Rapid Design and Innovation Prototype (almost) Anything?

Schedule: 9 am-4 pm CT with a 1 hour break for lunch

Day 1:

Morning

• Warm-up prototyping activity
• Lecture and discussion of prototyping as a process

Afternoon

• Computer Aided Design (CAD) software - Part I
• Laser cutter training and fabrication (lamp parts)
• DIY laser cutter project assigned

Day 2:

Morning

• Computer Aided Design (CAD) software - Part II (lamp knobs)
• Introduction to 3D printing
• Print knobs, DIY 3D printing project assigned

Afternoon

• Machine shop demonstrations (mill, lathe, welding)
• Time to work on DIY projects, feedback from instructors

Day 3:

Morning

• Introduction to electronics
• Solder LED light and microcontroller

Afternoon

• DIY electronics project
• Work time for DIY projects, optionally further customize lamp
• Final showcase!

• Lennon Rodgers

  Lennon Rodgers is the Director of the Design Innovation Lab at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, which includes a makerspace, machine shop and a set of interdisciplinary design programs. He earned his PhD and M.S. from MIT and B.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (all mechanical engineering). Previously he worked at MIT as a Research Scientist and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an engineer. All of his research is related to engineering education and modeling, designing, building, instrumenting and testing complex systems ranging from spacecraft to electric vehicles. 

• Nicole Zacharia

  academic director

  Dr. Zacharia has a background in materials science, with both a bachelor's degree and a PhD in the subject from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her student days were followed by postdoctoral studies at the University of Toronto, time as an assistant professor in mechanical engineering at Texas A&M University, and most recently before joining UW-Madison, time at the University of Akron as an assistant then associate professor of Polymer Engineering.
  
  In addition to teaching at both undergraduate and graduate levels, Dr. Zacharia's interests have included research in polyelectrolyte coacervation as well as novel types of surfaces with special wettability, working on various federally and privately funded research projects. She has published over 40 papers in various international materials and chemistry journals. She has been an actively member of the American Chemical Society, including serving on the executive editorial board for one of its journals.

• Program Director

  Nicole Zacharia

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At the completion of this course, participants will be able to use a wide range of rapid prototyping tools at an introductory level. These tools include: