College of Built Environments at the University of Washington.
Free (or Cheap) Stuff!
Free ESRI (ArcGIS) software for students in GIS courses
UW students enrolled in GIS courses may acquire ESRI software for use on personal computers on a one-year time out license. The software must be requested through a faculty member who is teaching a GIS course in which the student is enrolled.
Please see http://depts.washington.edu/arcgis/pages/arcgis-1-year-timeout-license-requests for more information (including installation instructions), and for a link that faculty members can use to request these licenses.
Free Autodesk software for UW students / faculty / staff
Anyone with a UW email address (@u.washington.edu) may participate in Autodesk's Education Community program. Along with much educational material, most Autodesk applications are available for free through the program, on a three-year time out license. (Those who obtained Autodesk software with a one-year timeout license through the previous version of the Education Community program may update to the three-year deal by renewing your serial number at the Education Community site, students.autodesk.com.)
To get the software, you have to register for the program, which you can do by going to the program web page:
students.autodesk.com
Free Microsoft software for UW students
Thanks to funding from the UW Student Technology Fee, Windows 7 Ultimate (upgrade only), Office Pro Plus 2010 (PC), and Office 2011 (Mac) are all available for free download by UW students. For more information about this program, and to download the software, please check out the web site: