Drafting Level II Career Futures

 

      
 

Careers   Suggested Time: 2 Sessions of 45 minutes
 
 
Learning Outcomes:
  • To understand the wide range of exciting careers that use the skills and interests that you will develop in Design and Drafting.

 
 

Preparing for the Workplace:

It is important for you to understand that studying drafting is just a gateway to many types of careers. That career may be entry level as a drafting technologist can grow to project manager or senior designer with years of experience. You may work in construction or manufacturing and fined that the skills you have gained to read and understanding technical drawings and the designing process, gives you an edge in your employment. It is the goal of this course to give you the technical skills and give opportunity to explore areas of employment you may never have thought of. Drafting and Design, with their focus on the visual communication of ideas, provide a fundamental set of skills for technologist and technician careers and are increasingly important to many trades.

Drafting Technologists and Technicians

Drafting Technologists and Technicians develop and prepare engineering designs and drawings from sketches, engineering calculations, specification sheets and other data. They may write technical reports, submit construction specifications, costs and materials estimates, and prepare contracts and tender documents. They may work independently, in teams with engineers from many disciplines, or as support staff for engineers, architects, and industrial designers.

Drafting and Design Professionals

With additional education or experience, those with a background in the drafting and design area can move into other professions. The design sector includes architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, communications design, industrial or mechanical design, computer animation, and urban planning. 1

Exercise 1:

  1. Follow this link http://www.workfutures.bc.ca and put "design" in the search box. Spend some time looking through the site.
  2. Follow this link http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos111.htm. Spend some time looking through the site.
  3. Find other sites that have information on careers.
  4. Using information you have found on these 2 sites and at least 1 that you have found, complete the following Careers exercise 1.

 

Exercise 2:

  1. Explore a number of companies on the internet that would be related to your field of interest in drafting. Complete the following Exercise 2