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Software purchased through Departmental Software should only be used by departmental employees for departmental purposes.
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The Abaqus Research Edition includes access to Abaqus/Standard, Abaqus/Explicit, and Abaqus/CAE. Inclusion of both Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit allows the choice of appropriate analysis techniques or even a combination of both analysis techniques for different types of simulations. User-defined subroutines allow flexibility in modeling advanced research materials, complex surface and contact behaviors, and other user-specific features.
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Engineering simulation software for academic teaching and research applications.
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Create professional videos easily. Use Techsmith Camtasia to record on-screen activity, customize and edit content, add interactive elements, and share your videos with anyone, on almost any device.
Canva is an online graphic design platform that allows anyone to create professional-looking designs, even without any prior design experience. It offers a wide range of features and templates to help you create everything from social media posts to presentations to flyers.
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DocuSign eSignature provides a fast and secure way to send, track and sign agreements anytime, anywhere, on a wide variety of devices.
Some key features of DocuSign include:
- Completely electronic and paperless signature service with automatic routing via email.
- Real-time tracking as documents make their way through the approval process.
- Templates to help streamline the sending process when you frequently send the same or similar documents, or send documents to the same group of people.
- More information on DocuSign features can be found at https://www.docusign.com/products/electronic-signature
The Duo security token is used by members of the Virginia Tech community as a second-factor authentication device to gain access to services protected by the Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) service in instances when a phone is not a viable second-factor option. The D-100 token allows users to press a button on the device to generate a 6-digit code that can then be entered into the passcode field when logging into a service that requires 2FA.
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A geographic information system (GIS) integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information.
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GraphPad Prism combines scientific graphing, comprehensive curve fitting (nonlinear regression), understandable statistics, and data organization.
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While JMP calls this the "Student Edition", it is available to all active instructors and academic researchers. A standalone desktop analytical tool that accesses data stored in many formats. JMP integrates with other SAS products and solutions to marry JMP desktop data visualization, design of experiments, and exploratory data mining with SAS production processing.
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National Instruments Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench (LabVIEW) is a system-design platform and development environment for a visual programming language, designed specifically for engineers and scientists building measurement and control systems.
Lucidcharts is good for visualizing complex ideas, such as diagrams, processes, systems, plans, and organizational structures. It can also be used for designing and documenting systems, flowcharts, org charts, and technical diagrams.
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MATLAB is a multi-paradigm numerical computing environment and proprietary programming language developed by MathWorks. MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages. Using MATLAB you can analyze data, develop algorithms and create models and applications.
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Minitab is a general-purpose statistical software package designed for easy interactive use. Minitab can be used as a primary tool for analyzing research data.
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Add annotations to any PDF file, using the mouse or a Tablet PC pen, directly on the PDF file's pages. The annotated documents can then be saved directly back to PDF format. Annotated documents can also be easily attached to e-mails.
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Qualtrics allows you to easily design surveys with point-and-click editing, collaborate with colleagues, and build an in-house panel for repeated surveys.
QuestionPro is a flexible, web-based survey data collection and reporting platform. It supports a wide range of question types, as well as skip logic and experimental designs and provides robust reporting and data export options.
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Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® is the leading open source alternative to proprietary operating systems. It's a reliable, modern IT platform that lets you deploy applications on physical hardware, in virtual machines, and in cloud environments.
Provides the tools to accurately model and document your designs ready for rendering, animation, drafting, engineering, analysis, and manufacturing or construction. Rhino can create, edit, analyze, document, render, animate, and translate NURBS curves, surfaces, and solids with no limits on complexity, degree, or size. Rhino also supports polygon meshes and point clouds.
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SAS is a software suite designed for advanced analytics, multivariate analyses, business intelligence, data management, and predictive analytics.
SimpleHelp is server software that provides remote support and remote access functionality allowing you to support your customers and manage remote machines regardless of their operating system. SimpleHelp acts as a bridge to connect you and your customer, allowing you to control and support their computer. Any department that has an internal IT support staff could benefit from using SimpleHelp.
Slack is a cross platform collaboration tool to help facilitate messaging and other communication within a team. Purchase access to the Virginia Tech Slack workspace (https://virginiatech.slack.com).
SPSS Statistics offers advanced statistical capabilities and analytics to help you gain deep, accurate insights from your data and drive better decision making.
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From simple calculator operations to large-scale programming and interactive document preparation, Mathematica is the tool of choice for scientific research, in engineering analysis and modeling, in technical education, and wherever quantitative methods are used.
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Our office is located in room 3240 in Torgersen Hall at 620 Drillfield Dr. Blacksburg, VA 24061.
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Monday - Friday: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Departmental Software
- Email: departmentalsoftware@vt.edu
- Phone: (540) 231-4736
- Fax: (540) 231-7634
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