The End Product: Drawings and Reports

The ability to communicate technical information, verbally, written or drawn form, to a wide variety of people is one of the most important skills that engineering students need. Used both for their university study and for their careers as effective professionals in the future. Everything that is constructed or assembled requires drawings and reports to show how the different parts and pieces should be put together. Technical drawing, and report writing are a skill used to create the plans needed in construction and lay out the designed path with which construction or assembly may be completed. Reports are written in accordance to accepted standards. There are some minimum requirements, which every report has to satisfy for it to be accepted. Technical Drawings are detailed drawings drawn accurately and precisely. They are pictures that have been prepared with the aid of mathematical instruments in order to record and transmit technical information. They provide an exact and complete description of things that are to be built or manufactured.

Technical drawing is the preferred method of drafting in all engineering fields, including, but not limited to, civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and architecture. A technical drawing is a plan that visually communicates how something functions or has to be constructed. Technical drawing or drafting is the name often given to the process of producing engineering drawings. Technical drawings are also a type of language between engineers and drafters for the simple reason that the drawings can convey all of the following information without any ambiguity: geometry, dimensions, tolerances, material and finish. The drawing helps future machinist, fabricators and engineers understand what is to be built. Without the use of technical drawings will be very difficult to convey certain ideas dimension and aspects of the projects. Without the technical drawings engineers will be a discipline of the enormous guesswork. Technical drawings allow engineers to create designs, actually forces and stresses of structures, and work with manufacturers. The ability to understand and work with technical drives will not make someone a good engineer but it is a necessary skill on the way to becoming adept at the profession. An engineer would create these drawings out manually, using drafting boards, protractors, and triangles, pen and paper, until it moved to a high-tech medium, which will be discussed later. Any trade or skill that is based in design and construction of materials requires technical drawing skills. Trade schools for construction and degrees in architecture, interior design and engineering all require extensive training in technical drawing.

There are five phases of a technical drawing: creating the designs, reading and analyzing the designs, modifying the designs, computer software and computer aided design and manufacturing. All of which are critical to the successful