Drafting Universities

Drafting universities supply the educational needs for those individuals who want to pursue a career in the drafting field. Typically, they provide a drafting education that is in keeping with the minimum requirements to gain an entry level position, although you can also find drafting schools that offer advanced training and even degrees.

A drafting college can be a separate school or belong to a larger university under an art or engineering department. Drafting classes will run the gamut from math and English to computer assisted drafting and drawing. This Web site exists to assist you in your search for a quality drafting school or drafting college.

What does a drafter do?

A drafter translates the ideas and rough sketches of a professional engineer or architect into detailed drawings that builders and others can follow. These drawings make sure that a building or product is in keeping with the designer's original concept. Drafters:

• Analyze plans for cost and consideration,
• Utilize various machines, drafting tools, engineering practices and math to complete drawings,
• Specialize in a field, and
• Perform a variety of tasks such as working with computers and word processing to generate reports.

A drafting school will teach students to make drawings and plans to specify dimensions, materials, and processes used in creating the final product. Accuracy and precision are required for the workers to build or make whatever is being produced to the designer's specifications. Drafting colleges will provide you with the skills to make drawings from blueprints, engineering sketches, photos and other sources, which show how parts and other objects work, their relation to one another, and how they will be put together.

There are basically four different levels of drafters. They are:

• Trainee drafter: work is basically uncomplicated, routine and supervised.
• Intermediate drafter: has some experience, does simple drawings and calculations, lightly supervised.
• Senior drafter: responsible for many calculations, works as a crew leader, decision-making duties.
• Design drafter: works with the project engineer and chief designer, develops design concepts, acts as a supervisor and as go-between for the drafting room and the production area or construction site.

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