The document discusses crowd-sourcing and its use in engineering. It defines crowd-sourcing as outsourcing tasks to a group or community through an open call. The document outlines how crowd-sourcing has been used successfully in other industries like design and provides examples of engineering-focused crowd-sourcing platforms. It also discusses best practices for companies using crowd-sourcing, including treating engineers with respect and clearly defining expectations. The future of crowd-sourcing in engineering is seen as positive if quality is maintained and engineers are respected.

1. Crowd-sourcing and open-engineering
Hardi Meybaum
GrabCAD, CEO
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2. Class Summary
 What is crowd-sourcing?
 How has it affected other industries?
 Crowd-sourcing in Engineering
 Lessons learned
 Benefits for companies
 How to get the most out of crowd-sourcing
 Future of crowd-sourcing in Engineering
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3. Crowd-sourcing
“the act of sourcing tasks traditionally performed by
specific individuals to a group of people or community
(crowd) through an open call”
wikipedia.org
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4. Amazon Mechanical Turk (mturk.com)
$ 0.14 per job
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5. 99designs.com
$ 99
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6. Kickstarter.com
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7. Innocentive.com
$1M
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8. 2009 – start of GrabCAD
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9. 2009 – start of GrabCAD
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10. GrabCAD today
50.000 engineers joined
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11. Bad example of sourcing
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13. 24 hours later
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14. CMI Durango
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15. GrabCAD Challenges
grabcad.com/challenges
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16. “Want to design the lightest electric superbike?”
http://grabcad.com/challenges/help-design-the-worlds-most-efficient-superbike-
win-an-ipad-2
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17. 150 designs, in 2 weeks
http://grabcad.com/challenges/help-design-the-worlds-most-efficient-superbike-win-an-ipad-2
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18. Shelby design challenge
http://grabcad.com/challenges/shelby-needs-your-input-on-their-latest-supercar-tuataras-interior
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19. Shelby design challenge
http://grabcad.com/challenges/shelby-needs-your-input-on-their-latest-supercar-tuataras-interior
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20. Crowd-Sourcing is not
 Outsourcing
 Cheap way to send your work out and get great results
 Does not save time for person organizing the project
 Does not offer you final results you can take to
manufacturing
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21. How to get best results?
 Treatengineers with respect
 Set and define clear expectations
 Communicate with engineers throughout the process
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22. Benefits for businesses
A great number of ideas generated quickly
 Different angle to the problem you have been trying to solve
 Great marketing for engineers and designers
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23. Why engineers like it?
 Can test themselves with new opportunities
 Can work on different projects for a variety of cool
companies
 Can earn extra money
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24. Future of crowd-sourcing in Engineering
 Quality
of design must not decline
 We have to treat engineers with respect
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25. If we get things right
It can be very powerful tool for the world
Hardi (hardi@grabcad.com)
grabcad.com
twitter: @grabcad
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