Houston, John
ENGINEERING I
In Engineering I, students typically begin in the 9th grade, or freshman year of high school. Students spend the entire first semester learning traditional board skills. This starts with sketching and lettering and continues through detailed drawings, geometry, orthographic projections, and pictorial drawings. In the second semester, students are taught how to use AutoCAD. AutoCAD is then used to produce a series of drawings, starting from simple 2D templates to more complex 3D drawings with views in paper space and model space. This is explained in some detail below and some examples of student work are shown in the Engineering Student Project gallery on the previous page. The curriculum by which each lesson plan is created is available for download in the RESOURCES tab. At the end of this course, students will have enough skills for a entry-level internship position.
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Hand Sketching
This class typicaaly starts out with a sketching unit which is the easiest way to indoctrinate the students to some of the termanology and skills used in engineering design. The lessons are very specifically picked to guide the student trhough a series of steps to help them draw more accuratly and confidently. Lettering and dimensioning assignments are also completed before students begin actual drawing assignments. The rest of the semester is deicated to a varity of common drafting problems from the text, which is: Basic Technical Drawing, 6th ed., Spencer, Dygdon, Novak.​
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Intro to AutoCAD
Students are introduced to AutoCAD through a series of tutorial assignments designed to get them familiar with systems and tools in as short a time as possible. Once this is accomplished, students will generate a series of drawings (outlines in the curiculum area of this web page), starting them out easy and becomeing progressively more complex. The drawings lessons start in 2D and progress all the way through 3D in one semester. The drawings are complete with dimensions and notes. They are scaled properly in the AutoCAD viewport and use a complete layering system. Finished work is printed and plotted and kept in a student portfolio.