The course would be on the design and prototyping process, with a strong emphisis on innovation and novel ideas. The class will be given information about the range of current commercially available designs. The majority of class time students will work on their own individual design projects. Students can work together or individually. Possible skills taught would include sillicon and rubber molding, sewing nylon and leather, riviting, metalwork, plastic work and basic electronics depending on student's intrests.
Instructors are male and female.
Requires introduction to shop skills taken previously or concurrently. What they are and how they work. Ethan Pinkert is a Division III student in computer science, and has been working with computers for the past 18 years. Ethan has had several internships in various computer-related fields, and has worked as a consultant in software quality assurance engineering. His Division II concentration was in Computer Systems and Networks, where his primary intrests remain.