META24 WORKFORCE LAB · GRADED TO THE CORE · PROJECT-BASED · A COURSE IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN & MANUFACTURING · MIDDLE SCHOOL · UPPER SCHOOL · GRADE 6–12 · 0.25 CREDIT · META24 LAB COMPETENCIES
Industrial Design II · drafting & CAD
The Course · The Craft · in The Fab Shop · Industrial & 3D
5 weeks of The Fab Shop · Industrial & 3D: What Industrial Design Actually Is · The Design Language · Drafting — the Universal Language · CAD — Building It in the Computer · Prototyping + the AI Reality
The weeks are the course’s own, read from the lab; the catalog pads the last weeks with the capstone and the floor so the course fills a whole term.
THE MIX · HOW MUCH OF EACH CORE SUBJECT THIS COURSE CARRIES · IN ORDER
READING & WRITINGMATHCODING & AITECHNOLOGY & TRADESSCIENCEART & DESIGNHISTORY, GEOGRAPHY & HUMANITIESBUSINESS & ENTERPRISE
The squares are a picture of a course — how much of each core subject its own rooms carry, read from the rooms’ text — never a score of a student. Every course in a lab is graded to the core across the board; the squares say which columns it feeds most.
WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO
- Every manufactured object you touch was designed by somebody — and most were designed badly
- Every field has a vocabulary, and this is the one that was missing — the words engineers use for the features that decide whether a part is strong, moldable, and makeable.
- A drawing is how an engineer’s idea travels to a machinist in another country and comes back as the right part
- CAD is where the design becomes a real 3D model you can measure, test, and send to a machine
AT A GLANCE · 9 WEEKS
Q1 What Industrial Design Actually Is → The floor — The assignments · weeks 1–9
ALSO IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN & MANUFACTURING · THE FAB SHOP · INDUSTRIAL & 3D
A quarter
9 WEEKS · ONE QUARTERQuarter 1 · What Industrial Design Actually Is → The floor
WEEKS 1–9 · IN THIS OFFERINGTHE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 1What Industrial Design Actually IsTHE COURSE · THE CRAFT
Every manufactured object you touch was designed by somebody — and most were designed badly. Industrial design is the discipline of making objects that WORK: form, function, and cost, all at once.
WK 2The Design Language
Every field has a vocabulary, and this is the one that was missing — the words engineers use for the features that decide whether a part is strong, moldable, and makeable.
WK 3Drafting — the Universal Language
A drawing is how an engineer’s idea travels to a machinist in another country and comes back as the right part. Drafting is the universal, unambiguous language of manufacturing — three flat views that fully describe a…
WK 4CAD — Building It in the Computer
CAD is where the design becomes a real 3D model you can measure, test, and send to a machine. The superpower is PARAMETRIC thinking: every feature is driven by a number and a relationship, so changing one dimension…
WK 5Prototyping + the AI Reality
A prototype’s job is to ANSWER A QUESTION, not to be pretty — and iteration is the whole curriculum. This week also delivers the lab’s honest core: AI now generates geometry instantly, but it does NOT tell you if the…
WK 6–9The floor
The floor: the work is done in the room, logged in the room, kept in My Work.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
The assignments · weeks 1–9
The question. What does The Course ask you to be able to do by week 5?
The make. Every week's assignment and the quiz as practice: What Industrial Design Actually Is · The Design Language · Drafting — the Universal Language · CAD — Building It in the Computer …
The evidence. Handed in through The Course inside The Fab Shop · Industrial & 3D, kept in My Work; the Report reads it from there.
A course is a quarter, a semester or a year — nine, eighteen or thirty-six weeks — a project a quarter. Offered as the year, a semester or a quarter, it is the same course seen through a window. A lab is a family: its year, each of its tracks as a course, and its rooms. The evidence is what a student hands in through the room; the Report reads it from there. Nothing in the catalog is a grade.
THE PASS · THIS COURSE AND EVERY OTHER ONE
One pass includes Industrial Design II · drafting & CAD and every course in the catalog. Pick a pass, or enter a school code; checkout stays on this page.