Meeting & Agendas

Agenda Item: Architectural & Engineering CAD Industry Survey Presented By: Erlene Clark Discussion: Q. What is the principal focus of your organization or industry? A. Architecture Q. How many employees in your organization use CAD Tools? (If you don’t know the exact number, please estimate how many.) A. (12) Q. What are the job titles of employees using CAD in your organization? A. Architecture, Intern Architect Q. What CAD Software package(s) does your organization and industry use? A. Vectorworks and AutoCAD 2005 Q. What trends do you see in Engineering Graphics/CAD that the A&E CAD Department will/may need to respond to in the foreseeable future (up to five years if possible)? A. Simple 3D modeling programs that are easy to learn, e.g. sketch up, etc. Q. If your organization has hired A&E CAD students (since the last advisory meeting), what is your assessment of the skill levels of these individuals when they were initially hired? What could be improved? A. not applicable. ---------------------------------------- Agenda Item: Architectural & Engineering CAD Industry Survey Presented By: Matt Strickland Discussion: Q. What is the principal focus of your organization or industry? A. Design parking garages. Q. How many employees in your organization use CAD Tools? (If you don’t know the exact number, please estimate how many.) A. (8) Q. What are the job titles of employees using CAD in your organization? A. CAD Technicians, Architectural Interns, Project Designers, Project Managers. Q. What CAD Software package(s) does your organization and industry use? A. AutoCAD 2006 Q. What trends do you see in Engineering Graphics/CAD that the A&E CAD Department will/may need to respond to in the foreseeable future (up to five years if possible)? A. Construction document experience. Q. If your organization has hired A&E CAD students (since the last advisory meeting), what is your assessment of the skill levels of these individuals when they were initially hired? What could be improved? A. Not applicable. ---------------------------------------- Agenda Item: Architectural & Engineering CAD Industry Survey Presented By: John Glock Discussion: Q. What is the principal focus of your organization or industry? A. High School Instructor. Q. How many employees in your organization use CAD Tools? (If you don’t know the exact number, please estimate how many.) A. ACC feeder high schools-probably (40) teachers use these. Q. What are the job titles of employees using CAD in your organization? A. Instructors Q. What CAD Software package(s) does your organization and industry use? A. Mostly AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT and some Inventor. Q. What trends do you see in Engineering Graphics/CAD that the A&E CAD Department will/may need to respond to in the foreseeable future (up to five years if possible)? A. Public school instructors need to be kept informed on what ACC expectations are in order to keep our instruction as up-to-date as possible. Q. If your organization has hired A&E CAD students (since the last advisory meeting), what is your assessment of the skill levels of these individuals when they were initially hired? What could be improved? A. NA.-The problem facing public school systems in the next few years is going to be the hiring of qualified teachers to replace existing teachers as they retire. Colleges are not graduating teachers to replace us. ---------------------------------------- Agenda Item: Architectural & Engineering CAD Industry Survey Presented By: Vicki Luellen Discussion: Q. What is the principal focus of your organization or industry? A. To develop analog semiconductors and to increase market share in digital semiconductorss Q. How many employees in your organization use CAD Tools? (If you don’t know the exact number, please estimate how many.) A. Approximately (50) employees. Q. What are the job titles of employees using CAD in your organization? A. Engineers; Design, Layout, verification & implementation. Q. What CAD Software package(s) does your organization and industry use? A. Cadence, Synopsys & Slam Q. What trends do you see in Engineering Graphics/CAD that the A&E CAD Department will/may need to respond to in the foreseeable future (up to five years if possible)? A. The processes are getting smaller. Emphasis needs to be placed on how the circuitry works. Q. If your organization has hired A&E CAD students (since the last advisory meeting), what is your assessment of the skill levels of these individuals when they were initially hired? What could be improved? A. Our organization has not hired anyone lately but it is recommened that more knowledge of the FAB process and the complication of sub-micron devices can be given. ---------------------------------------- Agenda Item: Architectural & Engineering CAD Industry Survey Presented By: Cammi Klier Discussion: Q. What is the principal focus of your organization or industry? A. Residential building design-design and construction documents of custom homes, builder spec homes and remodel additions, engineering of structural framing plans and