Advanced CAD Class
In order to take Advanced CAD you must have completed our first CAD class in good standing. Also, there is an application that comes out around February or March every year in which you speak about your reasons to take the course and do a short independent CAD exercise. The purpose of Advanced CAD is to choose a career driven specialty area and develop a professional level portfolio to use when applying for college, internships, and a job.
If you make it into the course, during the first week you choose a specialty. The specialty areas each focus on a different Autodesk CAD program built for the industry that is chosen. All students should have knowledge of AutoCAD usage and probably have experienced one or two others in regular CAD or Principles of Engineering. The programs are Revit, Inventor Professional, and 3DS Max. Let's look at those specialty areas.
If you make it into the course, during the first week you choose a specialty. The specialty areas each focus on a different Autodesk CAD program built for the industry that is chosen. All students should have knowledge of AutoCAD usage and probably have experienced one or two others in regular CAD or Principles of Engineering. The programs are Revit, Inventor Professional, and 3DS Max. Let's look at those specialty areas.
Green Architecture and Design Specialization – Autodesk Revit with Enscape 3D
Biomedical Engineering or Biotechnology – Autodesk Inventor Professional
3D Modeling for Media with Animation – Autodesk 3DS Max / Blender
Unlike the first CAD class, in Advanced CAD there are very few demonstrations that come from the instructor's thoughts. This is due to the students working on their OWN INDEPENDENT TRACK of projects in one of the programs above. If the tracks do not fit the student, then they and the instructor can craft a new track that still uses one of the main CAD software experiences. One popular deviation is Automotive design. During the course of the year students regularly conference with the instructor, whom grades them based on progress that is positive and timely, based on their status during the previous conference. Grades are NOT from completed projects because projects will vary wildly in scale for each student. During project design, the students are required to maintain a LIVE design document that is shared with the instructor. This is where communication takes place in between conferences and notes are added during conferences. The contents of this LIVE document will evolve into being a narrative of the student's work complete with pictures and other media into an online portfolio where the students can speak to their design process with precision because of the documentation.
There is NO homework other than the students desires to research for their projects and prepare resources. There are no exams and no required certifications, however students are encouraged strongly to take more User level Certiport exams in their field (Revit, Inventor, Max) and urged to consider taking the Professional tier exam for a greatly reduced fee due to a special coupon our students are granted access to when they are active in Staten Island Tech.
Make no mistake, this is an elective class meant for students to learn CAD to a degree typically deeper than that of a working professional. Expectations are high and history speaks loudly for those who take the course. An amazing career awaits your appetite for design. For more information contact Mr. Buro or visit www.sitechcad.com. Please view student work examples and other sources of material throughout the CAD website.
There is NO homework other than the students desires to research for their projects and prepare resources. There are no exams and no required certifications, however students are encouraged strongly to take more User level Certiport exams in their field (Revit, Inventor, Max) and urged to consider taking the Professional tier exam for a greatly reduced fee due to a special coupon our students are granted access to when they are active in Staten Island Tech.
Make no mistake, this is an elective class meant for students to learn CAD to a degree typically deeper than that of a working professional. Expectations are high and history speaks loudly for those who take the course. An amazing career awaits your appetite for design. For more information contact Mr. Buro or visit www.sitechcad.com. Please view student work examples and other sources of material throughout the CAD website.