Experience seemed to be a key ingredient to the success of the three winners of the 2008 Fall AutoCAD competition. They were all honored at a ceremony earlier this month.
Slobadon Urdarevik, lead faculty for IME 1420 Engineering Graphics (L to R) with the 2008 Fall AutoCAD winners Grant Miller (2nd), Karl Waltzer (1st), and Stephan Telenko (3rd); in the background is Waltzer's winning drawing
Slobodan Urdarevik, the lead lecturer for IME 1420 Engineering Graphics, presented the awards before a Spring 2009 IME 1420 lecture class. It was an audience of students eligible to compete in the 2009 Spring AutoCAD Contest.
Karl Waltzer, a first-year civil engineering student, won first-place winner. Waltzer is from Memphis, MI, which is located near Port Huron. The Capac High School graduate had three years of high-school, computer-aided design (CAD) classes.
Waltzer’s future plans include obtaining bachelor’s and master’s degrees and then starting his own construction company.
The second-place winner is Grant Miller, a first-year engineering management (UEM) major and integrated supply management minor from Byron Center. He had three years of high-school CAD. He is presently interning with CollegeWorks Painting.
Miller would also like to be a teaching assistant for IME 1420. His future plans include obtaining bachelor’s and master’s degrees and starting his own engineering firm.
Third place winner Stephan Telenko, a first-year engineering graphics and design technology (EGR) major, is from Canton, MI. Telenko graduated from Salem High School, where he took four years of CAD and drafting classes. His is currently employed putting up tents for special events, but he would eventually like to be a designer. “I’m interested in all kinds of designing,” he said.
All three winners received Best Buy gift cards and engraved plaques donated by Dr. Hooks, Inc., a Kalamazoo-based business.
The competition is held at the end of each semester for the more than 300 students enrolled in IME 1420 Engineering Graphics, where students complete about 50 CAD-related assignments. For the competition, students create a two-dimensional AutoCAD drawing and a 3D-solid model of a complicated part. They must show all dimensions and all symbols needed for manufacturing. For more information about the competition or about CAD drafting at WMU, e-mail slobodan.urdarevik@wmich.edu
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