plan maintenance for several national home builders. Q. How many employees in your organization use CAD Tools? (If you don’t know the exact number, please estimate how many.) A. All of my employees, currently (7) and (2)new employees on the way will utilize CAD tools. Q. What are the job titles of employees using CAD in your organization? A. Owner, Production Managers, IT Manager, Drafters and Office Administrative Manager. Q. What CAD Software package(s) does your organization and industry use? A. AutoCAD 2005 Q. What trends do you see in Engineering Graphics/CAD that the A&E CAD Department will/may need to respond to in the foreseeable future (up to five years if possible)? A. Using other programs to more simply support 3-D, such as Revit or Sketch-up. Q. If your organization has hired A&E CAD students (since the last advisory meeting), what is your assessment of the skill levels of these individuals when they were initially hired? What could be improved? A. The last student hired was in September of 2005. She has had some problems learning organizational concepts and has had a bit of an attitude problem, but has recently come around. I don't think this is something ACC can train, this is a personality trait of this person, not a trainable skill. There have been other skilled employees that have been wonderful. One thing that I would like more help with is to find the right employee that fits us the best. Chris Hilton was helpful in this because he learned what we needed and was able to help place students with our company because he recommend students with specific traits that would work best for us. Since Chris has left, I have not had this luxury and would like to find out if it is possible. The employees that I have hired recently have been through Craigs List and not through ACC. If anyone has any ideas about this subject, I would be happy to discuss it further. Action Taken: Chris Hilton's replacement, Professor Erlene Clark will follow-up with client. Action Assigned To: Erlene Clark, Professor Action Due: June 15, 2006 ---------------------------------------- Agenda Item: EDG Industry Presented By: Charlie Fleetwood Discussion: Q. What is the principal focus of your organization or industry? A. Electro-Mechanical Design for the government. Q. How many employees in your organization use CAD Tools? (If you don’t know the exact number, please estimate how many.) A. There are ten organization in our directorate with approximately 150 using CAD tools. Q. What are the job titles of employees using CAD in your organization? A. Engineers & Technologist. Q. What CAD Software package(s) does your organization and industry use? A. Pro/E, SolidWorks, Mentor Graphics, Microstation,CDS,AutoCAD,Cadence,Tanner. Q. What trends do you see in Engineering Graphics/CAD that the A&E CAD Department will/may need to respond to in the foreseeable future (up to five years if possible)? A. For PCB (printed circuit board) I feel there are going to be more common place. i believe, as PCB Designers, are going to have to have a better knowledge of electrical circuits and how it affects the layout. Ability to analysis the circuit both pre and post layout. Q. If your organization has hired A&E CAD students (since the last advisory meeting), what is your assessment of the skill levels of these individuals when they were initially hired? What could be improved? A. We have hired (4) people over the past few years and although all have done well (2)areas of improvement that keeps coming up for improvement is Math and Electrical Design. ---------------------------------------- Agenda Item: EDG Industry Presented By: Don Fletcher Discussion: Q. What is the principal focus of your organization or industry? A. LCRA is the primary wholesale provider of reliable, competively priced electricity in Central Texas. It's been that way since 1937. Q. How many employees in your organization use CAD Tools? (If you don’t know the exact number, please estimate how many.) A. About 30 company wide, as for as I know it just AutoCAD no special programs just basic. Q. What are the job titles of employees using CAD in your organization? A. They run from drafter I and II, Design Technician I and II. Q. What CAD Software package(s) does your organization and industry use? A. Just the AutoCAD version 2005. Q. What trends do you see in Engineering Graphics/CAD that the A&E CAD Department will/may need to respond to in the foreseeable future (up to five years if possible)? A. We have jobs in so many areas from construction of power plants, transmission substations, construction of high voltage line towers to hydrology and maintenance of dams that we have up and down the Colorado River. We also own and maintain railroad cars for transporting gates that go inside the dams. Q. If your organization has hired A&E CAD students (since the last advisory meeting), what is your assessment of the skill levels of these individuals when they were initially hired? What could be improved? A. Right now we are hiring through Kelly services, I have referred Kelly services to contact ACC for employment options.