Maplesoft’s Engineering and Scientific Calculation Tool Survey Results Are In Results were drawn from an extensive, international survey Maplesoft conducted of scientists, engineers and researchers across a variety of markets, including aerospace, automotive, electronics, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, life sciences, finance and education. With more than 2000 participants, the survey offers unprecedented insight into the daily practices, experiences and perceptions of the engineering community. Click here to read a full report of the survey findings.


Maple 10 Now Supported on the Mac-Intel Platform With the availability of a port that allows Maple 10 to run natively on new Mac models that feature Intel Core processors, Maple users operating on the Mac-Intel platform will benefit from significantly reduced start-up times, improved speed in rendering 2-D mathematics, and real-time 3-D plot manipulation that is both faster and smoother. All of the capabilities of Maple are fully supported, affording Mac-Intel users access to all of the same features that PowerPC-based Mac users enjoy.


Maplesoft-MAA Placement Test Suite Makes Traditional Placement Tests a Thing of The Past Launched this February, the Maplesoft-MAA Placement Test Suite has seen a strong early acceptance by many colleges and universities. Academic institutions are looking for a solution to help them place students related to course specific skills. The Placement Test Suite allows them to do that with the 6 different testing subjects. This fall 4000 students will be tested using the Maplesoft-MAA Placement Test Suite at various 2-year and 4-year academic institutions throughout the United States. The Placement Test Suite gives academic institutions the ability to provide MAA placement tests over the Internet, which allows easy administration, instant results, and flexible scheduling for incoming students. Institutions are judged by the success of their students, not by enrollment, a good placement test is vital to that success! Learn more about the Placement Test Suite.


Get Your Free Copy of the Units Poster Today! Throughout history, units have been based on properties that people experience in their everyday lives – for example lengths of body parts, cycles of the earth, harvested grain, and beer and wine production. This poster examines how these evolved into the units used today, and how the modernization of the study of units has led to the establishment of standard measures that are accepted throughout the world.  Click here to order your free copy.

Since last month we’ve released two more MapleCast episodes.

May 17th, 2006 - Episode 2: Building Blocks of Space
In this program Tom Lee interviews Dr. Dick Gran about designing fail-safe systems for the lunar module and other components of the Apollo space program; how our use of math has changed with the newest generation computers and software; and his first thoughts about using Maplesoft's new product BlockBuilder. Maplesoft product director Paul Goossens gives a detailed look at Blockbuilder for Simulink, and we dish out some of the latest math news as well as answer some more email questions.

May 31st, 2006 - Episode 3: Making the Grade
In this episode Tom Lee interviews Dr. John Kenelly about the standardized placement testing for incoming college students, about the new partnership between the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and Maplesoft to produce fully automated and statistically rigorous placement tests; and how computers and software like Maple and Maple T.A. have changed the way we learn and do mathematics. Eithne Murray drops by again to talk about help and tutorial resources in Maple; we also have some math news and then provide some answers to questions received in our mailbox.

Register your summer courses today!

The Maple Adoption Program has become more streamlined and now includes online registration and the option to download Maple 10 or receive the shipped version. The Student Edition has now been equipped with the with the Pre-Calculus Study Guide, Calculus Study Guide and Clickable Calculus online demo at no additional charge.
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Get started and register your summer courses today! Complete program information and electronic registration can be found at www.maplesoft.com/adoption

Maple T.A. Tips and Techniques – Creating Questions That Have Multiple Parts
Author: Maplesoft

Classroom Tips & Techniques: Integration by Parts in Maple
Author: Robert J. Lopez, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Maple Fellow, Maplesoft

Maple Tip & Technique: Quick Calculations using the Maple Graphing Calculator
Author: Maplesoft

Maplesoft continues to receive much press. Recently there has been coverage in Cadalyst Newsline and in regional newspapers about the launch of MapleCasts.  There was also coverage in Control Engineering Magazine about BlockBuilder for Simulink.   And another piece in Cadalyst magazine also covered the Engineering Survey results.

Cadalyst, May 2006
Survey: Engineers, Scientists Still Rely On Hand Calculations
“Maplesoft reports that mathematical work is still often performed with paper and pencil.”
“On a daily basis, respondents turn to scratch pads and calculators more frequently than any other tool for mathematical tasks. The same survey also revealed this community largely considers its field of work and study as both modern and taking full advantage of modern tools and technology.”
 
Control Engineering, May 2006
Mathematical modeling environment
“BlockBuilder for Simulink mathematical modeling environment offers automated export to Simulink. Software is said to enable engineers to save time and reduce the risk of error in model-based design of dynamic systems. It lets users develop ideas from initial concepts to high-fidelity physical models and automatically generate Simulink SFunction blocks.”
 
The Record, May 6, 2006
Maplesoft tries ‘soft sell’ with podcast launch
"The podcasts, called Maplecasts, are geared to users of Maplesoft's software, a community of mathematicians, scientists and engineers estimated to number one to two million worldwide.”
 
“This company has a lot of stories that need to be told,” says Tom Lee, the Maplesoft executive who is the host and interviewer on the podcasts. “A lot of people really don’t know what kind of impact this company has had on the world. We have sort of changed the way math is done.”
 
Cadalyst Newsline, May 2006
Maplesoft Launches Podcast Series
“Maplesoft, a provider of engineering software, has made available a podcast series called MapleCasts. The series includes technical tips for Maplesoft products as well as interviews with notable personalities.”

In addition to this article, check out the Press Coverage area for all the latest coverage on Maplesoft.