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My Background. Degrees: Art History (BA), Ocean Engineering (BS), Mechanical Engineering (MS)Licenses: PE in NA
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1. Autodesk - UIUC Engineering Cooperative Relationship James M. Leake
Department of General Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
August 4, 2005
2. My Background Degrees: Art History (BA), Ocean Engineering (BS), Mechanical Engineering (MS)
Licenses: PE in NA&ME
Overseas: Italy, Tunisia (Peace Corps), UAE
Industry: Naval Architect (12 years)
Teaching: UAEU (6 years), UIUC (6 years)
Publications: McGraw-Hill Inventor book, Thompson Delmar AutoCAD CDs, Wiley engineering graphics book
Research interests: Engineering education - CAD/CAE tools, spatial visualization
3. Proposal History Draft proposal submitted to Autodesk Manufacturing Systems (June 2003)
Funding and technical support to develop software instructional materials to help integrate engineering mechanics curriculum
Masters thesis = Curriculum module
Curriculum development grant awarded in December 2003
4. UIUC College of Engineering US News & World Report Rankings:
4th in graduate engineering programs, 2006
4th in undergraduate engineering programs, 2005
Several departments at or near top of rankings
ACES member since 2000
5. Department of General Engineering Fourth largest department in college
Largest percentage of females and minorities
At or near top in salaries (starting, 5, 10 years out) and placement
OR, controls, mechanics, and business side of engineering
Senior design
PhD in Systems and Entrepreneurial Engineering (SEE)
GE/IE merger Fall 2006
Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering
6. GE Design (Mechanics) Track Engineering Graphics & Design
AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor
Introduction to General Engineering Design
Kinematics
FEA
Engineering Design Analysis
FEA
Instrumentation and Test Lab
Component Design (elective)
Senior Project Design
Industry sponsorship
Significant MCAD/CAE software usage
7. GE CAD/CAM/CAE Tools Autodesk Inventor
AutoCAD
McNeel Rhinoceros
ANSYS, ANSYS Workbench
MSC Dynamic Designer
Blue Ridge Numerics CFDesign
Pathtrace EdgeCAM
Stratasys Dimension 3D printers
8. Sample Projects Engineering Graphics and Design
9. Senior Project Design Example Automate design process for mixer blender used in food processing industry
Autodesk Inventor
10. Grant Accomplishments CAD/CAE Web site http://leake.ge.uiuc.edu
Computer-Aided Design, Analysis, & Prototyping course
ASEE 2004 Conference paper in SLC
CAD/FEA Integration Best Practices Courseware
ASEE EDGD Midyear Conference paper in Williamsburg, VA Mention expenditures:
Paid to attend conferences
Paid for CADAP TA
Paid for ADN and NAFEMS memberships
Paid for AutoCAD video tutorialsMention expenditures:
Paid to attend conferences
Paid for CADAP TA
Paid for ADN and NAFEMS memberships
Paid for AutoCAD video tutorials
11. Advanced Course in Computer-Aided Design, Analysis and Prototyping Seniors / graduate students
GE design curriculum
Project driven
Autodesk support
12. CAD/FEA Best Practices Instructional Software Develop instructional materials to assist design engineers in proper use of CAD-embedded FEA software
ANSYS Workbench, Autodesk Inventor
Development tools: Macromedia Authorware, Techsmith Camtasia, Adobe Photoshop
13. Current Masters Thesis Projects CAD/mechanism design
Standalone curriculum used in parallel with mechanical design courses
Computational tools used to design and analyze mechanisms
Design Accelerator
MSC Dynamic Designer
CAD/manufacturing processes
Develop CAD models, standalone curriculum to illustrate manufacturability guidelines
14. Other Potential Project Ideas Use of linked parameters to create part and product families
Parts library for engineering graphics instruction
Hybrid (surface + solid) modeling ® Inventor/Rhinoceros interoperability
Spatial visualization software
15. Other Possible Areas for Cooperation Partner in curriculum development proposal (NSF?)
Autodesk employment for UIUC grads
Work of Professor Wayne Davis
Wiley engineering graphics text
Scaled-down, inexpensive text to be used with CAD book
Use Autodesk products for graphics
16. Inventor Wish List Foot, meters template
Pictorial (isometric) view dimensioning
High quality print graphics from Inventor
Availability of CMYK, Pantone colors
Adding grids (orthographic, isometric) to Inventor models
Chapter on product dissection/reverse engineering potential companies
Parts library for EG instruction
17. Autodesk - UIUC Engineering Cooperative Relationship Questions?