Excerpt from the tutorial Introduction to Flamingo nXt
EXTENDED STUDIES INSTRUCTOR
ALBERTA UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS
Calgary, Canada
Based on the success of my Jewelry Design course, the Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD, now Alberta University of the Arts) approached me to put together a curriculum and teach an Extended Studies offering on Rhino3D and rapid prototyping for the amateur maker. I didn’t hesitate.
The only problem was their timeline: they wanted the course to be a week long, in the middle of summer, with 5 all-day classes. I recommended that the course would be better absorbed at a slower pace, taught in the evening, one or two nights a week.
Nonetheless, a one-week daytime course was fully attended, and I proceeded to stuff 3 years worth of university-level design education into a group of enthusiastic adults, most of whom were learning for advancement in their careers.
Course outline
3D Modeling with Rhinoceros, ACAD, 2014
Curriculum for the course was entirely of my own choosing, and I stuck primarily with assignments from JWLM216, the CAD jewelry design class that I was already teaching at the college, as I had many thorough tutorials already prepared.
As with the undergraduate class, my extended studies class made a field trip to the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology’s 3D-printing lab, and we went to Laser Equations, a local laser-cutting service bureau, to watch the students’ creations being cut from sheet steel.
Although the course was a success in that every student finished with a better understanding of CAD modeling and digital prototyping, I recommended to the Extended Studies Program Director that subsequent sessions would better run as an evening course once or twice a week, allowing students time to practice and master skills before tackling new ones. Unfortunately, the computer lab was already fully booked.
ACAD was able to rearrange computer lab bookings the next year, and they contacted me about running another session of the course, literally the first week after I had moved to Chicago…
Facebook correspondence, 2016