Somerset College

Description

Engineering is big business and needs skilled people at all levels. These CAD courses are intended to complement Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Construction and Art and Design courses. They provide formal qualifications for those employed in industry or self-employed. This award is a Vocationally Related Qualification (VRQ) in Computer Aided Design. It has been designed by City and Guilds to meet our customers' needs for more modern, up to date and flexible qualifications. This comprehensive and practical course is offered at three levels - all three can be completed in 36 weeks.

After completing all three levels you will be able to:

• Use associated IT, CAD hardware and operating systems
• Use basic file management techniques and maintain health and safety requirements
• Understand the parametric modelling process, the user interface and how to access help and tutorial
• Use a range of commands to create and constrain sketches
• Use the range of commands to produce extruded and revolved features
• Use placed features to modify parametric models
• Use methods to create assemblies
•  Use the drawing layout environment to produce hard copies
  
  Dickies Workwear (UK) Ltd sponsors of staff workwear for this course.

Teaching and Assessment

Student-centred task-based learning. Practical assessments and an online multi-choice assessment.

Costs

Tuition fees : on enquiry

Contact

For further guidance and advice contact the Careers team on 01823 366 331, or email enquiries@somerset.ac.uk