Overview
Sketches are a used to communicate engineering: ideas, solve problems, innovate, and plan activities. Graphics is a universal language. A picture is still worth a thousand words.
Engineering requires graphics in the form of: Flow Diagrams, Performance Graphs, Schedule Bar Charts, P&ID’s, Electrical Schematics, HVAC drawings, Control Diagrams, Product Drawings, Production Equipment Drawings, Building Drawings, Topography, etc.
This 2 PDH course presents freehand sketching as a method for:
- Creating initial concepts of production processes
- Originating equipment designs
- Analyzing equipment performance
- Communicating ideas
- Reducing the time to complete engineering projects
Mechanical, electrical, piping, structural, chemical, instrumentation, environmental, industrial, and process engineering disciplines use graphics in one or more forms. The freehand sketching techniques described in this course apply to all engineering disciplines.
The student must take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of seventeen (17) questions at the end of the course to obtain PDH credits.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- How to use sketches to accurately and succinctly communicate your design to a draftsman
- How engineering sketches can reduce drafting errors
- How to quickly sketch a simplified representation of complex equipment
- How to represent the “ideal layout” of a piping system with sketches
- How to quickly layout and dimension manufacturing and process plant layouts
- The progression from concept sketch to assembly drawing
- Simple sketching techniques to draw straight lines and common geometrical shapes freehand
- How sketching speeds up the communication of new engineering concepts
Course
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Engineering Sketching for Design and Communication
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