Major Concepts/Content: Engineering drawing is a Computer Aided Drawing and Design (CAD) course designed to provide beginning students with instruction in computer graphic skills and design fundamentals. Students will learn the use of a CAD system for two-dimensional drawing and three-dimensional modeling. Through the use of the Internet students will explore the wide range of CAD technologies and applications. This course is strongly recommended for students aspiring to become engineers, architects, and engineer technicians. This course is part of the School-to-Work transition guidelines.

Major Instructional Activities: The content includes, but is not limited to, orthographic projections, pictorial drawings, working drawings for construction and manufacturing, graphical solutions, measurements in both metric and customary systems. Instructional activities are provided in the pre-engineering laboratory, using hands-on experiences with equipment and materials related to course content. Students will be required to plan and produce projects. They will develop solutions to problem solving activities, present ideas and information orally and in writing. Students will investigate content-related occupations, make visits to industries, assume leadership roles and work cooperatively.

Major Evaluative Techniques: Course work completed will be analyzed and evaluated for accuracy and use of drawing concepts. Written and oral reports will be graded for content and form. In addition, the students will be evaluated on their ability to cooperatively work together and solve problems.

Essential Objectives: Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Recognize the evolutionary development of engineering drawing.
• Develop 2 dimensional drawings.
• Generate pictorial drawings.
• Create working drawings for construction and manufacturing.
• Create 3 dimensional models.
• Measure and dimension both metric and customary drawings.
• Use proper work environment practices.
• Integrate math and scientific principles to solve problems.
• Demonstrate the proper use of computers and peripheral equipment.
• Demonstrate the use of graphic conventions to represent objects and structures.
• Apply modeling techniques for analyzing a product.
• Identify wide ranges of CAD applications.