Computer Aided Design (CAD) is the use of software to create precise digital drawings and 3D models of products. It allows designers to visualise and modify designs quickly, ensuring accuracy and ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

In the early days of the semiconductor industry, integrated circuits were designed by one or two engineers with slide-rules, hand-drawn on paper, and then given to a lithographer to print onto silicon ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steve Tengler covers automotive and its transformative technology. This article is more than 4 years old. There was a time where ...

The aerospace and electronics industries have long applied computational models to not only design airplanes and chips, but also to simulate and optimize their performance. There have, until recently, ...

The Computer Aided Engineering Lab is one of two computer labs dedicated for MMET student use. The lab includes 30 computer workstations, loaded with various engineering and productivity applications, ...

The technology behind 3-D printing is growing more and more common, but the ability to create designs for it is not. Any but the simplest designs require expertise with computer-aided design (CAD) ...

Computer-aided design (CAD) uses specialized software to create, modify, analyze, and optimize engineering, architectural, and manufacturing designs. CAD tools enable precise modeling, allowing users ...