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

Mike Waggoner

Project Lead Designer, Black & Veatch Corporation

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.

Lydia Cruse

CADD/Engineering Technician, Kiewit Engineering, Inc.

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.

Brittany Kallenberger

CADD/Engineering Technician, Black & Veatch Corporation

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!

Todd Hague

CADD/Engineering Technician, Burns & McDonnell, Denver, CO

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 20 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.