Autodesk University 2021 | Free digital conference
During AU 2021, we'll bring together educators from around the world to explore new ways of teaching, imagining, and creating. Register today and learn ways to prepare a new generation for the future of work.
It’s virtual. And it’s free.
In sessions and live events planned specifically for educators, learn alongside your peers as you discover and share ways to help prepare a new generation for the future of work. In order to add the following events to your calendar, you must be registered for AU and logged in.
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
10:00-11:00 AM PDT
This panel will feature educators from around North America to speak about the challenges, advantages, and successes they found in engaging a diverse student population in engineering. Attracting students from diverse socio-economic backgrounds has traditionally been difficult in higher education. Strides have been made, and this panel will discuss those how those challenges have been mitigated and how to continue to improve the situation.
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
12:00-1:00 PM PDT
In the face of troubling skilled labor shortages, new employees must enter the industry with the abilities and exposure to technologies to drive digital construction and the industrialized construction processes and higher levels of precision in construction. In this panel discussion, we will engage in highlighting the current status and developing a roadmap where stakeholders can work together to enable graduates with knowledge of interdisciplinary skills required to embrace Industrialized Construction fully.
Looking to uplevel your skills? This year, all Autodesk University attendees will be eligible to receive a 50% discount towards an Autodesk Certification exam during the month of October!
We see the enormous responsibility educators carry to shape the lives of tomorrow’s leaders, and we strive to support you every step of the way. With Autodesk’s industry-validated certifications, support your own and your students’ ongoing professional development and prepare for the future of work.
In addition to the panels and keynotes, below are a curated list of classes that we believe you will find valuable. Start building your personalized schedule and bookmark the sessions you want to attend. In order to add the following sessions to your calendar, you must be registered for AU and logged in.
The Kreative Kitchen is an innovative multi-disciplinary educational pilot model exploring how we can maximize the benefits of diverse fields in a collaborative academic environment that mimics industry.
The advanced Design and Manufacturing II course at MIT has student teams each building 50 yo-yos custom designed in Fusion 360 and manufactured using 3-axis milling and injection molding.
We will take you on our unique journey from project inception to the competition and give you insight on how 70 passionate and determined students managed to build a record-breaking tunnel boring machine during a pandemic.
We will discuss why it is so necessary for education and industry to maintain a constant connection with one another, and how an earlier introduction to advanced manufacturing can affect a college graduate’s impact on industry.
In this class, we’ll learn how to make use of Fusion 360 and its collaborative capabilities to the advantage of educators being able to reach students on the respective subjects remotely, eliminating the need for In-Person engagements.
With an uncertain economic environment, the San Diego-Imperial region needed a way to connect with employers to better understand their workforce needs.
Does the form tool and surface modeling in Fusion make you a little uncomfortable? Over the years, I have learned to leverage the form tools. Let me show you my process and combination of these different tool worlds.
Join us for this session to hear from the Fusion 360 product development organization on what's coming in the area of Design and Manufacturing and participate in feedback about this product development.
This demonstration will show how team members can work simultaneously and remotely on a distributed assembly while avoiding design conflicts.
Fusion is not like other CAD tools when it comes to positioning components in an assembly. It uses Joints to both position components and describe their motion. This class will help you to make sense of Joints in Fusion 360.
The Transportation Design program at the University of Cincinnati created of the Future Mobility Center. This class will describe how the space was developed, and a series of examples of projects that have come out of it.
Inventor is Autodesk's top tool for mechanical design, while Fusion 360 has a great tool for PCB design. In this session you will learn how to set up a seamless workflow for mechanical and electrical design.
We will look at workflows that address building custom materials and setting up environments, as well as adding small details such as layer lines on 3D prints and concept arrows to make your renders more realistic.
During this class you will get a first impression of what the new Fusion Injection Moldflow is about. This new application in Fusion 360 is developed from the ground up, and with a few new innovative concepts and ideas.
This talk will discuss how Fusion 360 became an essential tool for teaching online and how it enabled us at the University of Warwick to continue to deliver high quality teaching in the School of Engineering.
Due to increasing digitalization, training companies are faced with the challenge of preparing their trainees for Industry 4.0. The full integration of Fusion 360 in MLS makes it possible to present a holistic learning process .
This class will explain why and how business owners or IT managers can make sure they have control over their companies’ intellectual property.
Generative Design is a tool that requires technical knowledge that doesn’t necessarily align with how designers work. We will explore four key strategies for integrating generative design into product and industrial design.
In this session, attendees will get a look at how Generative Design in Fusion 360 software can help them improve the way they design and make engineering decisions. We will review the development progress and look into the future.
We class will walk you through the design journey for an electric skateboard, beginning with a customized off-the-shelf part, then iterating through a generatively designed, 3-axis, CNC-machined version, and a 5-axis, CNC-machined version.
Learn why and how you should be exploiting Simulation in Fusion 360. Design and validation tools will assist you to collaborate with engineers more effectively, and will also help you to carry a design to production with less changes.
Fusion Simulation software offers a rich set of analysis types to simulate real-world problems. Whether it’s simple static stress, optimizing a shape to reduce weight, or simulating a bird hitting an airplane, it’s all there.
This class will take you through the basic steps of a Static Stress Simulation, showing you how to set up a Simulation, what all the options are for, and how the results can be analyzed and used to influence future design decisions.
In this session, you’ll hear from three companies that are using Autodesk Forge to power their Digital Twins. They will talk you through why they needed to create a Digital Twin, and how they achieved it using Forge.
Additive manufacturing has capabilities to create unique and efficient designs. We will focus on the reasons and use cases to apply part consolidation as well as general design practices to successfully optimize a part using part consolidation.
Nesting is increasing manufacturing efficiency by minimizing material waste, shortened machine cycle times and reducing production costs. Make a sound investment by implementing Fusion 360 Nesting into your production workflow.
You will learn ways you can utilize point clouds in an efficient and effective manner by extracting only the relevant information for your design, and then share your point cloud information by publishing to an ACS or BIM 360 project.
In this session, Autodesk's top thought leaders in Industrialized Construction and some of their innovative customers will talk about how to successfully shift a business to align with these new developing industry trends.
In this panel, we will engage in highlighting the current status and developing a roadmap where stakeholders can work to enable graduates with knowledge of interdisciplinary skills required to embrace Industrialized Construction fully.