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November 13, 2012
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RWDC as curriculum for a HS course

  • November 13, 2012
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Does anyone use RWDC as curriculum for a stand alone high school course? I am exploring the idea of using this competition as a STEM course for students interested in engineering, CAD and the design process.

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    November 14, 2012

    Yes I am using it in my industrial design class. We spent the first part of the semester learning mathcad & CFD. The students had already had a semester of CAD. My class is only one semester, so our goal is to finish by winter break. Class webpage is at

    http://davincilab.org/classes/industrialDesign/.

    You can see some of the things we did to prepare and what we're currently up to.

    David Clark

    Monarch HS

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    November 15, 2012

    Thanks David. What type of CAD did the students have before taking your class? Did you use all PTC software? I am thinking about this being a 2 semester course. The Spring will be learning the software and the fall will be working on the challenge. I am the STEM coordinator for my district with a biology background so a lot of this is relatively foreign to me. I am trying to gather information to present to the administration.

    Jack

    State College HS

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    November 16, 2012

    We use Solidworks as our primary CAD tool as that is what the school provides us. I have Creo installed on a few computers and we have been dabbling with that as well. I do use Mathcad and Windchill for the Real World Design Challenge as well as for my FIRST Robotics team. These are both great packages.

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