Rafael Gómez-Sjöberg, Director of Bioengineering, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, Philip Taber, VP, Hardware Engineering, Silverside Detectors and Matt Shields, Teacher, Charlottesville City Schools joined theCUBE's Dave Vellante at Onshape Innovation For Good.
#theCUBE #PoweringInnovation
https://siliconangle.com/2020/12/15/risk-taking-still-drives-onshapes-transformation-of-the-cad-software-industry-poweringinnovation/
Supporting education and health
Onshape’s acceptance in the educational world could be a tell sign for its future prospects. Young engineers who have gotten comfortable with the product while in school might want to continue using it in the workplace.
City schools in Charlottesville, Virginia, have adopted Onshape to teach engineering skills to students beginning as early as the fifth grade. There are now 600 to 700 students in the program, with five full-time teachers, according to Shields.
“The way I would pitch it to my school system is someday I’m going to have a kid on a school-issued Chromebook, in subsidized housing, on public Wi-Fi, doing professional-level CAD,” Shields said. “That was a crazy statement until a couple of years ago. It’s cool to see a platform that seemed to be developed in a modern era.”
Another area where Onshape’s SaaS tools are having an impact is in the field of medical research. One of its customers is the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, where scientists are working on a number of infectious disease initiatives, including protection again COVID-19.
At Chan Zuckerberg, Gómez-Sjöberg’s team built a machine using Onshape to purify proteins in the COVID virus.
“We’re sending some of those purified proteins all over the world to scientists who are researching the virus and trying to figure out how to develop vaccines,” Gómez-Sjöberg explained. “The machines we built are having a direct impact on this. The scientists set the agenda, and the platforms serve their needs with technologies that help them do their experiments better and faster.”
At Silverside Detectors, the stakes are just as significant. The company builds neutron detection systems that can be used, among other purposes, to identify nuclear bombs. It also employs Onshape’s technology for less dire consequences, such as for agricultural purposes or measuring a mountain snowpack.
“We have a lot of outreach to researchers and scientists, trying to help them support the work they are doing using neutron detection for soil moisture monitoring at large scale with much less expense or complication than would have been done with previous technologies,” Taber said. “Onshape helps us track and collaborate on the design.”
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Rafael Gómez-Sjöberg, Philip Taber and Dr. Matt Shields | Onshape Innovation For Good
Rafael Gómez-Sjöberg, Director of Bioengineering, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, Philip Taber, VP, Hardware Engineering, Silverside Detectors and Matt Shields, Teacher, Charlottesville City Schools joined theCUBE's Dave Vellante at Onshape Innovation For Good.
#theCUBE #PoweringInnovation
https://siliconangle.com/2020/12/15/risk-taking-still-drives-onshapes-transformation-of-the-cad-software-industry-poweringinnovation/
Supporting education and health
Onshape’s acceptance in the educational world could be a tell sign for its future prospects. Young engineers who have gotten comfortable with the product while in school might want to continue using it in the workplace.
City schools in Charlottesville, Virginia, have adopted Onshape to teach engineering skills to students beginning as early as the fifth grade. There are now 600 to 700 students in the program, with five full-time teachers, according to Shields.
“The way I would pitch it to my school system is someday I’m going to have a kid on a school-issued Chromebook, in subsidized housing, on public Wi-Fi, doing professional-level CAD,” Shields said. “That was a crazy statement until a couple of years ago. It’s cool to see a platform that seemed to be developed in a modern era.”
Another area where Onshape’s SaaS tools are having an impact is in the field of medical research. One of its customers is the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, where scientists are working on a number of infectious disease initiatives, including protection again COVID-19.
At Chan Zuckerberg, Gómez-Sjöberg’s team built a machine using Onshape to purify proteins in the COVID virus.
“We’re sending some of those purified proteins all over the world to scientists who are researching the virus and trying to figure out how to develop vaccines,” Gómez-Sjöberg explained. “The machines we built are having a direct impact on this. The scientists set the agenda, and the platforms serve their needs with technologies that help them do their experiments better and faster.”
At Silverside Detectors, the stakes are just as significant. The company builds neutron detection systems that can be used, among other purposes, to identify nuclear bombs. It also employs Onshape’s technology for less dire consequences, such as for agricultural purposes or measuring a mountain snowpack.
“We have a lot of outreach to researchers and scientists, trying to help them support the work they are doing using neutron detection for soil moisture monitoring at large scale with much less expense or complication than would have been done with previous technologies,” Taber said. “Onshape helps us track and collaborate on the design.”
