Autodesk University is pleased to announce the winners of the AU 2012 Speaker Awards. These highly coveted awards go to the speakers who receive the highest scores from AU Las Vegas attendees based on after-class surveys. The surveys included questions about both content and presentation. Our thanks to everyone who participated in the surveys. Lecture: Marcello Sgambelluri for his class “Advanced Autodesk® Revit® Modeling Techniques Using Complex Geometry: Walls, Floors, Roofs, and Beams.” This award goes to the speaker with the highest rating for a lecture class. Hands-on Lab: dave espino... READ MORE >

Free Autodesk Certification exams have been one of the most popular additions to AU in recent years. This year, we offered Professional Certification exams for 6 products. As of Thursday morning, attendees took 1,966 Professional exams compared to 1,400 last year. Which exams were most popular? READ MORE >

If you’ve been passing by the Autodesk 360 Lounge, you’re missing out on the benefits of a free Autodesk® 360 account (3 GB of storage space, 15 free renderings, and more), plus some cool giveaways: Sign up for an account and get entered in a drawing to win 2 high-end Libratone wireless speakers. Plus we’ll donate $1 to Engineers Without Borders. Visit the Autodesk® PLM 360 kiosk in the Lounge, fill out a 4 minute Discovery questionnaire about you and your perspective on the cloud, and get entered to win a Microsoft® Surface™ tablet.   What’s not to love? --sandy READ MORE >

Yesterday’s inspiring Innovation Forum “Everyone is a Designer” really brought home (literally for them, in some cases) the ability to: Dramatically increase the speed with which new products can be brought to market. Use the power of the Web to collaborate with creative minds around the world. Access today’s design software for the masses. Bring manufacturing out of the factory into the home office. Eric Wilhelm, kite surfer and founder of Instructables.com started Instructables as a way to erase the barriers to inventing by helping people share what they’ve made with other... READ MORE >

This year’s keynote address looked to the present, focusing on the amazing technology that is available today. Jeff Kowalski, chief technology officer for Autodesk, set the stage by showing us how we see the world through our tools. New tools make it possible to expand our vision of what we believe is possible, but they also can limit us. So it’s Autodesk’s mission to keep expanding the outer boundaries of what our tools can do. Guest speakers included Dezso Molnar, Gyrocycle® inventor; Christine Furstoss, technical director of Manufacturing & Materials Technologies at GE; and Schuyler St.... READ MORE >