Worldwide Student Design Competition Spotlights Innovation

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC), The Product Development Company®, today announced the winners of its 2008 DesignQuest Challenge. Sponsored by the PTC Global Education Program, the worldwide design competition provides students the opportunity to showcase their achievements in product design using PTC Pro/ENGINEER® or Pro/DESKTOP®. The competition was open to individual students and student teams attending academic institutions that are currently enrolled in the PTC Global Education Program. Each contestant had to be a registered student in the 2007-2008 academic year and was sponsored by a teacher at their school.

Students were invited to submit designs in two categories – K-12 and University – during the November 2007 - April 2008 competition. Each submission included a short description of the design, the problem it solves (or how it improves upon existing products), and why it is important. Finalists from each category were selected by the PTC Education team and then evaluated by a panel of judges from the PTC/USER community ( www.ptcuser.org) to select the Grand Prize Winner in each category. Each contestant was evaluated in the following criteria:

Solves Unique or Defined Problem
Innovative Design
Design Quality
Complexity of Design
Feasibility of Solution
Ergonomics/Ease of Use
Aesthetics/Style
The Grand Prize Winners:

K-12: Thayer Adsit Newburyport High School, MA - Hydrogen Engine

University: Mark Armstrong, University of Sunderland, UK - Archimedes Screw Propelled Vehicle

“It’s always exciting to see the innovative designs developed by the students who participate in this competition,” said John Stuart, senior vice president, global education and Eastern Europe SRL, PTC. “Furthermore, this competition demonstrates how industry leading tools like Pro/ENGINEER can be used in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education programs to inspire the next generation of engineers to develop great products.”

Finalists entries may be viewed at: http://www.ptc.com/for/education/gallery/worldwide-design-challenge/

About PTC’s Global Education Program

PTC's education program provides teachers and professors with complete learning solutions to prepare a new generation for success in a technological world. From secondary school to the university level, PTC gives students the ultimate in product development education by providing software, training and classroom materials to educators worldwide. Their education program is a part of a technological literacy movement that seeks to improve critical thinking and multidimensional problem-solving skills as well as preparing a growing number of students to become engineers.

About PTC

PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) provides leading product lifecycle management (PLM), content management and dynamic publishing solutions to more than 50,000 companies worldwide. PTC customers include the world's most innovative companies in manufacturing, publishing, services, government and life sciences industries. PTC is included in the S&P Midcap 400 and Russell 2000 indices. For more information on PTC, please visit http://www.ptc.com.