Computer-aided Design Lab
The CAD lab is a place where students can work together to solve design problems associated with their projets. Two dry erase boards and large computer screens make sharing visual information easy, while the chair and long table groupings provide a social setting for writing out problems and discussion. There are two Dell Precision 690 and three Dell Optiplex 749 computers for student use. A safety station in the lab contains all the MSDS sheets and safety information on all materials used in the Ware Lab. Di˜erent types of gloves and goggles are also availble for students to use when building their projects.
Students have access to the following programs:
- Unigraphics NX
- Solidworks
- Adobe Design Premium
- Webdrive
- Microsoft Office
- Autodesk /AutoCAD
- Fluent
- Matlab
- Ansys
- Altair Hypershape CATIA
- Altair Hyperworks
- Mathcad
- Pro Engineer
- Wolfram Mathematica
- CFdesign
- Minitab
- Plasma CAM
ANSYS analysis of a the cockpit structure for Iron Butterfly [VT Iron Butterfly, 2007]
