Drafting - Introduction to Engineering and Technical Design

This introductory course provides an opportunity for students to explore engineering and technical design solutions using critical thinking in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) fields. The course includes: Design Professions & Teams using the Engineering Design Process; Documenting the Design Process through Sketching & the Engineering Notebook; Design Measuring; Design Visualization; Geometric Construction & Computer Aided Design (CAD); Assembly Drawings & Fasteners; Multi-View Drawings; Dimensioning & Tolerancing; and Presentation of a final team design project .

Upon successful completion students will be able to:

1. Understand the role of design in society, related professions and the engineering design process.
2. Understand and apply mathematics, measuring conventions and scales using scale factors.
3. Develop the ability to visualize a design solution in 2D and 3D as well as manipulate it.
4. Document the design process and apply drawing standards in solving technological problems.
5. Understand and demonstrate the use of geometric and numeric construction constraints.
6. Understand and develop multi view drawings that include all necessary views.
7. Fully describe the size, shape, location, and manufacturing required to produce a part.
8. Fully define the allowable variation of the geometric size, shape, location, and manufacturing required to produce a part.
9. Document a full assembly to completely describe each part to be manufactured.
   

1. Design Professions & Teams Using the Engineering Design Process
2. Documenting the Design Process through Sketching
3. Design Measuring
4. Geometric Construction & Introductory CAD
5. Design Visualization
6. Multi-View Drawings
7. Fasteners
8. Assembly Drawings
9. Dimensioning
10. Tolerancing
11. Project
12. Additional Resources