by Paul Jafvert | Apr 17, 2014 | News
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A group of Purdue University students who created a soy-based, renewable and recyclable filament for 3D printing won the top prize in the annual Student Soybean Product Innovation Contest. The awards were announced at a reception...
by Paul Jafvert | Dec 5, 2013 | Outreach
This course combines CAD techniques and strategies with design in teams. ME444 in its new form combines the right balance of hands-on-design in the lecture/workshops with the CAD skills learnt in the labs. Students design toys using...
by Paul Jafvert | Oct 22, 2013 | Outreach
The C Design lab offers the toy design course (ME444) that has been designed and re-designed with changes in design software, better understanding of processes and design learning, and prototyping techniques. It was first offered in the early 1990’s, and is offered...
by Paul Jafvert | Sep 10, 2013 | Outreach
The C Design lab offers formal and informal workshops on sketch inhibition and sketching for engineers. Here the presentation is a formal sketch workshop done in one of the toy design classes. These workshops start from the simple mechanics of drawing straight lines...