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2013 INDIA Altair India Announces the Next Round of the Altair Optimisation Contest (AOC) for Students

Altair India Optimisation Contest (AOC) 2013 Altair India announces the 2nd edition of the annual Altair Optimisation Contest (AOC) 2013 for Students. Students can now - at their own pace and venue - explore and learn more about the simulation techniques involved in the “CAE Driven Design Process“.

To know more about AOC 2013 & details on enrollment visit: www.altairhyperworks.in/edu/contest/aoc/2013

This contest is meant for students (UG / PG / PHD) of Mechanical, Aerospace, Automobile, Civil Engineering and Production Engineering domain from India & ASEAN region. The objective of the contest is for students to offer solutions to a combination of Industry defined problems using HyperWorks Student Edition: 1. Defined Optimisation contest problems using Altair’s industry leading optimisation solution OptiStruct. 2. Their own defined problems analysed/optimised using Altair HyperWorks. All completed entries will be judged by Panel of CAE experts from our Industry Partners (to be announced) & Altair India. • 1st Prize* - Tablet PC - 1 award + Certificate of Recognition. • 2nd Prize* - Mp3 Player - 2 awards + Certification of Recognition. All completed submissions will get a Certificate of Participation. * The 1st and 2nd prize winners will get an option for virtual student internship with Altair India.

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Contest Schedule Following is the brief schedule of activities as part of this contest. Additional details will be shared with the students once they register for the contest. No.

Activity

Dates

1

Announcement of Contest & Registration by Students

Registration Starts on 30 January, 2013 Last date for Student Registration 15 March, 2013

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Upon Registration and Screening Altair will grant access to 1 license of Altair Student License to the eligible Student for FREE

05 February, 2013 to 20 March, 2013

3

Self-Training & Learning of Altair HyperWorks CAE Solution

Post license download + install

4

Online Training

Training Date

Time

Topic

01 - 02 March, 2013

4 pm to 6 pm

Introduction to HyperWorks Student Edition, Meshing, Geometry Edit, etc.

08 - 09 March, 2013

3 pm to 5 pm

1D, 2D & 3D Meshing, Different types of Analysis using Radioss.

15 - 16 March, 2013

3 pm to 5 pm

Introduction to Optimisation, different disciplines of optimisation, introduction to different panels of OptiStruct.

22 - 23 March, 2013

4 pm to 6 pm

Topology Optimisation, Topography Optimisation and Size Optimisation.

29 - 30 March, 2013

4 pm to 6 pm

Free Size Optimisation, Shape & Free - Shape Optimisation, Composite Optimisation and Combination Optimisation.

5

Contest Scope Definition

Announced under “Model Downloads” link. Login / password will be provided on completion of Step 3.

6

Student Project Creation Phase

01 March, 2013 to 30 April, 2013.

7

Results, Models and Report Submission Deadline

01 April, 2013 onwards… Last day of submission is 05 May, 2013.

8

Announcement of Results

15 June, 2013.

9

Awards* Presentation

Altair Technology Conference 2013 - Dates to be announced!

All Awards* will be decided and adjudicated by Altair India, as per contest guidelines.

Top 3 Winners From AOC 2012 Student Contest

Amar Ramchandra Shinde RANK: 1 M.Tech, Design Engineering 2nd Year, 4th Semester College of Engineering Pune

Akshay Karjol

Abhidnya Patharkar

RANK: 2 B.E, Mechanical Engineering 4th Year, 8th Semester Pune Vidyarthi Griha’s College of Engineering and Technology

RANK: 3 B.E, Mechanical Engineering 4th Year, 8th Semester Pune Vidyarthi Griha’s College of Engineering and Technology

Complete details of the successful contestants is available on the AOC 2012 contest page – www.altairhyperworks.in/edu/contest/aoc/2012

www.altairhyperworks.in/edu/contest/aoc/2013

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Students keen to develop competency on HyperWorks for CAE / CFD applications can enroll themselves at any of the following Altair Authorised Private training centres: 1. HyperWorks Authorised Training Centre (HW-ATC) & HyperWorks Competency Centres (HW-CC) 2. HyperWorks Professional Training Centres (HW-PTC) 3. HyperWorks Online Training Centres (HW-OTC) Altair India also plans to launch a fee based HyperWorks Certification Program in June-2013. For more details email: [email protected] For more details visit: www.altairhyperworks.in/trainingcentres

HyperWorks Academia Student Training Short Term instructor driven, web based training will be available to Engineering Students from Altair starting Q2-2013. For more details visit: www.altairhyperworks.in/training/students

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