CAD (Computer Aided Design) provides a convenient mean to create designs for almost every engineering discipline. It can be used for architectural design, landscape design, interior design, civil and surveying, mechanical design, electrical engineering, plant design, industrial design, duct design, electronic circuit design, plumbing design, textile design and product design.

The following are the main objectives of CAD Lab:

• To present an overview of CADD and describe its applications in different fields.
• To describe common terms associated with CADD hardware and software.
• To outline the basic principles associated with CADD and to demonstrate common drafting techniques and shortcuts used by professionals.
• To introduce the advanced capabilities of CADD and how they can be used to increase productivity.
• To provide information about the CADD industry resources.
• Model the 3-D geometric information of machine components including assemblies, and automatically generate 2-D production drawings
• Understand the basic analytical fundamentals that are used to create and manipulate geometric models in a computer program,
• Improve visualization ability of machine components and assemblies before their actual fabrication through modeling, animation, shading, rendering, lighting and coloring,
• Model complex shapes including freeform curves and surfaces.