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ADM 1025 - Digital Manufacturing: Introduction to Design

Credits: 2
Hours/Week: Lecture 1 Lab 2
Internship hours per week 0
Course Description: This introductory-level course with a lab component introduces students to the process of using CAD software to create designs for digital fabrication.  Course topics include how to create designs from specification, image, and customer data for fabrication using simple CAD software.  Course activities provide opportunities to explore the digital tools and various types of digital fabrication used in advanced manufacturing. 
MnTC Goals
None

Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content
  1. Software familiarization
  2. Part attributes, sizes, specifications, features
  3. Applying designs to ideas
  4. Software usage
  5. Converting information to digital data
  6. Digital fabrication machines

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, students will be able to:

  1. describe parts of a CAD system.
  2. interpret engineering prints. 
  3. produce designs specifications.
  4. reverse engineer a part or component using 2D design.
  5. extract CAD data from images or logos.
  6. design files based on customer designs or sketches.
  7. describe common types of digital fabrication.

Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC): Goals and Competencies
Competency Goals (MnTC Goals 1-6)
None
Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 7-10)
None


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