Available Software
The Mechanical Engineering Department provides access to the following software to the designated people. All listed software packages are available for general use in the computer labs (MEB 232, 233, ILF 101).Matlab, Mathematica, and Maple licenses are maintained by the College of Engineering. Visit their page here. C&C maintains additional software site licenses and their page can be viewed by clicking here.
Available software can be picked up by contacting Computer Support.
Software Matrix
| Software Title | Students | Grad Students | Staff | Faculty | |
| Instruction | Research | ||||
| Adobe Acrobat Professional (Win/Mac) Free Alternative: PDFCreator |
No |
No |
Case-by-case | No |
No |
| Adobe Photoshop CS (Win/Mac) Free Alternative: The Gimp |
No | No | Case-by-case | No | No |
| All Other Adobe Products | No | No | Case-by-case | No | No |
| ANSYS | Labs | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| COMSOL | Yes/Labs | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| LabView | Yes (Home) | Yes (Home) | Yes (Home) | Yes (Home) | Yes (Home) |
| Maple Free Alternatives: Maxima and Mathomatic |
Yes/Labs | Yes (Home) | Yes (Home) | Yes (Home) | Yes (Home) |
| Mathematica Free Alternatives: Maxima and Mathomatic |
Labs |
UW Owned |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Matlab Free Alternative: Octave |
Labs | No | No | Yes | No |
| Microsoft Office Free Alternative: OpenOffice.org |
Labs | UW Owned | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Office Mac OS X Free Alternative: NeoOffice |
No | UW Owned | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Visio, Project, FrontPage | Labs | UW Owned | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Windows | Labs | UW Owned | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SolidWorks | Labs | Instruction | No | Yes | No |
| TecPlot 360 | Labs | UW Owned | Yes | Yes | Yes |
