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WINDOWS SOFTWARE

7-Zip
7-Zip is a program primarily used for extracting or compressing files that you want to send onto others as a smaller file size such as an email attachment.

@Risk for Project
@Risk is an add on for Microsoft Project that allows for statistical distribution modeling.

Acrobat Reader
The Acrobat Reader (acroread) allows users to view and print PDF files.

Arc View
ArcView GIS is a program to easily create maps and add custom data to them resulting in an excellent visualization tool.

Aspen Plus
Aspen Plus is a process modeling tool for conceptual design, optimization, and performance monitoring for the chemical, polymer, specialty chemical, metals and minerals, and coal power industries.

AutoCAD Civil 3D
Autocad Civil 3D is a design environment for modeling and/or drafting design for transportation, land development, and environmental projects.

AutoCAD
Autocad is a design environment for modeling and/or drafting design.

Camtasia Studio
Camtasia Studio is a video recorder program.

Firefox
Firefox is a web browser created by mozilla with a more modern interface and features. It is also more lightweight and faster than Mozilla.

Ghostview
Ghostview is a program primarily used for viewing postscript (.ps) files. It has basic previewing capabilities such as next page, previous page, and magnification. It can also be used to change orientation and paper size of .ps files. Ghostview can be used to print these files as well.

HCS plus
HCS+ is used for advanced signal timing optimization for intersections, arterials or networks.

Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer is a browser for viewing files and documents available on the World Wide Web.
It also provides an interface for reading Usenet News articles and sending/receiving email.


Inventor
Autodesk's Inventor is a high performance 3D mechanical design software with 2D drawing production capabilities.

LogicWorks
LogicWorks is a gate level logic simulator that includes a full schematic editor with bussing, multi-level Undo/Redo, interactive connection tracing, and other features.

Mambo
Mambo is a program for simulation and visualization of 3D mechanisms.

MathType
MathType is MathType is a powerful interactive tool for Windows and Macintosh that lets you create mathematical notation for word processing, web pages, desktop publishing, presentations, and for TeX, LaTeX, and MathML documents.

Mathematica
Mathematica is a general purpose program designed for symbolic mathematics and numerical analysis.

Matlab
Matlab is a high performance interactive software package designed for scientific and engineering numeric computation. Matlab offers integration of numerical analysis, matrix computation, signal processing, and graphics.

Media Player
Media Player is a program primarily used for viewing video clips and listening to audio files.

Minitab
Minitab is a statistical analysis software package.

Office 2007 Pro
MS Office is a collection of desktop publishing tools including Word for creating documents, Excel for spreadsheets, and Powerpoint for visual presentations.

PDFCreator
PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application.

Pro Engineer Mechanica
Pro/Engineer Mechnica is a modeling/drafting program which aids in design projects.

Pro Engineer
Pro/ENGINEER is a modeling/drafting program which aids in design projects.

Putty
Putty (Secure Shell) is a program to log into another computer over a network, to execute commands in a remote machine, and to move files from one machine to another. It provides strong authentication and secure communications over insecure channels.

Python
Python is is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days. Many Python programmers report substantial productivity gains and feel the language encourages the development of higher quality, more maintainable code.

Quicktime Player
Quicktime player is a media player that handles streaming and downloadable .mov files among many others.

RealPlayer
RealPlayer is a streaming media player that handles files of format .rm, .ra, or anything in the rtsp:// protocol.

Revit Architecture
Revit Architecture is purpose-built for building information modeling (BIM), key for sustainable design.

Revit Structure
Revit Structure integrates a multimaterial physical and an independently editable analytical model for efficient structural analysis, design, and documentation.

SnagIt
SnagIt is a screen capture utility that can save to a variety of image file formats.

Synchro
A complete software package for modeling and optimizing traffic signal timings.

VirusScan
McAfee VirusScan is a program used for the detection, removal, and protection of machines against viruses. DAT files are updated nightly.

Visual Studio .NET
Visual Studio .NET is debugging software used by developers.

WinSCP
WinSCP is a graphical file transfer utility that can connect to your home directory. It has replaced SSH's sftp features.

Working Model 2D
working Model 2D is used is a conceptual design tool that allows you to create simulations that replace vague, time consuming, inaccurate calculations.

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