New Clients: Humanoid, Gen3 Manufacturing.

01.21.26 – Design Engine presents the Lunch &  Learn titled Die Casting Tips & Tricks inside Creo 12.0 & SolidWorks, promoting the Die Casting Training intensive.

02.02.26 – Design Engine conducts another monthly Lunch & Learn. This topic was presented by Bart Brejcha with a topic of Creo Sheet Metal, promoting these two-day Creo Sheet Metal training courses 

02.17.26 – Design Engine conducts the two-day Die Casting Intensive for AI Robotics company Humanoid.  A link to their Die Casting Training intensive.

02.19.26 – Design Engine conducts a two-day training for Newell Rubbermaid on advanced assembly detailed drawings using Creo. 

03.11.26 – Design Engine conducts another monthly Lunch & Learn, this one titled Surface modeling for the Die Cast manufacturing process.  This lunch & learning event promotes the Die Casting Training intensive.

03.16.26 – Design Engine conducts a mix of one-week sheet metal top-down design training w/ consulting to Gen3 manufacturing in Suix City, Iowa. 

03.30.26 – Design Engine conducts our week-long WEEK ONE Creo Surfacing Training intensive to Oakley Introlox and Accelerated Solutions Group this week.

04.14.26 – Design Engine conducts the two-day MDO mechanism training intensive onsite at Newell in Atlanta 

04.14.26 – Design Engine presents the Lunch & Learn ‘Robust Modeling Techniques: Modeling using Creo 12.0’ promoting the Creo Update training course. 

04.26.26 – Design Engine sends Bart Brejcha to Las Vegas, NV, for the PTC World Conference to help with presentations and Learning events. Bart did get to go out on track w/ a Porsche 911, compliments to PTC. 

05.11.26 – Design Engine conducts a specialized SolidWorks Training Learn to design course for Ferrara Candies out of Chicago. The participants all had over 5 years on SolidWorks, so this course was accelerated and more for an advanced modeling assemblies course. 

06.20.26 – Design Engine conducts another monthly Lunch & Learn, this one titled Intense and Controlled Patterns using Creo 12.0 

05.27.26 – Design Engine invites the LA team members to visit GA and to help move the Design Engine Tormach 1100 MX CNC machine to the new 1500 sq prototype lab in Cleveland, GA.  

06.08.26 – Design Engine sends Bart Brejcha to Athens, Greece, to administer the fifth week-long intensive to Bic Razors Design Engineers.  This course was an accelerated Creo 12.0 Update training mixing Surfacing, Import Data Doctor, and the Design Engine reamed approach to Top Down design. 

06.22.26 – Design Engine conducts the Creo training Learn to Design course to NDI & G&W Electrical this week

06.24.26 – Design Engine conducts another monthly Lunch & Learn, this one titled Intense and Controlled Patterns in SolidWorks. 

07.08.26 – Design Engine conducts another monthly Lunch & Learn, this one titled “FEA for the Design Engineer” Creo Simulate 12.0. Presentation by Mickey Wakefield.  The video is placed on YouTube. The Discussion after the presentation included many questions, ranging from comparing Creo Simulate to Creo Simulate Live to the process for validating analyses to how to get engineers to try these tools, all of which were part of the discussion.  

New Clients: G&W Electric, SDS Arms, Browning North America, Broadview Product Development Group, Accelerated Solutions Group

01.06.25 – Design Engine conducts a week-long SolidWorks Learn to Design training course to SDS Arms & Edgewell

01.13.25 – Design Engine conducts a week-long WEEK TWO Creo Surfacing intensive to Zebra & Steelcase 

01.27.25 – Bart Brejcha of Design Engine presents multiple topics to the PTC User Global Summit.  Creo 12 update training, Using Solid Bodies & Sub’D surfaces. 

02.03.25 – Sloan GE Healthcare & Specialized Bicycles Creo Training: Learn To Design intensive. 

02.07.25 – Bart Brejcha of Design Engine presents another monthly Lunch & Learning event. This one is titled ‘Creo & Solidworks Sub Divisional Surfacing *Sub’D for short’

02.17.25 – Design Engine administers the Creo Surfacing WEEK ONE to Amazon MillerKnoll & Steelcase.

03.31.25 – Design Engine administers the SolidWorks Learn to design to PCC Structurals on this week.

04.28.25 – Design Engine administers a customized SolidWorks course to Teledyne

05.05.25 – Design Engine administers a customized Creo Surfacing WEEK ONE to Accelerated Solutions Group, GE Healthcare, and Broadview Product Development Group. 

05.07.25 – Design Engine presents another montly Lunch & Learning event. This one is titled ‘Mastering Creo Sheetmetal in Creo’  

05.12.25 – Design Engine administers Creo Surfacing WEEK TWO to Browning North America 

05.20.25 – Design Engine administers the Creo Training: Learn To Design intensive.  A Creo Training course to G&W Electric

06.03.25 – Design Engine administers another monthly Lunch & Learn, this one titled ‘Mastering Creo Sheet Metal’ using Creo 12.0 

06.23.25 – Design Engine administers a SolidWorks Learn to design course to Newell Rubbermaid in Atlanta this week.

06.23.25 – Design Engine presents another monthly Lunch & Learn titled “Being more Efficient in Creo.” This presentation is intended to promote the Creo Update Training course. 

06.30.25 – Design Engine administers a two-day Creo surfacing intensive to Newell Rubbermaid in Atlanta GA 

07.14.25 – Design Engine administers the Creo Training: Learn To Design intensive course to G&W Electric.

07.16.25 – Design Engine presents another monthly Lunch & Learn titled ‘Creo 12.0 Assemblies’

07.28.25 – Design Engine administers our week-long sketching and idea generation intensive to Engineers with Newell in Atlanta, GA. 

08.13.25 – Design Engine presents another monthly Lunch & Learn, asking the question, What is an expert? Topic titled “Proving to become the Expert” Creo 12.0 tools.

09.30.25 – Design Engine presents another monthly Lunch & Learn on the topic of mastering Sheet Metal. 

09.30.25 – Design Engine sends Bart Brejcha to present at the Tampa Creo user group conference.  Topic on mastering Creo Sheet Metal, promoting these two-day Creo Sheet Metal training courses.

10.01.25 – Design Engine sends Bart Brejcha to present at the Atlanta Creo user group. Topic on mastering Creo Sheet Metal, promoting these two-day Creo Sheet Metal training courses.

10.02.25 – Design Engine sends Bart Brejcha to present at the Huntsville Creo user group. Topic on mastering Creo Sheet Metal, promoting these two-day Creo Sheet Metal training courses.

10.25.25 – Design Engine’s Bart Brejcha presents a monthly lunch & Learn titled ‘Leveraging Top-Down design with Creo & Master Modeling using SolidWorks. ‘  This talk is intended to promote the Advanced Assembly courses in either Creo or SolidWorks. 

10.27.25 – Bart Brejcha teaches the Design Engine Harness design intensive to the Los Alamos Mars rover team. 

11.21.25 – Design Engine sends Bart Brejcha to Europe to present a talk at the Netherlands Creo user conference BENULUX.  The topic was on mastering Creo 12.0 and what it takes to be an expert. 

12.02.25 – Design Engine administers a 2-day Creo 11.0 update training to Zebra Technologies. 

New Clients: Brompton Bicycle, John Deere, Borg Warner

01.17.24 – Design Engine’s Bart Brejcha presents another Lunch & Learning event, this one titled “Class A Surfacing & Style: Creo10.0”

01.29.24 – Design Engine conducts a week-long SolidWorks Surfacing training course for Brompton Bicycle in the UK

02.05.24 – Design Engine administers the Creo one-week reverse engineering course to 3M 

02.12.24 – Design Engine administers the Creo Learn to Design for industrial designers course to the John Deere ID team. 

02.19.24 – Design Engine administers the Creo Surfacing Week One training to Edgewell. 

03.04.24 – Design Engine administers the Creo Cable Harness Design course to Borg Warner this week. 

03.08.24 – Design Engine administers an intense five-day comparison of PTC Creo to Catia for the Stanley Black & Decker ID Team.

02.14.24 –  Design Engine’s Bart Brejcha presents another monthly Lunch & Learning event, this one titled “Learning to Design in Creo”.  This event is intended to promote the Learn to Design course Creo training course. 

03.18.24 – Design Engine administers the SolidWorks training: Learn to Design course to Camping World Gear 

03.18.24 – Design Engine’s Bart Brejcha presents another monthly Lunch & Learning event, this one titled “Advanced Assemblies in Creo 10.0.” This presentation is intended to promote the Creo AAX training course. 

04.08.24 – Design Engine administers Creo Surfacing Week One course to specialized bicycles

04.15.24 – Design Engine administers Creo Learn to Design course to DMG Mori & IRobot

04.17.24 – Bart Brejcha of Design Engine presents another monthly Lunch & Learning event.  This one is titled “12 Ways to be 1% Faster in Creo”

05.20.24 – Bart Brejcha of Design Engine presents another monthly Lunch & Learning event.  This one is titled “12 Ways to be 1% Faster in SolidWorks”.  We noticed that SolidWorks users seldom take SolidWorks update training, and it’s clear that there is a great deal of efficiency that can be made with designers and engineers using SolidWorks.  It is intended ot promote this SolidWorks Training course. 

05.27.24 – Design Engine administers a week-long Creo update training course to Bic Razors in Athens, Greece. 

06.10.24 – Design Engine administers a four-day Learning Creo Sheetmetal beginning to Advanced Creo Sheetmetal, to  SAIC in Charleston, SC

06.19.24 – Design Engine administers a customized Creo Learn to design course to Eagle ABS in Houston, TX  

06.20.24 – Design Engine presents another monthly Lunch & Learn.  This topic “Creo Surfacing Week Two” is intended to promote Design Engine’s WEEK TWO surfacing intensive a Creo Surfacing training course. 

06.24.24 – Design Engine administers Creo update training to Five Star Bodies in Wisconsin. 

07.08.24 – Design Engine administers a Learn Creo coming from SolidWorks training course to BW Converting.

07.29.24 – Design Engine administers a Creo Surfacing Week One course to Graco in Atlanta. 

08.12.24 – Design Engine administers a Creo Surfacing Week One to Ride Fox & Specialized Bicycles

08.19.24 – Design Engine administers the Creo Learn to Design Course to G&W Electric.  

09.09.24 – Design Engine administers the Creo Learn to Design Course to Newell in Atlanta. 

09.16.24 – Design Engine administers Plastic Part design course to Newell in Atlanta. 

09.23.24 – Design Engine administers Creo Learn to Design course to Caterpillar 

10.23.24 – Design Engine presents another monthly Lunch & Learning event, this one titled ‘Speed & Efficiency in Creo, ‘ promoting the Creo Update Training course. 

10.28.24 – Design Engine teaches Edgewell a SolidWorks from Creo course. If you know Creo already, then learning SolidWorks requires special tips and tricks, especially since their team has had trainign w/ Design Engine for 20years in Creo. The focus was learning SolidWorks, but ended on Surfacing in SolidWorks.  

11.11.24 – Design Engine teaches the Creo Surfacing Week One intensive to Amazon in Boston

11.18.24 – Design Engine teaches a 3-day Creo Surfacing intensive & a two-day MDO mechanism training intensive to Amazon in Sunnyvale CA

12.09.24 – Design Engine teaches a Creo Learn to Design course to Hearmn Knoll 

12.16.24 – Design Engine teaches a custom SolidWorks Surfacing Training intensive to Ferrara Candies in Chicago.  This course was part of SolidWorks Surfacing WEEK ONE and part of SolidWorks Surfacing WEEK TWO. The class was made up of all industrial designers.  

New Clients: Specialized Bicycles, ROAM Rifles, BD Medical, Generac, Gulfstream, Life360, MLT Systems, Raycap, iRobot, Accelerated Solutions Group, BWX Technologies, Oakley, NTIS, SAIC, Ashland Foundry & Machine Works, DMG Mori 

01.09.23 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Surfacing Week One training for Specialized Bicycles in Taiwan

01.23.23 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Surfacing Week One training course for Zebra

01.30.23 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Learn to Design Creo class for BRP

02.06.23 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Learn to Design Creo training class for ROAM Rifles

02.13.23 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Surfacing Week One course for OTTO Engineering

02.27.23 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Plastic Part Design class for BOSCH

03.06.23 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Learn to Design class for students from ROAM Rifles and BRP

03.27.23 – Design Engine conducts a week-long SOLIDWORKS Plastic Part Design course for BD Medical

04.03.23 – Design Engine conducts a week-long SOLIDWORKS Surfacing class for REXAIR

04.17.23 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Learn to Design class for Edgewell

04.24.23 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Surfacing Week One course for Generac

05.22.23 – Design Engine conducts a week long Rhino Grasshopper course in Savanah GA for Gulfstream 

06.05.23 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Learn to Design class for Industrial Designers from SRAM and OTTO Engineering

06.12.23 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Surfacing Week One course for Steelcase in Grand Rapids, MI

06.19.23 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Surfacing Week One class for students from Life360, Steelcase, Specialized Bicycles and ROAM Rifles

06.26.23 – Design Engine conducts a week long Intro to Creo class for MLT Systems

07.10.23 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Learn to Design class for students from Edgewell, Raycap, iRobot, Accelerated Solutions Group, BWX Technologies and MLT Systems

07.17.23 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Reverse Engineering class for Oakley students in Foothill Ranch, CA

08.07.23 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Surfacing Week Two course for Generac

08.14.23 – Design Engine conducts a week long SOLIDWORKS Plastic Part Design class for NTIS

08.21.23 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Surfacing with Top-Down Design class for iRobot in Bedford, MA

08.29.23 – Design Engine conducts a 2 day Creo Surfacing class for Dell

09.04.23 – Design Engine conducts a week long SOLIDWORKS Surfacing Week Two class for NTIS

09.11.23 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Schematics class for SAIC students in North Charleston, SC

09.18.23 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Surfacing Week One course for students from Miller Knoll and Bissell

10.02.23 – Design Engine conducts a 3 day GD&T or GTOL courses for NTIS

10.09.23 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Learn to Design class for students from OTTO Engineering and Modine

10.16.23 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Surfacing Week Two course for students from Miller Knoll, Kohler and Generac

10.23.23 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Learn to Design class for SAIC in North Charleston, SC

10.30.23 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Reverse Engineering course for students from Amazon and Ashland Foundry & Machine Works

11.02.23 – Design Engine conducts a 2-day Creo Fusion 360 class for Newell Graco

11.06.23 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Learn to Design class for DMG Mori students in Chicago, IL

11.27.23 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Plastic Part Design class for Amazon

New Clients: Specialized Bikes, Apex, Logitech, Sekisui, Graco, Zebra, Cirrus Aircraft, Accelerated Solutions Group, Grayhill, Nidec, HNI Workplace Furnishings.

