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EG 103 - Technical Drawing and Visualization

3 lecture hours 2 lab hours 4 credits
Course Description
The objective of this course is to acquaint Technical Communication students with three-dimensional relationships and the graphical conventions utilized within the engineering community. Course topics will include seeing, visualizing and communicating through visual forms. The investigation of shape and orientation recognition, isometric sketching, mechanical and architectural layout conventions, normal views, scales, sections, dimensioning, and chart and graph formats will be emphasized. In addition, CAD as a medium for creation, retrieving and manipulating spatial and quantitative data in visual form will be introduced. (prereq: none) 
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Have an understanding of logical spatial reasoning and visualization
  • Develop the ability to sketch in pictorial and orthographical forms
  • Have an understanding of both mechanical and architectural drawing conventions, terminology and symbology
  • Have an understanding of projective spatial graphics
  • Have an understanding of lifting graphical images from CAD and placing them in word processing documents
  • Have an understanding of and appreciation for differences in graphical data presentation forms
Prerequisites by Topic
  • None 
Course Topics
  • Scales and required equipment (2 classes)
  • Sketching and visualization (4 classes)
  • Projection theory and reference planes (3 classes)
  • Pictorials (2 classes)
  • Projection and spatial geometry (e.g., true length lines, point views, true size, edge views) (6 classes)
  • Sections (4 classes)
  • Dimensioning (4 classes)
  • Graphical presentation of data (4 classes)
  • Computer graphics (12 classes)
  • Architectural teminology and symbology (6 classes)
  • Evaluations (3 classes)
Laboratory Topics
  • Problems for each of the topics from the book or handout
  • Manipulation of cad files and lifting placing of graphical data in textual documents
  • Creation and evaluation of graphs and charts of various types
Coordinator
Marvin Bollman


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