• Bogi Lateiner standing in front of the Iron Maven car at SEMA

    Wrenching for Empowerment: The All-Female Girl Gang Garage Builds Cars, Confidence, and Community

    At a busy autoshop in Phoenix, Arizona, feverish work on a vintage car re-build presses on ahead of a deadline for a large automotive convention. Engine work, welding, grinding, painting, and polishing are all part of this large collaborative effort that has taken many months to transform a more than 60-year-old husk into a modern…

    Industry Collaboration
  • Four student renders of modular shipping container buildings

    Construction’s Future Innovators Win Academic Support

    For the construction industry to meet the vital needs of the next few decades, it will have to match speedy and reliable building with unprecedented sustainability requirements. And its success will rely upon a new generation of motivated professionals bringing new ideas and innovations to the fore.   Autodesk’s Make It Real program supports those young…

    Career Readiness
  • 3D print of a student-made air-quality sensor enclosure designed in Fusion 360.

    CU Boulder Impacts Global Engineering with Design Skills

    At the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering (MCGE) at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder), a dedicated group of faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students are working to make a difference in the detection and measurement of environmental contaminants—in part through design and manufacturing skills. Through the Center’s Global Engineering Certificate Program, students learn interdisciplinary…

    Academic Leaders

  • PhD Candidate Creates Patient-Specific Knee Surgery Plates with Generative Design

    For several decades, people diagnosed with osteoarthritis in a knee would be offered a total knee replacement surgery. Today however, some patients have the option of knee realignment through a High Tibial Osteotomy (HTO), which preserves the native joint by offloading the diseased part and stabilizing it with a titanium fixation plate. Currently, most commercial…

    Industry Collaboration
  • Close-up of a college student working on his laptop on campus with other students in the background

    Easing Remote Learning and Empowering Students for Industry 4.0 Careers

    When Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) in southeast Florida pivoted to remote learning in 2020, the district handed out more than 100,000 laptops to help students continue their education online. The laptops were enough for students to join virtual classes, but they presented an extra challenge for the Career, Technical, Adult, and Community Education (CTACE) department.  CTACE’s key…

    Academic Leaders
  • CNC lab at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California. Students and teachers are working with Fusion 360.

    For Industry 4.0 to Succeed, Manufacturing Education Must Transform

    As we move through the early stages of Industry 4.0, a new industrial era categorized by digital transformation, technological advances are ushering in new opportunities for greater productivity, higher profitability, and more sustainable products and services. While these new advances unlock exciting opportunities, we’re also hearing great concern from our Design and Manufacturing customers about…

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  • robotic arm rendering

    Upskilling for the Future with Instructables Student Design Challenges

    College student Nachum Twersky and high school student Teddy Warner participated in the New Year, New Skill Student Design Challenge, taking the grand prize and second place wins, respectively. Read on as they share insights into the wonderful world of upskilling by using Instructables as a platform to prepare for their future careers. Twersky is…

    Career Readiness

  • In Nigeria, a Nonprofit Teams with Engineering Students for Gas Safety

    Gas leakage explosions have become a concern in Nigeria, causing increasing fire outbreaks in local communities. To save lives and prevent property damage, the Youth for Technology Foundation (YTF) training program is addressing this issue under the 3D Africa program—a prototyping and engineering program within YTF that uses emerging technology like 3D printing to educate…

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  • Learning Robotics in Japan with the FIRST Competition

    At the Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan, about 30 teenagers from schools in the Tokyo, Saitama, and Chiba prefectures gather every winter and early spring to learn robotics and build a robot—and not your everyday robot. The students are members of SAKURA Tempesta, a robotics team that’s competed in the worldwide FIRST Robotics Competition…

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  • BattleBots

    Glitch and the BattleBots Las Vegas Competition

    Over the past two pandemic years, many students had to start college virtually—not the ideal entry point for most. In the fall of 2020, and Katherine How entered the University of California, Berkeley, mid-pandemic, and had to figure out how to connect to her new school and classmates from her home in Canada. The story…

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