01.10.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Customized Creo class for Specialized Bikes

01.18.22 – Design Engine conducts a 3 day SOLIDWORKS to Creo class for Apex

02.08.22 – Design Engine conducts a 3 day SOLIDWORKS to Creo class for Apex

02.14.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Learn to Design course with Stanley Black & Decker

03.01.22 – Design Engine conducts a 3 day Creo Sheetmetal training with BRP

03.21.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Learn to Design course with Bissell

04.04.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Learn to Design course for students from Amazon and JW Speaker

04.25.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Surfacing training for Bissell

04.28.22 – Design Engine conducts a 1 day Sketching for Engineers class for Newell

05.02.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Surfacing Intensive training for Logitech

05.09.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Surfacing Week One training for Newell

05.16.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Surfacing Week One training for BIC

05.23.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Surfacing Week One training for Oakley

05.31.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo for Industrial Designers class for Dell

06.06.22 – Design Engine has a week long Creo Learn to Design class for Sekisui

06.13.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Learn to Design course for Stanley Black & Decker

06.20.22 – Design Engine has a week long Sketching for Engineers course for Graco

06.27.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Surfacing Week One training for Zebra

07.07.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Top-Down Design class for BRP

07.11.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Manufacturing training at Amazon

07.18.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Surfacing Week One training at Cirrus Aircraft

07.25.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Learn to Design course for students from Aptar, Edgewell, US Army, Zebra, BRP and Amazon 

08.15.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Surfacing Week One class for students from Leapfrog Brands, Kohler, and the US Army 

08.22.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Surfacing Week One class for Stanley Black & Decker 

08.29.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Learn to Design course for students from Oakley, Specialized Bikes, and Cirrus Aircraft 

09.12.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Update Training class for Aptar

09.19.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Surfacing Week One class for Stanley Black & Decker

09.26.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long SOLIDWORKS Plastic Part Design class for students from Sekisui Diagnostics

10.10.22 – Design Engine conducts a 3 day Creo Advanced Assembly class for BRP

10.17.22 – Design Engine conducts a 3 day Creo Detail Drawing class for BRP 

10.24.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Surfacing Week One course for students from Edgewell, Karcher, and OTTO Engineering

10.31.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Learn to Design Creo course for students from Dell, Zebra, Accelerated Solutions Group, Grayhill and BRP

11.07.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Cable Harness Week One course for students from Nidec

11.14.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Cable Harness Week Two class for Nidec

11.21.22 – Design Engine conducts a 2 day GD&T or GTOL class for BRP

11.28.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Learn to Design course for students from HNI Workplace Furnishings, CAT, Amazon, Karcher, and Specialized Bikes

12.05.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Learn to Design course for iRobot

12.19.22 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Surfacing Week Two course for Cirrus Aircraft

New Clients: Idaho National Laboratory, Comcast, Elevator Designs, RPB Safety LLC, Veer, REXAIR, US Army, Stanley Black and Decker, Sloan, Microsoft, Specialized Bikes, NDI, Kohler, AEBI Schmidt, Saratech, Raytheon, Sekisui, TTI Floor Care, National Research Council Canada, and SawStop.

01.04.21 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Learn to Design course for Idaho National Laboratory and other students

01.12.21 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Learn to Design course for Kids II

01.25.21 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Learn to Design course for Kids II

01.25.21 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Surfacing Week One course for Lifetime Products

02.01.21 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Learn to Design class for Lifetime Products

02.08.21 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Surfacing Week One course for students from Amazon and Mercury Marine

02.15.21 – Design Engine conducts a week long SOLIDWORKS Surfacing Week One course for TREK Bikes

02.22.21 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Manufacturing Week Long Intensive training for students from Mercury Marine and Comcast

03.01.21 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Learn to Design class for Lifetime Products

03.15.21 – Design Engine conducts a 3 day SOLIDWORKS Advanced Assemblies & Detail Drawing class for Elevator Designs

03.22.21 – Design Engine conducts a 2 day SOLIDWORKS Sheetmetal class for Elevator Designs

03.29.21 – Design Engine conducts a 2 day SOLIDWORKS Plastic Part Design class for RPB Safety LLC

04.05.21 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Learn to Design class for students from Newell and Veer

04.19.21 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Surfacing Week One class for REXAIR

05.03.21 – Design Engine conducts a week long SOLIDWORKS to Creo training for Newell

05.17.21 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Simulate FEA training for the US Army

05.17.21 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Learn to Design course for Stanley Black & Decker

06.01.21 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Surfacing Week One class for students from Stanley Black & Decker, Sloan, Microsoft, and Specialized Bikes

07.12.21 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Learn to Design course for students from NDI and Stanley Black & Decker

07.19.21 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Surfacing Week One class for students from Amazon, OTTO Engineering, Kohler, and Sloan

07.26.21 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Learn to Design course for Stanley Black & Decker

08.09.21 – Design Engine has a 2 day Creo Pro/Program training for AEBI Schmidt

08.23.21 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Drawings and Advanced Assemblies course for Stanley Black & Decker

09.02.21 – Design Engine has a 1-day NX training for Saratech

09.09.21 – Design Engine conducts a 3-day instructor-led Rhino training for Kohler

09.13.21 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Learn to Design course for the US Army

09.20.21 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Learn to Design course for Stanley Black & Decker

09.27.21 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Advanced Assemblies course for Raytheon

10.04.21 – Design Engine conducts a week long SOLIDWORKS Learn to Design class for students from Sekisui, and TTI Floor Care

10.12.21 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Learn to Design class for Sloan

10.25.21 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Drawings and Advanced Assemblies course for Stanley Black & Decker

11.09.21 – Design Engine conducts 2 day Creo REX training for National Research Council Canada

11.22.21 – Design Engine conducts a week-long SOLIDWORKS Plastic Part Design course for SawStop

11.29.21 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Learn to Design course for Stanley Black & Decker

12.06.21 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Learn to Design course for Sloan

12.13.21 – Design Engine conducts a week-long Creo Custom Training course for Stanley Black & Decker

New Clients:  General Dynamics, NuSkin, SRAM, Kohler, Ferrara USA, Amazon, Toro, Microsoft, Medtron, Lifetime Products, Belkin, Sekisui, Milton Industries, BIC, Mercury Marine, Kids II,  ECK Plastics

01.13.20 – Design Engine conducts week long training for General Dynamics

02.24.20 – Design Engine conducts a Creo Advanced Assemblies course for General Dynamics

04.13.20 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Learn to Design course for NuSkin and SRAM

04.20.20 – Design Engine conducts a week long SOLIDWORKS Learn to Design class for students from Kohler (Industrial Designers)

04.27.20 – Design Engine conducts a week long SOLIDWORKS Surfacing Week One course for  Ferrara USA

06.08.20 – Design Engine has a week long Creo Surfacing Week One course for Amazon

06.15.20 – Design Engine has a week long Creo Surfacing Week One course for Toro

07.17.20 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Surfacing Week One class for students from Microsoft, Medtron, and Lifetime Products

09.14.20 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Surfacing Week One course for Belkin

09.28.20 – Design Engine conducts a week long SOLIDWORKS Surfacing Week One course for students from Sekisui and Milton Industries

10.12.20 – Design Engine has a week long Advanced Rhino Surface Modeling course for Kohler

11.02.20 – Design Engine conducts a week long Creo Surfacing Week One course for BIC

11.16.20 – Design Engine has a week long Learn to Design with Creo course for students from Mercury Marine and Kids II

12.14.20 – Design Engine has a week long SOLIDWORKS Plastics Class for students from ECK Plastics, Sekisui Diagnostics

The Design Engine team was heavily involved in project work for toy companies this year.

The Design Engine team also did a product design project for Kids II.

New Clients:  US Army, US Air Force, Ryerson Metals, Sleep Number (long time customer though they did change their name from Sleep Comfort), Caterpillar, Sram, Raytheon, Leapfrog, Harris Corporation & Ferrara Candy Company

01.3.19 – Design Engine steps up the planning process for the Peoria Creo User Group planned for March 29th 2019 https://design-engine.com/peoria-ptc-user-group-2019/

01.7.19 – Design Engine has prepared new material for the Creo AAX Advanced assemblies classes we offer. If you have the Student login be sure to visit that section to get a glimpse of what is new. Another new class we will offer is the Creo to Solidworks / Solidworks to Creo class. One other class we will offer this year is an intensive comparison of Creo vs Solidworks for those companies looking to make the switch. This class will be offered in an unbiased non sales perspective in week long format starting this month.

01.14.19 – Design Engine conducted a week long plastic part design for injection molding class in Solidworks this week. Our customer Display Technologies makes the drink dispensers we see in the cooler at your local 7 Eleven and other convenient stores.

01.14.19 – Ferrara Candy Company sends industrial designers to Design-Engine for our week long Solidworks from Creo training class. Participants took our Creo Training classes while at another company in 2014 and now want to get up to speed on Solidworks as quickly and efficiently as possible.

01.21.19 – Design Engine conducts the Customized Advanced Part Design & Creo Advanced Assembly class to Harris Corporation in the Design engine Chicago office.

01.21.19 Design-engine sends one of the Industrial Designers to UIUC to help ID Students with Rhino 3D tools.

01.23.19 UIC ASME teams come to Design Engine this day after work to get a series demonstration of PTC Creo.

01.28.19 – Design Engine has been asked to preform a demonstration with a “non sales oriented” perspective, comparing SOLIDWORKS to Creo, for Sleep Number in Minneapolis MN. They are interested in switching from PTC Creo to SOLIDWORKS. Our deliverable at the end of this intense comparison will be a metric for making a non emotional decision based on needs, cost, UI, ease of learning, PDM and data migration. Yes, it was -31°F in Minneapolis this week (not including heat loss to windchill).

01.28.19 – Design Engine conducts a Creo Simulate Class this week to the US Army in Tobyhanna, PA.

01.28.19 – Design Engine conducts a Creo Surfacing WEEK ONE this week in Chicago (-20°f). Customers, Caterpillar of Peoria, IL & Leapfrog of Oakland, CA, send participants for this week long intensive.

02.11.19 – Design Engine conducts a new and special AAX- Advanced Assemblies Creo Training intensive to the US Army in Detroit, MI. These teams have taken an abbreviated version of this class a year earlier in the form of a Creo 4.0 update training. However, this class goes much deeper into the AAX tools & this course is complete with a team approach to top down design.

02.18.19 – Design Engine again conducts a new and special AAX- Advanced Assemblies Creo Training intensive to the US Army in Detroit MI. Different group of participants.

02.25.19 – Design Engine conducts a custom AAX- Advanced Assemblies Creo Training intensive to the US Army in Tobyhanna, PA. The focus is on managing large assemblies.  

03.04.19 – This custom AAX- Advanced Assemblies Creo Training intensive was offered this week to Ingersoll Rand in Annandale, NJ.  The focus on this class was to manage co-injected rubber on hand-held products by combining specific workflow using top down design with Design Engine’s plastic part design class.  

03.04.19 – Design Engine conducts the Learning to Design with Creo training class to Case New Holland and Magotteaux  in our Ravenswood Chicago training facility. 

03.11.19 – Design Engine administers to the US Army a special two day Creo Sheetmetal class, one day Creo Weld & one day Creo Detail Drawings intensive this week.

03.18.19 – This custom AAX- Advanced Assemblies Creo Training intensive was offered this week to the US Army in Warren, MI.  The focus on this class was to manage large assemblies.  

03.18.19 – Design Engine offers a Learning to Design in SOLIDWORKS training class at the Chicago Ravenswood training facility. 

03.25.19 – Design Engine visits Raytheon in Tucson, AZ to conduct the Harness Design week long intensive to test engineers.  Their harnesses ensure missiles fire 100 percent of the time. 

04.1.19 – Design Engine administers another week of training US Army in Warren, MI.  This week we taught a special  Creo Sheetmetal training class, one day Creo Weld & one day Creo Detail Drawings intensive.

04.01.19 – Design Engine conducts her onsite version of Learning to Design with Creo training class to mechanical engineers Newell Rubbermaid in Atlanta, GA.

04.01.19 – Design Engine conducts her Learning to Design with Creo training class to mechanical engineers from Michigan’s Stryker at our Chicago Ravenswood training facility. 

04.8.19 – Design Engine administers another week of training US Army in Warren, MI.  This week we taught a Creo Sheetmetal training class, one day Creo Weld & one day Creo Detail Drawings intensive.

04.15.19 – Design-engine conducts 3 day SOLIDWORKS sheetmetal training class to Ryerson Metals in our Chicago training studio. 

04.18.19 – Design-engine conducts her two day Creo Weld intensive to engineers from the US Air Force in our Chicago training studio.  This course included both creating edge prep using the weld utility and outside using top down design with our tubular frame structures workshop.

04.22.19 – Design-engine conducts her 5 day Advanced Assemblies / Detail drawings intensive to the same engineers of the US Air Force in our Chicago training studio.  Top down design, flexible modeling, flexible components, top down design, creating title blocks & GD&T to name a few topics presented to the team.

New Clients:  US Army, Johnson & Johnson, Wieland Designs, Dabir Surfaces &Toast, Caterpillar, Sram

New Clients:  Shear Bits, Edwards Lifesciences,  Disher Design, Knoll & University of Illinois

01.05.17 – Design-Engine administers a two day Creo Sheet Metal class to Newell Brands in Charlotte NC 

01.23.17 – Design-Engine administers  Creo Surfacing WEEK ONE Surfacing Intensive to Edwards Lifesciences in Irvine CA

02.06.17 – Design-Engine administers  Learning to design with Creo Class Shear Bits  of Canada.

02.13.17 – Design-Engine administers the Class-A Surfacing in Alias Auto Studio to Harley Davidson of Milwaukee WI in our Chicago Westloop Studio.  This class will be going on again in April 2017.

02.21.17 – Design-Engine administers the  Creo Surfacing WEEK ONE Surfacing Intensive to Edgwell, Disher Design & CNH industrial Designer & Mechanical Engineers

02.22.17 – Parametric Technology Corporation likes our Kid Robot hot sauce model created in Creo 3.0 Freestyle tool Sub Divisional tool that comes stock with Creo 3.0 that they featured it in their PTC blog post. 

02.27.17 – Design-Engine administers the  Creo Surfacing WEEK TWO Surfacing Intensive to Harley Davidson & Kohler & Midmark Industrial Designers.  The prerequisite for this class is that the participants have had the WEEK one Creo Surfacing class before. 

03.06.17 – Design-Engine administers Special Creo Surfacing WEEK ONE Surfacing Intensive to Studio Engineers of Newell Brands.  

03.13.17 – Design-Engine administers her Two Day Import Data Doctor intensive to engineering manager of  Midmark of Chicago & Industiral Designers of Ingersoll Rand from New Jersey. 

03.16.17 –  Bart Brejcha & Scott Froeming of Design Engine presents at the UTAH Solidworks users conference.  We showed off a YZ450 Exhaust in a how two using Solidworks surfacing presentation.  Design Engine gave away a Burton Snowboard at this event of over 60 participants.  

03.20.17 – Design Engine administered a One WEEK Learning Alias Design class to Kohler Industrial Designers. 

03.27.17 – Design-Engine administers WEEK ONE Creo Surfacing Intensive to General Electric Industrial Designers, Greyhill Engineers & Motorola Mechanical Engineers.  Those participants took our ‘Learning to design with Creo’ Level one class a few years prior.

04.03.17 – The Design Engine Creo level one learning to design with  Creo class was administered to participants from Motorola. 

04.10.17 – Medtronic & Mercury Marine both present engineers for our Chicago Design-engine Creo Simulate training. 

04.10.17 – Bart Brejcha of design Engine presents Creo 4.0 tips and tricks 2 hr workshop to Bradley Engineers.  Participants were both Masters and FEA Doctoral students & their professors.   It was a pleasure to meet everyone.

