EF Course Outline

Engineering Foundations Course Outline

Unit 1: Drafting Fundamentals

Students will understand technical drawing as the language of industry and identify how it is used in society.
Essential Questions: by the end of this unit, students will think about:

- What types of careers include technical drawings?
- What is engineering and what different areas of engineering?
- What are the goals of technical drawing?
- What is the purpose of standards in technical drawing?

Unit 2: Sketching

Students will understand how to convey information through sketching and understand the need for different types of sketching.
Essential Questions: by the end of this unit, students will think about:

- What is the importance of communicating ideas through sketching?
- How do different types of sketches effect the information communicated?

Connecticut Technology Education Standards addressed in this unit:

- Describe and demonstrate the use of graphic communication skills through sketching CADD.02.04
- Use freehand graphic communication skills to represent conceptual ideas, analysis, and design concepts CADD 08.03
- Explain the purpose of sketching and how it applies to design CADD 08.04
- Identify basic geometric elements (e.g., line, circle, rectangle, sphere, and cube) CADD.02.11

Unit 3: Geometry of an object

Students will understand geometry used in technical drawing.
Essential Questions: by the end of this unit, students will think about:

What is the meaning behind different lines used in technical drawing?
What does geometry mean in technical drawing?
How is geometry created in technical drawing?

Connecticut Technology Education Standards addressed in this unit:

Use the concepts of geometric construction in the development of design drawings CADD 05.04

Common Core State Standards

- Use geometric shapes, their measures, and their properties to describe objects HSG-MG.A.1
- Identify the shapes of two-dimensional cross-sections of three-dimensional objects, and identify three-dimensional objects generated by rotations of two-dimensional objects. HSG-GMD.B.4

Unit 4: Multiview Drawings

Students will understand conversion of a 3 dimensional object to 2 dimensional representation.
Essential Questions: by the end of this unit, students will think about:

- How are objects represented in space and what are the basic sides to an object?
- What is the need for auxiliary views?
- Why are pictorial drawings used in engineering?

Unit 5: Detailing the Drawing

Students will understand how to accurately detail drawings based on industry standards.
Essential Questions: by the end of this unit, students will think about:

- What is the purpose of multiview drawings?
- How are standards used to better understand multiview drawings?

Connecticut Technology Education Standards addressed in this unit:

- Evaluate choice and placement of dimensions, notes and annotations to clearly communicate design intent CADD.02.09
- Develop drawings using notes and specifications CADD.03.07

Common Core State Standards

Unit 6: Using the Computer as a Tool

Students will understand how to navigate computer-aided drafting programs to 3D models.
Essential Questions: by the end of this unit, students will think about:

- How does computer software help to create and speed up the engineering process?

Connecticut Technology Education Standards addressed in this unit:

- Apply conventional Computer Aided Drafting and Design processes and procedures accurately, appropriately, and safely CADD.02.01
- Send and access information through a network CADD.02.8

Unit 7: Engineering Design Process

Students will understand the engineering design process to modify/create a technology that is identified as a need for improvement.
Essential Questions: by the end of this unit, students will think about:

- What is the engineering process and how is it effectively used to design?
- How can I affect change in the world around me?

- What is the engineering process and how is it effectively used to design?
- How can I affect change in the world around me?

Connecticut Technology Education Standards addressed in this unit:

- Describe and utilize the steps in the design process ENG. 02.01
- Describe the process for researching known, relevant information, constraints, and limitations ENG 02.03
- Analyze and research between alternate solutions ENG 02.06
- Develop details of a solution ENG 02.07

Common Core State Standards

- Text Types and Purposes 10.W.2: Writing informative/explanatory text to examine and convey complex ideas.
- Research to Build and Present Knowledge 10.W.7: Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer questions (including self-generated questions) or solve a problem, narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
- Comprehension and Collaboration 10.SL.1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on topics, texts and issues.
- Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas 10.SL.4: Present information findings and supporting evidence, clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and tasks.
- Conventions of Standard English 10.L.1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English and usage when writing or speaking.
- Vocabulary Acquisition and Use 10.L.4: Determines or clarifies the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on reading and context.

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