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CADD Minor
Improve Your Employment Options
A CADD minor can only enhance your employability for many career paths. Completing the courses required for a CADD minor will enable you to use the newest technologies to draw two-and-three-dimensional engineering design models. In addition, you will learn engineering design and drafting technology concepts and be able to apply them in different projects. You can also explore to find out whether you might consider pursuing a four-year degree in Design & Drafting Technology to enhance your employment options. To see the CADD Minor requirements, click here.
Sample of Students’ Projects
The Design and Drafting Technology (CADD) program at UCM not only provided me with the education I needed for a successful career in the engineering field, but it also provided a pipeline to many of the engineering firms in the area. The skills and knowledge I gained were highly sought after in the industry at the time, and they still are today, 18 years later, and I am now involved in recruiting UCM CADD graduates for the same reason they were in demand back then. The program instills a solid understanding of the fundamentals necessary to meet or exceed all expectations in whatever career field their students should happen to choose.
UCM's Design & Drafting Technology program enabled me to advance my career by opening up doors that would have otherwise been closed to me. My BS degree allowed me the opportunity to interview and get a job with the design firm I'm currently at. I now have a career doing something I love that also doubled my annual salary with many opportunities for advancement instead of just another dead end job. The challenges in school helped prepare me for the challenges I face in my career.
I would recommend the program because not only did I learn enough to get my foot in the door of a company, but UCM's Design & Drafting Technology program also offered many networking opportunities with top companies and helped ensure that I would have a job upon graduation.
I loved that I was able to be introduced to a variety of design and drafting software that helped me pick up new software at my current job. I also loved that the teachers were always friendly, helpful, and available when I needed them.
I chose UCM because they were one of 5 schools in the mid-west that offered a 4 year Design and Drafting program. Not only that, the professors care about their students and know how to help them understand the material. The list of opportunities I was given is endless, from going to the capitol for Missouri STEM day, to going to Huntsville, AL to race a Human Rover at the NASA space center. Also, there is hands on learning and real life examples that are always being provided in class or lab. With that being said this program is hard to beat!
I am very thankful for what UCM had done for me as well as the Design & Drafting Technology Program.
CADD Faculty
The student to faculty ratio at UCM is 17 to 1, which allows professors to get to know students and provide personalized attention. In addition, students learn from highly knowledgeable and experienced full-time faculty members, who also provide individualized program advisement and guide students to the right path.
CADD Facilities
- UCM's CADD facilities house more than 80 computers for students and are among the most technologically advanced in the Midwest
- CADD labs are equipped with the latest workstations housing the most up-to-date software
- CADD labs also include 3D printers with the leading-edge digital trends
Industry Partnership
Student Organizations
There are two student organizations involved in the CADD program:
American Institute of Building Design (AIBD)
Design and Drafting Student Association (DDSA)
All CADD students are encouraged to join AIBD and/or DDSA to get involved in fun and rewarding activities. Student organizations offer leadership opportunities, learning experiences, and environments to network with fellow students, faculty, and industry professionals. In fact, our AIBD student organization has been recognized as the Student Chapter of The Year for the past two consecutive years.
Program Mission and Outcomes
Design & Drafting Technology Program Mission
The mission of the Design and Drafting Technology program at the University of Central Missouri is to provide a nationally accredited program of study designed to provide the technical, managerial, and general education needs of those desiring to enter or continue in design and drafting related professional career.
Design & Drafting Technology Program Outcomes
The design & drafting technology program is designed to prepare design/drafting professionals who possess the abilities (skill and knowledge) needed to be able to function competently in a wide variety of technical, leadership, and management roles. More specifically, the graduates of this program will demonstrate:
- an ability to select and apply the knowledge, techniques, skills, and modern tools of the discipline to broadly-defined engineering technology activities;
- an ability to apply written, oral, and graphical communication in both technical and non-technical environments;
- an ability to select and apply a knowledge of mathematics, science, engineering, and technology to design & drafting technology problems;
- an ability to identify, analyze, and solve broadly-defined design & drafting technology problems;
- an understanding of and a commitment to address professional and ethical responsibilities including a respect for diversity;
- knowledge of the impact of design & drafting technology solutions in a societal and global context; and
- an ability to function effectively as a member or leader on a technical team
For more information about the Design & Drafting Technology Minor, please contact our Design & Drafting Program Coordinator.
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