04.17.17 -Design Engine offers her Learning to design with SOLIDWORKS to participants from both Holly Hunt a Knoll company  and Weber Grill designers and engineers.

04.24.17 – Design Engine offered it’s 3 day Harness design training intensive to AGCO in Hesston KS

04.28.17 – Bart Brejcha from Design-engine presents a one hour presentation of Plastic Part design to the Milwaukee Creo Users Conference or Badger Bug.  This event went off this April at the Manpower facility downtown Milwaukee.

05.08.17 – Design-engine conducts two weeks of special surface modeling training to Bic Razors in Athens Greece. One new group is taking the CREO Surfacing WEEK ONE Intensive while others who took training several years will take our CREO Surfacing WEEK TWO Intensive This is our second time invited for training to engineers and designers in Athens.

05.15.17 – Design-engine conducts thee day advanced surfacing to engineers at BIC that already had the WEEK ONE Creo Surfacing by design Engine a few years earlier.  We condensed the WEEK TWO Creo surfacing workshop into three days for this workshop to BIC Razors in Athens Greece. 

05.22.17 – Design-engine conducts  CREO Surfacing WEEK ONE Intensive training to Belkin  of Santa Barbara CA in the West loop Chicago Studio.  

05.30.17 – Design-engine conducts special two day Adobe Photoshop ID rendering intensive to ID’ers from Holly Hunt and Hayes Brakes.  

06.01.17 – Design Engine visits Harley Davidson for two days of Class-A surfacing using Alias Alias. 

06.12.17 – Week long Learning to design w/ Creo with Phillips Medical & General Electric Designers and Engineers. 

06.12.17 – Learning to design with Solidworks to Holly Hunt and several engineers from the University of Illinois Chicago 

06.19.17 – Design Engine administers her week long Plastic Part Design training class administered to Edwards Lifesciences of Irvine CA 

06.26.17 – Medtronic comes to Chicago for a special week long Creo Advanced Assembly training class.  This class involves Creo update training, top down design and mechanism design complete with Motion Skeletons.  This class is preparation for the Creo Simulate class in July.    This class is in preparation for their Creo Simulate and harness design training to come. 

07.06.17 – Medtronic comes to Chicago for two day Creo Weld training.  Doing it in Creo 4.0 gets those solid welds. 

07.10.17 – Edwards Lifesciences takes the Design engine Week Long Learning to design with Cre training class in Irvine California. 

07.17.17 – Solidworks Surfacing class held in the Design engine Chicago Westloop studio. This course teaches anyone how to use Solidworks. This class can be customized to fit specific requirements from 3 days to 5 days. Customization may include: custom tutorials and custom models, or making the workshop more specific to plastics, industrial design, capturing form, or proving form.

07.24.17 – Creo Simulate taught Midmark class how to test, validate, and optimize Creo models & assemblies. Creo Simulate enables engineers to simulate structural and thermal loads on products. Participants completed comprehensive, hands-on lab exercises that simulate realistic analysis, and design optimization activities.

07.24.17 – Custom Creo Surfacing taught onsite at Select Comfort in Minnesota. This course taught Select Comfort staff how to utilize Creo Surfacing to create models specific to their organization’s needs.

07.31.17 – Custom Rhino and Grasshopper Training onsite at Oakley in California. Oakley was able to customize their training needs by blending Rhino and Grasshopper to edit, analyze, and render their models.

08.04.17 – Creo Welding module presented with Creo 4.0 was presented by Bart Brejcha at Badgerland User Group This group is one of the largest Creo User conferences and is held North of Chicago 3 times per year. 

08.07.17 – Creo SurfacingWeek One held onsite for Technicolor in Georgia. We took designers and engineers up several notches past their current surfacing level. 

08.14.17 – Creo Level Two – Detail Drawings & Advanced Assembly held in Michigan for leaders in office furniture design. Participants had the option to customize this course to fit their specific job requirements so they are able to learn exactly what they need.

08.21.17 – Creo Surfacing Week One  Held in here in our West loop office with individuals joining from numerous companies to learn surfacing.

08.28.17 – Creo Level One held at our West loop location. This course was an introduction to constraint based modeling, assembly, and detailing utilizing the latest release of Creo engineering design software. This course focus is on core-modeling skills in a comprehensive manner, which includes topics such as sketching, part modeling, assemblies, drawings, and basic model management techniques.

09.05.17 – Purdue Solidworks User group – Design Engine held a free workshop for the students involved with design and engineering at Purdue University in Indiana.

09.06.17 – Creo Cable Harness Design training held at GE power in Wisconsin. using Creo Schematics participants will learned how to create 2D electrical harnesses that route that geometry through 3D Creo assemblies in order to obtain wire lengths and the appropriate nail board drawings of the flattened harnesses. 

09.11.17 –  Creo Surfacing Week Two course held in Michigan for Herman Miller. This workshop was an advanced Surfacing intensive. The course curriculum is flexible, and can cover any of the more advanced techniques and workflow for surface modeling.

09.11.17 – Creo Level One Held onsite for Dell Computers designers and engineers in Austin Texas.

10.02.17 – Creo Level One Course held onsite for a large group of employees at leading furniture manufacturer, Steelcase in Michigan.

10.02.17 – Custom SolidWorks training for manufacturer of custom window blinds and shades, Levolor in Georgia.

10.09.17 – Creo Surfacing training in Michigan for vacuum cleaner and floor care product manufacturer Bissell.

10.16.17 – Creo Level Two Onsite in California for medical equipment company  Edwards Lifesciences.

10.16.17 – Creo Simulate course held here at our location in Chicago for individuals interested in learning how to simulate structural and thermal loads on products. 

10.23.17 – Creo Cable Harness Design held in Ohio for Midmark, maker of medical, dental and veterinary products.

10.30.17 – Creo Surfacing Week One held at our location Chicago for Individuals from numerous companies looking to increase their design skills in Creo surfacing.

11.06.17 – Custom Creo Surfacing  training provided for Newell Brands in Florida.

11.14.17 – Rhino 3d student workshop with UIC Arquitectos.

11.16.17 – Afterburn – Plastic Part Design & Mold Design. This is a after work networking event with a discussion in our Chicago studio.

11.17.17  – Solidworks Surfacing student workshop at Notre Dame 

11.20.17 – Creo update training at Saint Gobain Performance Plastics. Participants are brought up to date with the latest version of PTC Creo.

11.27.17 – Creo plastic part design for injection molding. Led by Design Engine lead instructor, Bart Brejcha, and Injection mold expert Werner Karwinski.

12.4.17 – Creo surfacing week one onsite at Lifetime Products. Clearfield, UT. 

12.7.17 – SW vs. Creo presentation at the Northern Utah Solidworks user group.

12.11.17 – Newell level one. Custom Creo training onsite.

12.11.17 – Rhino level one course though here at Design-Engine in Chicago. participants  learned surface modeling and discuss general modeling relating specifically to Rhino 3D Software.

12.16.17 – Photoshop level one. Participants learned the essential skills and tools used in photoshop during a 2 day weekend course.

New Clients:  Amway, World Kitchen, Dell Computers, Hayes Brake, Knowles, X-ACTO, Fresenius-Kabi, Medtronic, Logitech, Hoover, Mixer Design Group, Steelcase, JW Speaker & Ingersoll Rand

Clients: Caterpillar, Chamberlain, Covidian, Newell Rubbermaid & Midmark, Dentsply, ZF Transmissions., University of Stout Wisconsin, GE, Toyota, Carestream, Wistron, Aptar & Case New Holland

01.12.15 – Design-Engine administers a special Creo 2.0 workshop to Midmark training.  The participants of the training class all knew Solidworks so the course was administered as with that in mind.

01.26.15 – Design-Engine continues it’s interrelationship with Newell Rubbermaid North America by training over 100 participants total this week with two from Kalamazoo MI in a special Creo 2 course specifically to industrial designers.

01.13.15 – Design-Engine as a third party helped Badger Meter decide between the pros and cons of using Solidworks vs. Pro/ENGINEER’s Creo.

01.26.15 – Design-engine administers a special one week Level one Creo intensive to industrial designers and engineers from Rubbermaid. Each of the participants in this class have Rhino, Alias or Solidworks as previous experience.

02.06.15 – Design-engine administers a Level one Creo Class to Striker

02.09.15 – Design-engine administers a level one Solidworks class to industrial design professor from University of Stout Wisconsin.

02.09.15 – Design-engine administers Level one Creo workshop to Dentsply

02.23.15 – Design-engine administers special one week Ansys intensive to Stryker the medical company.

02.25.15 – Design-engine administers special week long surfacing intensive to Bic the pen and razor company in Athens Greece. This class was administered using Creo 3.0 that we recently released.

03.02.15 – Level one class to Covidien.

03.09.15 – Design Engine administers her ‘Specialty 7 day Creo intensive’ http://proetools.com/creo-training-industrial-design/ to Caterpillar Industrial Designers. Each of the designers already knows Alias or Rhino so this class maximizes what each participant can accomplish.

03.23.15 – Design Engine administers a ‘special 5 day surface modeling intensive’ http://proetools.com/solidworks-surfacing-intensive/ to industrial designers at Web Devlam of Chicago. This company specializes in Packaging and is owned by Motorola.

03.26.15 – Design Engine administers a two day sheetmetal workshop using Creo 2.0 to Rexnord.

03.30.15 – Design Engine administers another ‘special 5 day surface modeling intensive’ http://proetools.com/solidworks-surfacing-intensive/ to industrial designers at Web Devlam of Chicago. This company specializes in Packaging and is owned by Motorola.

04.06.15 – Design Engine administers a Level one Creo 2.0 workshop to ZF Transmissions.

04.06.15 – Design Engine administers our level 2 Creo 2.0 intensive to Midmark Corporation. This class covered specific conversion techniques for converting IGES data to parametric Creo 2.0 geometry, Assembly and Detail drawing basics to advanced techniques. Our partner MoveScience is helping on a large project with Midmark at this time. It is Design Engine’s job to help the Midmark staff engineering team understand the modeling workflow that MoveScience is doing on that project.

04.13.15 – Design Engine administers her ‘one week surfacing intensive’ http://proetools.com/week-one-full-week-of-creo-surfacing-isdx-intensive/ to the drone manufacture General Atomics of San Diego California.

04.13.15 – Design Engine administers a special ‘one week level 1 creo Modeling Best practices’ workshop to Rubbermaid industrial designers.

04.20.15 – Design Engine administers it’s special one week surfacing intensive as a follow-up to our recent level one to Rubbermaid industrial designers.

04.20.15 – Design Engine sends Bart Brejcha to Minneapolis MN to administer a specialty 3 day workshop to mechanical engineers at Select Comfort in Plymouth Minnesota.

04.24.15 – Design Engine makes an appearance to the Badgerland Creo users group where Bart administered a special free two hour workshop to learn Creo 2.0

04.27.15 – Design Engine administers a specialty surface modeling workshop to Energizer Playtex, Schick and Motorola together in one class with Bart Brejcha as instructor.

05.04.15 – Rubbermaid sends several for our specialty Creo Surfacing intensive specially designed for Rubbermaid.

05.04.15 – Bart Brejcha administers a five day Creo Cable Harness design workshop to Stryker.

06.08.15 – A long time customer of Design engine, Berlin Packaging comes to Design Engine for Solidworks Level one training. http://proetools.com/category/courses/solidworks/

06.15.15 – OTTO Engineering utilizes Design engine for her 3 day heavy users training. The Otto Team worked with the instructor to formulate a custom curriculum. http://proetools.com/advanced-heavy-user-custom-creo-training

06.22.15 – Design Engine administers our one week Creo surfacing class to mechanical engineers working for General Electric, Energizer and Carestream in this one week intensive. http://proetools.com/week-one-full-week-of-creo-surfacing-isdx-intensive/

07.20.15 – Design Engine offered our 2 day Mechanism intensive to General Atomics in Adalonto CA http://proetools.com/creo-proe-mechanism-dynamics-intensive/

07.22.15 – special 3 day Surfacing intensive onsite at General Atomics Adalonto, CA Class focus was on Surface modeling basics and ISDX for complex geometry http://proetools.com/week-one-full-week-of-creo-surfacing-isdx-intensive/

07.27.15 – Rubbermaid sends several industrial designers and mechanical engineers for a special to Rubbermaid Creo Surfacing week long intensive. This surpasses 240 Designers and Engineers to go through two full weeks of training by Design Engine!

08.3.15 – Design Engine offered a five day Creo Manufacturing week of NC tools to KIA Motors

08.14.15 – Design Engine visited OTTO Engineering to administer a two day Creo Sheetmetal intensive to staff engineers.

08.24.15 – Rubbermaid sends engineers for Level 1 Creo training. http://proetools.com/creo-training-level-1/

08.24.15 – Onsite in Ohio Midmark receives Level 1 & 2 combined special Creo 3.0 training. http://proetools.com/creo-training-level-1/

09.14.15 – Design Engine’s special Creo Level 1 training offers uniqe insite into Creo 2.0 Onsite at Steelcase, Grand Rapids, MI

09.14.15 – Design Engine’s special Advanced Assembly & Detail Drawings our Level 2 training to Kohler WI

09.21.15 – Karcher and Rubbermaid both send engineers for the Design Engine Creo Surface modeling intensive. This one week surfacing class is made up of three two day classes we offer. Call to inquire.

09.29.15 – Creo 3.0 Sheetmetal training to Rubbermaid in Charlotte NC

09.29.15 – Bart Brejcha and the Design Engine race team won 5 Expert Sportbike championships this year.  All Middleweight & Heavyweight classes.  Brian Kolasa is the team leader.  Special thanks and hats off to those involved in the Design Engine racing program. special thanks to Scott Froemming the design engine videographer for helping us create some interesting race footage.

10.05.15 – Creo 3.0 level 1 Creo training to Schick, Stack-On & General Atomics.

10.12.15 – Creo 3.0 level 1 Creo training to Dell onsite in Austin TX

10.19.15 – Creo 3.0 level 1 Creo training to Hobart Corporation in Troy OH

10.23.15 – Bart Brejcha and Kaz Darzinskis both present to Purdue industrial Design Department Solidworks 2015 and Creo 3.0

10.23.15 – We typically run our Creo Surfacing class on the 4th week of each month.  This month we have Edgwell the new brand for Energizer & Aptar in for training.

10.26.15 – Creo 3.0 level 1 Creo training to Johnson & Johnson & Midmark Corporation.

11.07.15 – Scott Froemming, Kaz Darzinskis & Bart Brejcha administer a 4 hour Solidworks class free to University of Illinois Chicago – UIC Industrial Design Students this Saturday in Chicago.

11.09.15 – Design Engine offers her two day Creo Sheet Metal Training An intensive to various Rubbermaid brands in Atlanta GA this week.

11.16.15 – Matt Holter & Bart Brejcha present Solidworks to Northwestern University

11.16.15 – We usually offer the design engine surfacing class on the fourth week of each month except for Nov & December. Because of demand we offer it this third week due to the USA Thanksgiving week. Creo Surfacing class  This month we have Wistron, Aptar (again) and Case New Holland the new brand in for the Creo Surfacing Intensive.

