[Peter Matteson]

Not really answering the question exactly but:

Neither we Use Pro/Engineer and Pro/Desktop.

The Students can design and draft everything they need at a small assy or part level so they can concept or come up with a system idea. They also create drawings of basic parts so we can program them into the CNC or make them on the lathe.

The more complex integration of the systems I do in Pro/E on a workstation because the assemblies start to crash the school's computers too quickly. All the higher level assemblies come from the Pro/E model which is made up of imported parts from Pro/Desktop.

So I guess the anwer is really we do both with another software that:
A. My company uses.
B. We can give the students shareware of.
c. From my understanding is a more powerful design tool, although we use none of the high end features. I generally like the User Interface of Pro/E better, but keep in mind this last bullet is mostly personal opinion.

Also all the students have to take a product design class to participate. That is where they learn the software.

-Pete