During the length of this course the students will accumulate sketches, working drawings, and written documents representative of the quality of their work.  The portifolio cover will be original work designed by the student.

Career options in engineering and engineering related fields will be investigated with lessons.  Comparsions of the duties and educational requirements of various engineering related occupations will be studied.  Uniquely the past, present, and future trends in engineering will be researched.  Students will understand how to make effective decisions, use career information, and manage personal career plans

This unit will cover historical engineering feats and structrual projects and their effect on society.  The lessons will include information about the development of engineering as an occupation from 1325 AD to the various fields of engineering as we know today.

This unit will cover the techniques, procedures, and steps for using freehand sketching as a means of visual communications.  Ideas will be developed through the utilization of the design process using freehand sketching as the input vehicle. 

The Design Process will be introduced as a procedure to ensure that students develop creative in engineering design.

This unit will cover basic tools and equipment used in the engineering design field.  Tools and equipmentt for board drafting will be covered.  Applications of computer-aided-drafting procedures are included along with  the procedure to set up a basic title block.

The use of the standard (decimal inches) and metric scales will be included in one lesson.  The student will also have the opportunity to practice to make correct measurements using fractions and decimal inches. Also the use of the dial caliper will be made available to teach the students its correct use with applications.

This unit includes lessons on the standard practices of proper dimensioning,  techniques, and applications for engineering design drawings and projects will be covered.  The application of the alphabet of lines (board drafting emphasis) and linetypes (CAD) will be covered.  Dimensioning systems in addition to chain dimensioning will be presented.  A lesson on the addition of general notes to working drawings is included.

The lessons in this unit will guide the students through a series of geometric construction activities as they apply to working drawings.  Both board instructment drawing and CAD systems will be utilized.

This unit will help the students understand the X,Y and Z coordinates.

This unit will provide learning activities to apply two or more views to describe an object as a working engineering drawing.  Both traditional board drafting and CADD techniques are presented.

The lessons in this unit cover the application of half sections to describe internal shapes and features that would otherwise require hidden lines.  The rules of dimensioning according to ASME Y14.5 - 1994 require that dimensions can not be applied to  hidden lines so sectional views serve a second function of providing object (continuous) lines for dimensioning purposes..

The lessons in this unit  cover the use of an auxiliary view to project a plane parallel to an incline surface. Student development of auxiliary views will be utilized in working drawings.  A unique method of  assigning auxiliary drawing problems is included as well as a team drafting (small group project) and a design brief problem.

The lesson in creating working drawings covers the use of detailed and assemblies for manufactured part(s). The major kinds of working drawings that will be covered include: include detailed drawings, assembly drawings, and subassembly drawings. 

      These lessons utilize previous knowledge from multi-view drawings, sectional views, auxiliary views, notes/notations annotations, and standard dimensioning techniques.

This unit covers the preparation of pictorial drawings using isometrics, oblique, and  perspectives as the common methods for presentation drawings.  Students will apply both sketching and mechanical means to show the appearance of objects for purposes.

Lessons on 3D parametric, solid based modeling involving parts created in isometric formats, pictorial assemblies, and exploded assemblies with constrained abilities will be. available.

Solid Modeling is a technique for representing solid objects (three dimensional) in a virtual environment.  Solid Modeling is primarily used for engineering analysis, computer graphics, animation, rapid prototyping, and product visualization.

These projects allow the first/second year students to demonstrate their proficiency at the end of the term.

These projects allow the third/fourth year students to demonstrate their proficiency through a project that combines a number of skills learned in previous lessons.