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Last updated 2/13/2001

Professional Development Information

The Pittsburgh section of ASME is planning a professional development course. ASME International has developed courses that allow local sections to offer high quality continuing education opportunities to members at substantially reduced costs ($25-75/person for a 4 hour course!). Attendees may also obtain 0.4 continuing education units (CEUs) for attending the course by submitting a form and a $15 fee to the New York office. The ASME course descriptions are given in http://www.asme.org/sections/pgh/misc.html#cds.

Our First Course:

We are offering this course to members and non-members alike—we welcome all interested parties—so feel free to pass the information on to colleagues. A flyer (PDF) is available for distribution. For ASME membership information, forms and online application, please visit http://www.asme.org/memb.

Overview:

The Pittsburgh section of ASME in cooperation with the College of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh is pleased to present the ASME Computer Aided Design/Finite Element Analysis Seminar. The course focuses on the foundations of CAD/FEA. It teaches design analysis concepts, terminology, and the use of FEA with CAD. It was developed by ASME for design engineers with a basic understanding of CAD and engineering fundamentals. It solves problems using the DesignSpace product, by ANSYS, Inc.

The course teaches design analysis concepts and terminology, and the features, functions and limits of analysis tools with DesignSpace as the example. It explains how to integrate analysis into the design process and gives practical examples using DesignSpace, which can be run as a plug-in to Autodesk Mechanical Desktop, SolidWorks, ProENGINEER, Unigraphics, and SolidEdge. ACIS and Parasolid models can also be read.

The course does not teach but assumes that the student is familiar with engineering mechanics fundamentals, basic CAD skills and advanced analysis topics such as nonlinear transient behavior. There will be no functional analysis in Filbert Spaces and Lagrange multipliers will not be discussed

Note that this course differs from the FEA course originally advertised in that this course is oriented toward teaching the student to analyze systems using FEA software rather than introducing the theoretical foundation of finite element analysis. Students receive a more practical, design process approach with the integration of FEA and CAD.

If you can teach a course, please let us know that as well. This is an opportunity for you experts to share your knowledge with fellow members. Volunteer instructors help keep costs down and we can pass those savings on to members.

Audience:

Design Engineers and advanced ME students with a basic understanding of CAD and engineering fundamentals.

Benefits:

During the seminar you will be exposed to state of art computer aided design and analysis. The new philosophy of combining analysis and design to cut development time and costs will be discussed. The course will focus on computer aided design and finite element analysis updating your engineering skills for the new millennium.

A Finite Element code ANSYS/Ed, and limited time copy of Design Space will be provided as part of the course. In addition a course workbook, which explains the basis of finite element analysis and the operation of DesignSpace stressing the essential simple fundamental concepts without digressing into lengthy algebra will be provided.

DesignSpace provides parametrically associative design analysis and optimization solutions. Analysts and design engineers collaborate during the product design process by using DesignSpace Expert. In addition, they document and publish their work automatically with DesignSpace Report. Combining the power of ANSYS analysis with DesignSpace CAD integration and usability establishes an enterprise solution and a truly collaborative engineering environment for companies to optimize their product designs and internal processes. A report comparing DesignSpace with other comparable analysis software can be found at http://www.ansys.com/Products/DesignSpace/PDF/CAE_Tools.pdf.