#39 – Kyle Smith: Engineering knowledge and wisdom

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• Kyle saved Bert’s butt by modifying parts overnight


• You tend to repeat small mistakes, but not big ones.


• Another engineer who started with Legos


• Self-taught on an early computer animation program – Maya.


• Which led into SolidWorks


• Got a mill for cheap and converted to CNC


• Kyle and Bert both use Send Cut Send – not sure how they make money.


• Company name is Sparrow Hawk Design – small and agile.


• Industrial designers need to interact with engineers.


• Two excellent books
  
  
  
  • Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals
  
  
  • Handbook of Product Design for Manufacturing
  
  
  
  


• Can AI advise you on capabilities of manufacturing processes?


• Prediction: AI will be in SolidWorks in the not to distant future.


• Difference between junior and senior engineers


• Executives don’t need to know all of the problems


• Flies radio control airplanes and built drones


• Rides motorcycles


• Wants to ride from Patagonia to Alaska

Kyle’s company – www.sparrowhawkdesign.com.

Bert’s Company – www.dexterityeng.com

Hat tip to Joseph McDade for free use of his music "Mirrors".