CAD
Teachers: Mr. Barnes & Mr. Grigsby
Room: #421 — SHS Manufacturing Facility
(Computer Aided Design)
Course Description:
This course covers advanced CAD principles and practices that are used in industry today. The goal is to develop critical thinking skills via technical prints and drawing.
The main tools that is used for this course is Autodesk Inventor, SolidWorks, Fusion 360, and AutoCAD which students will work towards becoming an industry certified. Students may also get an opportunity for certification in other platforms such as Revit.
Students will also create three dimensional parts, assemblies, and drawings in which
some will be 3D printed to make them into reality.
**Taking Exploring Engineering is strongly encouraged (but not required) before attempting to take Computer Aided Design.
Course Outcome
Discover that technology extends our abilities to change the world; to cut,
shape, or put together materials, to move things from one place to another; to
reach further with our hands, voices, and senses.
Demonstrate and apply basic functionality in a 3D design.
Demonstrates understanding of basic assemblies and drawings.
Understand that there is no perfect design and that all designs can be improved upon.
Identify the parts of a system and explain how the parts working together
allow the system to do things the individual parts are unable to do alone.
Explain how tools and materials are used to create products.
Explore possible career pathways within engineering, design and architecture.
