Diploma in Digital Fabrication and Design

Selkirk College - Castlegar Campus

Canada,British Columbia

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24 Months

Duration

CAD 15,876/year

Tuition Fee

CAD 100

Application Fee

Sep 2024

Apply Date

Canada, British Columbia

Type: College

Location Type: Urban

Founded: 1966

Total Students: 2,800 +

Campus Detail

Main Campus Address

301 Frank Beinder Way Castlegar, British Columbia Canada V1N 4L3

Diploma in Digital Fabrication and Design

Program Overview

With an emphasis on technologies and strategies, the Digital Fabrication & Design Program prepares students for employment or further education in the emerging fields of digital fabrication and advanced manufacturing. 

Cutting Edge Tech Education
Design and manufacturing are evolving industries. In Selkirk College's new Digital Fabrication & Design Program, gain broad entry-level skills or take your trade, craft or digital prowess in a new digital direction. This field combines the artistry of digital design with the skilled trades of making the physical form. Our training ensures your value in the increasingly digitally driven world of design, fabrication and manufacturing. 

The Digital Fabrication & Design Program teaches emerging hands-on computer skills for a wide variety of production facilities - from large-scale industrial operations to inventors needing prototypes. Learn how to design and build products from the bottom up. Or, create parts for a larger assembly. Learn more about career pathways...

Digital manufacturing skills are in demand as industries embrace improved technology allowing for more design choice, increased accuracy and a shorter design to manufacturing process. Among sectors, manufacturing recorded the highest rate of adoption of advanced design and fabrication technologies, with nearly six in 10 manufacturing enterprises using at least one such technology. 

Applied Skills and Experiential Learning
Our program instruction is primarily delivered in workgroups, with peers, mentors, and machines. Delivery uses a problem-solving based learning approach which reflects standard industry practice in the field of advanced manufacturing.

Giving students a full spectrum of digital fabrication implementations and opportunities, learning includes but is not limited to:

  • 2D and 3D Design for Advanced Manufacturing (CAD/CAM)
  • 3D Scanning and Reverse Engineering
  • Additive Manufacturing (3D printing)
  • Subtractive Manufacturing (CNC machining)
  • Entrepreneurial Studies
  • Automation and Robotics for Advanced Manufacturing
  • Emerging Technologies

Real-world Projects Reinforce Learning
Students will experience the “design-to-part” process from the initial design concept to the finished product. Working in groups, students will identify the required deliverables, develop a timeline, assign and schedule project activities, identify/procure needed raw material and equipment, and determine a per unit production costs, for example.

This experiential approach encourages students to learn by doing and, thereby, develop the problem solving and teamwork-skills fundamental to industry practice.

Program Outcomes

  • As a result of completing the Digital Fabrication & Design Program at Selkirk College, graduates will be able to demonstrate the following:
    • Apply efficient computer-aided design workflows.
    • Apply 3D scanning methods and processes for reverse engineering, quality control, and metrology.
    • Apply subtractive and additive manufacturing techniques and efficient workflows for rapid prototyping.
    • Use current and emerging technologies and recognized best practices.
    • Apply project planning and evaluation skills.
    • Operate shop tools and digital fabrication equipment.
    • Explain terms, concepts, and processes of digital fabrication.
    • Communicate effectively and efficiently in various formats to a variety of stakeholders, consistent with industry expectations.
    • Apply emerging problem-solving skills.
    • Demonstrate developing collaborative skills.
    • Demonstrate developing critical and creative thinking skills.
    • Conduct themselves in a professional and ethical manner in academic and work-related environments.