Engineering assignment software

Pensolve is a new technology developed by engineers for engineers and it now has a FREE STUDENT VERSION. Pensolve for Education is all about saving you time with your calculation assignments and making your work look professional.

As the marketing intern here at Pensolve I have only dealt with pretty simple formulas (ones which you would scoff at) in my years of study. Though having worked in the engineering industry and recently learnt about this new engineering spreadsheet review technology, I can at least understand the value it has and have outlined four points of value below.

1. Spreadsheets, tutors and validity

Excel Spreadsheets are the most widely adopted tool in the engineering profession for creating calculations. Unfortunately they are not usually accepted by your tutors and fair enough as its nearly impossible to review a spreadsheet, let alone a printed one!

So to help demonstrate that you understand what you are doing and prepare yourself for the professional world Pensolve helps you out by interpreting and reproducing your calculations in a PDF format, as if you had typed them up really really nicely.

This saves you from writing out your calculations by hand, and the standardised layout won’t see you losing marks for presentation.

2. Writer’s bias

Writer’s bias is the bane of a student’s existence, you’ve worked on a project for weeks and after endless revisions you look at your work with fresh eyes and see a blaring mistake.

Having a program that makes it easy to find and fix errors is a welcome aid for any student.

Case in point, the equation below for designing a retaining wall; no doubt you have battled through it in your geotechnical engineering courses.

I could only imagine that it would be pretty difficult to put that into your calculator or reference all the cells correctly in a spreadsheet. As you work away, use Pensolve to view your calculations in a handwritten form and quickly check if you have made a typo.

3. Industry worth

CV’s are no longer the be all and end all. Now many industries including engineering are requesting to see your portfolio of work and job experience. With Pensolve, everything is digital so you can send through a well-formatted PDF copy of your best assignments.

4. Redeem time

Essentially, the main benefit Pensolve gives to students is time. Time, that limited resource which makes you question why you’re putting yourself through all these years of study and why you’ve just read a blog that took up precious minutes (though I am sure you see it as an ‘investment’).

The comparison is simple, rewrite your calculations every time you make a mistake, or have them auto update in a spreadsheet and the convert them to hand in within seconds.

With Pensolve, you can correct a mistake in seconds, find errors in seconds and produce high quality documents in a short amount of time.

How to use

If you are the kind of early-adopter engineer who likes to try out the latest tech then check out http://pensolve.com/education.html. The software is simple (no software installation needed) just drag and drop your spreadsheets into Pensolve’s online platform to convert them. You will be prompted to set up your spreadsheet following industry best practice and seconds later you will have your PDF output ready to hand in for marking.

Check it out, convert a file and let us know how you get on.