Syllabus-Schedule

BADM395-Syllabus

Course Grading

LEARNING – 33%

Class Attendance/Participation                            100 points

  • Being Prepared for class, finishing assigned readings
  • Participating actively; engaging with content
  • Making and printing objects in a timely manner
  • Collaborating with other individuals in the class
  • Attending class each week
  • Asking questions of presented content and to guest speakers

MAKING – 33%

Semester Project                                                                    75 points

Once a Semester Activity(Guidelines and Assignments)          25 points

SHARING – 33%

Twitter Activity                 30 points

Weekly Posts                  70 points

Course Total:                300 points

Course policies

  1. Two weekly reflections can be missed across the semester.
  2. Two delays of a day each allowed across ALL submissions without penalty.
  3. 20% penalty for all delays beyond 1 day, for upto 24 hours. Submissions not accepted after that.
  4. One class absence permitted, ideally with prior notice. Other absence only allowed with valid reason(medical/travel/interviews etc). If no valid excuse, 10% penalty for class absence.

Final Week -May 5th

Portfolio Presentation

In Class Activity

  • Create 10 minute presentation of your learning in the course and present the things you have made and share with the class. Project teams will present together.
  • Teams participating in CU-Make should present their creations as a team, along with explanations/visuals of the process. Feel free to showcase all your other projects as well.
  • Students working on individual projects should showcase what they are doing, even if not complete.

Post Session Assignment (Due by the Sunday 10th May at midnight)

  • Submit final post on the blog, documenting your learning across the semester. More details soon.
  • Share your posts on twitter, comment on others posts you find interesting, engage with maker communities
  • Find resources that are useful to build on your learning from the week, share them on twitter, with the hashtag #digitalmaking and #resources.

Week 15 – April 28

In Class Activity

  • Final finishing touches to Project.
  • Individual Project Review

Post Session Assignment

  • No submissions due. Prepare presentations for next week.

Week 14- April 21

Learning to make with arduinos, laser/vinyl cutters, digital fabrics at CU FabLab

In Class Activity

  • The class will be split into three groups, and each group will work on different stations each week. The typical format will be about 90 minutes of training and 90 minutes of making
  • The FabLab will be open during the week for open hours, and you can continue your projects.
  • In each session, you are expected to make something, either as a pair/group or individually. You may use the making time to use the fab lab facilities to add/extend/modify your semester projects, if relevant.

Post Session Assignment (Due by the Sunday at midnight)

  • Reflect on the learning from each session, using the following prompts and share your learning: What/ So What /Now what . Include screenshots of what you made, if relevant.
  • Share your posts on twitter, comment on others posts you find interesting, engage with maker communities
  • Find resources that are useful to build on your learning from the week, share them on twitter, with the hashtag #digitalmaking and #resources.

Week 12 – April 14

In Class Activity

  • Project Work

Post Session Assignment (Due by the Sunday at midnight)

  • Project progress reports to be submitted as blog posts

Week 10 /11 March 31 and April 7

Learning to make with arduinos, laser/vinyl cutters, digital fabrics at CU FabLab

In Class Activity

  • The class will be split into three groups, and each group will work on different stations each week. The typical format will be about 90 minutes of training and 90 minutes of making
  • The FabLab will be open during the week for open hours, and you can continue your projects.
  • In each session, you are expected to make something, either as a pair/group or individually. You may use the making time to use the fab lab facilities to add/extend/modify your semester projects, if relevant.

Post Session Assignment (Due by the Sunday at midnight)

  • Reflect on the learning from each session, using the following prompts and share your learning: What/ So What /Now what . Include screenshots of what you made, if relevant.
  • Share your posts on twitter, comment on others posts you find interesting, engage with maker communities
  • Find resources that are useful to build on your learning from the week, share them on twitter, with the hashtag #digitalmaking and #resources.

Week 9 – March 17

Project Review/Work & Guest Speaker : Jeff Ginger, CU FabLab

In Class Activity

  • Review projects with instructor and continue project work

Post Session Assignment (Due by the Sunday at midnight)

  • Reflect on the learning from the last session, using the following prompts and share your learning: What/ So What /Now what . Include screenshots of your model and a print in the post, if relevant.
  • Share your posts on twitter, comment on others posts you find interesting, engage with maker communities
  • Find resources that are useful to build on your learning from the week, share them on twitter, with the hashtag #digitalmaking and #resources.

 

Week 8 – March 10

Scan to Print with Geomagic : Guest Speaker : Travis Ross

Learning Objectives

  • Learn how to clean up a scan in Geomagic
  • Refine the scan – export a cad model- set it to print.

