Drafting
& Design Course Narrative:
Drafting and
Design is a beginning “hands-on” course in drafting developed to give
students instruction and practice with a variety of drafting tools, procedures,
conventions and standards. Elements
of quality, problem solving, and planning are stressed.
Students are expected to complete drawings in various basic and
intermediate drafting skill areas. The
concept of design and the problem solving process are also taught.
Technological proficiency is the goal of all industrial arts/technology
education classes; but it must be recognized that the thrust of Drafting &
Design is to provide a solid foundation in the concepts and skills appropriate
to the world of technical drawing and product design. It is intended that
Drafting and Design provide the beginning student with the skills and concepts
of drawing by hand on the drafting board in order to develop the
student’s ability to mentally visualize a product’s shape and form.
Only after this ability is
achieved should computer assisted drafting be introduced as an industrial method
to quickly create a design drawing.
Drafting
& Design - Course Outline
I. Introduction and Free Hand Sketching
(1 week)
II. Fundamentals of Drafting
(1 week)
III. Applied
Geometry
(1
week)
IV. Multiple
View Drawing
(2.5
weeks)
V. Dimensioning
(1.5 weeks)
VI. Computer Assisted Drafting Fundamentals
(2
weeks) ***
VII. Section
Drawings
(1.5
weeks)
VIII. Pictorial
Drawing
(2 weeks)
IX. Auxiliary Views
(1 week)
X. Fasteners
(1 week)
XI. Developments
(1 week)
XII. Architectural Concepts
(1.5 weeks)
XIII. Problem Solving/Engineering
(1 week)
Optional
Units:
I.
CAD/CAM and Relative Hi-Tech Developments
II.
Career
Development Skills
***
This unit is ongoing and implemented throughout the course.
Approximately 50% of all assigned drawings should be completed on the
computer assisted drafting system by the end of the course.
Drafting
& Design - Key Assessments:
1.
Develop skills in the use of the drafting instruments, drafting aides
(templates, etc.) and computer aided design software used in Drafting &
Design.
2.
Develop skills in the completion of basic and advanced applied geometric
construction problems.
3.
Apply problem solving techniques in the solution of a design problem.
4.
Demonstrate knowledge necessary to create usable working drawings.
5.
Construct to a prescribed scale three orthographic views of an object
from a given pictorial, sketch or object.
6.
Apply standard rules and conventional practices of dimensioning to
properly specify dimensions of objects and use notes and notations to properly
control the size features of objects.
7.
Produce and interpret drawings in the drafting fields of fasteners,
orthographic projection, sectioning, pictorial, architectural, auxiliary and
development drawings.
8.
Demonstrate self-reliance and skill in the utilization of human,
electronic and written resources to solve problems independently or in teams.
9.
Measure and draw lines and other drawing features to prescribed sizes
using the architect, mechanical engineer, fractional and metric scales.
10.
Develop a portfolio of student work.
11. Successfully complete a final examination
