Course Number MEng 2061

Course Title Engineering Drawing

Degree Program BSc in civil Engineering
Module Basic Engineering Skill
Module Coordinator -NN-
Lecturer Mr. Yonael m. (MSc.)
ECTS Credits 5
Contact Hours (per week) 2+0+3+5
Course Objectives & Course Objectives
Competences to be Will enable students:
Acquired
 To develop the understanding of drawings,
 To improve the concept of orthographic projects etc., at the
end of the course they should be in a position to understand
the language of Engineers, i.e., drawing.
 To develop idea of preparation of various types of drawing
industrial sectors,
 To expose students to actual technical drawing techniques for
variety of components, so that they understand any type of
technical drawing in practice.
Competences (Learning Outcomes)
 Improved sketching skills
 Easily understanding of geometrical drawing
 Prepare various types of drawings industrial sectors
 Understand the language of drawing and use drawing as a means of
communication ideas
 Prepare different drawings
 Easily understand technical drawings
 Will have one big Engineering concept
Course 1. Introduction
Description/Course Importance of Engineering Drawing
Contents Standard Paper layout
Drawing instruments and their uses
Alphabets of lines
Technical Lettering
2. Geometrical Constructions**
2.1 Lines and angles
2.2 Construction of Regular polygons
2.3 Construction of curves used in engineering practices
2.3.1. Simple curves and arcs
2.3.2. Conic Sections: Ellipse, parabola, hyperbola
2.3.3. Cycloid curves: cycloid, epicycloids, and hypocycloid
2.3.4. Involutes: Archimedean spiral
3. Orthographic projection
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Principles of Orthographic projection
3.3. Projection of points and lines
3.4. Projection of planes
3.4.1 Point projections on a plane
 3.4.2 Edge view, True shape and True slope of a plane
3.4.3 Finding shortest distances
3.4.4 Piercing points
3.5. Projection of solids
4. Multi-view Representation
4.1. Introduction
4.2. First angle method of projection
4.2 Third angle method of projection
5. Auxiliary and Revolved views
5.1 Primary auxiliary views
5.2 Secondary auxiliary views
5.3 Revolved views
6. Pictorial Drawings
6.1 Introduction
6.2 axonometric projections
6.3 Isometric drawing
6.3 Oblique drawing
7. Sectioning
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Types of sectional views
7.2.1 Full Section
7.2.2 Offset Section
7.2.3 Half Section
7.2.4 Broken out section
7.2.5 Revolved Section
7.2.6 Removed Section
7.2.7 Phantom Section
7.2.8 Auxiliary section
7.3 Techniques in Sectioning
8. Basic Dimensioning
8.1 General concepts on size and location dimensioning
8.2 Basic dimensioning practice
8.2.1 Dimension line
8.2.2 Extension line
8.2.3 Arrow heads
8.2.4 Leaders and pointers
8.2.5 Finish marks
8.3 Method of dimensioning
8.3.1 Aligned method
8.3.2 Unidirectional method
9 Intersections and Developments
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Methods for finding the line of intersection
9.2.1 Element method
9.2.2 cutting plane method
9.2.3 Common sphere method
9.3 Common intersections
9.3.1 Cone and cylinder intersection
9.3.2 Right cone – vertical cylinder intersection
9.4 Development of cylinders
9.5 Development of T-pieces
 9.5 Development of Pyramids
9.6 Development of cones

**-Since this chapter is giving steps for construction are given, better
given as a reading assignment with handouts and work more in the
tutorial time
Pre-requisites None
Semester Year II, Semester I
Status of Course Compulsory
Teaching & Learning  Lecture on each topic
Methods  Tutorials in the class: representative exercises will be given for
students and each student will discuss with his instructor and/or
technical assistant to increase the depth of understanding
 Home exercises will be given for each student: these exercises are
aimed to be done by individual student as home assignment.
Assessment/Evaluation &  Class Activity: 10%
Grading System  Individual Assignment: 20%
 Mid-term examination: 20%
 Final examination: 50%
Attendance Requirements At least
75% of the lecture class and
90% of the tutorial class should be attended
Literature  Frederick E. Gieseck, Technical Drawing, Jul 18, 2005
 Warren J. Luzzader and Jon M. Duff, Fundamentals of Engineering
Drawing, Prentice Hall, New Jersy, 11th ed, 1983
 Cecil Jensen and Jay D. Helsel, Engineering Drawing and Design,
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, New York, 5th ed, 1996
 R.R Nair and TVG Setty, Descriptive Geometry, AAU, 1981
 Engineering Drawing and Graphic Technology - Thomas French,
Charles Vierck, and Robert Foster, Jan, 1993. (better text Not
Available)
 Modern Engineering Graphics and Design - Voland G.S., Dec 1999