2018-19 CTE Instructional Program Review
First name
Lilya
Last name
Vorobey
Email
vorobey@smccd.edu
Program Name
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Drafting Technology


Division
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Business/Technology


Submission Date
Nov-1-2018


Description of Program
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2b. Program coherence and effectiveness: Explain any curriculum changes since last program review, including SLO alignments.
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We have been concerned about offering stand-alone advanced classes when we have only an evening program and one beginning class feeding those courses. As a solution, we now teach DRAF 110 Solidworks I concurrently with DRAF 111 Solidworks II while the DRAF 122 AutoCAD 3D has been banked do the difficulty of teaching AutoCAD 2D and 3d together since the program is distinctively dissimilar in its 2D and 3D sections.

Factors that undermine enrollment is the lack of local knowledge within CSM, high schools, the San Mateo community. In addition, CAD employment is cyclical in nature. If job unemployment numbers are low, our program has suffered in the past. Now, the effort of our Work Force Development team’s outreach to employers has created a positive enrollment factor that is growing.

Addressing low enrollment by merging the drafting courses into the new Industrial Design program where CAD classes will be a requirement will also help. With our new Work Force Development team and the new design curriculum, we will be able to change the technology department environment by adding a new transfer program relevant to the community’s needs.


2c. Student success and equity: Discuss what your program has done to address equity gaps between student populations and between modes of delivery (online, hybrid, and face-to-face), describing your successes, works in progress, and/or ongoing challenges.
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The fairly new DRAF 113 REVIT architecture course has steadily picked up enrollment. We will soon market this program to contractors, HVAC and the MEP trades since the architecture community has embraced the program by including it in their job applications as a requirement. Once this Building Information Management program gains a reputation across disciplines, it will most likely replace AutoCAD and other CAD programs used in the building trades thus becoming a staple of CAD study. Even though this particular program is architecturally based, and we offered it to enhance the architecture program, we will keep it in the design curriculum to enhance interdisciplinary studies until the Architecture Program can support it.

Since the last program review, we have banked DRAF 122 AutoCad II since enrollment is impossible without having multiple DRAF 121 classes to feed the advanced class (please refer to 2. a).


Student Success and Equity
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2d. Provide an update on any long-term plans that are still in progress (if applicable).
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The new Industrial Design program is in the works!
At the end of spring 2019 we will have new course forms (Fall 2018) course syllabi, and a fab lab/maker space that will include DGME, Engineering, Business, Industrial Design and the Library as hosts to a new learning community.


Course and program assessment
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3b. General Education / Institutional assessment. Discuss participation in any General Education, Core Competencies, institutional or interdisciplinary assessment activities. 
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 The one full time Faculty took semester long courses in the graduate Social Justice and Equity program at San Francisco State University.

 Collaboration with DGME faculty is ongoing. Cross discipline work, specifically taking UX/UI design from 2D to 3D will be part of the new ID program.


4a. Review the program's available labor market data, as applicable. Here are two relevant links:
Explain how the program meets a documented labor market demand.
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By ignoring the drafting program as a stand-alone profession, and by incorporating drafting into the future Industrial Design program, we look to merge a number of professions that our current department trains. The new program will include training of the following professions which in the SCEDD Labor Market Information Division shows and annual growth of 0.7% from 2014-2024 or a 7.2% rise over the 10 year span while Architectural and Civil Drafters (17-3011) 12%

Average Base Pay for these professions in the San Francisco Bay Area is 27% above the national average.
(https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-industrial-designer-salary-SRCH_IL.0,13_IM759_KO14,33.htm)

 Design Intern Average Base Pay: $60K year
 Industrial Design Engineer Average Base Pay: $87K year
 Junior Industrial Designer Average Base Pay: $75K year
 Product Design Intern Average Base Pay: $107K year
 Industrial Design Manager Average Base Pay: $129K year

These statistics do not include small businesses. Information regarding sole proprietorship is unobtainable. Yet, this job force should not be ignored. Without being self-aggrandizing, my own small business that trains students to build furniture, swag displays and signage for tech companies is overwhelmed with work. We are now out-sourcing 38% of the work to other small businesses in the area.


4b. Summarize student outcomes in terms of degrees and certificates. Identify areas of accomplishments and areas of concern.
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As mentioned before, a large number of students come to the drafting classes to accent or re-evaluate their job skills or to complement their Architecture major. CAD programs (Solidworks, AutoCAD and REVIT) also offer a myriad of certifications, from associate to professional levels that are job specific such as CSWA-Additive Manufacturing, Electrical, Sustainability, Academic, etc. These certifications are coveted by many employers since they provide a clear benchmark of knowledge and competency skills.

Even though we align our classes to various software certifications, the individual software company certifications have more weight in the employment category. Consequently our students are more concerned with job placement and not transferring. Although, those who do transfer generally list something other than DRAF as their majors and are not entered into our transfer rates. Yet, our certificate of specialization did award 8 student completions.

Once the Industrial Design program is implemented, the AA and AS degrees should rise because of the programs obligation of transferring to complete graduate degrees in the field.


4c. Review and update the program’s Advisory Committee information. Provide the date of most recent advisory committee meeting.
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Drafting Advisory Council Members
Spring 2018 Meeting

 Robert Scheren, AIA Architect, Dean & Professor Emeritus, Kent State University, Harvard.
 Joseph Nobles, Joseph Nobles Design, formerly Project Manager with 8 Inc. Design (think Apple Stores) http://eightinc.com/
 Steven Jacobs, Project Manager, Concept Designs, Palo Alto http://www.conceptdesignsinc.com
 Tony Calavano, Digitization Lab Manager, Stanford University
 Lilya Vorobey, Faculty, Designer/Fabricator: Vorobey &
 Dean Heidi Diamond
 We are looking for a student member at this time.

The concept of the new industrial design program was met with enthusiasm especially since there are no community colleges in the Bay Area that host such a program even though we are situated in a hotbed of the design world.

The goal with the new curriculum is to accommodate transferring to local universities and colleges as effortless transition. In addition, provide students through course work that will train them to critically think through design problems, materials, learn trade skills (use of machinery) and create a portfolio that can be used to gain employment as interns.


5a. Provide a brief description, including actions, measurable outcomes, and timelines  
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The new Industrial Design curriculum is being prepared 2018-2019 in conjunction with creating a prototype lab (maker space) somewhere in building 19.

 Fall 2018, all new course forms will be completed.
 Spring 2019 course syllabi will be completed for review by the Advisory Committee.
 Discussions with the library maker space, DGME, Business, and the Engineering departments have begun in order to not duplicate equipment and to best serve our student community. The new fab lab will be somewhere in Building 19.


5b. What will your program do to increase student success and promote student equity in the next two years? What kind of professional development and institutional support will be engaged and enacted to meet these goals?  
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Increasing Student Success:
Work with local high schools and in our classrooms to promote the new ID program
Professional Development and Institutional Support:
 Use Work Force Development grant and the Perkins Fund to create new ID curriculum.
 Create an industrial equivalency of a prototype lab to complement the new program.
 Promote the new program to the community through news media, social media and on campus demonstrations in the library maker space.


5c. Describe other professional development activities and institutional support and collaborations that would most effectively ensure that the program achieve its goals and plans.  
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Professional Development:
 Being current in the latest software and industrial technologies is an ongoing extracurricular activity. Software is updated yearly and requires serious study.
 Industrial/manufacturing process changes require extensive reading.
 Local machinery/industrial design conferences are attended at no cost to the college.
Institutional Support:
 Institutional support in the form of advertising will be necessary when the program is finally offered to the community.