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Top Transportation Design School Selects think3The Academy of Art University, which has one of the premier transportation design schools in the country, selected think3's innovative, next-generation industrial design technology, thinkiD, to educate its more than 350 students. The university's school of industrial design is participating in think3's new education program, thinkstart, launched in North America last October.
"Surface development and execution of surface quality are key factors in turning our students into professional designers," said Tom Matano, Director of the School of Industrial Design at the university. "thinkiD will add flexibility and speed in the design process allowing our students to produce a higher surface quality in their designs." Matano, a distinguished designer in the automotive industry, has more than 30 years experience at Mazda, General Motors, and BMW. Among his most notable accomplishments are Mazda designs that include the 1990 Miata and 1993 RX-7. Matano also noted that because thinkiD offers a surface and solids modeler in a single program, it will allow teachers to more efficiently work with students one-on-one in the classroom.
The school plans to introduce thinkiD into its curriculum this semester. Faculty member Max Sims, who will be teaching the advanced modeling and digital imaging courses, says that it will take "a lot of
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