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“Art Can Make Engineering Beautiful”: Ela Kurowska Brings Art to Life with Light Forms, Part Three
Ela Kurowska is a Canadian scientist-turned-artist who utilizes scientific principles to create Light Forms, a photography art project exploring the abstract origins of life using the photoelastic effect. Read her story from the beginning and learn more about the process
... ContinuedArt Experiments: Ela Kurowska Brings Art to Life with Light Forms, Part Two
Ela Kurowska is a Canadian scientist-turned-artist who utilizes scientific principles to create Light Forms, a photo-based art project exploring the abstract origins of life using the photoelastic effect. Read part one of her story here. Art Experiments What do you
... ContinuedEvents for SOLIDWORKS Entrepreneur: DASSAULT SYSTEMES’ Welcomes Mass Innovation Nights #104 to the Waltham Campus
Wednesday 8th, 2017, DASSAULT SYSTEMES sponsored Mass Innovation Nights for their 104th event. Over 300 people signed up to attend a night of revolutionary products and networking on DASSAULT SYSTEMES’ Waltham Campus. Ten startups showcased their companies while multiple
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Entrepreneur: FlySorter LLC Develops Innovative Technology to Advance Drosophila Lab Automation
Fruit flies are one of the keys for biologists to unlock the secrets behind human genetics, as well as understanding disease, behavior, neuroscience and more. For more than 100 years, scientists have used Drosophila as a model organism to learn
... ContinuedSolidWorks Model of a Human Skeleton on My Kitchen Table
I found a SolidWorks model of a human skeleton on my kitchen table, so it was time to review thisproject. Every 7 weeks, David teaches an Introduction to CAD course at WPI and corrects the final projects at home. Students
... ContinuedCreating a New Folder Location in the Design Library
In this video, a new folder location is created in the design library is created to allow easy assembly of models. In this case molecules will be created using elements from this newly created design folder. Creating a design
... ContinuedBuild a Great Pyramid with Teachers at Dassault Systemes
How do you combine math, science, technology, engineering, history, art, all to meet education standards in your classroom? Biology teacher, Matthew Burns and physics teacher, Boris Gokhfeld from Waltham High School, MA, USA, created this project to share with you. The Great Pyramid
... ContinuedBiomedical Engineering Branched Vein Tutorial
Check out this video showing the basics of creating a branched vein in SolidWorks. This tutorial uses surfacing to create the model. By adding a few more steps this vein can also be created by using the standard loft feature. A vein model
... ContinuedProfessional Development for Teachers this Summer – Free From SolidWorks
If you are a teacher that needs professional development hours before school starts, wants to investigate STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) lessons, needs a great visualization tool, or just wants to learn what Computer Aided Design (CAD) can do for
... ContinuedEngineering Students Develop Bioengineering Assistive Devices in SolidWorks
Biomedical and mechanical engineering students continue to amaze me in the products they design for rehabilitation and assistive living. I was very fortunate that my colleague, Rene from Simulia (Abaqus) introduced me to a series of bioengineering research projects that use SolidWorks. I
... ContinuedTen80 Student Racing Challenge, Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car with SolidWorks
My partners and I at Ten80 Education, like most of you, are wrapping up the school year and preparing for summer camps and clubs. I want to share with you some of the projects students have worked on in 2011-12
... ContinuedRendering a Butterfly with PhotoView 360
Rendering a Butterfly video takes you through the artistics steps to add color, matierals, textures, light with SolidWorks and PhotoView 360. SolidWorks is Art! Marie To create the butterfly model in SolidWorks, refer to https://blogs.solidworks.com/teacher/2010/12/modeling-a-butterfly.html Download SolidWorks Model Butterfly Download
... ContinuedModeling a Butterfly
My colleague Come sent a report to me this week on the extensive use of SolidWorks in design schools. As a mechanical engineer, I spent a great deal of time in the machine shop with machined and sheet metal parts.
... ContinuedIntroducing The STEM Academy
I was fortuante to meet with educators this week at the ACTE conference in Nashville. What a great time to be in technology and engineering education with the importance of making math and science relevant for all students. That is why
... ContinuedDictyostelium Discoideum (an amoeba)
This movie shows how SolidWorks is used to create a microscope image of a Dictyostelium Discoideum, the amoeba. Display in 2D in most biology text books, the amoeba is a 3D single cell organism. Courtesy of Kevin Seale and John
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