SYDE 521Computer Aided Design
- Faculty
- Engineering
- Offered
- Fall
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1989–90 to 1994–95 (before that, 1972–73 to 1977–78 used the number for Analog and Hybrid Computing Systems); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Issues and directions in computer aided design and engineering (CAD/CAE); principles underlying the design of CAD systems. CAD systems architecture and data structures. Fundamentals of interactive computer graphics with application to engineering design and analysis software: graphical interfaces; geometrical transformations and projections; representation of lines, curves, surfaces and solids; graphical rendering techniques. Automated assembly and solution techniques for linear systems. The course usually involves a major project in which students develop a working CAD system.
As printed in the 1992–93 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1972–73 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1992–93 to 1994–95 3 calendars
Issues and directions in computer aided design and engineering (CAD/CAE); principles underlying the design of CAD systems. CAD systems architecture and data structures. Fundamentals of interactive computer graphics with application to engineering design and analysis software: graphical interfaces; geometrical transformations and projections; representation of lines, curves, surfaces and solids; graphical rendering techniques. Automated assembly and solution techniques for linear systems. The course usually involves a major project in which students develop a working CAD system.
Offered Fall · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
1989–90 to 1991–92 2 calendars
Issues and direction in computer aided design (CAD); fundamental principles and concepts required in actual design and building of CAD systems; state-ofthe-art of CAD systems on the market; criteria upon which to evaluate CAD systems. Additional topics such as computer-aided manufacturing, flexible manufacturing and expert systems may be included.
Not in the 1978–79 to 1988–89 calendars.
1972–73 to 1977–78 5 calendars
Another title: Analog and Hybrid Computing Systems, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
Theory and operation of analog computers, parallel logic; digitally simulated analog computers; introduction to hybrid computing.
Offered Fall · 2 class, 1 tutorial hours a week · 0.5 credit