote verify any educational pricing then attach it to a cart in Gateway as a non-catalog item.

Solidworks

SolidWorks is CAD and solid modeling software in use within the department that runs on Windows.

Full network license

The full network licensed version is only available for University owned desktop computer on campus within the Mechanical Engineering Department.For instructional, no-research use only students can access the ECI Labs remotely for course work.

Please note: We are currently running Soliworks 2023 SP3 for the academic year. We only upgrade once a year in the Fall for compatibility reasons. If you are planning on using a version outside of our labs please make sure you are using the same version and service pack level or you will have compatibility issues. Older versions can not open files created with a newer version of a higher service pack level.

As of version 2021 Solidworks has ended the offering of the student version that has been offeredas a courtesy to our students. We will no longer be offering the SolidWorks educational license.

The full version will still be available remotely for instructional use in the ECI Labs.