Offers Full Functionality of Mathcad Professional and Additional Features at Significantly Reduced Price for Higher Education
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE via COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--Feb 26, 2001--MathSoft Engineering & Education, Inc., today introduced Mathcad 2001 Professional Academic Package, a full-featured and aggressively priced technical calculation environment for higher education. This package contains MathSoft`s award-winning Mathcad 2001 Professional software, plus a free Bonus Pack, which includes a full version of VisSim Academic for modeling and simulation. Mathcad 2001 Professional Academic Package also offers new functionality for creating electronic books and full support of MathML to enable communication through Web-based collaboration and publication capabilities. Available immediately for $119.95, Mathcad 2001 Academic Package is one of the best software values for math, science and engineering faculty and students.
Already used by over 2,000 colleges and universities throughout the world, Mathcad is the ideal solution for students to thoroughly understand and visualize mathematical concepts and relationships and how to apply them to real-world applications. Professors and faculty can creatively use Mathcad as an additional or alternate instructional method in the classroom or computer laboratory. In a recent survey of customers, approximately 70% of academic respondents reported using Mathcad on a weekly basis. Unlike other technical programs, Mathcad features an intuitive interface that is easy-to-learn, allowing users to easily combine standard math notation, graphs and texts in a single document. Mathcad is the software of choice for and applying mathematics in technical projects at 90% of the Fortune 1000 companies and over 500 government installations. By making Mathcad available to the higher education community at a significantly reduced price, MathSoft hands students and professors the advantage in harnessing the power of the same professional software for their work.
''MathSoft Engineering & Education, Inc. realizes the importance of training today`s students to become the workforce of tomorrow,'' said Chris Randles, chairman and CEO. ''Our goal with this product is to help students learn on tools that they can immediately apply to their careers upon graduation. Mathcad 2001 Professional Academic Package offers students affordable access to the full-featured package that is used by technical professionals around the world.''
As a special incentive for students and faculty, MathSoft has added additional resources to this package, including newly integrated modeling and simulation functionality for prototyping control system designs fueled by VisSim Academic from Visual Solutions. Other additional features are available to users via download, including over 250 digital signal processing functions provided by MathSoft`s Image Processing, Signal Processing and Wavelets Extension Packs. Users also get three Schaum`s titles, including College Physics, Mechanical Vibrations and Thermodynamics for Engineers.
''I have found that Mathcad can fundamentally change the way I teach engineering material. My students can learn it in a few minutes because the only language required is math, ''said Richard M. Vogel, professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University. ''Mathcad allows me to cover more complex and interesting problems because its numerical and symbolic algebraic manipulation, and programming and optimization capabilities are outstanding. I predict that most textbooks will eventually be written using applications like Mathcad because the software makes it easy to document and publish results.''
Mathcad 2001 Professional Academic Package offers all of the new functionality of MathSoft`s popular Mathcad 2001 Professional Edition, including a faster calculation engine and the ability to create and publish electronic books. The Academic Package also offers full support of MathML (Mathematical Mark-up Language), the first XML standard to be approved by the World Wide Web Consortium, through the inclusion of IBM techexplorer(TM) Hypermedia Browser, Professional Edition. New MathML/HTML functionality gives students and faculty new options for assignment collaboration and publishing by enabling them to post dynamic math content online or via e-mail. Mathcad also integrates with a variety of applications such as the Microsoft Office suite, Visio(R), AutoCAD(R), SmartSketch(R), Axum(R), MATLAB(R), Microsoft Access and any other ODBC-compliant database that supports SQL, to enable users to easily exchange data between applications and even drive other applications with Mathcad design specifications.
Pricing and Availability
Mathcad 2001 Professional Academic Package is available for a suggested retail price of $119.95 for Windows 95, 98, NT and 2000 via college bookstores and through educational resellers. Volume licensing is available for classroom and laboratory use. For additional purchasing information, call MathSoft at 1-800-MATHCAD.
About MathSoft Engineering & Education, Inc.
MathSoft Engineering & Education, Inc., is the leading provider of interactive math, science and engineering software products and content. The company`s Mathcad and StudyWorks product lines use patented technology to combine rich, interactive content with powerful tools for learning, communicating and applying mathematics in real-world technical applications. Mathcad, the internationally recognized standard for technical calculation and applying mathematics, is deployed at 90% of the Fortune 1000 companies, over 500 government installations, and more than 2,000 colleges and universities. StudyWorks, a market leader with over one million licensees, enhances the teaching and learning of math and science online and in secondary education, helping students explore and understand key subjects. Based in Cambridge, Mass., MathSoft Engineering & Education, Inc., has additional offices in the U.K. and Germany and distributors in over 50 countries. The company can be
found on the Web at www.mathsoft.com.
Mathcad and StudyWorks are registered trademarks of MathSoft Engineering & Education, Inc. Axum is a registered trademark of Insightful Corporation. IBM and IBM techexplorer Hypermedia Browser are trademarks of IBM in the United States and other countries and are used under license. All other names or marks may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.
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