Course info

Course Overview

What is Fusion 360?

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Fusion 360 is a cloud-based CAD/CAM tool for collaborative product development.

Fusion 360 enables exploration and iteration on product ideas and collaboration within distributed product development team.

Fusion 360 combines organic shapes modelling, mechanical design and manufacturing in one comprehensive package.

In this course students will get the basic knowledge about product design in Autodesk Fusion 360.


Learning Objectives

By the end of this MOOC, successful participants will be able:

      • Navigate through the user interface of Autodesk Fusion 360
      • Understand design process in Autodesk Fusion 360
      • Create conceptual design and organic forms using T-Splines
      • Design mechanical parts using solid modeling tools
      • Create mechanical assemblies and motion studies
      • Collaborate with other members of the project and manage the data in the cloud
      • Create drawings and renderings


Outcomes

After completion of the course, students will be able to design their product from idea to prototype.


Certification and Additional Info

EMMA provides a certificate to whom complete more than 70% of the course. These certificates are not credit bearing. You will receive your certificate directly via email a couple of weeks after the end of the course.

Participants who wants to get a certficate authorised by Autodesk shoud contact ACSA PG.

Use of content and licenses

The course materials are available under the Creative Commons licence - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0),  unless stated otherwise.


Autodesk, the Autodesk logo, Autodesk Learning Videos are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders. Autodesk reserves the right to alter product and services offerings, and specifications and pricing at any time without notice, and is not responsible for typographical or graphical errors that may appear in this document. © 2017 Autodesk, Inc. All rights reserved.”

Course Structure

  • Lesson 1 - Introduction - Workspaces and Navigation
  • Lesson 2 - Get started
  • Lesson 3 - Sketches
  • Lesson 4 - Sculpt Environment
  • Lesson 5 - Material and Appearance Designing
  • Lesson 6 - Enjoy the benefits of being an expert

Teacher

Anna Grabowska

Dr. Eng. Anna Grabowska has over 20 years of experience in distance education. In 1994 she received
a master's degree at the University De Montfort in Leicester in the UK. In 2001 she defended her doctoral thesis with the title of a doctor of technical sciences at Gdansk University of Technology.
Since 1995 she has been the manager of Autodesk Authorised Training Centre at Gdansk University of Technology (Authorised Academic Partner). In 1998-2004, she served as head of the Distance Education Centre at Gdansk University of Technology. She is a founding member of the Association of Academic E-learning, advisor at U3A online. Since 9 years she has been conducting meetings with the
computer for seniors. She has been involved in several European projects dedicated to active aging (e.g. Learn with Grandma, Seniors Acting Together, ForAge, MATURE). Since 2014 she has been
represented the company PRO-MED sp. o. o. in the project ERASMUS + SP4CE. She is responsible for designing and implementing a platform for  communication and joint activities for students, teachers and companies.

Coauthor

Anna Czaja

Education and Experience:

2005 – M.Sc. (Eng.) Informatics, Gdansk University of Technology, 1996 -1997 a captain of a finalist team in a ThinkQuest contest (Join Our English language Club), 1998 – 2003 a member of Distance Education Centre involved in EU projects (Leonardo da Vinci, Socrates,Comenius, Grundtvig, Minerva), July – August 2004 - an apprentice in Young Digital Planet, August 2007 – March 2009 -  Compuware, a winforms C# developer, November 2009 - March 2011 - a web developer (C#, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, ASP, SQL 2008) in Agentrics, London, UK), January 2006 – August 2006,  IdealHost - a C# webforms and HTML developer, July 2007 – a teacher in 4 days seminar about e-learning, HTML and use of IT technologies for postgraduate students at Higher School of Public administration in Szczecin, from October 2006 in PRO-MED sp.z o. o. - a web developer, Moodle and WordPress administrator.


Coauthor

Ewa Kozlowska

Eng. Ewa Kozlowska is a student of Mechanical-Medical Engineering, interacademic field of study run cooperatively by Gdansk University of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Medical University of Gdansk, Faculty of Medicine. Since April 2015, as a volunteer, she has been taking part in meetings with the computer for seniors at the Gdansk University of Technology. As a part of her apprenticeships in the PRO-MED sp. z o. o. company she takes part in the ERASMUS + SP4CE project. She is a certified Fusion 360 instructor at the Autodesk Authorised Training Centre at the Gdansk University of Technology.

Tutor

Tomasz Kocejko

I am a young scientist, researcher teacher and an engineer. I publish and do research on human system interaction and interface, eye tracking and hospital information system. For my research I was awarded with the prestiges scholarships (InterPhD twice and InnoDoktorant) for the PhD students. I was Previously associated with City University London (UK), Gdansk Medical University Hospital and OrlandoHelath Hostpital (FL USA).