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| ETS chooses Presagis to drive simulation in their AEROETS Lab |
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 With a population of 7,600 students, Ecole de technologiesuperieure (ETS) educates nearly one out of four engineering graduates in Quebec. Located in Montreal, the engineering school was established in 1974 and is affiliated with Universite du Quebec. ETS has offered aeronautics courses for many years, notably a Master's in Aerospace.
When several major airframe manufacturers reported a shortage of qualified engineers for the design and development of embedded systems, flight controls, and avionics, ETS reacted without hesitation.
"Several universities responded but I would say we responded the best," says ETS Professor and AEROETS Associate Director OuassimaAkhrif. "We created a program devoted to Embedded Systems in Aeronautics."
The university created a number of courses in Embedded Systems, Certification, Avionics, Navigation, and Control, and also established AEROETS, a multi-departmental grouping of all the ETS professors and researchers active in aerospace, as well as the undergraduate and Masters aerospace engineering programs. Suddenly, the university had to accommodate full groups of second- and third-year engineering students. They needed to provide an open, responsive flight simulation lab where students could experiment and test their work. The AEROETS Lab was created.
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| Why ETS Chose Presagis |
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There were three main factors for ETS choosing FlightSIM and HeliSIM as the main simulation tools in the AEROETS lab: functionality, budget, and the involvement of Stephane Roy from Roy Avionic and Aeronautic Simulation (RAAS), one of Presagis’ Official Partners and Resellers
According to Professor Akhrif, "FlightSIM gives us more power in the flight control courses in our labs. We need to be able to do more than just play with a simulator, and FlightSIM lends itself to courses in which the students have to develop their own routines and try to implement them in the flight control."
Presagis made the choice even easier for ETS by offering a bulk deal for FlightSIM licenses. "The Presagis Academic Program gave us flexibility at the licensing level," says Professor Akhrif. “For one price they offered us the whole laboratory plus the development licenses, and that was an important factor in our decision."
For Professor Akhrif, FlightSIM brings the lab to life. She says, "The strength of a good simulator is that it reproduces as accurately as possible all of the atmospheric data, aerodynamic reactions, turbulence, wind, every little motor and actuator that is in the plane – everything. It’s all there in FlightSIM."
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