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Look to the Future/Learn from Today

James M. Leake,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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From state-of-the-art CAD design and drafting to the industry’s most progressive digital prototyping, Autodesk delivers a comprehensive suite of solutions to help you create, improve and refine your designs.

Portfolio of marketsManufacturing, AEC, Infrastructure

and Media

Global presence –160 countriesRevenue: $2+B40% Americas, 60% EMEA & APAC

Autodesk – Did You Know?

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“CAD is about building models of real-world objects inside the computer. I believe that in the fullness of time, every object in the world, manufacturing or not, will be modeled inside a computer.

That is a very big market. This is everything.”

- John Walker May 11, 1992

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Autodesk sees the future of engineering in integrated digital prototyping across product ideation, functional & aesthetic design, and production/construction disciplines.

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Pivotal Question

Can Autodesk help transform education to match its vision in more systematic manner?

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iFoundry: Change via Organizational Innovation Collaborative, interdepartmental pilot unit.

Volunteers.

Existing authority.

Respect faculty governance.

Scalability.

Open-source curriculum change.

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Overview

First-year concept design projects

First-year reverse engineering design projects

Upper division digital prototyping

Industrial Design - Engineering collaboration

Senior design

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How can technology be used to improve engineering education?

3D modeling

Essential reasoning skills – missing basics

Focus on product function

Digital prototyping

Collaborative design experience

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Mere Modeling – Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

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First–Year Design Project

• Reverse engineering• More representative of

engineering problem-solving• Address the missing basics• Focus on functionality

• Concept design• Good for developing

modeling skills• Not many constraints• Not representative of “real

world”

OLDNEW

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What Engineers Don’t Learn

Point of departure: Industrial based senior design. After 4 years they don’t know how to

Question: Socrates 101. Label: Aristotle 101. Model conceptually: Hume 101 & Aristotle 102. Decompose: Descartes 101. Measure: Bacon-Locke 101. Visualize/draw: da Vinci-Monge 101. Communicate: Newman 101

Call these the missing basics (MBs) vs. “the basics” = math, sci, & eng sci.

Missing basics are in some sense more basic than “the basics.”

MBs as quality failure. MBs as key to engineering in a creative era, interdisciplinarity & lifelong learning.

Socrates (470-399 BCE)

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Missing Basics

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Basic skills:• Model

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Basic skills:• Model (realism)•Decompose• Label

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Basic skills:• Model (realism)•Decompose• Label

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Basic skills:• Measure

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Basic skills:• Label• Research

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Basic skills:• Decompose• Label

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Basic skills:• Model (conceptual)

• Decompose (by function)• Question

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Basic skills:• Digital prototyping

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Product Functionality - Animations

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Digital Prototyping

Analysis FEA (Stress Analysis) Kinematics (Dynamic Simulation)

Mechanism design (Design Accelerators) ID, conceptual (Alias) Visualization (Inventor Studio, Showcase) 3D Printing 3D Scanning

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Analysis - FEA

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Analysis - Kinematic

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Mechanism Design

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Visualization

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Conceptual (Alias)

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3D Printing

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3D Scanning

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Industrial Design – Engineering Collaboration

Design

EngineeringArt

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Autodesk - iFoundry Partnership

Promote collaboration, develop curriculum

ID & engineerin

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Autodesk gift

iFoundry

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Goals

Promote ID engineering collaboration

Gain experience using digital

prototyping tools for

•Modeling•Visualization & Animation•Upfront Analysis & Simulation•Scanning & Prototyping

Gain experience using NURBS to solid model

digital pipeline

Meta-goal – lay foundation for development of ID

Engineering curriculum

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Geometric Modeling

Integration

Parametric solid

modeling (Inventor)

NURBS Curves & surfaces (Alias)

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Bburago Car Project

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New VW

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Mini Cooper

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Old VW

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Lamborghini

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Nissan

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Jeep

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Alfa Romeo

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Bburago Car Project - Animations

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Senior Design – Food Processing Equipment

Sponsor manufactures food processing equipment

Sponsor uses 2D AutoCAD, intends to convert to Autodesk Inventor

Problem statement – use Inventor to automate design of a mixer blender

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Mixer/Blenders

Multiple (~8) subassemblies, ~300 parts, stainless steel

Capacities range from 100 to 15,000 lbs Site Constraints

Discharge height Overhang Open cover height

Customer Options

Standard Mixer/Blender

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Sketch

Parameters Window

Link Window

Section of Agitator Worksheet

Linking Parameters to Excel

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Senior Design - Modular Endcap

Problem Statement Develop a new and improved endcap display that

can be marketed to Tier I customers Design Criteria include: Innovative design Adjustable divider system Modular design Product sliding system Lean distribution

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Modular Endcap – Final Design

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Look to the Future/Learn from Today

James M. Leake,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaignjmleake@illinois.edu

Questions?