Shiv Nadar University (SNU) and an ‘Institution of Eminence’ (IoE) as chosen by the Government of India, has established the Shiv Nadar University-Dassault Systèmes Centre of Excellence (SDC). The SDC, powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform from Dassault Systèmes, is for research, innovation, design and entrepreneurship, and is also aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of multidisciplinary education at SNU in a way that prepares students to develop products or services and be better equipped for opportunities across industries in the new global economy.

The SDC is a physical lab with a virtual extension, based on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, that covers key aspects of product design and business analytics to inculcate design and experience thinking among students in the product development journey. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform enables students to undergo a thorough process involving social listening, market analysis, product benchmarking, feasibility assessment, etc. to develop real products or services. Along with engineering design and business analytics, a recent focus of the platform has been on Predictive Sciences for drug discovery & systems biology analysis.

The SDC will help students gain advanced skills such as mathematical modeling for behavior simulation, performance validation, manufacturability and maintainability studies. It will also provide dedicated training courses for various aspects such as design, manufacturability, maintainability, business processes, ideation etc., and students will get to work on research projects from industry and research institutes for greater exposure to best global, industry practices.

Subject matter experts and global teams from Dassault Systèmes will provide focused trainings to enhance learning for undergraduate, post-graduate and Ph.D. students on design, multi-disciplinary engineering, manufacturing, information intelligence and program governance, leveraging the 3D EXPERIENCE platform.