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Tinkercad is an open, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding.
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Computer modeling & CAD CAM fabrication, with a focus on building large-scale prototypes & digital mock-ups. Prototypes & mock-ups are developed. Demonstrate new methods for building design. Class analyzes complex shapes, shape relationships, & curved surfaces fabrication at a macro scale leading to new architectural languages, based on construction methods.
Furniture making is in many ways like bridge building, connections holding posts apart with spans to support a deck. Many architects have tried their hand at furniture design, Wright, Mies Van Der Rohe, Aalto, Saarinen, Le Corbusier, and Gerhy. Students will learn traditional woodworking techniques beginning with the use of hand tools, power tools and finally woodworking machines. Students will build a single piece of furniture of an original design that must support someone weighing 185 lbs.
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Hands-on undergraduate class to design/build working prototypes of new products. Emulates what engineers may experience in design team at modern product development firm. Goals: * Improve creative-thinking. * Improve ability to identify significant product opportunities, & develop solutions through structured product dev. process. * Improve expertise in constructing models for reasoning on design alternatives. Includes estimations, sketches, sketch models, spreadsheets, geometric models, mockups, & prototypes. * Improve engineering expertise & proficiency in techniques for building quality product models & prototypes. * Develop an understanding/enthusiasm for engineering tasks involved in designing new products.
Cognitive science & technology applied to the industrial design process. Prototyping techniques & approaches for objective evaluation as part of the design process. Students practice evaluating products with mechanical & electronic aspects. Evaluation processes are applied to creating functioning smart product prototypes. Project oriented subject that draws upon engineering, aesthetic, & creative skills. Creating physical products which encompass electronics & computers, aimed at including them in smart scenarios. Learn prototyping skills and create a product prototype.