Engineering Graphics And Computer Aided Design: A Foundation To Engineering Design And Analysis

With the advent of solid modeling, the importance of engineering graphics has been emphasized. Many employers hiring engineers expect their new engineers to have some solid modeling expertise from their academic experience. As with many engineering schools, engineering graphics was greatly curtailed at Rensselaer during the 1980’s. When engineering graphics was reintroduced at Rensselaer as a required freshmanengineering course in 1991, there were two major goals. The first was to teach the fundamentals of engineering graphics using solid modeling as opposed to a user course in the specific solid modeling software. The second goal as to provide the students with an opportunity to use solid modeling as an engineering tool for conceptual design, detailed design and engineering analysis.