DESKTOP ENGINEERING OPENS TECHNICAL CENTERS IN MICHIGAN AND NEW YORK TO
PROMOTE COMPANY'S ENGINEERING SOFTWARE AND ENGINEERING CONSULTING
SERVICES

(Mahwah, New Jersey -- August 8, 1994) Desktop Engineering today announced
that it has opened technical centers in Ithaca, New York, and Troy,
Michigan. Desktop Engineering will use the new offices as the focal point
in actively marketing a wide range of engineering services including
computer-aided software development, computer-aided engineering analysis,
engineering testing programs and structural/mechanical engineering
consulting. The technical centers will also be the hub for servicing the
many users of the company's packaged software products including- the
DE/CAASE computerized engineering handbook.

Desktop Engineering is one of the leaders in the field of computer-aided
engineering software development having pioneered the concept of the
computerized engineering handbook. A computerized engineering handbook
puts at the engineer's fingertips information that was once buried in a
cumbersome hardcopy manual or handbook. This tool has dramatically reduced
the time required to perform most everyday engineering functions by
guiding the engineering through the necessary equations and performing all
of the required calculations.

Desktop Engineering is also a leader in the field of computer aided
engineering analysis having used these techniques to provide accurate
analytical results and optimum designs to companies such as John Deere,
Purolator, American Iron and Steel Institute, General Electric, DuPont,
Spar Aerospace and Energy Research Corporation and others. Desktop
Engineering's expertise covers structural mechanical analysis including
finite element analysis, stress evaluation, investigation of structural
failures, fatigue and fracture analysis, strength of materials testing and
development of computer-aided engineering software.

Desktop Engineering is associated with Columbia University's renowned
materials testing laboratory. This 25,000 square foot laboratory provides
nearly unmatched structural and materials testing capabilities including
universal testing machines, fatigue testing and strain gauging facilities,
data acquisition systems, machine shop equipment, vibration and acoustics
laboratory and photoelasticity capabilities. The company's investigative
engineering services take advantage of both the testing laboratory and
unique computer-aided engineering capabilities to analyze structural
mechanical failures.

The new office in Troy, Michigan will directly support all of the company's
packaged software products including AISI/CARS which largely automates the
process of designing steel body sections. The CARS program was developed
by Desktop Engineering in an unprecedented example of cooperation between
the automobile industry and its North American steel suppliers. Chrysler,
Ford and General Motors teamed up with the American Iron and Steel
Institute's Automotive Applications Committee (AAC) to sponsor this
product. According to an AISI spokesperson, "CARS will be used as a
competitive tool to maximize the use of steel in the automotive industry."
The program's application mode provides numerical and graphical solutions
to over 215 equations and 35 design procedures. The reference mode quickly
and selectively accesses over 500 pages of text, design procedures,
tables, equations, figures and other information.

The new office in Ithaca, New York will directly support the company's
invesigative engineering service activities as well as providing
computer-aided engineering consulting.

DE/CAASE, developed by Desktop Engineering, represents the worlds largest
known compilation of solutions to structural/mechanical engineering
applications. It greatly reduces the time required to solve engineering
problems by helping the user select the proper solution, prompting for the
required input, automatically solving the equations and providing
graphical illustrations. The program incorporates solutions to over 5000
structural/mechanical engineering applications for calculating force,
deflection, stress and geometric properties. These solutions have been
rigorously researched from over 100 reference books, representing the
result of theoretical efforts by recognized experts of the engineering
profession, and have been independently verified. It includes over 40
modules grouped into categories including Geometric and Material
Properties; seams and Columns; Rings, Arches and Frames; Plates, Shells,
Grillages and Pressure Vessels; Natural Frequencies and Dynamics,
Stresses, Cables and Springs; and more. The release of Version 4.1
provides a completely new graphical user interface that operates in a
Windows environment on UNIX and MS-DOS operating systems.

Desktop Engineering is a software developer and distributor specializing in
engineering applications with headquarters in Mahwah, New Jersey. The
company's other products include DE/Mec. DE/Mec allows complex mechanisms
to be designed, analyzed, optimized and animated with virtually zero
learning time for anyone used to laying out mechanisms on a traditional
drawing board. Desktop Engineering has Desktop Engineering Technical
Centers in the United States, England and Canada and representatives
throughout Eastern Asia and Europe. All Desktop Engineering products are
available from authorized dealers located throughout the world. For more
information, contact Desktop Engineering at 800-888-8680.

Desktop Engineering Inc
1200 MacArthur Blvd
Mahwah, NJ 07430
201-818-9700,  fax 201-818-9707

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