engineering graphics, autocad and programming

Drafting Engineer = A❧Someone who can produce a wide variety of drawings with minimal guidance.. Drafter = B❧Can produce drawings on a wide variety of projects but needs assistance in un

Engineering Graphics, AutoCAD and Programming, CE20

Kurt McMullin, Ph.D., P.E

San Jose State University

Course Goals from CE Faculty

❧ To be introduced to the types of projects that civil engineers

Who we are not?

❧ Not artists Their

Who we might be

❧ Drafters Most times

we produce work for

drafters to perform.

❧ We may be called

upon to draw

production quality

drawings when the

drafting people are

Who we will probably be

we might create, or that another engineer may have made

before.

❧ Working in teams, group interaction.

❧ Visual presentations

by instructor (Mmedia, video)

❧ Computer assignments.

And the Losers!

❧ And it also listed those

least preferred.

❧ Homework, especially ungraded.

❧ Formal “chalkboard” lecture.

❧Cooperative learning = students work in

small teams, sharing their knowledge and learning from their fellow team members

Drafting Engineer = A

❧Someone who can produce a wide variety

of drawings with minimal guidance

❧Exams and projects show that engineer can analyze information and make rational

decisions

Drafter = B

❧Can produce drawings on a wide variety of projects but needs assistance in

understanding the layout, orientation,

and/or other pertinent information

❧Can choose the appropriate drawing view for a project

❧Can scale and layout drawing

Beginner = D

❧Can use some commands of AutoCAD but

is unable to complete the drawings

assigned

❧Shows potential but needs to improve in productivity

self-❧ Loyal to fellow workers and

employers.

❧ Does not advance at the expense of others.

❧ Proud of profession.

Extra Credit for CE20

❧I will allow up to 5% of the course grade for students to receive extra credit

❧This extra credit is awarded for

extracurricular activities where the student participates

❧Credit is received after a paper explaining the work is written and reviewed

Rules for Extra Credit

❧Activity must be related to civil

engineering

❧Student must play an active role in the activity Officer of a club, attendance at seminars and/or presentations

❧Student is not compensated: credit for CE105, class field trips, paid internships

Acceptable Ideas?

❧A wide variety of activities and/or ideas

will qualify for this extra credit

❧Please talk to the instructor about what you are involved with, how it could be used for extra credit, and how much extra credit the activity is worth

McMullin’s Law of Plotters

❧ Theorem 1

❧ Plotters and printers work 99%

of the time.

Corollary 1

❧ 1% of the time, printers and plotters don’t work.

❧ This always occurs before deadlines.

Corollary 2

❧ Your client’s schedule

is NOT dependent

upon the operation of

your computer, printer

or plotter.

CADBOMB

❧ We must learn to schedule our work so that an inoperable computer, printer, or plotter will not cause a crisis.

❧ Keep hardcopies of works-in-progress

Remember that you may need to substitute the draft for the final document.

❧ Know of additional facilities for emergency Campus computer labs, Kinko’s, CAD Services.

Civil Engineers sometimes work

in less than ideal situations

computer facilities that when we lose them we can’t continue our

work.

❧ Lives sometime depend upon our immediate response to