MCAE 100 - Engineering Graphics Credits: 3

This course teaches that engineering design is a creative process by requiring the students to develop an artistic imagination, and to articulate and express their design concepts and ideas in precise details using engineering graphics. The students are encouraged that while using their imaginations to develop a product, the must remain be conscientious of the context and limitations imposed by the nature thus steer their design concepts in a direction that is in harmony with nature. The students are subsequently taught that proper vocabulary is required to cultivate and validate their design ideas through graphic expression. The students learn that free expression is not an unclear expression; it requires attention to the proper techniques to make it comprehensible and useful to the larger audience. Thus, a great deal of emphasis is placed on freehand and computer aided drawing to translate conceptual ideas to design drawings following proper techniques of delineation, layouts, projections, views, sizing and fits. Finally, students learn that a design, unless it encompasses all the essential elements that fit together, is not viable.

Category: Creativity & Expression - C