SolidWorks Jobs?

[Tetraman]

Industrial Design is my college degree and we used SolidWorks. You'd want skills in Rhino too if you went in an Industrial Design path.

As a note, Solidworks plays more to a company-by-company basis. It's not a real industry standard and I've had some of my colleagues get laughed at when they said we've been studying with Solidworks. However there are business that will swear by SolidWorks as the best way to go.

[mplanchard]

You cant major in "SolidWorks" remember SolidWorks is a design tool.

SolidWorks is used across college curriculum in mechanical engineering, manufacturing, industrial design, robotics engineering, aerospace, marine, automotive engineering, physics, medical and vetenary schools, art, argiculture and more. At a college level, you will see SolidWorks as a requirement for a course. Sometimes at the community college you will see a "SolidWorks" course - but most of the time the course would be entitled, Engineering Design, Machine Design, Finite Element Analysis.

That fact that you know about machining is a real plus. Learn as much as you can about machining - you can design anything virtually - but it takes real talent to know if a model can be manufacuted.

Investigate areas in SolidWorks such as weldments, sheet metal, molding - these are all tied to manufacturing and are important tools. Also in the aerospace and automotive industry the tools like TolAnalyst are also important.

Everytime you make a model - you learn. Just keep learning.

Marie

[LaserWorks]

Thanks for all the information, Though I do believe I confused some people with my question. I wasn't saying is there a SoildWorks Degree, I understand, this falls into certifications. What I meant was are there specific degrees that deal with designing. Yet this question was answered. Thanks for you time and the good advice.

--Jeff K--

[jonboy]

That's what I love about FIRST: Having the youths express their desires for their careers and then the adults, mentors, teachers, etc lending some valuable expert advice and encouragement to help guide them in the right direction. Hard to imagine how much value we all are adding to the culture. Very cool, very good!