Creative Design Engineering

Instructional video lessons, and a private Slack workspace where we can discuss and learn together!

Here are some of the topics we'll be covering:

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Concept Visualization
- Intro to Sketching
- Advanced Sketching
- Digital Sketching

- Whiteboard Sketching

 

CAD - (modeling strategies, not software)
- FAST CAD

- Master/Child Modeling

- Mockup (Sketch Model) Techniques

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Additive Manufacturing
- DfAM (Design for Additive)

- Additive for Production (who, what, when, how?)

- Technology Overview: SLS, FDM, SLA, DMLS, LFS, CLIP, PJ, FFF,...etc?

- How can you use this technology?

- How should you pick which to use?

 

Prototyping Strategies
- Teardown Products to Reverse Engineer
- Prototyping you can do (at your desk)
- Prototyping with production vendors

- Prototyping by using Service Bureaus
- Form vs Function Prototyping
- Partial Prototyping
- Interaction Prototyping 
- Parallel vs Sequential Prototyping
- Scale Models for Faster Prototyping

- Materials Selection
- Plastics
- Metals
- Composites
- others

- Manufacturing Methods Overview:
- Injection Molding

- Metal Injection Molding

- Overmolding/Insert Molding

- Comolding-Twoshot Molding

- Compression Molding

- Rotomolding

- Extrusion
- CNC Mill/Lathe
- Laser, Waterjet
- Thermoforming
- Sheet Metal

- Stamping
- Die Casting

- others

 

DFX- Design for X

- Assembly

- Automation

- Cost

- Weight

- Manufacturing

- Packaging

- Ingress Protection (IP Rating)

- ME/EE overlap: (PCBAs):
- Rigid, Rigid Flex, Flex PCBA

- Finding components

- Simplify EE models for lightweight CAD

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Documentation

- Drawings/Documentation
- Bill of Materials (BOM) Creation/Management

 

Sourcing

- Service Bureaus

- DFM with Suppliers

- Finding vendors

Students will get special access real-time feedback on the course content.
I'll teach you about design, development, prototyping, and documentation.

If we get a larger-than-expected turnout, I'll bring in other industry experts to teach some classes on things that I'm not an expert in, like GD&T, Medical Regulatory, Quality, etc.

We'll have weekly live Zoom calls, engineering feedback sessions, and other high-value real-life examples to learn from.

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Cost: TBD ($1200-1800 USD) or ($200-800 for video lessons only)

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