Personal reflection

When I first registered for ART3041, I was attracted to the title of 3D design. It was my first time to hear about this class. Indeed, it was one of the elective, special topics classes that have unique – and maybe experimental – materials. My expectations from this class did not exceed learning the technicalities of 3D design. After I read the course description which, indicates that we will be learning CAD programs, I was more interesting in this class more than ever before. I have heard about CAD programs before and I always wanted to learn how design models myself, but I wasn’t sure about what kind of models we are going to be designing and what is 3D design is all about at the first place. One my first day of class I heard that we will be joining another group from the management department whom interesting in 3D design as well. I believed it was a good idea to share this experience with students from a different discipline. What I never thought of is the kind of unique experience we had so far in this class, where we were exposed to different aspects of 3D design. After moving along the class and reading more in The Makers book, it start all coming to me. We have learned about 3D printing which I have never heard of before this point. We also learned about different kinds of 3D design machines – or as the author calls them “Desktop factories”. Of course working in groups might be a challenge, especially if most of the work is done in groups. By challenge, I meant individual timing and schedule wise, particularly for busy college student in busy city. However, I have to mention that I had an awesome group, everyone was helpful and cooperative, and we have proven that personal differences is an advantage.