Tag: Fusion 360
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Teach Sustainable Product Design with the Makersite Add-on for Fusion 360
Sustainable design practices are becoming a mandate within the design and manufacturing industry. What was once considered an internal business or socially responsible decision has now shifted to an essential component of business legitimacy and success. External forces such as government regulations, consumer demand, need for supply chain resilience are positioning sustainable practices as non-negotiable.…
Career Readiness
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Students Build Bots and Their Futures at the 2023 FIRST Robotics Competition
At the April 2023 FIRST Championship in Houston, Texas, international teams of high school students faced off in the FIRST Robotics Competition, which combines the excitement of sports with the rigors of STEM learning and skills. The contest draws students of all skill levels—both technical and non-technical—who work on not only building industrial-sized robots that…
Career Readiness
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TUM Boring Student Tunneling Team Wins Second Straight Not-a-Boring Competition
Chronic traffic congestion causes many problems, including excess pollution, untold quantities of wasted time and energy, and negative psychological effects. To alleviate congestion, people can either travel less or build more avenues, either in the air for flying cars that aren’t yet practical, on the ground with more roads, or… underground. With The Boring Company’s…
Industry Collaboration
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How Fresh Life brings organic waste into the circular economy with fly farming
The E4C Fellowships, sponsored by Engineering for Change, empower early-career engineers and other technical professionals worldwide to work on local and global sustainable development challenges while building professional skills and relationships. The Autodesk Foundation supports up to 30 E4C Fellows, who will commit five months to working for portfolio organizations on Design for Good, Advancing…
Industry Collaboration
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Set Up Students for Success with Fusion 360 for Education
While spring is only just now upon us, before you know it, new graduates will be celebrating their procession onto the next phase of their lives, whether that be higher education or budding careers. Fortunately, it’s always the right time to prepare students for the next-generation workflows and technologies of the future of design and…
Career Readiness
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Kheyti’s Greenhouse-in-a-Box helps smallholder farmers earn a climate-resilient income
The E4C Fellowships, sponsored by Engineering for Change, empower early-career engineers and other technical professionals worldwide to work on local and global sustainable development challenges while building professional skills and relationships. The Autodesk Foundation supports up to 30 E4C Fellows, who will commit five months to working for portfolio organizations on Design for Good, Advancing…
Industry Collaboration
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Amped Innovation Aims to De-carbonize Nigeria’s Grid with Affordable Solar Generator Systems
The E4C Fellowships, sponsored by Engineering for Change, empower early-career engineers and other technical professionals worldwide to work on local and global sustainable development challenges while building professional skills and relationships. The Autodesk Foundation supports up to 30 E4C Fellows, who will commit five months to working for portfolio organizations on Design for Good, Advancing…
Industry Collaboration
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Scholars Replicate Indigenous Flutes with 3D Printing
The repatriation of Native American artifacts from museums back to their tribes of origin has been a hot-button topic as of late, particularly how long the process has often taken since the Native American Protection and Repatriation Act became US law in 1990. Yet even when repatriation does happen, the artifacts can be in poor…
Academic Leaders
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Diamond in the Rough: Helping Students Discover their Potential as Jewelry Designers
While exams, research papers, and group projects are an important part of the learning process, these evaluations typically don’t hold much weight outside of the classroom. What if instead, a student project could translate to real-world job experience? For students studying Textiles and Apparel at University of Texas (UT) Austin, their group project isn’t just…
Career Readiness
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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