Westlake Village, California, USA, December 2, 2002

Surfware is pleased to announce the recent grant of 40 licenses of SURFCAM software to the Shanghai University of Engineering Sciences (SUES) in Shanghai, China. The University, composed of 14 colleges and 5 educational centers, is home to nearly 8,000 students and 1,236 teachers.

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Surfware is pleased to announce the recent grant of 40 licenses of SURFCAM software to the Shanghai University of Engineering Sciences (SUES) in Shanghai, China. The University, composed of 14 colleges and 5 educational centers, is home to nearly 8,000 students and 1,236 teachers. The University has 45 different schools of education, including the School of Material Engineering, the School of Automobile Engineering, the Detection and Testing Center for Automobiles, the Center for Industrial Training, and the Computer Center.

The SURFCAM software grant marked a significant milestone in both Surfware’s and the University’s history. Though having a strong educational commitment in the United States, Europe and much of the Pacific Rim, Surfware has never issued an educational grant to a University in China. The grant was extremely important to the school as well because it represented the first CAM software donation of its kind.

Brian Kindilien, Surfware Vice President of Sales, and Dr. Wang Hong, Ph.D., President of SUES, met to discuss the importance of the grant to both Surfware and Shanghai University. Both acknowledged that SURFCAM was a practical application that would help the students of Shanghai University become much more valuable to the employers they would eventually work for. They also agreed that the information generated from engineering students using the product would greatly benefit the company in its efforts to create broader applications for the software.

The Surfware team, comprised of Surfware staff and Surfware’s local reseller, Gallop Engineering, was Formal signing ceremony for grant. given a tour of the SUES’s facilities. Aside from Dr. Hong, the Surfware team met with Mr. Zihe Cen, Vice President of the University, Hao Jian Ping, Vice Professor, and Li Peiyao, Associate Professor of the School of Material Engineering and many others. Following the facility tour, the team assembled in the school’s auditorium for a very special ceremony to mark the historic occasion. Surfware was presented with a crystal/gold key to Shanghai University, a very special gift representing the school’s connection to the past, present and future of the City of Shanghai. In attendance were SUES students, faculty and administrators. Dr. Hong, Mr. Kindilien, and Mr. Kevin Jiang, Gallop Engineering General Manager, all provided brief speeches indicating their commitment to work together to make the SURFCAM installation and support successful, and to continue to work together into the future.

After the formal signing ceremony Darrin Bryant, Surfware Applications Engineer, provided the students and faculty with a SURFCAM product demonstration highlighting some of the important advantages of SURFCAM to the school. This was followed by a brief question and answer session with students of the Material Engineering college. The students were allowed to ask any questions they Mr. Darrin Bryant receives the crystal/gold key. wanted of the group. Mr. Kindilien noted that the students were very well prepared and far more advanced that one would expect. “Most college students will have a great appreciation for software, and are, in fact, very comfortable with it. What impressed me was that SUES students had a fairly strong grasp of software within the CAD/CAM industry. They were fluent in the technology trends and research directions that many of the top software companies, including Surfware, are invested in. I believe these students will have a tremendous advantage in the manufacturing marketplace because of this."