$2,850
16 months
5/18/2026
May 7th
Main Campus
for OTECH Grads
by 2032 in Utah
Now that my children have grown and left the nest, it’s my turn to go out into the world and have a career. And deciding to go to OTECH was a very easy decision. The classes are self-paced, up-to-date with what industry standard is. And whenever I need help, it’s personal and very one-on-one.
Drafting and Design Graduate
OTECH brings you something special that you can’t get anywhere else…my hands-on experience at OTECH has prepared me for my future career…grateful that OTECH has given me the knowledge to be able and confident when I start.
Composites, Drafting and Design, Machining Technology Graduate
Develop a strong working knowledge of visual communication and its technical skills.
Understand the basics of effective design and use those skills to build models of interiors, civil structures, and more.
Use industry-standard software to create project drawings for architecture and manufacturing industries.
Learn to create both digital and physical 3D models.
Create physical models using advanced manufacturing equipment to laser-cut parts.
Learn how to use state-of-the-art 3D printers to create parts and molds.
Use CAD software to create detailed plans, layouts, and technical drawings that support building designs and architectural projects.
Use CAD software to develop precise technical drawings and plans for commercial buildings, including structural, mechanical, and layout details.
Use CAD software to produce interior floor plans, layouts, and detailed drawings that support space planning and interior design projects.
Create detailed technical drawings and plans for construction and infrastructure projects, utilizing CAD software.
Use CAD software to produce technical drawings and plans for mechanical devices, equipment, and systems.
Use CAD software to design 3D models and prepare digital files for additive manufacturing processes such as 3D printing.
The Drafting and Design program immerses students in a project-based curriculum focused on one of the following industries: Architecture Design, Structural Design, Civil Design, Interior Design, Manufacturing Design, and Additive Manufacturing Design. Students receive one-on-one aid from experienced instructors, review best practices, and focus on industry standards. All courses are computer-intensive and competency-based.
Classroom Hours
Day: M-F 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Eve: M-Th 5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Enrollment open to
Adults, High school students
Credit transfer options
Available to view here
Estimated Adult Tuition and Fees
$2,895.00
Estimated Materials Cost
$0.00
Estimated High School Student Cost
$0.00
Financial Aid Eligibility
Scholarship: Yes
VA: Yes
Pell Grant: Yes
| TEDR 1010 Advanced Technical Drafting | ||
|---|---|---|
| Material | Required | New |
| Ashleigh Congdon-Fuller, Antonio Ramirez, Douglas Smith Technical Drawing 101 with AutoCAD 2026: A Multidisciplinary Guide to Drafting Theory and Practice ISBN: 978-1630577520 | $96.00 | |
| Subtotal of required materials | $0.00 |
| TEDR 1130 Commercial Drafting | ||
|---|---|---|
| Material | Required | New |
| ASCENT Autodesk Revit 2026 Structure Fundamentals CDCpublications, 2026. ISBN: 978-1-63057-744-5 | $110.00 | |
| Subtotal of required materials | $0.00 |
| TEDR 1100 Residential Drafting | ||
|---|---|---|
| Material | Required | New |
| Elise Moss Autodesk Revit 2026 Architecture Basics: From the Ground Up ISBN: 1630577421 | $100.00 | |
| Subtotal of required materials | $0.00 |
| TEDR 1110 Introduction to Building Information Modeling | ||
|---|---|---|
| Material | Required | New |
| Daniel John Stine Design Integration Using Autodesk Revit 2026: Architecture, Structure and MEP ISBN: 978-1630577261 | $110.00 | |
| Subtotal of required materials | $0.00 |
| TEDR 1300 Civil Drafting | ||
|---|---|---|
| Material | Required | New |
