Erik **** Privilege Drive, Hilliard, OH *****
****.******@*****.***
Aagard 614-***-****
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/erik-aagard/9/853/177
Profile Enthusiastic, experienced, and hard working designer with a suite of
technical and people skills allowing for cross pollination between both
the hard and soft sides of design. Great competence an instructor,
design researcher, technical writer, and various aspects of both
graphic and mechanical design. Great experience in CAD (Siemens
NX, Solidworks, AutoCAD, Catia, Inventor, ProE, etc.) as well as
medical product, tool, package, and design. Broad range of hand skills
(sketching, prototyping, etc.) as well as considerable experience with
the Adobe CS5 suite.
Experience
Itt Technical Institute
Drafting and Design Instructor Columbus, OH 2010-Present
• Teaching and illustrating principles of graphic design and CAD
(Computer-Aided-Design) including: Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign,
CAD (Inventor/AutoCAD), rapid visualization, and prototype
development
• Managing and tutoring in the math lab as well as tutoring technical
writing.
Honda Research and Design Center, Americas
Designer Raymond, OH 2008 – 2010
• Collaborated on multidisciplinary design team to create and design
upper cabin areas for the 2010 Acura ZDX.
• Teamed up with vendors to design production ready parts for ZDX
interior using CATIA CAD system. Consistently met tight deadlines for
production by creating accurately designed parts for large assemblies.
• Creation of numerous sketches to flesh out various design ideas and
variations, vetted robust designs, then translated final designs into
CAD.
The Ohio State University
Graduate Instructor Columbus, OH 2005 - 2008
• Researching and teaching of hands-on courses in color theory with
special focus on the use of color in the medical care industry.
• Demonstrating and teaching of sketching, rendering techniques,
basic design skills, graphic and interior design.
• Consistently received high student reviews for excellence in teaching.
Arctic Cat Snowmobiles
Industrial Designer Thief River Falls, MN 2005
• Siemens NX CAD modeling of plastic injection parts for current model
snowmobile line including: front hood, ports, handlebars, etc.
• Creation of CAD (Siemens NX) designs to consistently meet
difficult design and packaging requirements for aesthetic and design
intent of current snowmobile architecture.
Roger Cleveland Golf
Industrial Designer Cypress, CA 2003-2004
• Production of design and ideation sketches for design studies with
drivers, fairway woods, and putters.
• FEA analysis of club sound characteristics, deflections,
center-of-gravity (CG), moment-of-inertia (MOI) location, and principal
club bending modes to optimize ball flight and club feel.
• Modeling the design of drivers, fairway woods, and irons using CAD
( Siemens NX).
Alsius Corporation
Mechanical Engineer Irvine, CA 2003
• CAD (Solidworks, AutoCAD 2000) modeling of final design and
development of intravenious implant device.
• Production documentation and control part revisions for FDA audit
using CAD (Solidworks, AutoCAD 2000) and the Adobe CS 3 suite.
• Technical writing and part authentication for biomedical pre-patent
submission.
Education MFA Industrial Design
The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 2008
Theis Title: Scrubs: A Pre-Design Color Study
MS Mechanical Engineering
Brigham Young University Provo, UT 1999
Emphasis on design, manufacturing, and Computer Aided Design
(CAD),
BS Mechanical Engineering
Brigham Young University Provo, UT 1995
Focus on design and CAD.
BA Near Eastern Studies
Brigham Young University Provo, UT 1995
Emphasis on Judiasm, Islamic culture, and mideast history.
AS Mathematics
Utah Valley University Orem, UT 1991
Focus on engineering mathematics