Using Chromebooks™, students can now access Fusion 360®, announced Autodesk®. Any student, educator or design competition mentor with a Chromebook™, an Autodesk® account and an educational subscription can access the service.
For more information, please refer to Autodesk’s FAQ.
If you would like to provide students with access to Fusion 360® on their Chromebooks™, please email Autodesk representative, Di Jin.
Autodesk® announced the fourth student mini design competition, offered August 24 to Sept. 4. The challenge is to develop an innovative new camping product using Autodesk® Fusion 360. The purpose of these design competitions is to continue to motivate and engage students to sharpen their CAD skills and build up their resume. The first place winner’s prize is a 3D Space Mouse. Students sign up here.
This was the design winner from the previous challenge:
Summer Network and Learn series: What’s Happening in Education?
Join this weekly chat to discover novel applications of Autodesk software and discuss interesting projects from around the education world.
When: Starting Jun 5, 2020
Every Friday at 8 am PST
Until: Jul 31, 2020
The first chat ‘Designing in Other Realities’ will be on 6/5 with special guest Juan Antonio Islas Muñoz, Professor and Head of Transportation Design, University of Cincinnati.
Put on your VR googles and explore how students and faculty at the University of Cincinnati have embraced Virtual Reality technology to extend design & visualization capabilities.
Registration: https://lnkd.in/g_CqWpA
Autodesk Design Academy, where educators and students can get free software and educational resources in manufacturing: https://academy.autodesk.com/
Thanks to Di Jin, Account manager, Autodesk Education Experiences, for making these additional resources available to advanced manufacturing teachers. There are several upcoming webinars as well as recorded webinars.
Office Hours for CCC Faculty: 2-3pm every Tuesday: https://autodesk.zoom.us/j/268525532
Office Hours for CCC Students: 3-4pm every Thursday: https://autodesk.zoom.us/j/613121153
Why you should use Fusion 360 in Academia
Spend less time teaching “picks & clicks” and more time teaching engineering fundamentals with Fusion 360, an integrated CAD/CAM/CAE cloud-based platform
Presenters: Gaby Waldman-Fried and Gregg Stoklosa
Date/Time: Thursday April 16th 3pm EDT
Watch the recording: https://autodesk.zoom.us/rec/share/usJSc4Hw901IHZHx4RiYA59xAY_beaa81iYd-qIFmoMssR1paUyzwlvYvQA11f8
Using Fusion Team to Manage a Virtual Classroom
Fusion Team provides students and educators a platform that facilitates ongoing learning and collaboration. Students can work on projects together and educators can easily share course materials and CAD files with students
Presenters: Dan Banach and Di Jin
Date/Time: Monday April 20th 1pm EDT
Watch the recording: https://autodesk.zoom.us/rec/share/15xzDO2gy1lJeNLf8X3DArcjPbT1eaa8hCcd_PNfmEj8rkiHGjV-NOCCr42gEOuP
Best Practices for Teaching Fusion Online
From “flip the classroom” to asynchronous teaching, Fusion 360 can help you adapt your classroom to a virtual setting. Fusion has lots of online learning resources available for free to educators and students.
Presenters: Di Jin and Jared Vanscoder
Date/Time: Tuesday April 21st 1pm EDT
Register: https://autodesk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yIvK9pNjTku9aKTsQQLY3Q
Attend: https://autodesk.zoom.us/s/95787817451
5 Tips to Use Fusion to Make Grading Easy
Seamless collaboration tools make it easy for students work on projects and for you to have access to their work at every step of the way.
Presenters: Fab Clayton and Gaby Waldman-Fried
Date/Time: Friday April 24th 12pm EDT
Register: https://autodesk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wozXrDcJSuSDIDxdLcPgiw
Attend: https://autodesk.zoom.us/s/91848298429
Best Practices for Keeping Students Engaged in Virtual Learning (with Faculty Guests)
Engagement in the classroom has a direct correlation with student success. We will cover how to keep students engaged in a virtual setting while teaching CAD/CAM/CAE. Guest faculty will share best practices and time will be reserved for open forum discussions.
Presenters: Fab Clayton and Jason Roth
Date/Time: Tuesday April 28th 1pm EDT
Register: https://autodesk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1MCPdqzYSEydUKzlVlAwDg
Attend: https://autodesk.zoom.us/s/96802315436
Transitioning to Fusion for Secondary
Fusion 360 is a cloud based, collaborative CAD/CAM/CAE platform widely used in secondary, post-secondary and industry. This session will help you become familiar with Fusion 360’s design techniques that will grow with your student’s knowledge of design and engineering.
Presenters: Dan Banach and Di Jin
Date/Time: Thursday April 30th 2pm EDT
Register: https://autodesk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TicagIaWTp6WXNrC2dpviA
Attend: https://autodesk.zoom.us/s/93453349043
Tips and Tricks for Transitioning to Fusion CAD
If you come from a SolidWorks (or other CAD) background, this session will help you become familiar with Fusion 360’s workspaces and new modeling paradigms to accelerate your design workflows.
Presenters: Gaby Waldman-Fried and Gregg Stoklosa
Date/Time: Monday May 4th 1pm EDT
Register: https://autodesk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rM-R_wjDSm26HSpcd49QLw
Attend: https://autodesk.zoom.us/s/91540006457
Generative Design
Generative Design is cutting edge design exploration technology available within Fusion 360. This tool enables students to quickly generate high-performing design alternatives—many that they’d never think of on their own—from a single idea.
Presenters: John Peros and Jared Vanscoder
Date/Time: Wednesday May 6th 3pm EDT
Register: https://autodesk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_E6qhmQzRRTSefYL-GoEFQQ
Attend: https://autodesk.zoom.us/s/91836973606
Tips and Tricks for Transitioning to Fusion CAM
If you come from a MasterCam (or other CAM) background, this session will help you become familiar with Fusion 360’s interface and programming style to get you up and running as quickly as possible.
Presenters: John Peros and Jason Roth
Date/Time: Tuesday May 12th 1pm EDT
Register: https://autodesk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BAbz0DozSqC30fLUWfRGnw
Attend: https://autodesk.zoom.us/s/93775084580
How to Teach GD&T Using Fusion 360
Fusion 360 has specific tools available to help teach GD&T and get students up and running quickly creating drawings and documentation.
Presenters: Fab Clayton and Gaby Waldman-Fried
Date/Time: Friday May 15th 12pm EDT
Register: https://autodesk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iLfiRKKcS2unHdsmO9F2GQ
Attend: https://autodesk.zoom.us/s/94339915170
Teaching your Students to Model Efficiently in Fusion 360
Learn about specific top-down assembly workflows in Fusion 360. Best practices will ensure maximum performance and clean assembly files.
Presenters: Fab Clayton and Gaby Waldman-Fried
Date/Time: Wednesday May 20th 12pm EDT
Register: https://autodesk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KrzwyOCJTGizOEn0kPXcpg
Edu2Mfg appreciates Di Jin, Account Manager, Autodesk Education Experiences team, sharing these resources with advanced manufacturing teachers in Sacramento area colleges and high schools.