For SolidWorks software; you must apply for sponsorship at
www.SolidWorks.com/SponsoredDesignContest
You have to fill out a form - we ask questions about your team. We ship DVDs to a school address, verify your FRC number, and supply all our analysis tools and access to take our CSWA certification exam to help in future job placement.
SolidWorks is extremely valuable and we do not have internet methods to download the student edition. We need to control these licenses and where they are installed for security.
I would review Monster.com and Aerotek.com and search by CAD company software. In school, you should know many types of software. I used to teach my student ProE, Autocad, and SolidWorks. If you want to work for Boeing or Ford, then I would learn CATIA. If you want to work for a consumer design company, biomedical company or industrial machinery compaa ny, I would be learning SolidWorks. With SolidWorks and CATIA software in your portfolio, you can quickly learn the others.
Marie