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This week, a deep, thought-provoking poll that really matters. One that paws like a toothless rat against the marshmallowy film of time. Everybody knows drawing revisions are better represented as… what? Letters or numbers? How about letters and numbers? Should we even have a choice? Should 14 year old standards been thrown out with the filing cabinets? This is where it finally gets decided…
Little did you know it, but that engineering degree you spent 100k and 5+ years completing, fueled by cafeteria food, long nights and the occasional nervous breakdown… may actually be making you less useful, or at the very least need some flare.
In an article at Techcrunch, Vivek Wadhwa goes up against some thoughts from Guy Kawasaki on engineering knowledge versus business knowledge, and the need for each in the startup world. Wadhwa basically says, an engineering degree, by itself, isn’t good enough… hmmm, what do you think?
Put the crackers down. The shop is calling. Nope, not to tell you they have to remake everything, but to let you know the part-makin’ is going perfectly. Why? You knew what to look out for.
On the screen it looks spectacular, right? but can it actually be made? For many designers and engineer’s designing parts to be manufactured is second nature. However, there are ways we model parts in SolidWorks that can get us severely scorned by the people making the parts and that’s what were here to deal with.
Pull up your socks. It’s about to get ruckus up in the CAD Engineering Software world. The Conference is going down the next few days in Scottsdale, Arizona at the Palace Resort. COFES 2009 (Conference on the Future of Engineering Software).
The topics focus on ‘Innovation’*, from how software affects design to predicting the future of intersecting technologies. The DaS (Design and Sustainability) Symposium also starts this year which allow attendees to seeks collaborative solutions for specific software/design challenges.
This conference, takes the leading minds, thinkers and tinkerers of the CAD/PLM world, sticks them in a bunch of rooms of a beautiful resort to turns out ideas and solutions for the software you use each day.
It kicks off TODAY at 3:00 PM (Mountain Time). Here’s where to find more info, live coverage and see the rampage that will be occurring via Twitter.
Look out unemployed and soon-to-be-unemployed engineers and designers… SolidWorks has gone and done the nearly unimaginable… free software.
For a limited time, they are offering a free trial download of SolidWorks 2009 to stimulate the corpuscles out of your ever-loving, unemployeed facial pores. And although your excitement may instantly look like a bad case of rosacea, the visible joy could very well turn into SolidWorks skills you’ve never known. Check it out.
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If you’ve taken a look outside your cubicle lately you’ve probably noticed that the sky has not only fallen for many engineers, but has also nearly imploded due to the increasing supply of talent. What to do.
It’s really easy to get down about this even if you still have a job, but it’s also a good time to explore some options. This may be a little late for some, but perhaps we can shoot some ideas out to people who have gotten the axe with little time to spare.
So what are your ideas? your suggestions? for those who have or are just about to get the ol’ Sayonara?
Photograph by Anna Knott (Model: Keith Gallagher)
News travels fast up har in the hills and mountains o’ CAD country… stimulatin’ news… news on the magnitude of HUGE and TIMELY. This is just such news.
SolidWorks announced at SolidWorks World 2009 the enormous plans of helping every ailing engineer that has meet the cold hand of unemployment. The SolidWorks Engineering Stimulus Package (ESP). Interested in a free copy of SolidWorks? Are you unemployed? Would this help you? Here are some more details.
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It may not be enough that you know how to sort desktop folders, write a cordial email or sketch a straight line, you may actually need to know some software that allows others to see what’s going on in the recesses of your analytically-primed imagination.
There are hundreds of software apps that help Industrial Designers and Engineers, but what do you need to learn to get a top position in the Industrial Design field? Photoshop and Illustrator would be on most people’s lists, but what about 3D?
I warned you. Tonight, October 15th, four uniquely qualified engineers will begin a series to entertain your analytical mind with mind controlled cars, space-age sleeping pods, giant robots and anything else that borders on cool and impossible.
Discovery Channel’s Prototype This! premiers TONIGHT. Not only will they be creating concepts that shock your senses, they’ll be using SolidWorks to design many of the components they’ll cut with their Tormach PCNC 1100. Here’s the details.
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So, yesterday in Switzerland, a bunch of subatomic particles busted out a lap around the largest, most powerful particle accelerator ever conceived by us tiny humans.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is up and running, but it’s not the only project testing the vast limits of scientific discovery. Japan’s Large Helical Device has some fancy nuclear fusion experiments going on as well.
The projects are amazing, but what’s truly spectacular is the design that has gone into these magnificent creations. Take a look.
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