12.07.15 – Bart Brejcha offers a special custom week three to Rubbermaid Industrial designers in Kalamazoo MI this week. This intense review of surfacing tools inside of Creo is intended to facilitate the use of Creo 3.0 instead of Solidworks and look at G2 light reflections. The participants all previously took the Design Engine surfacing week a year before. This move was intended so the ID deliverable to ME are smooth and concise where engineers don’t have to remodel products for production.

12.07.15 – Matt Holter administers his Creo 3.0 level 1 Creo training to Rubbermaid Industrial Designers & Engineers this week in Kalamazoo MI. This special workshop designed specifically for ID’ers gets into surfacing the fifth day of this class. The participants all have previous Solidworks, Rhino or Alias experience.

12.14.15 – Last Creo 3.0 class of the year. This level 1 Creo training class was held to Hayes Performance Products, Covidian & Chamberlain.  The participants were all very fast as we were able to cover much more than normal in this Creo class over others.   One item to note was that the participant from Hayes Performance is a professional Motard racer with AMA. We at design engine like that racing stuff.

New Clients: Dell, Harley-Davidson, Newell Rubbermaid, Smith Optics, Grayhill, Covidien, Agco, Sandia National Labs, Select Comfort, Hoover, Wilson Trailer, General Electric

01.6.14 – Design-Engine continues its six-month contract with Newell Rubbermaid by administering a one-week Pro/E Level One class in Huntersville, North Carolina.

01.6.14 – Design-Engine administers Rhino Training to Chicago’s very own, Radio Flyer.

01.6.14 – Creo Level One to Elgin Sweeper this week.

01.21.14 – Design Engine sends two trainers to Kalamazoo, Michigan to provide training tailored to industrial designers. This two-week training package consisted of our Level One Creo Training to Industrial Designers and a Surfacing week specifically for product designers. Since this was a customized training intensive, we also provided a full day of Surface Edit, Data Doctor, and Creo Freestyle.

01.22.14 – Smith Optics attends Design Engine’s one week SolidWorks G2 Advanced Surfacing Intensive class in Chicago, Illinois.

01.22.14 – Design Engine sends an instructor to Lenox a Rubbermaid brand to East Longmeadow MA for Creo Sheet metal & Creo Mechanism training.

02.3.14 – Design-Engine runs a one week administered by our FEA instructor Jim Shaw.  This Pro/E Level One class in Chicago, Illinois at Design-Engine’s headquarters.

02.3.14 – Design-Engine travels to Dell in Austin, Texas to administer a Pro-Surface Intensive course to Designers and Engineers.

02.10.14 – EXP of Chicago attends Design-Engine’s One week Rhino Level One class in Chicago, Illinois.

02.10.14 – Design Engine sends an instructor to Huntsville NC to provide training tailored to Rubbermaid industrial designers. This second week of training class was apart of a two week package that consisted of our Level One Creo Training to Industrial Designers and a Surfacing week specifically for product designers. Since this was a customized training intensive, we also provided a full day of Surface Edit, Data Doctor, and Creo Freestyle.

02.17.14 – Design-Engine runs an onsite Creo Surfacing ISDX class for AGCO in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

02.17.14 – Design-Engine administers an onsite Creo Surfacing course for Industrial Designers to Rubbermaid Kalamazoo Facility.  This second week of training was designed to get industrial designers up to speed with surfacing.  The first week was our Creo for Industrial Designers course and the second week was the Design Engine Creo surfacing intensive including one day of our Creo Surface Edit and one day of Creo Freestyle training.

02.17.14 – Design-Engine administers a one week onsite surfacing intensive to AGCO the agriculture tractor company.   This is one of five onsite classes administered to AGCO over 10 years.

02.25.14 – Design Engine sends representative to Harley Davidson for the monthly two day consulting in Alias Studio.

03.11.14 – Presto Industries in Eu Claire, Wisconsin hosts Design-Engine for a one-week Creo Direct class.

03.17.14 – Sandia National Labs attends Design-Engine’s Pro/E Level 3 Advanced Part Modeling class in Chicago, Illinois.

03.17.14 – Covidien sends design engineers for the second one week surfacing intensive.  The prerequisite is that the participants take the Design Engine one week surfacing class.

03.31.14 – Design-Engine administers an onsite Creo for Industrial Designers Level One class to Hoover Vacuum’s in Ohio.

03.31.14 – Design-Engine administers an onsite Solidworks class to USA Hoist.  USA Hoist built the construction elevator system outside the design engine offices while construction was under way at Chicago’s new Soho Hotel on Green Street.

04.07.14 – Design-Engine administers an onsite two-week Creo course for Industrial Designers to Dell in Singapore.  These two weeks of training was designed to get industrial designers up to speed quickly, efficiently, and to a very high level.  The first week was our Creo for Industrial Designers course and the second week was the Design Engine Creo surfacing intensive including one day of our Creo Surface Edit and one day of Creo Freestyle training.

04.07.14 – Wilson Trailer comes again to Chciago for Creo Training.  This time for Level One Creo Training.

04.07.14 – BRP takes Creo Simulate FEA Mechanica training.

06.16.14 – Design-Engine supplies two-week Creo training course for Industrial Designers to Rubbermaid DYMO in Antwerp, Belgium. We trained them using our Creo for Industrial Designers course. The second week was the Design Engine Creo surfacing intensive including one day of our Creo Surface Edit and one day of Creo Freestyle training.

04.22.14 – Design Engine goes to Hoover the vacuum company for Level One Creo Training.

04.28.14 – Design Engine has Dell Computers in for Level One Creo Training.

05.12. 14 – Design engine goes to CNH to administer Alias Studio training onsite.

05.27. 14 – Design engine goes to CNH

07.07. 14 – Design-Engine teaches Pro/E Level One course to Stryker, and SolidWorks Surfacing course to Sony (Playstation.)

07.28.14 –  AGCO and US Army AATD come for a week-long Pro/Surface ISDX training course at Design-Engine Headquarters.

8.11.14 – SolidWorks Surfacing is provided by Design-Engine to two Fiskars students.

12.08.14 – Holy Hunt, the Chicago Furniture design house and manufacturer, comes in for Solidworks Level One training.

Clients: Honeywell, K.I., Lyco Manufacturing, Case New Holland, Dell, Leitz Tooling, Harley-Davidson, Toyota, Zebra Technologies, Chamberlain, Streng Design, Midmark, Newell Rubbermaid, 3M, Yeti Cycles, Engergizer, Fenwal

Clients: AGCO, Apollo Plastics, Covidien One, Belkin, Dell, Fiskars, GE Healthcare, Google. Kenworth Trucks, Modern Drop Forge, Philips Medical Oral Healthcare, Philips Plastics, Wheland Designs, Whirlpool, Zebra Technologies, Google, & General Electric

01.04.12 – Design Engine administers a two day AutoDesk Alias Sketchbook Pro workshop Onsite at Optimal Design in Arlington Heights, IL

01.09.12 – Design-Engine administers a ISDX One Week Surfacing Intensive to Covidien One in Boulder, Colorado.

01.16.12 – Design-Engine teaches 3 days of the SolidWorks Surfacing Week. The last two days of this class will be administered in March.

01.16.12 – Design-Engine administers first three days of a six day Creo 1.0 workshop (the first installment) of a customized Creo 1.0 Level 1 training to Philips Medical Oral Healthcare in Seattle, Washington.

01.30.12 – Design-Engine administers last three days of the second installment of a customized Creo 1.0 Level 1 training to Philips Plastics in Seattle, Washington.

02.20.12 – Design-Engine administers a Pro/Cable RSD class to Whirlpool.

02.05.12 – Design-Engine administers Creo 1.0 level one training on Saturdays to Apollo Plastics of Chicago IL

02.27.12 – Dell Computers steps it up for the Design-Engine ISDX Week Long Surfacing Intensive.

04.09.12 – Design-Engine’s Joel Koster administered a One Week Alias Intensive to GE Healthcare.

04.09.12 – Design-Engine administers a Level 2 Pro/Engineer Workshop to Modern Drop Forge.

04.13.12 – Updated the Design-Engine online training materials for Mechanica today.

04.30.12 – Solidworks four week compressive to underemployed mechanical engineers.

05.06.12 – Design-Engine administers a Level 2 Alias Workshop and will do Rhino later this week.

05.07.12 – Design-Engine administers a One Week Solidworks Intensive to Wheland Designs.

05.07.12 – Design Engine administers intensive to GE Healthcare. Specialized course teaches modeling technique and surfacing workflow.

05.07.12 – Design-Engine administers a Pro/Engineer Surfacing intensive using Pro/Surface and ISDX to Kenworth Trucks in Kerkland WA.

05.14.12 – Design-Engine administers a custom One Week Creo 1.0 Surfacing Intensive to Zebra Technologies that had experienced Unigraphics surfacing users. Course is to teach basics of Pro/Engineer and get the UG surfacing users up to speed using Pro/Surface and ISDX.

05.21.12 – Design-Engine administers a one week surfacing intensive to AGCO. Course is to teach Pro/Engineer Pro/Surface and ISDX basics at a high level all in one week.

05.29.12 – Design-Engine administers a Solidworks Advanced Surfacing Intensive at Fiskars. Course covers surfacing electronic products and ergonomic forms using higher surface continuity as well as learning to manage light reflections with respect to industrial designed products.

06.04.12 – Level one Pro/ENGINEER workshop to Leapfrog and GE

07.02.12 – Pro/ENGINEER level one workshop to Ignite Product Development

07.11.12 – Design engine administers a one week custom reverse engineering surfacing modeling intensive to the US Army. Course covered advanced import functions, Import Data Doctor tools, handling point cloud data, remodeling import geometry accurately so parametric modifications can be easily manipulated and aircraft surface modeling aero forms.

07.16.12 – Advanced Solidworks surfacing intensive to several industrial designers.

07.23.12 – Pro/SURFACE ISDX intensive to Belkin of Santa Barbara CA

08.06.12 – Design-Engine administers a one week Pro/ENGINEER surfacing intensive to Google. Course is to teach basics of Pro/Engineer, Pro/Surface, and ISDX.

08.13.12 – Design-Engine administers two day Import Data Doctor training class to PACCAR’s Kenworth Trucks in Seattle WA

08.20.12 – Design-Engine administers two day Marker Renderings training class to Marker Renderings to WMS Gaming, Inc. in Chicago.

08.27.12 – GE Medical design engineers obtain the one week Pro/ENGINEER SURFACING training.

08.28.12 – Design Engine hosts another Creo Afterburn event showing off new functionality inside Pro/ENGINEER’s newest release of Creo 2.0 Surfacing tools. http://design-engine.com/design-engine-news/chicago-pro-engineer-user-afterburn-surfacing-in-creo-2-vs-wildfire We compared WF5.0 to Creo 2.0 on this evening while Pizza and refreshments were served. Next month? September 25th 2012 Designing with Mechanisms – With or Without Skeletons?

01.09.12 – Design-Engine administers a Solidworks Basic course our level one to industrial designers and engineers on Site to SC Johnson, Racine, WI

01.10.12 – Design-Engine administers a Pro/ENGINEER Basic course our level one proe training to Kamatsu & Wilson Trailer designers and engineers.

01.10.12 – Design-Engine administers a Alias Studio Basic course our level one alias training to industrial designers from Case Corporation the tractor people.

04.10.12 – Design-Engine administers a Pro/ENGINEER refresher a custom class onsite at Chamberlain, Elmhurst, IL

08.10.12 – Design-Engine administers a Pro/ENGINEER level 2 our detail drawing and advanced assembly Pro/ENGINEER intensive to several design engineers.

08.10.12 – Design-Engine administers a Alias Studio more advanced training our level two alias training to several industrial designers.

08.13.12 – Design-Engine administers two day Import Data Doctor training class to PACCAR’s Kenworth Trucks in Seattle WA

08.27.12 – GE Medical design engineers obtain the one week Pro/ENGINEER SURFACING training.

08.28.12 – Design Engine hosts another Creo Afterburn event showing off new functionality inside Pro/ENGINEER’s newest release of Creo 2.0 Surfacing tools. http://design-engine.com/design-engine-news/chicago-pro-engineer-user-afterburn-surfacing-in-creo-2-vs-wildfire We compared WF5.0 to Creo 2.0 on this evening while Pizza and refreshments were served. Next month? September 25th 2012 Designing with Mechanisms – With or Without Skeletons? How does Caterpillar do it?

09.17.12 – Design-Engine administers an onsite Solidworks Level 1 course at SC Johnson in Racine, Wisconsin. Course covers surfacing electronic products and ergonomic forms using higher surface continuity as well as learning to manage light reflections with respect to industrial designed products.

10.4.12 – Design-Engine teaches a refresher Pro/E Level 1 course at Chamberlain in Elmhurst, Illinois

10.15.12 – GE attends Design-Engine for an Alias Level 3 course in Chicago, Illinois

10.22.12 – Bissell is trained at Design-Engine on Rhino Level 1. During this Level 1 Rhino training course, students will learn about surface modeling and discuss general modeling approaches relating specifically to Rhino 3D Software. In this class you’ll learn to create and edit accurate and free-form 3D NURBS curves and surfaces. This fast-moving class covers most of Rhino’s functionality, including the most advanced surfacing commands. In this comprehensive five day class you’ll learn to create and modify accurate and free-form 3D NURBS models. The last day of this class also includes one day of Flamingo, Vray, or Maxwell rendering instruction.

10.22.12 – Herman Miller and Rubbermaid attend Design-Engine’s Pro/Surface ISDX class. This workshop has been specifically designed to work for those interested in gaining a high level of Pro/Surface and ISDX usage all in one week. We will take designers and engineers up several notches past your current surfacing level. Usually there are less than two or three persons in this workshop so instructor student ratio is best.

10.29.12 – Alias Level 2 is taught to GE at Design-Engine. The students learned specific workflow and work with more advanced Alias Studio surface models.

11.12.12 – Schick/Energizer learns Pro/Surfacing ISDX at Design-Engine in Chicago, Illinois.

11.12.12 – Design-Engine travels to Zebra Technologies in Lincoln, Rhode Island to administer ISDX One Week Surfacing Intensive

11.26.12 – Designe-Engine customizes a Creo class for Philips Consumer Lifestyle in Bothell, Washington

12.18.12 – Pro/Surface ISDX is taught to K.I. in Green Bay, Wisconsin

Clients: Automotive Lighting, BAE, Baxter Healthcare, Bissel, Bosch Tools, Case New Holland, Eaton Corporation, Energizer Baby Care, General Atomics, General Dynamics, Holly Hunt, Karcher, Koss Steriophones, Lifetime Products, Midmark, Modern Drop Forge, Moen, Motorola, Phillips Plastics, Radius Product Development, Rheem, Sandia National Labs, Schick, Starkey Labs, Swensen Spreader, Toyota, US Army, Yamaha

01.03.11 – Steve from Ohio and Andre from Canada both participate in the Four Week Pro/E Comprehensive training program and complete their portfolios. They took the basics of sheet metal through surfacing.

01.03.11 – Wildfire 4.0 through Creo, IDD (new class).

01.03.11 – Baxter Healthcare sends two for specific one week Pro/Engineer Advanced Assembly, Sheet Metal, and Detail Drawing training needs.

01.24.11 – Lifetime Products sends one engineer to Pro/Surface ISDX week long intensive.

01.24.11 – General Atomics sends engineers in for Surface Training related to stealth Drone Aircrafts.

