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Courses
Number
Title
Hours
Lecturers
151-3213-00 P
Integrative Ski Building Workshop
Permission from lecturers required for all students.
- Courses on Wednesdays at 13-17h (venu/EDAC group room) starting in the second week of the semester 26.09.18
This course introduces students to engineering design and fabrication by building their own skis or snowboard. Theoretical and applied engineering design skills like CAD, analysis and engineering of mechanical properties, 3D printing, laser cutting and practical handcrafting skills are acquired in the course.
Learning objective
The objectives of the course are to use the practical ski/board design and building exercise to gain hands-on experience in design, mechanics and materials. A selection of sustainable materials are also used to introduce students to sustainable design. The built skis/board will be mechanically tested in the lab as well as together out in the field on a ski day and evaluated from various perspectives. Students can keep their personal built skis/boards after the course.
Content
This practical ski/board design and building workshop consists of planning, designing, engineering and building your own alpine ski or snowboard. Students learn and execute all the needed steps in the process, such as engineering design, CAD, material selection, analysis of the mechanical properties of a composite layup, fabrication, routing wood cores, 3D printing of plastic protectors, milling side walls from wood or ABS plastic, laying up the fibers from carbon, glas, basalt or flax, laminating with resins, sanding and finishing, as well as laser engraving and veneer wood inlays.
Lecture notes
available on Moodle
Prerequisites / Notice
Willingness to engage in the practical building of your ski/board also beyond the course hours in the evening.
Performance assessment
Performance assessment information (valid until the course unit is held again)