Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Course Outlines

Fall 2018 - IAT 437 D100

Representation and Fabrication (3)

Class Number: 9516

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Sep 4 – Dec 3, 2018: Tue, 2:30–4:20 p.m.
    Surrey

  • Prerequisites:

    Completion of 60 units and IAT 336.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Introduces computer-based tools for representing and fabricating designs. Covers the representation of work within a design process, the use of visualization techniques to communicate with clients, and the use of digital fabrication technology to build prototypes. Projects are chosen to highlight key representational issues in contemporary design practice.

COURSE DETAILS:

Learning Activities
This course aims to help you discover your own personal “joy of making” physical things, as an integral part of your professional development. It is built around interrelated conceptual and hands-on learning activities. Besides the content presented in the lecture, students will complete the following activities during the labs:

  1. Assignments: For the first nine weeks of the course, there will be weekly assignments, one focused on representation, the other on fabrication.
  2. Project: The project aims to combine what you have learned about representation and fabrication into a project that requires both.
  3. Quiz: The final quiz (for bonus marks) will test for concepts learned.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

By the end of the course, the students will be able to:

  • By fulfilling the requirements, students will be better prepared to:
  • Represent designs digitally.
  • Make, that is, fabricate design prototypes.
  • Combine representation and fabrication in a design project.
  • Continue to develop an interest in and ability to pursue new ways to realize designs

Grading

  • Representation Assignments (Individual) 36%
  • Fabrication Assignments (Individual) 36%
  • Course Project (Individual or Group of Two) 28%
  • Bonus Quiz (Individual) 5%

NOTES:

Course Material and Submissions
All course material we will make available to you during the course through a dedicated Web site that will be linked from Canvas. In particular, this includes all assignment handouts. You will submit all of your digital work through assignments set up on Canvas. Announcements will be made through the Canvas announcement system. Make sure that you have your Canvas set up to forward these to you as emails.

Special Note - Lab Fee:
A non-refundable course materials lab fee of $71.40 will be collected from all students taking this course to cover
the costs of consumable materials and machine use in the prototyping lab.

REQUIREMENTS:

Training Requirements:
Students are required to complete SFU Lab Safety Orientation offered by EHS and attend an in-lab orientation session offered by SIAT to use the SolidSpace Lab. If the orientation and training have been successfully completed in the proceeding two years, this requirement is waived by the permission of the lab technician and the instructor.

Materials

MATERIALS + SUPPLIES:

The students will provide their own consumables and material for the course exercises and assignments. The prototyping lab provides the tools and space for making and should be used in accordance with the SolidSpace usage rules set by the lab.

RECOMMENDED READING:

Recommended and Reference Texts
There are more good texts than you can possibly read. You should come to know your own favourites. Here are some your instructors think are useful.

James D. Bethune. Engineering design and graphics with SolidWorks. Peachpit Press, [015. (Available through SFU Library as digital book) 3/4

Geoffrey Boothroyd, Peter Dewhurst, and Winston A. Knight. Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly, CRC Press 2001, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded (Available through SFU Library as digital book)

Bjarki Hallgrimssom. Prototyping and modelmaking for product design. London : Laurence King Publisher. 2012. (Available through SFU Library as digital book)

Alex Milton and Paul Rodgers. Product Design. Laurence King Publisher. 2011. (Available through SFU Library as digital book)

Donald Norman. The Design of Future Things. Basic Books Publisher. 2009.(Available through SFU Library as digital book)

Daniel Shodek, Martin Bechthold, Kimo Griggs, Kenneth Martin Kao and Marco Steinberg. Digital Design and Manufacturing: CAD/CAM Applications in Architecture and Design (2006).

Robert Woodbury. Elements of Parametric Design, Routledge. 2010.

Ibrahim Zeid. Mastering SolidWorks: the design approach. Peachpit. [2015]. (Available through SFU Library as digital book)

Yi Zhang with Susan Finger and Stephannie Behrens. Rapid Design through Virtual and Physical Prototyping. Carnegie Mellon University.

Other readings will be posted throughout the term

Registrar Notes:

SFU’s Academic Integrity web site http://students.sfu.ca/academicintegrity.html is filled with information on what is meant by academic dishonesty, where you can find resources to help with your studies and the consequences of cheating.  Check out the site for more information and videos that help explain the issues in plain English.

Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the University community.  Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the University. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the University. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS