Engineering Graphics and Visualization (2D and 3D CAD)

General InformationMath is a basic skill. Whether you believe it or not - you use math several times in a day. Similarly, spatial visualization is another basic skill that is used even more than math. In this course, you will improve your skills in spatial visualization. Everybody should take a course in basic math. Knowledge of basic math actually determines if you are literate or not. Similarly, everybody should take a course in basic spatial visualization. However, despite it very important nature, not much attention is given to developing the basic skill of spatial visualization in our education system. This course will help fill that gap. Therefore, everybody should take this course. This course also initiates a paradigm shift in education. Nowadays, it is not difficult to find information about anything. The problem is not lack of information, but to know what one needs. Take the example of CAD software. There is tremendous amount of resources available for any CAD software. However, how does one learn that software? Where does one begin? What all does a person need to know to develop basic proficiency in that software? Such questions occupy the mind of a new learner. Most of the time the new learner gives up because they are not able to know what to know to develop competence. This course is independent of any software. I tell you the assignments that you need to do to develop competence in a CAD software. You may use whatever resources that are available to do those assignments. Once you complete the assignments you get a certificate that you have basic competence in that software and CAD in general.Above was a description of the course in lay man's terms. In more technical terms, the purpose of this class to allow the students to identify, depict and represent features in 3D and 2D objects. The term feature has been used in the general context of geometric features in parts, constraints in assemblies