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The Drafting Department includes two areas: Basic Engineering Drafting and Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) with advanced 3D CAD design. The Engineering drafting area consists of introductory drafting classes for students requiring transfer credits to the Cal State system or for entry level vocational skills required in the current job market and is offered for beginning drafting students with no prior experience. The student will come away with the ability to understand the basic principles of drafting. Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) with advanced 3D CAD design program includes computer related classes in drafting that start with preparation for inexperienced students and lead up to classes that will prepare students for jobs in advance computer modeling. The first class offers a complete familiarization of Auto CAD which begins with simple drawings. The advanced classes give the students the opportunity to become familiar with state-of- the-art parametric modeling using AutoCAD’s most current Inventor Professional Series programs.

Certificates of Achievements are available for Technical Drafting in a one-year program and a two-year program. We also offer a 3 semester certificate that is co-listed with the Architectural program that allows students to acquire additional experience of CAD. Entry level technical drafting skills can be obtained after one year. The two year program offers the student the ability to obtain employment in industries using 3D modeling. We have combined our original Drafting 100, Technical Drafting, with the new beginning CAD 101 class at the advice of our advisory committee. This will give us two classes that will take a student from the beginning of CAD to the advanced level of AutoCAD in one year. The second year of the program would be advanced activities using AutoCAD and Inventor Professional software.

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