Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

1. Demonstrate spatial visualization skills through the creation of two-dimensional drawings. 
2. Create and modify technical drawings appropriate to civil engineering applications.
3. Export drawing files that meet industry standards and practices.  

Individual and full class discussion; lab drawing assignments; exams; and final project deliverables may be used to assess
outcomes.

Themes, concepts, and issues:

Themes:

1. Civil, and related engineering students must be able to visualize objects in real space and apply them to a 2 dimensional paper and vice versa.  

2. Engineers need to be able to communicate with each other, and with construction personnel, using graphical representations.

3. Use a CAD program like AutoCAD or similar to draw Civil Engineering related concepts.  

4. Understand how plans go together

5. Understand how to navigate through plans

6. Understand industry standards

7. Navigate commands in CAD software to create industry ready drawings

Content:

1. Types and priorities of lines.

2. Sectional views appropriate for civil engineering fields

3. Dimensioning drawings.

4. Drawing commands such as, limits, snap, grid, ortho-mode, zoom, osnap, layers.

5. Modify commands such as fillet, chamfer, move, copy, mirror, offset, extend, array.

6. Tools Properties, polyline, stretch, rotate, blocks, external references.

7. User Coordinate System (UCS), viewports

8. Look at existing bid documents and plans.