Look to the Future/Learn from TodayJames M. Leake,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Autodesk – Did You Know?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 MediaGlobal presence –160 countriesRevenue: $2+B40% Americas, 60% EMEA & APAC

Manufacturing, AEC, Infrastructure and Media

Revenue: $2+B

40% Americas, 60% EMEA & APAC

“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

John Walker

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

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

iFoundry: Change via Organizational InnovationCollaborative, interdepartmental pilot unit. Volunteers. Existing authority. Respect faculty governance. Scalability. Open-source curriculum change.

Collaborative, interdepartmental pilot unit.

Volunteers.

Existing authority.

Respect faculty governance.

Scalability.

Open-source curriculum change.

Overview First-year concept design projects First-year reverse engineering design projects Upper division digital prototyping Industrial Design - Engineering collaboration Senior design

First-year concept design projects

First-year reverse engineering design projects

Upper division digital prototyping

Industrial Design - Engineering collaboration

Senior design

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

3D modeling

Essential reasoning skills – missing basics

Focus on product function

Digital prototyping

Collaborative design experience

Mere Modeling – Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

First–Year Design ProjectNEWOLDReverse engineeringMore representative of engineering problem-solvingAddress the missing basicsFocus on functionalityConcept designGood for developing modeling skillsNot many constraintsNot representative of “real world”

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”

What Engineers Don’t LearnPoint of departure: Industrial based senior design.After 4 years they don’t know how toQuestion: 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 101Call 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)

Missing Basics

Basic skills: Model

Model

Basic skills: Model (realism)Decompose Label

Model (realism)

Decompose

Label

Basic skills: Model (realism)Decompose Label

Model (realism)

Decompose

Label

Basic skills: Measure

Measure

Basic skills: Label Research

Label

Research

Basic skills: Decompose Label

Decompose

Label

Basic skills: Model (conceptual) Decompose (by function) Question

Model (conceptual)

Decompose

Question

Basic skills: Digital prototyping

Digital prototyping

Product Functionality - Animations

Digital Prototyping Analysis FEA (Stress Analysis) Kinematics (Dynamic Simulation) Mechanism design (Design Accelerators) ID, conceptual (Alias) Visualization (Inventor Studio, Showcase) 3D Printing 3D Scanning

Analysis

FEA (Stress Analysis)

Kinematics (Dynamic Simulation)

Mechanism design (Design Accelerators)

ID, conceptual (Alias)

Visualization (Inventor Studio, Showcase)

3D Printing

3D Scanning

Analysis - FEA

Analysis - Kinematic

Mechanism Design

Visualization

Conceptual (Alias)

3D Printing

3D Scanning

Industrial Design – Engineering Collaboration

Autodesk - iFoundry Partnership

Goals

Geometric Modeling

Bburago Car Project

New VW

Mini Cooper

Old VW

Lamborghini

Nissan

Jeep

Alfa Romeo

Bburago Car Project - Animations

Senior Design – Food Processing EquipmentSponsor manufactures food processing equipmentSponsor uses 2D AutoCAD, intends to convert to Autodesk InventorProblem statement – use Inventor to automate design of a mixer blender

Mixer/BlendersMultiple (~8) subassemblies, ~300 parts, stainless steelCapacities range from 100 to 15,000 lbsSite ConstraintsDischarge height OverhangOpen cover height Customer OptionsStandard Mixer/Blender

Linking Parameters to Excel Parameters Window Sketch Link Window Section of Agitator Worksheet

Senior Design - Modular EndcapProblem StatementDevelop a new and improved endcap display that can be marketed to Tier I customersDesign Criteria include:Innovative designAdjustable divider system Modular design Product sliding systemLean distribution

Modular Endcap – Final Design

Questions?Look to the Future/Learn from TodayJames M. Leake,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaignjmleake@illinois.edu