Sustainable Toy Design with Solidworks 3.0 UNITS

Catalog description

This course will provide students to learn the basic modeling skills and sustainable design process with Solidworks. The basic modeling will include parts design from extrusion/revolution/sweep/loft and bottom up assembly design plus the 2D drawing output. And the sustainable design will cover the definition, scope and metrics of sustainability, environmental assessment dashboard for 4 indicators like carbon footprint/energy consumption/air acidification/water eutrophication, and conceptual lifecycle thinking like raw material extraction/material processing/part manufacturing/assembly/product use/end of life/transportation. Case studies method will be used in this course and the cases come in with different toy design from simple to complex, and the toys can also be made in class with the laser cutters and 3D printers in the lab. (Formerly PMT 101)