Adobe Creative Cloud enables graphic designers, cinematographers, web programmers, and so many more. Their Entire design suite is free to university students. After graduation it retails around $70 a month per user.

Fusion 360 (similar to Solidworks) allows equation based and free form 3D modeling. Models can be rendered in high quality and prepared for 3D printing and machining.

Blender is great for the organic 3D modeling of plants, animals, and objects with curved surfaces.

Sculptrix is similar to Blender in its ability to sculpt organic, 3D shapes.

Tinkercad 3D modeling website. You can create simple objects in seconds without downloading any software.

Makerbot Desktop is a 3D stitching software used to convert .stl files into files that can be 3D printed on our Makerbot Replicators

Cura converts and prepares .stl files to print on the Ultimaker2 3D printer.

Arduino allows you to automate every day objects, control robots, connect to a variety of sensors and so much more. Their easy to learn programming language comes with a wide variety of examples that come with circuitry layouts.

A Raspberry Pi is a less powerful computer. It runs an operating system, can access the internet, etc... They are great for internet enabled projects.