Required Readings

Required Software

  • Geomagic (for windows only) : 15 day trial

In Class Activity

  • Start with a scan and output a printable object.

Post Session Assignment (Due by the Sunday at midnight)

  • Reflect on the learning from the last two sessions on Scanning, using the following prompts and share your learning: What/ So What /Now what . Include screenshots of your model and a print in the post.
  • Share your posts on twitter, comment on others posts you find interesting, engage with maker communities
  • Find resources that are useful to build on your learning from the week, share them on twitter, with the hashtag #digitalmaking and #resources.

 

Week 7 – March 3

3D Scanning at the Beckman Institute

Learning Objectives

  • Learn how to scan an object
  • Reverse engineer from the scan to a CAD model
  • Refine the scan – cad model- set it to print.

Required Readings

In Class Activity

  • Bring an object that you would like to scan. Some thing small, perhaps no bigger than a baseball. One object per group.
  • Class will be split into two, and each half will work on 90 minute modules with the trainer at Beckmann. In the first week we will focus on 3D Scanning, and the second week we will focus on working with Geomagic to clean up the scans.
  • Extra time will be available during the month for follow up work at Beckman

Post Session Assignment (Due by the next Sunday at midnight)

  • Reflect on the learning from the last two sessions on Scanning, using the following prompts and share your learning: What/ So What /Now what . Include screenshots of your model and a print(if ready) in the post.
  • Share your posts on twitter, comment on others posts you find interesting, engage with maker communities
  • Find resources that are useful to build on your learning from the week, share them on twitter, with the hashtag #digitalmaking and #resources.

 

Week6 – Feb 24th

3D Modeling with Fusion 360 : In Class Practice

In Class Activity

  • Work on last weeks activity model/make/print something that you created/customized in Fusion 360
  • Finalize project details and individual  once-a-semester activity

Post Session Assignment (Due by the next Sunday at midnight)

  • Reflect on the learning from the last two sessions on Fusion, using the following prompts and share your learning: What/ So What /Now what . Include screenshots of your model and a print(if ready) in the post.
  • Share your posts on twitter, comment on others posts you find interesting, engage with maker communities
  • Find resources that are useful to build on your learning from the week, share them on twitter, with the hashtag #digitalmaking and #resources.

 

Week5 – Feb 17th

3D Modeling with Fusion 360 : Guest workshop, Chris Hall from Autodesk

Required Software

Required Readings

Post Session Blog Assignment (Due by the next sunday at midnight)

  • Review the resources above for creating four objects in fusion. Pick one and follow the tutorial to design and save in the #DigitalMaking2015 workspace created in Fusion360 by the deadline and put it for print in the next class. You can make improvements in the next class as well. Come by the lab for help with the modeling before the class.
  • Find resources that are useful to build on your learning from the week and share them on twitter, with the hashtag #digitalmaking and #resources
  • No reflection post this week. Combined reflection post next week.

 

Week4 – Feb 10th

3D Printing/Modeling/Scanning 101 Workshop with Guru, Ryan Hurley.

Guest Speaker : Aric Rindfleisch, Executive Director, Illinois MakerLab

Required Software

Required Readings

Optional Readings

Post Session Blog Assignment (Due by the next Sunday at midnight)

  • Reflect on the learning from the session using the following prompts and share your learning: What/ So What /Now what
  • Share your posts on twitter, comment on others posts you find interesting, engage with maker communities
  • Find resources that are useful to build on your learning from the week, include them in your reflection post and share them on twitter, with the hashtag #digitalmaking and #resources.

 

Week3 – Feb 3rd

Design Thinking Workshop by Design For America- UIUC

Required Readings

Post Session Blog Assignment (Due by the next sunday at midnight)

 

Week2 – Jan 27th

Digital Making /Learning By Making (and Sharing) /Guest Speaker : Kylie Peppler

Required Readings

Optional Readings

In class Activity

  • Learning from what others have shared

Post Session Blog Assignment (Due before next class)

  • Reflect on what you learned in the class. Describe the activities you did(post pictures if you like). Describe the activity you are going to talk about and why you are doing it. Finally for the activity, choose four models of everyday objects that you might use from a sharing site like Thingiverse, Shapeways or Gitfab. Create a post describing(and linking) to those products, why you picked them, and what would you change about them to make them suitable(or more suitable) for your use.

 

Week 1 – Jan 20th

Overview/Introductions/Skills Inventory

Guest Speaker: Zach Simkin: President and Founder : Senvol on Impact of Additive Manufacturing on the Supply Chain.