Software licensing

University Site and Volume Licenses

Software licenses provided by the College of Engineering

We manage several license contracts for UW users. Visit the Engineering Software License system to view available software, information pages, and download links.

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Important licensing notes:

• Renewals available: All software licenses expire June 30th. Please renew your license beginning April 11th. You'll find a renewal link for eligible software under your Past Orders.
• Costs to renew or purchase: most products have increased 5% - 25% (we have not increased prices for more than 3 years while software costs have increased yearly)
• Software specific updates:
  • COMSOL: COMSOL Research will have a cost. The COMSOL Research Edition will cost $200/seat/year beginning July 1, 2025.
  • Tecplot: Tecplot will no longer be available. We will not be providing licenses for Tecpolot after August 31st, 2025.
  • Labview: Labview Teaching Edition now costs $100.
• Please note: If your software purchase requires use of our license server, it may take up to 1 week from date of purchase for your hostname to be given access. Ideally, we will be able to process your order in 1-3 business days, but please allow up to 1 week for the request.

Here is a summary of software titles available from the College:

Abaqus

AIMMS

Ansys

COMSOL

Altair Hyperworks

LabVIEW

Maple

Siemens NX

SolidWorks

STAR-CCM+

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Other University Software Licenses

From UW-IT

UW Software Catalog (UWare) maintains a list of site- and volume-licensed products on their web site: Campus Site and Volume Licensed Software

From other departments:

Cadence

Licensed by the Electrical & Computer Engineering department.  To request access to Cadence licenses contact consult@ece.uw.edu.

From Cadence's University Software Program Policies:

The Cadence Americas University Program was established to provide commercial-grade EDA software to accredited, degree-granting colleges and universities for non-commercial, not-for-profit educational purposes. Academic research using Cadence software via the University Program must be limited to research in pursuit of a degree (e.g., thesis research). Cadence reserves the right to qualify academic research for applicability under this program.

UW Electrical & Computer Engineering's Cadence Attestation page (Required by Policy 14)

MATLAB (more info)

MATLAB integrates numerical analysis, matrix computation, signal processing, and graphics in an easy-to-use environment where problems and solutions are expressed just as they are written mathematically, without traditional programming.

• MATLAB, Simulink, and 48 toolboxes are all included in the MathWorks site license
• As of September, 2015, UW-IT now manages the Matlab software site license for the university.

Mentor Graphics

Licensed by the Electrical & Computer Engineering department, but available to others. If you need access, contact consult@ece.uw.edu.

Available from campus only.

• Design, Verification, and Test
• IC Nanometer Design
• Analog fastSpice
• PADs

Octave (more info)

GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides capabilities for the numerical solution of linear and nonlinear problems, and for performing other numerical experiments. It also provides extensive graphics capabilities for data visualization and manipulation. Octave is normally used through its interactive command line interface, but it can also be used to write non-interactive programs.

• There is no cost for Octave.

Onshape (more info)

Onshape is a browser based CAD software. Free Education Standard Plan to learn professional-grade 3D CAD.

SageMath (more info)

SageMath is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It builds on top of many existing open-source packages: NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, Sympy, Maxima, GAP, FLINT, R and many more. Access their combined power through a common, Python-based language or directly via interfaces or wrappers. Mission: Creating a viable free open source alternative to other math software programs.

Shapr3D (more info)

Shapr3D is the leading industrial-strength CAD tool for iPad, with a full suite of 3D modeling tools and transformations for work on-the-go. The Parasolid-based app is compatible with all major desktop CAD software, so users can import projects and export work directly to your rendering, manufacturing, or drafting software of choice.

• iPad app download link
• Educational license request form
• Technical Support email contact: support@shapr3d.com

Software for College Computing Staff Only

In addition, we have several software packages available for computing staff in the College of Engineering:

• DeepFreeze
• Symantec Ghost