| Ascent Autodesk Civil 3D 2026 Fundamentals 2026. ISBN: 978-1-63057-733-9 | $100.00 | |
| Subtotal of required materials | $0.00 |
| TEDR 1108 Architectural CAD Modeling Interior Design | ||
|---|---|---|
| Material | Required | New |
| SketchUp Training Manual (PDF Download) | ✔ | $36.45 |
| Subtotal of required materials | $36.45 |
| TEDR 1120 Residential Architectural Design | ||
|---|---|---|
| Material | Required | New |
| Daniel John Stine Residential Design Using Autodesk Revit 2026 ISBN: 978-1630577315 | $100.00 | |
| Subtotal of required materials | $0.00 |
| TEDR 1125 Structural Design | ||
|---|---|---|
| Material | Required | New |
| SanDisk 3.0 Flash Drive | ✔ | $25.75 |
| Subtotal of required materials | $25.75 |
| TEDR 1145 Architectural Rendering | ||
|---|---|---|
| Material | Required | New |
| Daniel John Stine Interior Design Using Autodesk Revit 2026: Introduction to Building Information Modeling for Interior Designers ISBN: 978-1630577506 | $100.00 | |
| Subtotal of required materials | $0.00 |
| TEDR 1220 Production Drafting | ||
|---|---|---|
| Material | Required | New |
| David A. Madsen & David P. Madsen Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing NE. 9th. Goodheart Wilcox, 2023. ISBN: 9781645646433 | $119.95 | |
| Subtotal of required materials | $0.00 |
| TEDR 1275 Milling Machining | ||
|---|---|---|
| Material | Required | New |
| Kuang-Hua Chang Machining Simulation Using SOLIDWORKS CAM 2025 ISBN: 978-1630577247 | $80.00 | |
| Subtotal of required materials | $0.00 |
| TEDR 1310 Civil Design | ||
|---|---|---|
| Material | Required | New |
| Rick Ellis A Practical Guide to Autodesk Civil 3D 2024 ISBN: 9781934865804 | $100.00 | |
| Subtotal of required materials | $0.00 |
| TEDR 1320 Civil Surveying | ||
|---|---|---|
| Material | Required | New |
| Ascent – Center for Technical Knowledge Autodesk Civil 3D 2024: Essentials for Surveyors (Imperial Units) ISBN: 1959504703 | $80.00 | |
| Subtotal of required materials | $0.00 |
| TEDR 1330 Civil Geographical Information Systems | ||
|---|---|---|
| Material | Required | New |
| Rick Ellis and Russell Martin A Practical Guide to GIS in Autodesk Civil 3D 2024 ISBN: 9781934865781 | $100.00 | |
| Subtotal of required materials | $0.00 |
| TEDR 2100 Advanced BIM | ||
|---|---|---|
| Material | Required | New |
| Ascent Autodesk Revit 2026 MEP Fundamentals ISBN: 978-1-63057-757-5 | $100.00 | |
| Subtotal of required materials | $0.00 |
| TEDR 2105 BIM Coordination | ||
|---|---|---|
| Material | Required | New |
| Ascent – Center for Technical Knowledge Autodesk Navisworks 2024: Fundamentals ISBN: 978-1962037150 | $100.00 | |
| Subtotal of required materials | $0.00 |
| TEDR 2180 Architectural Standards | ||
|---|---|---|
| Material | Required | New |
| Alan Jefferies Architectural Drafting & Design. 6th. Cengage, ISBN: 9781435481626 | $333.00 | |
| Subtotal of required materials | $0.00 |
| TEDR 2181 Commercial Standards | ||
|---|---|---|
| Material | Required | New |
| Alan Jefferis Commercial Drafting and Detailing. 3rd. Cengage, ISBN: 9781435425972 | $306.00 | |
| Subtotal of required materials | $0.00 |
| TEDR 2210 Photoshop for Interior Designers | ||
|---|---|---|
| Material | Required | New |
| Suining Ding Photoshop® for Interior Designers: A Nonverbal Communication ISBN: 978-1609015442 | $60.00 | |
| Subtotal of required materials | $0.00 |
| TEDR 2230 Machine Power Design | ||
|---|---|---|
| Material | Required | New |
| Clois E Kicklighter Drafting & Design. 7th. Clois E Kicklighter, Goodheart Wilcox, 2018. ISBN: 9781590709030 | $113.75 | |
| Subtotal of required materials | $0.00 |
| TEDR 2240 3D Printing and Advanced Manufacturing | ||
|---|---|---|
| Material | Required | New |
| No additional materials required | ✔ | $0.00 |
| Subtotal of required materials | $0.00 |
This program has no admission requirements. You may start your admissions application at any time.
