Kyle Smith: Engineering knowledge and wisdom

#39 – Kyle Smith: Engineering knowledge and wisdom

• 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