{"id":359,"date":"2010-12-01T20:51:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T01:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/cad-certification-fundamentals-of-engineering-design-with-the-cswa"},"modified":"2010-12-01T20:51:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T01:51:44","slug":"cad-certification-fundamentals-of-engineering-design-with-the-cswa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2010\/12\/cad-certification-fundamentals-of-engineering-design-with-the-cswa.html","title":{"rendered":"CAD Certification &#8211; Fundamentals of Engineering Design with the CSWA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e2013489a9e4cc970c.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2010 National Robotics League Champions\" border=\"0\" height=\"294\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e2013489a9e4cc970c-800wi.jpg\" title=\"2010 National Robotics League Champions\" width=\"419\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Certified SolidWorks Associate (CSWA) exam tests a designer&#39;s knowledge in the fundamentals of engineering design using SolidWorks.&#0160; The CSWA exam is the first of eight SolidWorks certification exams.&#0160;SolidWorks provides qualified schools the ability to give the CSWA exam to their students.&#0160; This week 5 colleges are giving the CSWA as their final exam.&#0160; I really have to compliment&#0160;SolidWorks&#39;&#0160;Avelino Rochino, Mike Puckett and Jeremy Luchini for revising the CSWA exam based&#0160;on feedback from so many educators, state technical directors, and&#0160;engineering managers that use&#0160;CSWA as an assessment.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>Today,&#0160; I travel to meet&#0160;technology educators at the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE)&#0160;conference, it is only fitting that I highlight&#0160;Larry Gutshall, precision metal shop teacher,&#0160;and his students&#0160;from Williams High School, Williams Arizonia.&#0160;&#0160;I could&#0160;focus on that Williams, a&#0160;school of 225 students,&#0160;is the National Robotics League Champion&#0160;for 2010 held at SKILLS USA in June, and the&#0160;Arizonia state NRL champion for multiple years. Instead, I want to congratulate three of Larry&#39;s students that have passed the new CSWA exam and are now SolidWorks&#0160;certified.&#0160; They join over 30,000 SolidWorks certfied users.<\/p>\n<p>Ok so I love robots and I will celebrate Williams High School victory and cheer them on in upcoming robot competitions.&#0160; This is why SolidWorks is part of robot events, car competitons, sustainability contests,&#0160;- to get students excited about engineering and design.&#0160; But in the end, our goal is to prepare students for a job &#8211; a career.&#0160; CSWA is just the beginning.&#0160; Thanks you Larry for spotting the SolidWorks robot in the latest episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/pages\/programs\/letsgodesign\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"let&#39;s go design\">Let&#39;s Go Design<\/a>.&#0160; Marie<\/p>\n<p>Do you need help in creating your final exam?&#0160;See if your school&#0160;qualifies to be a CSWA exam <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s.aspx?sm=XCpX_2fPUD0QawcXdfZKqNPA_3d_3d\" target=\"_self\" title=\"cswa provider application\">provider<\/a>. &#0160;<\/p>\n<p>Here are more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmeducation.net\/cswa_certification\" target=\"_self\" title=\"cswa certification tips\">helpful tips<\/a> on the new CSWA exam.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e2013489a9e4cc970c.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><\/a>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Certified SolidWorks Associate (CSWA) exam tests a designer&#39;s knowledge in the fundamentals of engineering design using SolidWorks.&#0160; The CSWA exam is the first of eight SolidWorks certification exams.&#0160;SolidWorks provides qualified schools the ability to give the CSWA exam to<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2010\/12\/cad-certification-fundamentals-of-engineering-design-with-the-cswa.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5219,5211],"tags":[5129,3930,4058,5131,5132,5128,5130],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-robotics-2","category-technology-2","tag-battle-bots","tag-cad","tag-certification","tag-drafting-standards","tag-industry-exams","tag-national-robotics-league","tag-state-technology-standards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}