He didn't own a computer-aided design, or CAD, program.

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He didn't own a computer-aided-design, or CAD, program.

FORBES: Easy Designer

The Stanford team's work was featured recently as an invited paper at the prestigious International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) as well as a "keynote paper" in the highly regarded IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems.

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Students in the program learn to use computer-aided-drafting (CAD) to design a photovoltaic system, they learn about the sorts of issues that come up when designing such a system, and they learn about the installation and maintenance of such systems.

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Huang used an iPad and MacBook Air to access rich computer-aided design files and special effects software that typically require a burly graphics processor running on a dedicated workstation or server.

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Software now covers a maze of different industries, including applications software, operating systems, databases, the Internet, computer-aided design and networking.

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