{"id":53489,"date":"2023-10-09T08:30:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T12:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/?p=53489"},"modified":"2023-10-05T14:22:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T18:22:08","slug":"innovation-hard-work-and-a-bit-of-duct-tape-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2023\/10\/innovation-hard-work-and-a-bit-of-duct-tape-podcast.html","title":{"rendered":"Innovation, Hard work, and a bit of Duct Tape [Podcast]"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The lessons we learn outside the classroom are equally if not more important than the ones we learned inside. I can\u2019t emphasize this enough. We learn how to live life, the most important lesson of all.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>-Unknown<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/heath-tims1.jpg\" width=\"820\" height=\"548\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I talk to many SOLIDWORKS users, and they all tell me the same thing: you cannot just learn the software. You must go on the shop floor, and see how things are actually made.<\/p>\n<p>Heath Tims, an Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and a Professor for Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University, understands this. Heath believes in a hands-on AND in-class approach to teaching engineering students. He is also involved in a very successful Eco-Car team, which is an interdisciplinary group of students and faculty working together to design competitive, fuel-efficient cars. The team competes against national and international teams and also helps other Eco-Car teams at area schools.\u00a0 Heath shares stories from his 17 years of teaching at Louisiana Tech, and his philosophy for preparing these students for success.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1633296219%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-opDc6IPRxxg&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check out all of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/podcast\"><strong>Born to Design podcasts<\/strong><\/a>, and subscribe below so you will never miss an episode:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/solidworks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone colorbox-39485\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/soundcloud-button.png\" alt=\"Soundcloud\" width=\"115px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2jVW4hy7TG12CcDpqFqmgD#_ga=2.253466441.1355142135.1544219121-05d85400-65a6-11e8-b2a2-edcb4dfbff9a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone colorbox-39485\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/spotify-button.png\" alt=\"Subscribe to Solidworks Podcast on Spotify\" width=\"115px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/born-to-design-solidworks-podcast\/id1436186801?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone colorbox-39485\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/itunes-button.png\" alt=\"iTunes\" width=\"115px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/born-to-design-solidworks-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone colorbox-39485\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/stitcher-button.png\" alt=\"Stitcher\" width=\"115px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/m\/Ivcwqfkjkyhfsfhb7kerpfbiqoe?t=Born_To_Design_-_SOLIDWORKS_Podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone colorbox-39485\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/googleplay-button.png\" alt=\"Listen on Google Play Music\" width=\"115px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tun.in\/pjarc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone colorbox-39485\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/tunein-button.png\" alt=\"TuneIn - Solidworks Podcast Page\" width=\"115px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/castbox.fm\/channel\/Born-To-Design-SOLIDWORKS-Podcast-id1419075?country=us#_ga=2.253466441.1355142135.1544219121-05d85400-65a6-11e8-b2a2-edcb4dfbff9a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone colorbox-39485\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/castbox-button.png\" alt=\"Subscribe to Solidworks Podcast on CastBox\" width=\"115px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\/itunes1436186801\/born-to-design-solidworks-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone colorbox-39485\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/overcast-button.png\" alt=\"Subscribe to Solidworks Podcast on Overcast\" width=\"115px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Heath here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latech.edu\/2018\/09\/04\/dr-heath-tims\/\">Louisiana Tech site&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latech.edu\/2018\/01\/23\/eco-car-team-examines-solutions-for-energy-crisis\/\">LA Tech Eco Car Team&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lessons we learn outside the classroom are equally if not more important than the ones we learned inside. I can\u2019t emphasize this enough. We learn how to live life, the most important lesson of all.\u201d -Unknown I talk to<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2023\/10\/innovation-hard-work-and-a-bit-of-duct-tape-podcast.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":53488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,2774,18],"tags":[452,209,3983],"class_list":["post-53489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-born-to-design","category-born-to-design-podcast","category-solidworks","tag-education-2","tag-innovation","tag-louisiana-tech-university"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53491,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53489\/revisions\/53491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}