02.07.11 – Koss Steriophones sends two designers in for week of Rhino Training.

02.07.11 – General Dynamics and US Army both send industrial designers and engineers for two weeks of Maya training.

02.25.11 – Bosch Tools/Dremmel & Radius Product Development sends representatives for Pro/Surface ISDX training intensive.

02.28.11 – Case New Holland comes in for specific Level 1 Pro/Engineer training.

03.15.11 – Eaton Sends engineers for specific six day ANSYS training.

03.08.11 – Tupperware sends industrial Designers for specific Alias Studio training.

04.04.11 – Sandia National Labs and BAE join with Design-Engine for specific Pro/Engineer training.

04.25.11 – Design-Engine completes on-site SolidWorks training class for Philip’s plastics engineers in Reedsville, PA.

05.09.11 – Department of the Army Fort Huachuca, AZ sends creatives for three week Maya intensive with Design-Engine.

05.23.11 – Design-Engine completes a second on-site SolidWorks training class for Philip’s Plastics engineers this time in Seattle, WA.

05.31.11 – Justina Nguyen of Deep Interactive, a sister organization within the Design-Engine umbrella, has completed alpha testing of the new Design-Engine Publication Website and will unveil that site to the public the first week of June 2011 after beta testing this week.

05.31.11 – Deep Interactive programmers completed alpha testing for a portfolio utility for our past students. Past students and others will now be able to login then upload screen shots of their Pro/Engineer or Maya work. They will be able to modify and change resumes and other specific information.

06.03.11 – Deep Interactive programmers completed the new Design-Engine Jobs Board which has a new look and functionality. Users of this new tool can now login to modify, add, or remove job postings.

06.13.11 – Design-Engine’s Finite Element Analysis (FEA) online training materials have been updated and will continue to update throughout the year.

06.13.11 – Department Of The Army – Ft. Huachuca, AZ comes for a one week Maya Animation intensive.

06.26.11 – Yamaha and Schick design engineers come from east and west coasts for Design-Engine’s one week Surface Modeling intensive.

06.30.11 – Holly Hunt, the premiere Furniture design studio based out of Chicago, comes in for a Level 1 SolidWorks Intensive. This class was held every Thursday for five consecutive Thursdays to better accommodate the customer schedule. Because the class was split up the designers were able to practice and use the software between training sessions thus make major strides towards surface modeling in their last couple sessions.

07.20.11 – Motorola NYC comes to Design-Engine for a special one day IGES manipulation workshop. This class covered the IDD (IDD) and two days of surfacing modeling technique for tangency and continuity. They leave excited about Data Doctor tools for their Alias Imports and excited about new Creo Modeling tools.

07.25.11 – Eaton Corporation receives a five day Pro/Engineer on-site intensive. Their class was broken up into two classes skipping one week so participants could use the software during the week in-between.

07.25.11 – Bissel receives a five day Rhino Intensive that focused on proper NURBS modeling technique. This class was primarily administered to industrial designers and focused on importing geometry into Pro/Engineer.

08.01.11 – Rheem from Mexico sent two engineers for a one week Plastic Part Design for injection molding intensive.

08.22.11 – Toyota, Midmark, Karcher, and Moen all come for the one week Surfacing intensive at Design-Engine. The Pro/E Surfacing is offered the fourth week of every month.

08.01.11 – Eaton’s last two days of their six day ANSYS Training is now complete. The class was broken into three two day classes so the participants could use the software during the month in-between each class.

10.03.11 – Motorola Solutions Group took specific training for Industrial Designers Learning Pro/Engineer. Those industrial designers who already know Alias or Rhino needed an aggressive approach to learning Pro/Engineer surfaces all in a week. Training took place in their covert Soho design studio. Typically a 7 day class, we condensed it into a 5 day intensive.

10.10.11 – BAE takes the Design-Engine Level 2 Detail Drawings & Advanced Assembly and sheet metal all combined into one week.

10.19.11 – Met with Trek Bicycles industrial design groups in Waterloo, WI to discuss the Design-Engine’s special SolidWorks Surfacing Intensive. We just teach the surfacing workflow just like we do with Alias, Rhino, and Pro/Surface ISDX, that is the same class but different tools.

10.19.11 – Design-Engine administered a Solidworks Surfacing Intensive to industrial designers looking to obtain freelance work in ergonomics.

10.24.11 – Baxter Healthcare comes in for the Design-Engine One Week Surfacing Intensive.

10.28.11 – Automotive Lighting came to Design-Engine who Administered a custom Advanced 3 Day ANSYS training class.

10.31.11 – Modern Drop Forge, who makes forgings for Harley Davidson, came in this week for the Design-Engine Level One training.

11.07.11 – Pacific Asian Enterprises & LP Royer come this week to Design-Engine for Rhino 3D Surfacing Level 1 Training.

12.05.11 – Cardinal Health sends engineers for The Design-Engine Level One Pro/Engineer Training class.

11.11.11 – Design-Engine speaks twice at the Denver Pro/Engineer user conference on Creo 1.0 basics through surfacing and again showing off the Freestyle modeling tool that comes stock with Creo 1.0.

11.14.11 – Design-Engine administers an onsite Pro/Surface intensive to Starkey Labs the hearing Aid manufacturer in Minneapolis, MN

11.28.11 – Energizer Baby Care comes in for the Design-Engine One Week Surfacing Intensive.

11.28.11 – Design-Engine’s Bart Brejcha submits white paper on Creo 1.0 Freestyle to speak at the PTC World June Conference that will be held in Orlando this year.

12.12.11 – Swensen Products takes the Design-Engine Level 2 Detail Drawings & Advanced Assembly top down design, flexible components, advanced drawing techniques, and sheet metal all combined into one week.

12.12.11 – Design-Engine administers our Level One Rhino Training surfacing class to Architecture students over holiday who attend the UIC Architecture program.

12.12.11 – Design-Engine has Swenson Spreader in for the level two detail drawings and advanced Assembly class.

12.12.11 – Bart Brejcha of Design-Engine uploaded 10 videos to Youtube ranging from Creo 1.0 Freestyle to Modifying GSXR front fork assembly.

Clients: Belkin, Beltone Hearing Aids, Bissell, Bosch, Burton Snowboards, Diebold, DS Design Studios, Eaton Corporation, Emerson, Herman Miller, Karcher, KI, Kyocera Wireless Corporation, Livetime, Mabe, Moen, Nitek, Petmate, Plexus, Space Design, Spark Fun Electronics, Starkey Labs, Streng Design, Tech Lighting, US Army, and XDIN

01.08.10 – Design-Engine’s Bart Brejcha submits a White Paper to speak at the PTC User conference June 2010 in Orlando. Topic: “Wildfire 5.0 a series of workflow and techniques for managing design changes to products.”

01.11.10 – Belkin Comes in for surfacing intensive.

01.18.10 – Plastic part design to Spark Fun Electronics.

02.15.10 – Design-Engine teaches a 20 hour Dreamweaver workshop on Tuesday nights.

02.15.10 – Ten Day Maya intensive, one week modeling, and one week rendering to Space Design from Puerto Rico.

02.17.10 – Design-Engine teaches Pro/Engineer Aircraft surfacing workshop to Pro/Engineer contractors looking to break into Aircraft industry. This two day modeling and techniques class made up of NACA wing forms and wing fillets with specific focus on stealth surface modeling empowered these contractors for using Pro/Surface to working with Aerodynamics engineers.

02.17.10 – Design-Engine’s Bart Brejcha accepted for his White Paper submission to speak at the PTC User conference June 2010 in Orlando. Topic: “Wildfire 5.0 a series of workflow and techniques for managing design changes to products.” The talk will share Surface Edit Modeling techniques used in the Automobile industry but these techniques utilized in Pro/Engineer on a bionic hand.

02.18.10 – Design-Engine teaches five day specialty Mechanica intensive and 2 day ISDX and Pro/Surface A-Class Surfacing class using Pro/Engineer.

03.08.10 – 40 hour Maya class administered at nights. Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

03.08.10 – Five day Auto Styling G2 Surfacing class for Tupperware Industrial designers.

03.08.10 – Tech Lighting comes in for Pro/Engineer training.

03.22.10 – Design-Engine teaches five day surfacing intensive to Beltone Hearing Aids.

04.01.10 – Design-Engine added SolidWorks to it’s training arsenal. Note the added 4 Week SolidWorks Comprehensive, Level 1 Week Long Intensive, Level 2 Week Long Adv Assembly and Detail Drawings, Sheet Metal, Intro to Surfacing, Level 2 Surfacing, Solidworks Week Long Surfacing Intensive.

04.05.10 – Starkey Labs sends Manager for Pro/Engineer training.

04.12.10 – Design-Engine hosts two day specialty Photoshop workshop for seasoned industrial designers.

04.26.10 – Bosch of Kankakee, IL and Mabe of Mexico come to Chicago for one week Surfacing Intensive.

05.03.10 – Design-Engine conducts a four week Rhino Intensive to participants from Canada. Students were funded by a Canadian Grant to get people to work.

05.10.10 – Design-Engine conducts a one week SolidWorks Surfacing Intensive to Petmate in the Chicago office.

05.19.10 – Kyocera Wireless Corporation sends industrial designers for the Design-Engine Seven Day Pro/Engineer Intensive which includes the basics and surfacing in Pro/Engineer.

05.24.10 – US Army and Moen come in for the one week surfacing intensive. This class is offered each fourth full week of the month.

06.01.10 – Plexus sends engineers for the Design-Engine Plastic Part Design class.

06.07.10 – Design-Engine’s Bart Brejcha speak at the PTC User conference June 2010 in Orlando. Topic: “Wildfire 5.0 a series of workflow and techniques for managing design changes to products”. The talk will share Surface Edit Modeling techniques used in the Automobile industry but these techniques utilized in Pro/Engineer on a bionic hand. Bart also accepted a cancellation spot and presented top down design.

06.14.10 – Streng Design sends industrial designers for Pro/Engineer workshop.

06.14.10 – XDIN of Sweden and DS Design Studios send designers for Alias Studio week long NURBS intensive.

06.17.10 – Design-Engine attends US Army Training fair in Indiana.

07.07.10 – Karcher (was Winsdsor Industries) sends three for their second Pro/Surface ISDX intensive. This custom intensive took off after the original one week intensive offered by Design-Engine as these Engineers previously took the one week intensive over a year ago and wanted a next level intensive. The class focus was on advanced surfacing functions of surface edit among others and G2 surfacing techniques.

07.12.10 – Harness Design workshop to Emerson on-site in Sydney, Ohio.

07.19.10 – Harness Design workshop – Pro/Cable RSD intensive to Diebold and Nitek.

07.26.10 – Herman Miller (Grand Rapids, MI) send their Pro/Engineer training team for this surfacing techniques Pro/Surface week long intensive. Yes, we train the trainer.

08.02.10 – Berlin Packaging’s Studio 111 sends two industrial designers to learn Pro/Engineer at our pace.

08.23.10 – Bissell engineers send several for Pro/Surface week long intensive. This class is offered each fourth full week of the month.

08.26.10 – KI sends specialist engineer to peek at whats new with Pro/Engineer surfacing in Wildfire 5.0.

09.13.10 – Design-Engine goes to Burton Snowboards to teach a design workshop using both Alias and Maya to facilitate binder geometry.

09.20.10 – Design-Engine administers multiple plastic part design workshops using Pro/Engineer Wildfire 5.0 to Kärcher North America in Denver, CO.

11.08.10 – Livetime project receives the one week Pro/Engineer surfacing intensive on-site at their facility in Clearfield UT

11.29.10 – KI of Greenbay, WI came in for some one on one time. These designers have used Design-Engine for training and consulting many times in the past but this time they are using Design-Engine for the kickoff of this new seating project.

12.01.10 – Specific Top Down Modeling two day intensive offered on site to Eaton Corporation in Milwaukee, WI.

New Clients: Aero-Bombardier, AGCO, Georgia Medical College, and Rubbermaid

01.12.09 – Design-Engine administered its first Yacht Design workshop in our Chicago office. This Rhino Class focused on Yacht Hull Design and Interior design on Yachts.

01.14.09 – Design-Engine’s Bridgett Soldan administered 3 day Advanced Rhino Surfacing Intensive to Aero-Bombardier in Montreal, Canada.

02.14.09 – Bart Brejcha was accepted to speak at the PTC User World Conference.

03.19.09 – Design-Engine’s Bart Brejcha makes a visit to Raleigh, North Carolina to speak at the Pro/Engineer Users of the Carolinas PTC User conference; there were over 90 participants. The first portion of Bart’s talk focused on die casting while the last portion focused on ergonomics and ISDX. Bart also won the Best Speaker Award at the conference.

04.22.09 – Design-Engine’s Bart Brejcha conducts two one hour talks at the PTC User conference at the Harley Davidson Museum in Milwaukee. One talk covered basics then advanced Pro/Surface function for beginners then advanced users doing ergonomics specific to seating. The other talk was the second part of a two part talk on Pro/Cable. The first Pro/Cable RSD talk was given last winter where Bart discussed routing cables using Routed Systems Designer. This second half dealt with creating nail board drawings of flattened harnesses and dealing with failed wires in the drawings.

05.11.09 – Design-Engine’s Bart Brejcha conducts a one week onsite specialty surfacing workshop to AGCO the Agriculture company located in Jackson, MN.

06.07.09 – Design-Engine’s Bart Brejcha speaks at the 2009 PTC User conference in Orlando FL. The topic of routing wires through 3D assemblies utilized a Pro/Engineer model of a GSXR 600 motorcycle. The live demonstration used both Routed Systems Designer and Pro/Cable.

06.07.09 – Design-Engine’s Bart Brejcha participates in Technical Committees with Parametric Technology Corporation. This year Bart will participate in the Core modeling and Surfacing.

06.16.09 – Design-Engine’s administers its two day plastics class to mechanical engineers looking to become experts at plastic part design.

07.13.09 – Design-Engine’s administers its five day manufacturing week which consists of two days plastics, two days die casting and one day forgings.

08.03.09 – Design-Engine’s administers its Maya Level 1 to the Georgia Medical College.

09.09.09 – Design-Engine’s Joel Koster teaches the two day Photoshop workshop.

09.14.09 – Design-Engine’s administers a Rhino rendering week to Architects.

09.16.09 – Design-Engine is now accepting WIA vouchers from the state of Michigan. If you as a resident of Michigan have been dislocated due to plant closures or are under employed you are eligible to take the four week comprehensive workshops.

11.16.09 – Design-Engine teaches a Pro/Engineer surfacing workshop to Rubbermaid in Atlanta.

11.23.09 – Design-Engine teaches a Maya Modeling and rendering week at Rubbermaid.

New Clients: 3M, AGCO, Calphalon, Cardinal Health, Cessna, Crane Army Ammunition, Dell, Goodman Manufacturing, Greyhill, Harley Davidson, Lakewood Engineering, LG Electronics, Lifetime Products, Lyco Manufacturing, Ottobock, Modern Drop Forge, NASA, NASCAR, Rexair, Schick, Siemens, Tek Packaging, Tyco Healthcare Company, Valley Lab, Whirlpool, Wildking Couture, Wilson Trailer, XDIN, and Zebco

01.07.08 – Design-Engine starts authoring videos to supplement online training documentation. Some of which are located on youtube.com.

