EPLAN Education for Students
Engineering Expertise to Jump-Start Your Career
Would you like to take your engineering project work to the next level? Discover EPLAN Education – which gives you free access to top-class software that offers much more than just traditional ECAD. Immerse yourself in the world of electrical engineering design, develop essential skills to help jump-start your career and create schematics at a professional level. EPLAN Education helps you put your engineering knowledge into practice.
Three reasons why you should use EPLAN Education for your studies
✓ EPLAN Education makes learning fun
Interactive tutorials teach you the basics of the EPLAN Platform. Apply your newly acquired skills directly in practical exercises, making it a fun way to deepen your knowledge of electrical engineering.
✓ EPLAN Education accelerates the learning curve
From simple robotic cells to complex production systems, you can create electrical engineering designs in no time at all using EPLAN. Aside from creating traditional schematics, you will also be realising digital twins in 3D. View your designs from any perspective and gain an understanding of the electrical engineering of different machines and plant systems.
✓ EPLAN Education boosts your career
You will get a head start with your job search because EPLAN is the leading software companies use for machine building, plant system engineering, panel building and control cabinet designs. Top off your skills with the certification as an EPLAN Certified Student. Along with expanding your skills in EPLAN, you will also receive a certificate for your application credentials.
What is EPLAN Education?
EPLAN Education is our free offering for your studies. EPLAN Education includes:
Free ECAD software for students
With EPLAN Education, you are ideally prepared for designing the electrical engineering of plant systems and machines. It includes EPLAN Electric P8 as well as other excellent software for various trades. For instance, discover EPLAN Preplanning for technical preplanning, EPLAN Pro Panel for panel building and control cabinet engineering in 3D, and EPLAN Fluid for hydraulic, pneumatic and other fluid-based systems. In addition to all of this, you also receive access to the EPLAN Data Portal, where you can become familiarised with components from well-known manufacturers and integrate them directly into your projects. This enhances your project work and final thesis.
We provide free EPLAN Education licences to pupils, trainees and students for private use.
Learning materials
Develop your skills on the EPLAN Platform. You will receive access to free eLearning courses for self-study. Would you prefer to complete the eLearning courses in English or Spanish? No problem! Our online tutorials are available in fourteen languages and according to two industry standards (IEC and NFPA). Each tutorial includes step-by-step instructions and a quiz so you can test and solidify what you’ve learned straight away.
By the way: We received the 2024 eLearning Award in the “Knowledge Transfer” category for this form of adaptive learning.
Online tutorials
EPLAN has a huge community that you can access after registering at www.eplan.com. Take advantage of numerous additional tutorials from the community to expand your EPLAN skills. They include everything you need to know about block properties, terminals, connectors and cables, and EPLAN message management. You will also get to know the various solutions on the EPLAN Platform.
Certifications
Learning goes much faster when you have a clear goal in mind. Set about becoming an EPLAN Certified Student (ECS). For this certification, you will delve even deeper into the EPLAN Platform. Along with learning how to set up a project in accordance with particular standards, you will also discover how to optimally use the navigators, find errors in your project and efficiently rectify them.
Online tutorials prepare you for the certification, leading you step by step through the various topics. Above and beyond this, there are mock exams in which you can familiarise yourself with how the exams are set up and what kind of questions there will be. You can also compare your project designs with the provided solutions.
The right solution for every engineering task
Master various engineering disciplines using the EPLAN Platform. EPLAN Electric P8 forms the foundation for solutions in electrical engineering design. There are also different softwares for your specific project plans:
- Electrical engineering design: EPLAN Electric P8
- The preplanning phase and interdisciplinary engineering: EPLAN Preplanning
- Pneumatic and hydraulic designs: EPLAN Fluid
- Control cabinet engineering in 3D: EPLAN Pro Panel
- Cabling in 3D: EPLAN Harness proD
Use EPLAN Education Student Free of Charge
We’re happy to provide students and trainees free EPLAN Education for Students licences for private use.
What other students say about EPLAN Education
More than 90,000 students have already used EPLAN Education as part of their studies and love it.
"EPLAN provides wonderful project documentation. The level of detail earned me top marks for my capstone project."
Pari Qarehdaghi, electromechanical engineering student at Seneca Polytechnic in Toronto, Canada
"EPLAN provides wonderful project documentation. The level of detail earned me top marks for my capstone project."
Pari Qarehdaghi, electromechanical engineering student at Seneca Polytechnic in Toronto, Canada
"EPLAN helped me to better understand electrical connections: How many connections do I need for a specific component? How many connections do I need on a circuit board to manage the power distribution?"
Andres Pinto, electromechanical engineering student at Seneca Polytechnic in Toronto, Canada
"EPLAN helped me to better understand electrical connections: How many connections do I need for a specific component? How many connections do I need on a circuit board to manage the power distribution?"
Andres Pinto, electromechanical engineering student at Seneca Polytechnic in Toronto, Canada
EPLAN work with a number of UK Formula Student teams
With over 130 university teams from over 30 countries across the world, EPLAN are proud to support educational institutes from far and wide! A number of these teams have formed their electrical engineering documentation or wire harnesses using engineering solutions from EPLAN.
Get started with EPLAN Education
Are you studying to become an engineer at a college, vocational school or at a company training facility? We provide pupils, students and trainees with free of charge EPLAN Education licences for private use. Do you have any questions or would you like more information? Find answers to frequently asked questions or contact us directly via the contact form below.
