Academic Instruction and Research

When you use HEEDS^® Professional as an instructional tool, you equip students with the design optimization techniques that prepare them for careers in industry and give them a competitive advantage in the job market. If you are an academic researcher, HEEDS can help you discover innovative solutions to your engineering problems. HEEDS Professional offers exclusive optimization technologies that perform efficiently on a broad range of problems, so there's no need to directly develop your own optimization techniques.

Why Educators Choose HEEDS

Developed by educators
The design optimization technology behind HEEDS Professional was developed by Michigan State University engineering professors, Ron Averill and Erik Goodman. HEEDS is the culmination of over twenty years of effort to improve upon the incremental advances enabled by traditional CAD/CAM and CAE software, in the areas of productivity, quality, cost reduction, and compressed development cycles.

Affordable
HEEDS Professional's affordable educational licenses are designed to meet the requirements of universities and colleges. An educational license offers all of same functionality as a commercial license, making it easy to enhance the caliber of design optimization education at your institution.

Student friendly
Although the technology that powers HEEDS is complex, the software itself is user-friendly. The HEEDS interface features a unique tabbed layout that leads students clearly and quickly through the six-step process of project setup and execution. Expertise in optimization theory is not required.

Easily integrated with other CAE applications
HEEDS Professional interfaces with all of the popular CAE applications to automate and expedite the design optimization process. It can easily work with multiple software tools to handle pre- and post-processing, simulation, and multidisciplinary optimization. HEEDS also easily interfaces with custom research codes.

Supplemented with pre-developed guides and sample problems
Free support guides and example problems are available to use directly or adapt for your courses. The problems demonstrate the use of HEEDS with many of the most popular CAE tools, including LS-DYNA, Abaqus, and NX.

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Note: Limited Technical Support is offered with our academic licenses.