Women Stars make Engineering Exciting for Students
Every week I get to meet amazing students, educators and commerical customers that make it truly exciting to be an engineer. This week is no exception. On Tuesday, Professor Barbara Hughey from the MIT Women in Technology program got to talk
... ContinuedFEA Tutorial: NAFEMS Benchmark Hemisphere Under External Pressure
NAFEMS Benchmarks, Hemisphere Under External Pressure in SolidWorks, allows you to explore creating a hemisphere in SolidWorks and analyzing the model using SolidWorks Simulation – all in the same interface. NAFEMS Benchmarks in SolidWorks contain a variety of exercises in Linear Static,
... ContinuedPipe Valve with SolidWorks Flow Xpress
For this post I decided to make a pipe valve. One of the reasons for doing this was because I wanted to use FloExpress through the pipe. You can see the results in the video above or
... ContinuedSolidWorks Drawings Keep on Truckin’
Using SolidWorks Drawings can save you time when design changes enevitably occur. The drawings I saw from the SAE team at Concordia Univerisity were amazing because they were placed on their Ford F150 truck! I asked Concordia's vice president Jimmy Stabio to
... ContinuedCollapsible Music Stand in SolidWorks
This assembly was a lot of fun to create. I used design tables to vary parameters on the struts and the rivets. This saves time and file size, as the same parts can be used several times in different configurations.
... ContinuedRobocon 2011 Finals
The Robocon 2011 Finals were last Friday. My colleague Christian, his two children and I got to attend, I have to thank my other colleague Ryan and my intern Greg for helping out last week teach these students about
... ContinuedThe Starting of STEM
Everything starts somewhere, everything has a beginning. Young girls might not have ever heard of the word STEM and less about what it means. We introduce the topic to them as fun projects to do and build from there after a good foundation is started into these topics.
... ContinuedEdgeFactor Sneak Peak and SolidWorks
EdgeFactor is the subject of my “Cool thing I did this summer” for my back to school essay. Luckily, I got to go behind the scenes on EdgeFactor episode 2 video shoot. If you teach engineering design, robotics, or machining this is the video series for your
... ContinuedSolidWorks Sustainability Green Design Contest Winners
SolidWorks Sustainability Green Design Contest Winners were announced today and I have to congratulate all winners – especially the students winners. First place winner Gerard Libby and Second place winner Elais Chavez will both receive a trip to SolidWorks World.
... ContinuedCFD Tutorial: Verification and Validation with SolidWorks Flow Simulation Part 2
CFD Tutorials for verification and validation of flow based analysis exercises can be found inside of SolidWorks Flow Simulation and the SolidWorks Customer Portal. This is the second blog post in this CFD flow series. Part 1 is located here. Part
... ContinuedCan Opener
For this post I decided to make something that we all have used at least once; a can opener. There is a gear mate on the gears but if you want to have the handle move you will need
... ContinuedDetergent Bottle in SolidWorks
In learning more about SolidWorks surfacing, I decided to complete a fun, but fairly common project. The bottle is not based on any known design in particular, and I was careful to draw the profile myself, and to use a
... ContinuedCFD Tutorial: Inlet Flow, Air over a Wing, and more SolidWorks Flow Tutorials – Part I
Today I explored the SolidWorks Flow Simulation folders, a CFD (computational fluid dynamics) goldmine inside the SolidWorks Education Edition that I didn’t know existed, so I thought I would share our flow tutorials, curriculum, and my goldmine with you. There is
... ContinuedMotor W16: Chiulasa (Partea III)
The English version of this post can be found here
In acest ultim post despre Chiulasa motorului W16 voi “repara” piesa facuta pana acum si o voi adapta si pentru V-ul drept al motorului.
Explicatiile detaliate despre constructia chiulasei pot fi gasite in “extended entry” la sfarsitul postarii.
Va multumesc pentru ca ati citit despre aceasta constructie. Continuati sa cititi urmatoarele postari ce vor prezenta componentele in miscare din interiorul chiulasei is mate-urile folosite la conectarea si crearea miscarii lor.
George Bucsan
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Aerospace Engineering, 2014
... ContinuedFEA Tutorial: NAFEMS Steady State Temperature Distribution of a Plate in SolidWorks
SolidWorks contains tutorials based on the NAFEMS benchmarks. These benchmarks demonstrate the accuracy of SolidWorks Simulation software for the analysis modules of linear statics, thermal, geometric and material, non linearity and linear dynamics. NAFEMS benchmarks are used throughout many FEA examples
... Continued