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CAD TECHNOLOGY
Technical Certificate of Credit

The intent of the CAD Technology Technical Certificate of Credit program is to prepare students for the workplace as CAD Drafters and Designers and upgrade the CAD skills of working architects, engineers, drafters, and designers.

Upon completion of the courses in the CAD Technology program, graduates will have developed advanced CAD drafting and design skills using AutoCAD and a specialty software package from their choice of electronics, mechanical design, architectural design, civil design, or graphics programming.

Admission Requirements

  1. A potential student must have a high school diploma or GED.

  2. A potential student must make application at Chattanooga State Technical Community College.

  3. A potential student must be college level in reading, writing, and mathematics. If a student is not college level, then the appropriate transitional courses must be taken first. ACT or COMPASS test scores determine which transitional courses must be taken. However, the first CAD course, DD 114 can be completed as a special student.

Graduation Requirements

  1. A student must complete all of the courses in the program with a grade of "C" or better.

SUMMARY OF REQUIRED HOURS

    Semester Hours
Course No. Course Title Fall Spring
1st YR      
DD 114 CAD Engineering Drawing I 3  
DD 124 CAD Engineering Drawing II   3
MATH 1710 College Algebra 3  
MATH 1720 Pre-Calculus   4
    6 7
       
2nd YR      
DD 204 CAD Engineering Drawing III 3  
DD Elective Approved CAD Elective Course   3
    3 3
  Total Hours:  20    


Approved DD Electives

DD 116 CAD For Electronics (3 hrs)
DD 218 Civil 3D (3 hrs)
DD 222 Introduction to ProEngineer (3 hrs)
DD 227 Autodesk Inventor (3 hrs)
DD 243, 253 Solidworks I, II (3 hrs)

For More Information:
Engineering Technology Department
Chattanooga State Technical Community College
4501 Amnicola Highway
Chattanooga, TN 37406

Phone: (423) 697-4724

Email: Stuart Hilton at stuart.hilton@chattanoogastate.edu

Fax (423) 697-4493 


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