Check out the list below for useful student discounts, services and educational engineering software licenses.
Amazon Prime Student Membership
Prime Student gives students all the benefits of Prime membership, with a 6-month trial and then 50% off the normal price of Prime, including:
- Get unlimited One-Day Delivery on millions of items
- Stream thousands of movies and TV shows with Prime Video
- Access exclusive student offers including 10% off textbooks from Amazon
- Listen to over 2 million songs on Prime Music
After the trial, students get Prime for just £3.99/month (50% off regular Prime).
Looking for ideas on what STEM textbooks to get for your studies? Have a look through this literature directory!
3D Printing Supplies and Hardware
Thinking of taking up 3D printing as a hobby or develop a project prototype? Explore this page to get some ideas on how to get started!
For download information on an Educational version of MATLAB – check out this link.
One year free educational licenses for the range of Autodesk products such as AutoCAD and Inventor.
Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and other engineering simulations can be conducted in ANSYS – check out the free student downloads!
A range of software packages for use in spacecraft orbit, systems, space debris tracking and more!
A popular 3D CAD package with built in functions for simulations.
COMSOL Multiphysics® is a general-purpose simulation software for modelling designs, devices, and processes in all fields of engineering, manufacturing, and scientific research.
OpenRocket is a free, fully featured model rocket simulator that allows you to design and simulate your rockets before you build and flying them.
Robotic Operating System (ROS)
The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a set of software libraries and tools that help you build robot applications.
SD/FAST provides physically-based simulation of mechanical systems by taking a short description of an articulated system of rigid bodies (bodies connected by joints) and deriving the full nonlinear equations of motion for that system.
Project Jupyter exists to develop open-source software, open-standards, and services for interactive computing across dozens of programming languages.
Python is a programming language that lets you work quickly and integrate systems more effectively.