| Course Number | Course Name | Credits | Cost | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEDR 1000 | Technical Drafting | 4 | $380 | The Technical Drafting course is designed to help students develop and build familiarity with fundamental drafting concepts. Discussion concepts will include preparing industry standard documents using a drafting software. | |
| TEDR 1010 | Advanced Technical Drafting | 3 | $285 | The Advanced Technical Drafting course explores Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) to prepare and iterate advanced industry standard documents. Using these documents, students will then create a physical 3D model. | |
| TEDR 1100 | Residential Drafting | 3 | $285 | The Residential Drafting course serves as an introduction to residential design and explores emerging CAD tools to design a code-compliant home. Students will learn about residential materials and methods of construction to prepare construction documents that align with industry standards. | |
| TEDR 1110 | Introduction to Building Information Modeling | 3 | $285 | The Introduction to Building Information Modeling course teaches 3D architectural tools to explore Building Information Modeling (BIM). Students will demonstrate their learning of architectural drafting skills including architectural detailing, rendering, and methods of construction to prepare architectural documents that align with industry standards. | |
| TEDR 2800 | Capstone Project | 3 | $285 | The Capstone Project course applies program-acquired skills and knowledge through a comprehensive student-defined project, culminating in a practical demonstration of expertise in drafting. Students will navigate project management, integrating analysis and iteration. | |
| TEDR 1200 | Parametric Solid Modeling | 3 | $285 | The Parametric Solid Modeling course explores parametric solid modeling, a process of feature and dimension driven design, for the creation of basic models. Students will learn about model/drawing association, best modeling practices, and industry standards. | |
| TEDR 2200 | Advanced Solid Modeling | 3 | $285 | The Advanced Solid Modeling course explores parametric modeling techniques for creating complex models and assemblies. Students will learn about advanced tools and design methods. | |
| TEDR 2800 | Capstone Project | 3 | $285 | The Capstone Project course applies program-acquired skills and knowledge through a comprehensive student-defined project, culminating in a practical demonstration of expertise in drafting. Students will navigate project management, integrating analysis and iteration. | |
| TEDR 1130 | Commercial Drafting | 3 | $285 | This course covers commercial and structural design techniques using 3D parametric CAD software. This course will introduce the interface and basic building components of the software to create levels, grids systems, and various views. This course will introduce how linking a structural project with an architectural model provides efficient project updates between design teams. This course will focus on structural columns, walls, foundations, reinforcement, beams, framing systems, and basic Building Information Modeling (BIM) practices and applications. | |
| TEDR 1300 | Civil Drafting | 3 | $285 | The Civil Drafting course will teach the basic skills and concepts needed to design land development projects including concepts related to civil engineering and surveying in general. This course will provide a solid foundation that can be used to perform basic civil design tasks to organize project data, work with points, create and analyze surfaces, model road corridors, create parcel layouts, perform grading and volume calculations, and lay out pipe networks. | |
| TEDR 2800 | Capstone Project | 3 | $285 | The Capstone Project course applies program-acquired skills and knowledge through a comprehensive student-defined project, culminating in a practical demonstration of expertise in drafting. Students will navigate project management, integrating analysis and iteration. | |
| TEDR 1035 | Construction Materials and Methods | 3 | $285 | This course describes the uses of various fasteners, the proper use of tools specific to the carpentry trade, how to interpret a set of blueprints and successfully accomplish material take-offs, build a basic floor according to the blueprint drawings, erect walls with window and door openings according to building plans, construct gable and hip roof systems, calculate riser and tread lengths, and cut out a stair stringer. | |
| TEDR 1108 | Architectural CAD Modeling Interior Design | 4 | $380 | This course explores how to create and manipulate architectural entities through simple but effective 3D modeling and how to model many elements within the architectural world. | |
| TEDR 1120 | Residential Architectural Design | 4 | $380 | This course explores family housing, drafting standards, construction principles, and space planning. Students will create a single-family residence using 3D architectural CAD software. The following topics will be explored: floor plans, elevations, roof design, sections, details, interior design, schedules, rendering, site plans, and sheet sets. Additionally, the course will cover interface usage, linework, 2D drawing tools, symbols, annotations, and sheet layout. This course will focus on a home design containing all the elements covered in the course. | |
| TEDR 1125 | Structural Design | 4 | $380 | This course will cover concepts and principles of building design through parametric 3D models and construction documentation. This course explores the tools necessary to create, document, and print parametric structural models and integrate Building Information Modeling (BIM) into all processes. | |
| TEDR 1145 | Architectural Rendering | 3 | $285 | This course provides basic information about creating interior and exterior designs of architectural models. This course will provide instruction on how to view and navigate within the provided 3D architectural model, managing and creating materials and develop spaces with walls, doors and windows, model floor finishes, ceilings with soffits, casework, custom furniture, restrooms, and light fixtures. Finally, projects in this course will utilize advanced 3D architectural software, photorealistic rendering, and physical models using advanced manufacturing equipment (laser cut materials and 3D printers). | |
