Industrial Drafting DVS

The Diploma of Vocational Studies (D.V.S.) in industrial drafting has a duration of 1800 hours, full time and comprises a 90 hour internship in the industry. The purpose of the program is to develop the skills necessary to determine the information to include on drawings, such as: solve problems related to industrial drafting, taking and interpreting measurements; develop the skills necessary to understand manufacturing, such as: interpreting technical information related to materials and manufacturing processes, illustrating the arrangement of components and power train systems; develop the skills necessary to interpret, carry out, and correct drawings and to produce sketches, to use specialized functions of a computer-aided drafting program, to produce detail drawings of mechanical components, assembly, mechanisms, piping and circuit diagrams, making three-dimensional drawings and designing a simple technical object; develop the necessary skills for multi-disciplinary team work and to integrate into school and work life.

What career path will Herzing College prepare me for?

Graduates will be prepared to work as drafting technologists and technicians and they will prepare engineering designs, drawings and related technical information, in multidisciplinary engineering teams or in support of engineers, architects or industrial designers, or they may work independently. They are employed by consulting and construction companies, utility, resource and manufacturing companies, all levels of government and by a wide range of other establishments.

What competencies will I have acquired by the end of my studies?

• Interpret technical drawings
• Take and interpret measurements
• Adapt to the new types of work organization
• Determine their suitability for the trade and the training process
• Solve problems related to industrial drafting
• Produce sketches
• Work at a computerized work station
• Produce detail drawings of mechanical components
• Illustrate fasteners
• Illustrate the arrangement and movement of the components of a mechanism
• Interpret technical information about materials and manufacturing processes
• Produce assembly drawings
• Use the specialized functions of a computer-aided drafting program
• Determine dimensional tolerances
• Correct a drawing
• Illustrate power train systems
• Produce development drawings
• Make a three-dimensional model of an object
• Produce detail drawings of a mechanism
• Make piping and circuit diagrams
• Use job search or entrepreneurial techniques
• Produce drawings for a mechanical system
• Draw the housing of a machine
• Design a simple technical object
• Enter the workforce

Admission Requirements

To be eligible for admission to the Industrial Drafting program, candidates must meet one of the following requirements:

• Persons holding a Secondary School Diploma or its recognized equivalent.
• Persons who are at least 16 years of age on September 30 of the school year in which their training is to begin and have earned the Secondary IV credits in language of instruction, second language and mathematics in the programs of study established by the Minister, or have been granted recognition of equivalent learning.
• Persons who are at least 18 years of age upon entry into the program and have the following functional prerequisites: the successful completion of the General Development Test and the course in language of instruction ENG-3070-3, mathematics MTH-2102-3, or recognition of equivalent learning.
• Persons having earned Secondary III credits in language of instruction, second language and mathematics in the programs of study established by the Minister and who will continue their general education courses concurrently with their vocational training in order to obtain the credits they are missing among the following: Secondary IV language of instruction, second language and mathematics in the programs of study established by the Minister.