Success Story
Students of the Materials Science Engineering has required trainings in industry standard CAD, CAM and CAE applications, in order to be prepared for their career. At the same time, current industry expects universities to train engineer students with relevant knowledge so that the knowledge learnt can be applied upon hiring.
The Metallurgy and Materials Department of FEUP (Engineering Faculty of University of Oporto) approached Norcam to provide trainings for Autodesk Moldflow, as a direct response to an industry shortage of skilled engineers.
The established goal was to provide students with knowledge about plastic injection molds, common industry problems and ways to overcome these problems by means of Autodesk Moldflow.
Students should be able to create a Autodesk Moldflow project and interpret the results. Also, they should be able to reason on which design or parameter changes could result in solving the problems.
Here is how Norcam has planed and prepared for the trainings:
The remaining classes were used to develop small Autodesk Moldflow projects.
Students demonstrated much interest in Autodesk Moldflow and understood the issues with plastic injection quite well. This was expected due to their materials science background.
Students became literated in common design rules for plastic parts, as well as, common defects.
A good number of students learned how to use Autodesk Moldflow above average and could potentially envision a career in this field.
It is important to provide engineering students to industry grade software during their education. While many teachers prefer open source software, this is not a good approach for product design and manufacturing.
In this case, the University was able to provide the industry with new engineers that had a base knowledge in plastic injection molding, that allows for a short integration phase.
The department and the students considered this training very valuable.
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