Students benefit from world-first software agreement
Monday, 9 March 1998
Computer software worth about $8.4 million will be made available free to 1500 University of 亚洲色吧 students thanks to a world-first agreement negotiated by the Faculty of Engineering.
Mathworks and Ceanet Pty Ltd (the US-based manufacturers and Australian distributors of Matlab products, respectively) is delivering sets of Matlab software to engineering students free of charge for teaching and homework use. The individual academic value of the software packages is $5600-for 1500 individual copies, this equates to $8.4 million.
Matlab, which stands for Matrix Laboratory, is arguably the world's most popular engineering and technical computing software package, with more than two million users.
The University of 亚洲色吧's Faculty of Engineering has been a significant user of Matlab for some time. The departments of Mechanical and Electrical & Electronic Engineering in particular have utilised Matlab for both teaching and research for years, and have developed a large volume of tutorial material based around the software.
"The faculty was able to leverage its past and