Areas of Expertise

This is the modesty section of my website...

I have a wide range of research interests and areas I have worked in. I like to think of myself as a bit of a Renaissance man with the ability to continuously learn new things and thus expand my areas of expertise.

I believe that, to be truely expert in any field, one needs to not only have an in-depth knowledge of that particular field, but to also have a good knowledge of all related fields. Even more importantly, I believe that one must have the desire to expand ones horizons by wanting to learn those things we do not yet know.

Wizard Level, Things that I do an a daily basis
  • Product Development
  • Rapid Protoyping, 3D printing, Additive manufacturing
  • CAD, SolidWorks
  • Project Management
  • Problem Solving
  • Reduction of the product development cycle
Modestly Excellent Level, Things that I consider myself expert at, but do not do on a daily basis
  • Manufacturing systems and Technologies
  • Design for Assembly/Manufacturing
  • Software Development
  • TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving)
  • Logical/ Smart machines
  • Mechatronics
  • Visual Basic
  • On-line communication technologies
Software that I consider myself to be a bit of a Guru with
  • Solidworks
  • CorelDraw
  • Photoshop
  • MS Office
  • MS Visual Basic
Software that I use occasionaly
  • SolidEdge
  • Pro-Engineer
  • Autodesk Inventor
  • Visio Technical
  • 3DS Max
  • Adobe Premiere
  • And a few others...

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Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

Copyright 2007 Olaf Diegel