01.07.08 – Greyhill sends representatives for a one week Pro/Engineer course.

01.14.08 – Design-Engine administers a surfacing workshop to Schick in Milford, CT. Engineers and industrial designers both participated in these two 2 1/2 day surfacing workshops. These workshops helped the begriming surfacing participants in the first session and helped advanced surfacing users in the second session. Also included as a deliverable, a custom tutorial documenting current products and suggesting alternate techniques in HTML.

01.14.08 – LG Electronics from Manhattan, NY come in this week for Alias Studio training.

02.04.08 – Siemens, Modern Drop Forge, Lakewood Engineering, Lyco Manufacturing, Tek Packaging, and Wilson Trailer all send one representative for our level one Pro/Engineer tainting class.

02.11.08 – Siemens takes a two day Pro/Sheetmetal workshop starting this day. This class onsite at their facility in West Chicago.

02.18.08 – Design-Engine administers another Rhino Training workshop. This workshop to industrial designers onsite at Whirlpool.

03.17.08 – Dell, NASCAR, XDIN (Sweden), and Ottobock all come for training for the Design-Engine Pro/Engineer surfacing intensive.

04.07.08 – Wildking Couture, a UK shoe designer, comes in for Maya three week NURBS and Polygon modeling intensive. In this class we had one representative from the University of Oklahoma and several private freelancers.

04.09.08 – Bart Brejcha and Steve Glochowsky made an appearance at the Milwaukee Pro/Engineer user group conference in Pewakee WI. Bart presented two one hour talks at this Badgerland conference, one on the evolution of A-Class surface modeling with a serious look at Wildfire 4.0 surfacing functionality. Bart’s other talk was discussing Pro/Sheetmetal basic conversion from solid thin feature to reverse engineering a ‘Y’ and ‘K’ factor for prototype tooling. In this talk Bart showed many of the new features plus he discussed the difference between the solid sheetmetal cut vs the solid Pro/Engineer cut in Wildfire 4.0.

04.14.08 – Design-Engine offers its version of Mechanica training this week.

04.14.08 – Modern Drop Forge comes in this week for a more advanced custom modeling intensive that involves light surfacing, draft, and top down design.

04.16.08 – Bart Brejcha and Steve Glochowsky made an appearance at the Grand Rapids Pro/Engineer user conference. Bart again practiced his his A-Class surfacing Long Beach presentation on Pro/Engineer Users Group for the international conference in June. Bart also did a 40 minute Sheetmetal demo in Wildfire 4.0 showing many new features and many old tricks with Pro/Sheetmetal.

05.8.08 – Bart Brejcha and Steve Glochowsky made their appearance at the Minneapolis Pro/Engineer user group conference. Bart presented part of his white paper on (for the Pro/Engineer User conference that will be held in Long Beach, CA early June 2008) A-Class surface modeling using Pro/Engineer Wildfire 4.0.

05.13.08 – Design-Engine presents a three day Pro/Cable and RSD intensive to Goodman Manufacturing in Houston, TX. This class of Mechanical Engineers helped this manufacture by creating potentially less wiring mistakes on the manufacturing floor.

05.19.08 – Design-Engine administers a one week Pro/Engineer surfacing intensive to industrial designers and mechanical engineers at Lifetime Products of Salt Lake City in the Chicago location.

06.3.08 – Design-Engine presents to the PTC User world conference in Long Beach, CA on A-Class Surfacing.

06.19.08 – Cessna from Kansas City sends industrial designers in for Alias Studio Training. These designers have been developing interiors for jets 5 years out using Alias Studio.

07.23.08 – Dell Computers Inc sends industrial designers for Alias Rendering week long intensive.

08.07.08 – Design-Engine creates two new Part Design and Manufacturing workshops to supplement the Plastic Part Design Workshop already in place. Both workshops incorporate the History of plastics, overview of plastics processes & equipment, tips and tricks while using Pro/Engineer for modeling bosses, levers, fingers, sliders, side action, undercuts and Pro/Surface modeling techniques. Die Casting Part Design, Forging and Forged Part Design.

08.18.08 – NASA sends simulation experts from Florida to Chicago for the Design-Engine Level 1 Maya training. Coursework covered many of the basics of Maya such as polygons, NURBS, Sub’D modeling plus dynamics, rendering, and animation.

08.25.08 – Design-Engine administers a second Pro/Engineer surfacing workshop this one a four day intensive to engineers at Tyco Healthcare Company and Valley Lab of Denver CO. This class focused on plan of attack for approaching plastic hand held medical devices using Pro/Surface and ISDX software.

09.03.08 – Design-Engine administers a second Plastics workshop to AGCO, the Agriculture Tractor Company, located in Jackson, MN. The first class to AGCO was held back in December of 2007 and consisted of our Two Day Plastics Workshop. This recent workshop focused on Part modeling techniques for the plastics and Die Cast industry. The course covered in three days: plastics manufacturing processes such as blow molding, plastic injection, vacuumed forming, die casting, Pro/Engineer Surfacing, modeling technique and tips and tricks for plastics engineers who use Pro/Engineer, and many intricacies (such as cost estimation, design for undercuts…) designers must deal with when designing plastic products. agcocorp.com

09.08.08 – Design-Engine administers customized one week Pro/Engineer class to Philips Healthcare engineers and one industrial designer in Andover, MA North of Boston. The workshop covered the basics of Pro/Engineer but quickly helped users get up to speed with modeling and using drawings for documentation and as a design tool. The third and fourth day covered Pro/Sheetmetal and touched on surfacing.

09.22.08 – The Design-Engine Surfacing week contained designers from Modern Drop forge, Zebco (fishing reel manufacture), and several Pro/E contractors from San Francisco and Minneapolis.

10.13.08 – Rexair and Cardinal Health come in for Level 1 Pro/Engineer training.

10.13.08 – Crane Army Ammunition and Sonics come to Design-Engine for a week long Level 2 Pro/Engineer training.

10.27.08 – Calphalon cookware ID’ers come to Design-Engine this week for Alias Studio Rendering week.

10.29.08 – 3M sends engineers for Design-Engine’s two day Die Cast part design class this week.

11.02.08 – Design-Engine creates a new one week manufacturing class that includes each of the new Plastics Class, Die Cast Class and Forging Class into a comprehensive one week Manufacturing Week Long Class.

11.02.08 – Harley Davidson and LG come in for an Alias Studio class.

11.10.08 – NASA comes in for a one week Maya Class.

11.12.08 – Design-Engine’s Bart Brejcha participates in a Pro/Engineer Wildfire beta test at PTC in Boston this week on Thursday and Friday.

New Clients: AGGO Corporation, Anchor Hocking, Arris International, BAE Systems, DOWCO, Enercon Engineering, Fisher-Price, General Atomics, General Purpose Vehicles, Hommer Tool, JWT Company, John Deer, KI Industries, Lakewood Engineering, Masco, Mabe, MFG, Modern Drop Forge, Newell Rubbermaid Eldon, Partner Tech, Presto, Royal Technologies, Rubbermaid, Sandia National Laboratory, Sears Seating, Studio Red, Valley Lab, Verizon Wireless, and Webb Scarlet

01.08.07 – Bart Brejcha administers a one week Pro/Surface ISDX Training to engineers from Partner Tech, one of the top 10 Swedish companies. partnertech.com

01.15.07 – Design-Engine administers a one week SolidWorks Training to industrial designers from Newell Eldon Division. Rubbermaid is a long time partner of Design-Engine.

01.15.07 – Newell Rubbermaid Eldon division sends several to a one week SolidWorks workshop. Hommer Tool and MFG also sent one to participate in this original SolidWorks training class. In this class we covered not only the basics of SolidWorks but surfacing and sheet metal as well.

01.22.07 – Mabe sends industrial designer to join our one week Pro/Surface ISDX workshop. This is a one of a kind Pro/Engineer training workshop.

01.23.07 – Design-Engine starts a Level I and II 40 hour Maya workshop this evening. Tuesday and Thursday evenings as well as Saturday days.

01.29.07 – Masco of IL, Anchor Hocking of OH, and Sears Seating send representatives in for a one week part design workshop in Pro/Engineer.

01.29.07 – Sandia National Laboratory, sandia.gov, sends another engineer for an advanced custom Pro/Engineer training workshop to combine surfacing and sheet metal Pro/Engineer training.

02.05.07 – KI Industries, a plastic injection molding house, sends one more engineer for Pro/Engineer training. This hybrid course was created because the student already knew Pro/Engineer and wanted to get a better handle on the basics and advanced surfacing of both.

02.05.07 – Enercon Engineering (near Peoria) sends one engineer for Pro/Engineer Training. Knowing some Pro/Engineer already and having gone through other training classes this engineer was happy to be engaged with the Design-Engine style of training.

02.07.07 – Bart Brejcha conducts a two day plastics workshop using Pro/Engineer and Surfacing to Weil McClain of Michigan City, IL. This hybrid workshop covered the basics of the plastic injection process. Topics covered: the ID process, ID tools, capturing form, material properties, injection processes, and tips in Pro/Engineer for plastic part design.

03.05.07 – Bello Duafe of Lagos Nigeria comes for a three week Maya comprehensive so he could make for the beginnings of a 3D animation and design school in Lagos Nigeria.

03.05.07 – Bart Brejcha conducts a two day plastics seminar at AGCO Corporation in Jackson MN. This workshop was a custom designed workshop specific for vacuum forming plastics parts. This class covered history of plastics, material properties, and injection molding with emphasis on vacuum forming. Many tips and tricks using Pro/Engineer were shared for engineers looking to become experts at plastic part design. A set of custom tutorials were apart of the deliverable to AGCO engineers.

03.09.07 – Presto of Eau Claire WI takes a two day advanced Alias Studio workshop. Included were advanced modeling and render techniques.

03.12.07 – DOWCO Inc of Manitowoc, WI sends four to our one week surfacing intensive using Pro/Surface and ISDX.

03.19.07 – Design-Engine administers a one week SolidWorks Training workshop to tooling experts at Hommer Tool. Hommer tool is the injection tooling components company that makes the flash free collapsible cores that many plastic part designers are talking about.

04.02.07 – Design-Engine administers a series of one week classes utilizing Rhino 4.0. This three week intensive empowered a multitude of industrial designers.

04.09.07 – General Purpose Vehicles (GPV) comes in for our one week combo Pro/Cable RSD class.

04.16.07 – Arris International sends a representative for our one week Pro/Surface workshop this week.

04.18.07 – Design-Engine conducts a free four hour Pro/Engineer training surfacing workshop to the Michigan Pro/Engineer User conference.

04.23.07 – Design-Engine conducts a one week customized Pro/Engineer Training workshop to Sandia National Labs of Albuquerque, NM sandia.gov. This is our second workshop to these government engineers this year.

04.24.07 – Design-Engine conducts a 3 day Pro/Engineer training and surfacing intensive to industrial designers at Fisher-Price in Buffalo NY. The mission is to get industrial designers up to a level for Pro/Engineer deliverable to design engineers who use Pro/Engineer already at a high-level.

05.12.07 – Two day Image Studio workshop to Masco designers.

06.04.07 – Masco, BAE Systems, and Magna Donnelley each sent representatives for this class a one week Pro/Engineer Level 1 workshop.

06.04.07 – One representative from Verizon investigates Design-Engine first hand by taking a one Week Maya class. This representative from the Blue Sky Development team of Verizon wants to get more designers from the Dallas based blue sky development team to learn Maya as a part of their design process and communication game to management.

06.04.07 – Start of the three week Maya class. Several Advertising agencies from as far away as Toronto and Los Angeles send participants for this workshop. This 3 week intensive focused on modeling, rendering and animation.

06.07.07 – Valley Lab engineers come to Chicago for a Pro/Engineer top down workshop. These engineering leaders of Valley Lab are looking to mature the top down modeling approach at their company.

06.11.07 – Studio Red comes in for one week Alias Rendering workshop.

06.13.07 – Design-Engine conducts a one week Maya rendering workshop to Webb Scarlet industrial designers from their Chicago office. Emphasis on product renderings.

06.13.07 – Design-Engine conducts a three day import export workshop to Milwaukee Tools in Wisconsin. Workshop focused on exports from Unigraphics and Alias Studio for import into Pro/Engineer.

06.18.07 – DOWCO engineers and designers come to Design-Engine for Pro/Surface and ISDX training. In this class participants gain skills, process, and understanding to better develop soft goods.

06.21.07 – Design-Engine invited to speak at the Mattel Global Tech Summit in East Aurora, NY. This summit featured many consultants and software vendors into a round table to discuss workflow with respect to technology. Design-Engine’s Bart Brejcha spoke concerning recent deepLABS efforts and process to develop a Power Wheels product with respect to the combined use of Alias Studio and Pro/Enginer. Many from Autodesk Alias Studio presented along with Bob McNeal founder of Rhino3D and other representatives such as Adobe representatives spoke at the Mattel Summit.

07.07.07 – Sandia National Labs from Albuquerque, NM sends more engineers for Design-Engine’s custom one week Pro/Engineer training style.

07.07.07 – Verizon Wireless, the communications giant, sends their blue sky design team from Dallas, TX to Design-Engine for Maya training. The goal is to use Maya to aid in ideation and to facilitate communication to management.

08.11.07 – Design-Engine presents and offers a free Pro/Sheetmetal workshop to the Dallas Pro/Engineer users Group. Also included a 40 minute talk for as many tips and tricks that could fit into that time limit.

08.16.07 – John Deere and Entree team up for a two day Pro/Cable class. This class did not cover the RSD and or Pro/Diagram portion of Cabling. We covered just the basics of routing wires through 3D assemblies.

08.17.07 – Design-Engine presents to the Badgerland Wisconsin Pro/Engineer Users Group and offers a free 2 hour hands on workshop in surfacing.

08.20.07 – General Atomics of Southern CA makes the trip to Chicago for our one week surfacing workshop. Emphasis for these two engineers is on Air foil and tooling needs with respect to Pro/Surface and ISDX.

08.27.07 – Design-Engine administers a one week surfacing class that emphasized plastics to Dickten Masch of Ankeny, IA.

09.03.07 – Lakewood Engineering comes in for Basic Pro/Engineer training this week.

09.17.07 – Power Surfacing onsite intensive for Fisher-Price design engineers. This multiple two and a half day intensive was held for the advanced development team responsible for developing the complex surfaces found on modern toys. This class administered to seasoned Pro/Surface and ISDX users focused specifically on modeling technique for managing design modifications, building relationships with industrial designers and solving typical problems associated with surfacing in general.

09.24.07 – JWT Company of their Detroit office comes in for Maya Training. This Level one maya class covered modeling and rendering specific for an advertising agency needs. jwt.com

09.24.07 – General Dynamics Itronix Spokane Valley, WA along with several contract engineers come into Chicago for Wildfire Pro/Engineer surfacing training.

10.01.07 – Enercon Engineering sends several for Wildfire Pro/Engineer surfacing training this week.

11.05.07 – Modern Drop Forge sends design engineers for basic Pro/Engineer training. The participants already had some Pro/Engineer experience so they were able to take advantage of a small class size to move fast through the materials.

11.19.07 – Elgin Molded Plastics comes in for Surfacing training.

