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A collection of Adept Scientific's news releases.

Open University Buys
5000 Mathcad 7
Professional Licences on
Day of Release

The Open University, Britain's largest educational and training organisation, has purchased 5,000 licences of Mathcad 7 Professional and will use this newest version of the powerful calculation software extensively in its teaching curriculum. The Open University, which teaches its entire course offering to home-based students through a mix of distance learning techniques and technologies, purchased the software from Adept Scientific on the first day Mathcad 7 Professional became available in the U.K.

The Open University has considerable experience developing distance-learning curricula using Mathcad. It teaches an introductory maths course based on an earlier version of Mathcad and so is very proficient at taking advantage of Mathcad's unique, easy-to-use interface and reusable worksheet capabilities to teach off-site students. With this new purchase, the Open University will apply these same techniques to much more advanced applied maths content using the enhanced live symbolics and programming features of Mathcad 7 to teach students who are en route to becoming professional mathematicians, physicists and engineers. Students will be encouraged to use the new internet and collaboration features of Mathcad 7. The University is designing an advanced applied mathematics curriculum involving Mathcad, for first presentation in 1999. All students taking the course will receive a copy of Mathcad 7 Professional as part of their course materials.

Mathcad will also be used as the calculating engine for a number of multimedia packages which are being developed in collaboration with the BBC.

"Our experience with Mathcad has shown us that it is an excellent tool for mathematics education", said Dr Mick Bromilow, Course Team Chair of the Open University course on Mathematical Methods, Models and Modelling. "It is very easy for our students to use and learn from in an introductory setting. We're now turning to Mathcad 7 for our advanced students because it is even more important to provide them with a widely used professional tool that takes them beyond calculation exercises and instead helps foster an understanding of advanced concepts and prepares them for their technical careers."

"It is very gratifying that the Open University was so quick to select Mathcad 7 as the tool for teaching and training its technical students", said Charles Digate, President and CEO of MathSoft Inc (Cambridge, Massachusetts). "Mathcad 7, with its enhanced live symbolics, programmability, OLE2 compliance and Web-based resource-sharing capabilities, is a great tool for supporting such a high-quality, innovative program. The product was designed to support a new generation of engineering and educational techniques, and we are committed to giving technical students worldwide access to its power and utility."

About Mathcad 7 Professional Designed to complement the Microsoft Office application suite, Mathcad 7 Professional is an essential tool for engineers and scientists to use in meeting their full range of computational needs.

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It is an easy-to-use and powerful PC-based calculating tool that enables business and technical professionals, students and educators to solve complex technical problems. Its intuitive, scratchpad interface lets users easily formulate equations and quickly solve them using everyday mathematical notation. Mathcad 7 Professional delivers the most complete set of calculation and Web integration features available in a single calculation product, and its Windows 95-compliant interface and advanced OLE support ensure easy integration with other standard desktop applications.

With its new MathConnex technology, Mathcad 7 Professional further extends its capabilities by enabling users to integrate data and components from other applications with Mathcad computations. As a result, Mathcad 7 Professional provides the first desktop environment for uniting all of the diverse tasks within technical projects.

Giving Students a Head Start
 Commented Paul Goossens of Adept Scientific, who negotiated the contract with the Open University, "We're obviously delighted that the first order for new Mathcad 7 Professional should be such a large and prestigious one. But what pleases me most is that, because Mathcad is so widely used in industry and research, OU students  are going to have a real advantage when they're next looking for a job.

"In fact we're currently working out a low-cost scheme that will allow these students to keep their copy of Mathcad after the end of their course."

Mathcad 7 Professional for Windows NT and Windows 95, Mathcad PLUS 6 for Windows 3.1 and MacOS and a wide range of Mathcad electronic books and companion products are supplied and supported by Adept Scientific plc, 6 Business Centre West, Avenue One, Letchworth, Herts. SG6 2HB; telephone (01462) 480055, fax (01462) 480213, email mathcad@adeptscience.co.uk. Details can also be found on Adept's web site.

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