Digital design and fabrication certificate

Whether your major is business, biological sciences, pre-engineering, art, or any other possibility, the Digital Design and Fabrication certificate is a perfect pairing to enhance your studies. When you learn how to design and make things using computer-aided software, 3D printers, and state-of-the-art CNC machinery, you become fluent in the use of these tools as a creative, artist, technician, and entrepreneur.

The Digital Design and Fabrication certificate prepares you to design and make things using computer-aided software, 3D printers, and state-of-the-art CNC machinery. Intentionally created to align art and industry, this certificate offers you the opportunity to train for a digitally complex world as a creative, artist, technician, or entrepreneur.

The Digital Design and Fabrication Certificate has been designed to to meet your academic and career interests. You will begin by choosing a course that introduces 2D and 3D CAD drafting techniques and practices from a variety of disciplines. After advancing your understanding of CAD and digital fabrication, your final course is tailored individually to your career interests.

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Art and Industry Alignment

The needs of modern-day manufacturing align incredibly well with contemporary artistic and theatrical technologies. For instance, 2D digital technologies are widely used in graphic design, computerized theatrical drafting, and digital art and theatrical rendering. 3D technologies are increasingly used as a method of developing prototypical models or fabricating parts of a larger whole—oftentimes making things not possible through other, traditional mediums. Both art and industry ground themselves in creativity and innovation while making use of available technologies to realize their goals.

Who Should Earn the Certificate

Digital Design and Fabrication is a 21st-century skill with applications across multiple disciplines at UW-Parkside. The certificate is not just for students studying the arts. Students from any discipline at Parkside can couple this certificate with their major to increase their marketability. Business, biology, or pre-engineering majors who want to make things might consider this certificate. Members of the community can earn the certificate for professional advancement.

Certificate Requirements (10-12 Credits)

Begin by choosing a course that introduces 2D and 3D CAD drafting techniques. From there, take DFAB I and DFAB II to gain practice with a variety of CNC tools. Your final course is DFAB III, which is tailored to your career interests.

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PROGRAM CONTACT INFO

Trenton Baylor | baylor@uwp.edu

Trenton Baylor

Associate Professor - Art - Sculpture

Born and raised in Milwaukee, WI, Trenton Baylor received a Bachelor’s degree in Art and Certification to Teach Art (K-12) from the University of Wisconsin –Parkside’96 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin Madison ’99. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Art and Design Department at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside where he teaches Sculpture, Digital Fabrication and Woodworking and Furniture Design courses. He continues to exhibit his sculpture in local, regional, and national exhibitions and has several works in public and private collections.

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Jody Sekas, MFA

Associate Professor - Theater Arts

Jody Sekas is the Associate Professor of Scenic/Lighting Design & Technology at UW-Parkside. He came to Parkside from Humboldt State University, CA where he taught courses in scenic design, scene painting, technical production, properties design, theatre history, and CAD and computer rendering. Prior to Humboldt, Sekas was Assistant Professor and Scenic & Lighting Designer for the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and for four seasons was the resident scenic and lighting designer for the Sioux Falls Community Playhouse in South Dakota.

In addition to his resident design and collegial experience, Sekas has worked as a freelance designer and technician for such venues like the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, First Stage Children's Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Dell’Arte International, Omaha Theatre Company for Young People, Chippewa Valley Theatre Guild, Eau Claire Children's Theatre, Ferndale Repertory Theatre, The Western Stage, Utah Shakespeare Festival, and on several independent films.

Sekas received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Technical Theatre from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Scenic Design and Technical Direction from Humboldt State University.

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Jeff Townsend

Lecturer

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Carey Watters, MFA

Professor

Carey Watters, is professor of graphic design at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in Kenosha, Wisconsin. She received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in printmaking and book arts. Watters has been working as a professional graphic designer since receiving her BFA is graphic design from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1999. Her book and collage work weave together concepts regarding feminism, historic map making, and religious and pagan symbolism. Her work is a direct result of her residencies and travels to Calabria, Basilicata, and Puglia, Italy and her research of Byzantine architecture, design, and religious reliquaries.

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