12.03.07 – Masco sends industrial designer for Wildfire Pro/Engineer training this week. This industrial designer already had Rhino and Alias experience so he was able to get into surfacing for the last few days of this customized on the fly type of training.

12.10.07 – Royal Technologies comes in for a two day surfacing workshop but was able to learn much more about Pro/Engineer than just surfacing.

12.14.07 – Bart Brejcha speaks at the Wisconsin Pro/Engineer user conference. His talk set the foundation of his white paper to the PTC international conference. His talk suggested alternate modeling techniques for industrial designers who are familiar with direct modeling in Alias Studio. By using control vertices in Wildfire 4.0, surfacing industrial designers can prove form even faster with new Wildfire 4.0 tools and engineers can capture form faster as well. Look for his white paper to be published January 7th 2008.

New Clients: Allsteel, Auto Research Center, Brooksstevens, BRP, General Atomics, Grayhill Inc, KI Industries, Logic, Macrovision, Mitsubishi Electronics, Motorola, National Presto Industries, Otto Engineering, Perdue University, Rubbermaid, Sandia National Laboratory, Sears Seating, Valley Lab, and Yamaha Motor Corportation

01.23.06 – One Week Rubbermaid Sharpie Division takes onsite Pro/Engineer training to engineers. This Pro/Engineer training workshop went from the basics to surfacing as others within the organization heard about the training and came to participate.

02.13.06 – Otto Engineering receives three day Pro/Engineer training and Wildfire Intensive.

02.18.06 – Twelve hour Pro/Engineer Training intensive with industrial design department at Perdue University. Bart Brejcha of Design-Engine does a one day Wildfire workshop to ID students at PURDUE University. He helped students use Pro/Engineer Wildfire to prove form as opposed to capture form.

02.20.06 – Logic sends industrial designers for one week Pro/Surface and ISDX Training Intensive.

04.10.06 – Design-Engine Representative Bart Brejcha speaks at the Indiana Pro/Engineer user conference on industrial design and Pro/Engineer.

04.10.06 – Design-Engine administers one week Maya training to Motorola Graphic Designers.

04.26.06 – Design-Engine Representative, Ray Doeksen (Army Captain Reserves), speaks at Milwaukee Pro/Engineer User Group on industrial design and Pro/Engineer.

05.1.06 – Valley Lab, a division of Tyco Healthcare Group in Colorado asked Design-Engine to administer a three day onsite Pro/E training in Pro/Surface ISDX.

05.10.06 – ARC sent three representatives for a one week surfacing workshop. Engineers at ARC are interested in Aerodynamics and fluid dynamics of Indy and Nascar Pro/Engineer models.

06.09.06 – Bart Brejcha administers a special two day Pro/Engineer Training Workshop to Michigan Tech engineering students in the upper Peninsula of Michigan. The students currently use Unigraphics because of Automobile donations. The students wanted Pro/Engineer Training because the majority the engineering jobs ask for Pro/Engineer in the workplace and for potential for higher pay using Pro/Engineer. Topics discussed were: working with industrial design, job search, online resumes, and 14 hours of full on Pro/Engineer training including Pro/Sheetmetal, Pro/Surface, Mechanism, and the basics. Pro/Engineer Jobs are plentiful.

06.26.06 – Bart Brejcha administers a special two day Plastics Workshop to Sears Seating. The class covered history of plastics, plastic part design, injection process, and tips & tricks using Pro/Engineer to get the plastic parts completed better faster cheaper.

06.26.06 – Caterpillar through Butler hires two past students for permanent hire. These two individuals now work in Peoria onsite at Caterpillar.

07.18.06 – Design-Engine starts another three week nightly workshop. Tuesday and Thursday evenings as well as Pro/Engineer training Saturday. To get into nightly workshops contact your representative.

07.24.06 – Design-Engine Hires Aaron Richard, a mechanical engineer recently graduated from Michigan Tech. Aaron took our three week Pro/Engineer training workshop during the summer of 2005 and now aids in product development projects for deeplabs and assists in training at Design-Engine|Education. His primary mission is to support Pro/Cable and Mechanism and assist with FEA workshops.

07.24.06 – Week long Intermediate Alias Training workshop administered to Allsteel industrial design department. Allsteel and its brands make for the second largest furniture manufacture in the World.

07.28.06 – Bart Brejcha speaks at the PTC User Conference in Southern California. Two speaking spots covered Pro/Surface and ISDX use in product design. In the talks Mr. Brejcha covered tricks that aid ISDX users to maintain draft.

07.29.06 – Bart Brejcha administers a two day Pro/Surface ISDX Training (weekend workshop) to engineers from General Atomics and Mitsubishi Electronics in San Diego, CA.

07.31.06 – Bart Brejcha administers a special two day surfacing workshop to Yamaha Motor Corporation in Cypress, CA. One Day Pro/Surface Pro/Engineer Training and one day IDSX training to aid the group of engineers learn Pro/Engineer within the Yamaha accessories group.

08.18.06 – Bart Brejcha and Aaron Richard both speak at the Badgerland PTC User conference in Sheboygan, WI. Bart did two one Pro/Sheetmetal and one Pro/Surface to engineers talks while Aaron did a talk on using Pro/Engineer Mechanism module.

08.19.06 – Bart Brejcha and Aaron Richard administer special two day weekend workshop to Brooksstevens engineers after the Wisconsin Badgerland PTC User conference.

10.15.06 – Almost the entire month was dedicated to PTC certified Wildfire 2.0 update training for designers and engineers from Grayhill, Inc. of La Grange, IL.

10.23.06 – BRP of Wisconsin sends two for Pro/Engineer basic training.

10.23.06 – National Presto Industries sends two industrial designers for a one advanced Alias workshop.

11.13.06 – New vender, KI Industries, from Berkley, IL comes in for a one week surfacing class.

11.27.06 – Sandia National Laboratory Albuquerque NM sends one engineer for basic Pro/Engineer training. John Fisher gives rave reviews after his one week session with our engineers.

12.04.06 – Macrovision takes a one week Maya training workshop.

12.13.06 – Aaron Richard administers a two day onsite Pro/Surface workshop to a group of KI engineers in Green Bay, WI who are beginning with Surface modeling. Design-Engine also developed custom tutorials for that workshop that documents current, past, and potential technique for modeling office furniture with Pro/Surface and ISDX. Aaron delivered an exciting and well organized workshop. ki.com

New Clients: Bit 7, Cannondale Bethal, Caterpillar, Chicago Bears, Chicago Faucet, Dr Scholl’s, General Atomics, Harley Davidson, Insight Product Development, Kansas State University, Knoll, M3, Mabe, Mercury Marine, Milsco, Moto Restaurant, Motorola, NASA, NASCAR, Nike, Radius Product Development, Rubbermaid, Sears Seating, Symbol Technologies, and Zebco

01.13.05 – Design-Engine conducts onsite training at Milsco of Wisconsin this week.

01.17.05 – Desing Engine anounced the fifth Photoreal Competion.  This topic was on wearable electronics. 

01.15.05 – Sister company the design and resource magazine, designengine.com, 2004 photo-real toy competition call for entries ends today.

01.17.05 – Design-Engine signs on Dr Scholl’s, Caterpillar, Sears Seating, and Rubbermaid for one week surface training which includes ISDX this week. One week Surfacing workshops each month. This surfacing workshop is stronger than ever!

01.17.05 – Design-Engine set to announce the existence for a Dubai training center in the United Arab Emirates.

01.21.05 – Design-Engine set to announce ANSYS and Pro/Cable workshops.

02.01.05 – Mike Vostal speaks at the Ontario Pro/Engineer users group conference. Mike conducted several two hour workshops before and after the conference. There followed plans for him to teach a Pro/Surface ISDX hybrid 2 day workshop in the Toronto office.

02.07.05 – NASCAR #32 Tide Race Car team engineers makes an appearance at Design Engine’s Chicago facility to raise skill levels in Pro/Engineer. More and more Nascar teams are recognizing the value of Pro/Engineer Software and its use as a design and engineering tool in the high speed world of NASCAR auto racing.

02.09.05 – Fort Lock sends first round of engineers in for advanced training in sheet metal and surfacing. One manager gained his first experience in Pro/Engineer as well.

02.10.05 – Design-Engine added new workshops in both ANSYS and Mechanica. Look for Pro/Cable and Harness workshops in the near future.

02.14.05 – ITI Cornelius comes in for Pro/Sheetmetal training this week.

02.14.05 – Sears Seating, who makes seats for tractors and boats, sends second round of designers and engineers for intensive surfacing training.

02.18.05 – Sears Seating and one from Fort Lock take a Level 1 workshop that had five people from IL.

02.21.05 – Motorola (New Jersey) sends another Mechanical engineer to a specific surfacing workshop in hopes to better take industrial design concept sketches to first level CAD data using Pro/Engineer in a faster and more robust fashion.

02.25.05 – Design-Engine staff assist famous Chicago sculptors: Eric May, Jason Ver Beek, and John Werner with models, documentation using Pro/Engineer, and renderings using Maya. All this was done for the 100 thousand dollar purse the McCormick Foundation Sculpture Competition will award the winner.

02.28.05 – Several past Design-Engine 3-week comprehensive engineers are being courted by Harley Davidson and come back for ISDX G2 surface modeling workshops to ensure their new hire.

03.22.05 – Alfredo Santillan begins his tenure as an instructor with Design-Engine. He has a degreed industrial designer from “TEC de Montery” in Mexico City and masters in Automobile design from the “Scuola Politecnica di Design”. His contribution to our team with Alias and Pro/Engineer instruction to industrial designers. When not teaching a class or directing tutorials he will be designing products for the deepLABS division of Design-Engine.

03.25.05 – Design-Engine graduated several Maya users from the three week comprehensive.

04.04.05 – Sam Byrd, one of our three week WIA students, started Caterpillar in a fuel systems group. He received his degree in mechanical engineering from Northern Arizona University at Flagstaff.

04.11.05 – Rubbermaid / Sanford’s products division industrial designers from the Eldon office products came in this entire week for Alias Studio Level 1 and 2 training.

04.15.05 – Design-Engine Maya Instructor, Scott Rachwalski, utilizes his Maya skills on the new Hollywood production of War of the Worlds. He expects to be ready to teach the May session now that his project is completed.

04.18.05 – Mat Kaczor, one of our three week students, landed his new job at a forth tier auto parts provider.

04.18.05 – Rubbermaid / Sanford’s engineering, Eldon, came in this entire week for a Pro/Engineer Surfacing week.

04.21.05 – Design-Engine is chosen from hundreds of Chicago training providers to participate in a technical trade show at the Westside Technical Institute in Chicago. All of the participants have been pre-approved for WIA vouchers already and need to choose a school.

04.25.05 – Techniplas of Iowa sends an engineer to Chicago for a one week Wildfire upgrade session.

04.27.05 – Bart Brejcha is asked to teach a class to IDEO in Palo Alto, CA this week. All attending the class were mechanical engineers.

04.27.05 – Alfredo Santillan industrial designer of DE was invited to speak at a PTC User conference about surfacing and design in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He spoke in front of hundreds who listened contently to his tips and tricks on ISDX and Wildfire.

04.29.05 – Design-Engine expands its Adobe course offerings. We have found a broad based dissatisfaction with the existing programs that many industrial design schools currently offer by evaluating the input of people looking for these programs. In response to this we offer a new intensive Adobe workshop.

05.03.05 – Design-Engine instructors assist Admiral Tool in accessing sheet metal files and resolving issues using Pro/Sheetmetal.

05.16.05 – Chicago Bears’ own graphic designer comes in for one week Maya course. He is so pleased that he plans to make a return visit in the near future.

06.06.05 – March three week student, Robert Bobek ME, was hired by Chicago Faucet for Engineering work.

06.08.05 – Bart Brejcha administered a Pro/Surface and ISDX intensive at a Knoll’s Philadelphia location. This high-end workshop was delivered to the already surfacing experts at Knoll.

06.20.05 – British magazine Triad Wallpaper magazine article on sister company deepLABS eating utensils for Moto Restaurant, page 044 of the July / August 2005 issue. Article titled “How do you like your stake zapped?”.

06.20.05 – Design-engine.com, the online resource magazine announces the fifth photo-real competition, this one for furniture. Designers and engineers from around the world are invited to participate. The Jury includes Don Chadwick of Herman Miller Aeron Fame.

07.18.05 – Mercury Marine comes in for Pro/Surface and ISDX one week Intensive. Focus was on Pro/Surface and ISDX with Alias imports for 1/2 a day.

07.30.05 – Symbol Technologies, leading manufacturer for hand held scanning devices, comes to Design-Engine for surfacing intensive week in Pro/Surface and ISDX. The Symbol Technologies Design director has 20 years Alias and Auto Studio experience. The focus was IGES, STEP & Granite kernel to manage Alias imports into Wildfire.

08.08.05 – Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation an 80 year veteran manufacture of heavy-duty portable electric power tools has Bart Brejcha in for a presentation of Wildfire surfacing tools to upper level management.

08.09.05 – Radius Product Development receives WF2.0 update training to mechanical engineers in their Chicago office.

08.10.05 – Rubbermaid’s Eldon and Sharpie divisions both receive Pro/E WF2.0 update training to mechanical engineers and industrial designers in their suburban Chicago office.

09.14.05 – Alfredo Santiallan and Bart Brejcha both present Pro/Engineer and Alias together to ID and ME students at TEC de Monterrey, Tecnológico de Monterrey campus Guadalajara. gda.itesm.mx

09.15.05 – Alfredo Santiallan and Bart Brejcha both present Pro/Engineer and Alias together to ID and ME students at CID, Mexico.

09.15.05 – Design-Engine team presents to upper level management at Mabe in Queretaro, Mexico with various ways to enhance communication between designers and engineers using Pro/Engineer Wildfire.

10.01.05 – Rolling Stone Magazine ‘Issue 984’ October 6, 2005 issue mentions sister company deepLABS on page 100 in connection with Moto Restaurant and Chef Homaro Cantu because of Moto Restaurant eating utensils and cooking equipment development. Article titled ‘The Chicago chef who turned his kitchen into a chemistry lab’.

10.03.05 – Bart Brejcha to administer a one Day ISDX workshop to Kohler ID and ME teams.

10.04.05 – Sister Company deepLABS is mentioned in several paragraphs on page 76 of Gourmet Magazine’s October issue under the innovations section. Article titled ‘Thinking Different’ discusses Chef Homaro Cantu’s process for enhancing the experience of dining. The notion of adding flavors and smells to the utensil or pressurized foodstuffs combined with the utensil. “A whole meal inside the spoon.”

10.04.05 – Bart Brejcha speaks at Perdue University to Industrial Design students about proving form using modern day CAID software. He discussed light reflection in terms of subconscious interpretation and proving form in real time using Pro/Engineer Wildfire. The students all have access to the Mechanical Engineering department software over the network.

10.10.05 – Design Concepts of Madison Wisconsin sends two engineers for Alias Studio training. These engineers hope to facilitate the import functions from Alias to Pro/Engineer by learning Alias Studio.

10.12.05 – Radius Product Development completes their WF 2.0 update training with this full day of intense surfacing of combined Pro/Surface and ISDX for this group of engineers who were already surfacing experts.

10.17.05 – Bit 7 of Madison, WI sends two industrial designers for five day intensive specific for Industrial design oriented Wildfire training. They gain a mixture of basics and surfacing so they can go back leaders.

