Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Teaching CAD In My $2.5M "Temporary" Palomar College Classroom

A CAD Professor's dream come true, a brand spankin' new classroom facility. There are 2 classrooms with 22 computers each. Each computer has 32GB RAM, Intel I7 processors, high end GPUs, and 24in Dell monitors.

Check out those tables, genuine Snap-On workbenches, amazing. See that window on the right? That's the onsite Haas Machining Center.

5 new Haas machines, including 5 axis, currently being set-up and tested.I believe there are 10 Haas CNC programming machines.

Of course we have an onsite 3D printing machine.

The plan is to use this "temporary" classroom for 5-7 years. You see, the entire Palomar College campus is being torn down and rebuilt with all the latest technology. This $350M program is 50% complete currently. Palomar College has approximately 30,000 students and 1,100 Professors.

It's really my pleasure, to be so lucky, to work in this environment.

Cheers,
Devon Sowell
Engineering Consulting Partner
Professor, Engineering Technology, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
CarlsbadCAD
sowelldevon@gmail.com
760 809 9046