• Prototypes bridge internal and external thinking, requires makers to integrate and represent their knowledge, and invites feedback iteration
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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.

Provides students opportunities to conceive, design & implement a product, using rapid prototyping methods & computer-aid tools. First of two phases challenges each student team to meet a set of design requirements & constraints for a structural component. A course of iteration, fabrication, & validation completes this manual design cycle. During second phase, conduct design optimization using structural analysis software, with the prototype as a baseline.

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.

Guide students through process of using rapid prototyping & CAD/CAM devices. Theoretical focus on machine use within process of design. Expected to have a full understanding of solid modeling in CAD.