10.19.05 – Designers and engineers from Chicago Faucet, Insight Product Development and Zebco noted manufacture of Fishing reels come in for three day surfacing and ISDX intensive.

10.31.05 – Three day workshop administered to the M3 Design firm in Austin, TX. This is the design firm that designs the Dell Laptops we use in our classes. Workshop was administered to the engineers responsible for their Dell projects.

11.07.05 – Kansas State University sends their lead industrial designer for Pro/Enginner Wildfire training.

11.09.05 – Moto Restaurant Staff and Chef Homaro Cantu take tour of Design-Engine training facility and deepLABS ultimately to listen to a capabilities overview and general overview of product design as a process apart from continued education of restaurant staff. Part of the discussion was discussing experience design, industrial design, and Pro/Engineer as a part of a design process and an overview of rapid prototyping. Restaurant staff is put at ease to lead or participate in ideation meetings with designers and engineers.

11.10.05 – NASA representatives visit Design-Engine and deepLABS to discuss potential for future business and development.

11.11.05 – Design-Engine’s Bart Brejcha presents to interior design students of the International Academe of Art and Technology at their “Furniture Design and Materials” class. The three hour talk focused on internet design resources, famous furniture designers, furniture showrooms, manufacturers, design process, and selling design to clients. The talk’s last hour concluded by showing and conducting hands on workshop with Pro/Engineer Wildfire in terms of proving form and communicating design concepts for prototype.

11.29.05 – Cannondale Bethal, CT receives five day Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0 surfacing workshop for composite frame and component design.

12.05.05 – General Atomics Aeronautical Systems of San Diego, CA, the maker of drone surveillance/attack aircraft, receives a week long Pro/E Wildfire 2.0 surfacing intensive. https://design-engine.com/creo-surfacing-training/

12.12.05 – Zebco sends another industrial designer for the surfacing week with Pro/Surface and ISDX.

12.12.05 – Nike product design team Scott Wilson and Steve Berry come to Chicago for a combined week long focus in Pro/Engineer Wildfire. Portions of the workshop focus on surfacing and solids. This Level 1 Industrial Designer workshop had a combined team of ID and ME together for an enhanced learning experience.5

New Clients: Atkinson Design, Kohler Corporation, Mabe, Motorola, Purdue University, Sears Seating, and Volkswagen

01.17.04 – Desing Engine anounced the fourth Photoreal Competion.  

01.31.04 – Bart Brejcha of Design-Engine does a one day Wildfire workshop to ID students at Purdue University. He helped students use Pro/Engineer Wildfire to prove form as opposed to capturing form.

02.04.04 – Design-Engine starts offering weekly workshops at the Chicago office every Wednesday evening.

04.01.04 – Design-Engine speaks at the Milwaukee Pro/Engineer Users Group on reverse engineering in Wildfire. Topics discussed were: different import file types, 2D imports for sketching over, using ISDX, deleting export geometry, and maintaining parametric controls to name a few. A topic not discussed was Restyle, look for future talks using Restyle from Design-Engine staff.

04.05.04 – Design-Engine conducts one week training workshop to Canadian Companies through Atkinson Design in Toronto, Ontario.

04.23.04 – One week Training intensive workshop delivered to Kohler Corp.

04.24.04 – Design-Engine adds Maya animations from our three week workshop to the Maya portion of our website.

04.26.04 – Mabe from central Mexico takes one week surfacing intensive in Chicago.

05.06.04 Bart Brejcha spoke to 500+ engineers at the Pro/Users conference in Nashville, TN. After the conference Mr. Brejcha administered a two day surfacing intensive. Mostly top surfacing experts to take this intensive. The class was made up of representatives from major manufactures from around the world. Engineers from Volkswagen, Sears Seating, and Motorola showed up hoping to learn about interactive surfacing inside of Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0. Four of the top “ID to First Level Engineering Model” from Plantation Motorola were present for this workshop in Tennessee and two from Frankfort Germany Volkswagen plant.

05.11.04 – Groundwork laid for design museum and associated Design-Engine product design school to be located in Bangalore, India expected to start construction in 2008.

05.15.04 – Dean Gambino joins our team. We are grateful to have him working with us. He is a team player and a true asset to our company. He will be managing our WIA students by assisting in enrollment and job placement. He will also be communication with contract agencies for the job placement.

06.05.04 – Design-Engine strikes a deal with Atkinson Design in Toronto Ontario to administer the Design-Engine unique training model in Canada.

09.02.04 – Design-Engine announces the new hire of Mike Vostal. Mike Vostal took our three week comprehensive workshop in the Summer and we hired him full time. Congratulations to Mike Vostal, who recently joined Design-Engine!

09.18.04 – Design-Engine goes to Texas to teach Schlumberger Wildfire 2.0 Update Training.

12.10.04 – A large number of our past 3 week students are now employed with manufacturing companies. Jesus Borja was a three week student who was recently laid off from Motorola and due to our training got a new job back at Motorola making more money. Edison Ornate just secured a new assignment making $30 per hour. David Fronzak got a permanent job with McMaster Car. John Edwards started his first job this week at Manitowoc Cranes in Wisconsin.

New Clients: Compaq, HP, PTC, SkilBosch Powertools, and Steelcase

01.17.03 – Desing Engine anounced the third Photoreal Competion.  

04.15.03 – PTC asks Design-Engine to create renderings for the June Pro/Engineer world event.

05.15.03 – SkilBosh Powertools sent several teams for Pro/Surface Level 1 training.

06.6.03 – Design-Engine founder writes article on the newest release of Pro/Engineer called Wildfire on design-engine.com

07.20.03 – Design-Engine modifies its three week comprehensive course to accommodate any course offered for a three week period. This could encompasses a week of Alias Studio, a week of Pro/Engineer, and a week of projects.

09.24.03 – Design-Engine announced the third annual 2003 photo-real competition winners, featuring furniture. Nike Design Director, Scott Wilson, wins overall.

09.30.03 – Federal Funding is now available for Design Engine students. We are now a Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Certified training provider. Although you do not have to be unemployed to take advantage of this Federal Grant you will have to speak to your local “Unemployment Case Worker” or call us for more information. This federal funding means you can change careers to learn product design or enhance your current skills with three weeks of surfacing for example.

11.13.03 – Design-Engine along with PTC, Steelcase, and HP put on another 48tofly event. Combined six industrial designers in a room full of Steelcase furniture, with HP / Compaq computers, PTC’s latest software, some 19″ Wacom tablets, and a fridge full of Red Bull.

11.24.03 – Design-Engine’s first WIA funded student gets a job at Motorola Cellular Subscriber Group in Libertyville. Although Kai had a masters in engineering coming into our training, it was his three weeks of surfacing in Wildfire that made him attractive to his new team leaders.

12.10.03 – Design-Engine modifies its three week comprehensive course to include Maya Modeling and Rendering Curriculum for tooling and manufacturing. The course is intended for industrial designers and is a WIA funded program. Our first three week comprehensive Maya workshop starts March 1st 2004.

New Clients: Beyond Design, BMW, Bosch Powertools, British Areospace, Compaq, Digital Innovations, Guidant, Harley Davidson, Haworth, IDEO, Kohler Corporation, Mach Trucks, Rubbermaid, Target, and Triumph Motorcycles

01.15.02 – Design Engine anounces the second ever Photoreal rendering competion. 

01.31.02 – Design-Engine trains Digital Innovations engineers on ISDX.

02.02.02 – Design-Engine adds new Alias workshops to it’s arsenal. Level 4 Animation & Level 5 Auto Studio Workshop

02.12.02 – Compaq signs on for Alias Studio Training.

02.26.02 – Rubbermaid signs on for ISDX Training.

02.27.02 – Design-Engine scores 100 products at Target. Yes, we hit the big 100 mark. This week the Scunci comb and brush product lines were unveiled at Target and CVS stores. Special thanks to Beyond Design for hooking us up with so much work (and training) this year!

02.28.02 – Bart Brejcha speaks at the Illinois Pro/Engineer Users conference in Chicago on Industrial Design and Engineering.

03.19.02 – Skill Bosch Powertools signs up for three days of custom onsite ISDX training. For this project we developed custom tutorials using Pro/Engineer models of power tools.

03.22.02 – Guidant flies in from Minneapolis for ISDX training.

03.25.02 – On site Intermediate / Advanced Pro/Surface training for IDEO Chicago.

04.12.02 – Bart Brejcha spoke at the Twin Cities Pro/Engineer User Group. Lecture on advanced surfacing using the new ISDX module from PTC.

04.20.02 – Conducted Auto Studio training to Mack Trucks in Allentown, PA with emphasis on point Cloud manipulations and A-Class surface modeling.

04.23.02 – Design-Engine team developed a radical series of A-Class surfacing tutorials for both Pro/Engineer’s ISDX and “Alias AutoStudio”.

04.25.02 – IDEO inquires about A-Class surface modeling in Alias, Rhino, and Pro/Engineer.

05.16.02 – BMW from California scheduled for ISDX surface training in our Chicago office. Read BMW Testimonial!

05.24.02 – Bart Brejcha spoke at the Northern Illinois Pro/Users conference.

06.27.02 – Bart Brejcha spoke at the New England Pro/User group meeting at the PTC office. His lecture was about the Pro/Engineer’s new surfacing software called ISDX.

08.26.02 – Harley Davidson and SkilBosch Powertools join up for a combined Pro/Surface & ISDX training in our Chicago Office.

09.05.02 – Bart Brejcha spoke at the Pro/Users group in Wisconsin. Lecture on advanced surfacing using the new ISDX module from PTC.

10.06.02 – Design-Engine team conducted the longest to date Beta Test of PTC’s Wildfire release of Pro/Engineer. Also beta tested was the new Concept One industrial design tool.

11.04.02 – Bart Brejcha teaches 24 engineers and industrial designers, a two day combined Level 3 – Level 7 Pro/Surface and ISDX workshop to Kohler Corporation in Wisconsin.

11.20.02 – Design-Engine team speaks at the Pro/User Group in Warwick, England after teaching an ISDX surfacing class to British Aerospace.

12.02.02 – Bart Brejcha teaches a surfacing workshop to Triumph Motorcycles in Hinckley, England.

12.07.02 – Design-Engine teaches an ISDX workshop to Haworth, one the of the largest, most progressive furniture manufactures in the world.

Clients: Baxter Healthcare, BE Areospace, Beyond Design, Caterpillar, Guidant, Ignite Product Development, Motorola, NASA, Rubbermaid, SkilBosch Powertools, SRAM Corporation, and University of Chicago

1994

06.22.94 – Registered the Design-Engine.com domain as a web magazine or blog for CAD users.  

1997

05.08.97 – Through Steve Nardy’s Pro Engineering Consultants, Bart Brejcha worked with the Boyton Beach Gabriel Khouri’s team at Motorola’s International Paging by assisting and training engineers in top down design and surfacing. This Pro/Engineer training style is very different from that of a PTC training class in that we customize the training on the spot.

11.04.97 – SRAM Corporation asks Design-Engine to conduct a 4 day surfacing workshop in Pro/Surface now called Creo Surfacing.

1998

03.10.98 – Design-Engine creates and conducts several Pro/Engineer surfacing workshops to various key engineers at BE Aerospace in NC.

06.10.98 – Design-Engine creates several Pro/Engineer surfacing workshops to various Caterpillar engineers.

09.14.98 – University of Chicago Astro Physics group from the Yerkies Observatory enlist the help of Design-Engine to train key members with Pro/Engineer so their team can interface with NASA. The U of C team is building infrared telescopes for the NASA 747 to ultimately evaluate distant forming star fields called SOFIA.  Design Engine prepared and delivered classes for importing large data into then Pro/ENGINEER.

10.01.98 – Design-Engine moves into its new facility downtown Chicago’s West Loop.

11.22.98 – Design-Engine upgrades its computer systems with all brand new Dell workstations.

11.02.98 – Several high school graduates come to Design-Engine for Pro/Engineer training hoping to enhance their drafting skills and get jobs in the industry, they get jobs at Kohler and Bobcat.  This is the start of our 3 and 4 week training intensives.

1999

01.09.99 – Baxter Healthcare comes into Design-Engine for Marker Rendering workshops to several mechanical engineers.

01.10.99 – Design-Engine redesigns the proetools.com training web site.

01.23.99 – Design-Engine signs on SkilBosch Powertools for Pro/Surface training. Surfacing training focus is upon light reflections and use of surfaces for product design.  Highly stylized surfaces becomes a unique Design-engine edge.   This course is now called Creo Surfacing WEEK ONE

02.15.99 – Ignite Product Development comes in for one week of Pro/Designer training this week.  This software evolved into Creo Style module and is now administered as the last two days of our WEEK Long Creo Surfacing training.

04.15.99 – Design-Engine Education signs on Guidant from MN and conducts the then Pro/ENGINEER surfacing intensive.

04.14.99 – Bart Brejcha speaks at the Minnesota Pro/Engineer Users Group.

12.02.99 – Several consultants come to Design-engine from various places for three week training and gain employment with Harley Davidson and Honeywell.

02.11.99 – Design-Engine redesigns the proetools.com web site and launches the site.

2000

01.15.00 – Beyond Design of Chicago enlists Design-Engine to assist teaching several industrial designers to utilize Pro/Engineer for concept modeling.

02.04.00 – Baxter Healthcare comes into Design-Engine this week for Photoshop rendering workshop for product designers.

04.15.00 – NASA – Johnson Space Center sends physicist working on manned mission to mars for Pro/Engineer training in Chicago. The physicist is on the team to look at radiation from space and spacecraft protections.

06.16.00 – Bart Brejcha Speaks at the PTC World Event in Orlando, FL to 600 engineers and designers about proving form using Pro/Engineer. Talk titled “What PTC and Rand don’t tell you about Pro/Surface”.  These tools have been re-branded as Creo Surfacing

06.16.00 – Bart Brejcha speaks at the Galveston Pro/Users group conference in Texas on surfacing.

2001

01.15.01 – Design Engine anounces the first ever Photoreal rendering competion. This one was focused on Furnture.  

04.15.01 – Beyond Design of Chicago again enlists Design-Engine to assist teaching industrial designers to utilize Pro/Engineer for concept modeling. This Pro/Engineer training workshop helps industrial designers learn Pro/E at a very high level all in one week.

04.15.01 – Rubbermaid Division Eldon enlists Design-Engine for ISDX training conducted in Madison, WI.  This class is now administered in WEEK Long Creo Surfacing training.

05.11.01 – SRAM Corporation sends test engineer for four weeks of Pro/ENGINEER training. SRAM also considers sending new hire engineers for training from the start of employment.

06.16.01 – SRAM Corporation sends first new hire to Design-Engine for one week Pro/E training workshop before starting work. Design-Engine team develops curriculum based upon intended projects.

12.11.01 – Bart Brejcha speaks to 100 Engineers at the Wisconsin Pro/Engineer Users Group on surfacing for engineers working with industrial design. In the audience was Kohler and John Deere, to name a couple. Lecture on advanced surfacing using the new ISDX module from PTC.

12.17.01 – Design-Engine speaks to Hinsdale High School about a potential future in industrial design. Bart Brejcha speaks about Pro/Engineer and Alias Studio as design tools.  He explained what Calculus is and how it is used in industry without using the word calculus