Print Email Facebook Twitter Teaching students to apply multiple physical modeling methods Title Teaching students to apply multiple physical modeling methods Author Wiegers, T. Verlinden, J.C. Vergeest, J.S.M. Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Department Design Engineering Date 2014-05-23 Abstract Design students should be able to explore a variety of shapes before elaborating one particular shape. Current modelling courses don’t address this issue. We developed the course Rapid Modelling, which teaches students to explore multiple shape models in a short time, applying different methods and materials. The course contains four parts: modelling basic shape features, making multiple shape variants in a short time, applying multiple modelling methods and choosing an appropriate method. After the course, students were able to apply different methods to make expressive models in less than 15 minutes. Questionnaires revealed that many students expect to apply the new learned methods in future projects. Indeed, in their next project, we saw them use many different methods, including newly learned ones. Students were positive about paper, Rhino, SolidWorks, plasticine and natural clay. In particular Rhino was expected to be used often in the future. We think the introductory course they followed, had inspired them. We suggest having a Rhino course in the Bachelor, not only as an elective in the Master. The course Rapid Modelling makes students aware of the need and the possibilities of making quick models for exploration. Students who followed the course can be expected to explore more and quicker and come up with more innovative results. Subject shape modellingidea generationearly prototypingphysical models To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d741a924-a55d-48f8-bf29-127dbbf4cc18 Publisher Delft University of Technology ISBN 978-94-6186-177-1 Source Tools and methods of competitive engineering: Digital proceedings of the tenth international symposium on tools and methods of competitive engineering, TMCE 2014, Budapest, Hungary, 19-23 May 2014 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2014 Wiegers, T.Verlinden, J.C.Vergeest, J.S.M. Files PDF 309612.pdf 2.8 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:d741a924-a55d-48f8-bf29-127dbbf4cc18/datastream/OBJ/view