| TEDR 1220 | Production Drafting | 4 | $380 | The Production Drafting course makes use of CAD to create industry level production working drawings. Students will learn and use the latest American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Y14.5 standards for Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T). | |
| TEDR 1255 | Engineering Drawings | 4 | $380 | This course explores the basic information necessary for creating professional drawings in the engineering world. This course will present basic instruction in preparing working drawings using 3D CAD methods, help build the necessary technical skills to communicate engineering drawing ideas in an understandable, efficient, and accurate manner as well as introduce Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T). | |
| TEDR 1270 | Metal Processes | 3 | $285 | This course will explore principles and techniques of some of the metal manufacturing processes such as sheet metal and weldments. The first area of focus will be the fundamental skills and concepts used to build sheet metal parts and flat pattern layouts. The second area of focus will be the fundamental skills and concepts used to build weldment parts. | |
| TEDR 1275 | Milling Machining | 3 | $285 | This introductory manufacturing course makes use of the combination of 3D printed solid models and a CNC milling machine. Training includes the design of multiple parts that will need milling refinement for completion, the design and 3D printing of clamps that will mount into the mill, securely fasten each different 3D printed model and basic training of the milling process. | |
| TEDR 1280 | Surface Modeling | 2 | $190 | This course will explore how to build freeform shapes using engineering CAD software, the difference between solids and surfaces, appropriate usage of surfaces, continuity, general workflow, industry applications of surface models as well as basic and advanced modeling techniques. | |
| TEDR 1310 | Civil Design | 4 | $380 | The Civil Design course will teach more advanced concepts needed in civil drafting through 3D civil design software. Using Civil 3D, students will be able to analyze existing workflows and make changes to improve performance based on the tools and features that are learned and practiced in this course. | |
| TEDR 1320 | Civil Surveying | 3 | $285 | The Civil Surveying course equips technicians with the basic knowledge required to use land-surveying software. Students will learn how to import converted survey data into a standardized environment and to use the automation tools to create an existing conditions plan and topography surface. | |
| TEDR 1330 | Civil Geographical Information Systems | 4 | $380 | This course covers Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and manipulating related information within industry standard software. This course will explore how to capture, analyze, manipulate, manage, and present all types of geographical data as well as working project from initial ideas to design presentation. This course will explore concepts related to data driven maps (digital and printed presentational material), interactive web maps, the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) and information gathering systems. | |
| TEDR 2100 | Advanced BIM | 4 | $380 | This course will explore how Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an approach to the entire building life cycle and focus on how systems need to coordinate, update, and share design data with team members throughout the design construction and management phases of a building’s life. This course will further explore a company foundation for BIM focused designs by developing standard templates and custom elements. This course will cover how to use models (architectural specific families, MEP specific families, and structural specific families) in a commercial project and incorporate all aspects of development and design. | |
| TEDR 2105 | BIM Coordination | 3 | $285 | This course covers the concept of Building Information Modeling (BIM), which encompasses the entire building life cycle. BIM includes all phases of the design process, from model creation to construction and ending at operations and maintenance. This course will use a BIM workflow to explore how to do design changes throughout the BIM process and how those changes affect the BIM model. This course will explore how to consolidate civil, architectural, structural, and MEP models into one BIM model. This course will cover topics on how to use review and markup tools for communicating issues across disciplines, how to simulate construction as well as finding constructability issues and on-site clashes. | |
| TEDR 2180 | Architectural Standards | 4 | $380 | This course provides the basic information necessary for development of residential and light commercial (Type IV and V buildings) architectural design and construction documents. This course will also serve as a reference for design and construction principles and methods. It is intended to help build the necessary technical skills to communicate architectural ideas in an understandable, efficient, and accurate manner. Students will be assessed through a series of quizzes, visual identification exercises, and comprehensive assessments. | |
| TEDR 2181 | Commercial Standards | 4 | $380 | This course provides the basic information necessary for the development of commercial architectural design and construction documents. This course will also serve as a reference for design and construction principles and methods. It is intended to help build the necessary technical skills to communicate architectural ideas in an understandable, efficient, and accurate manner. Students will be assessed through a series of quizzes, visual identification exercises, and comprehensive assessments. | |
| TEDR 2210 | Photoshop for Interior Designers | 3 | $285 | This course will cover concepts and principles necessary to instruct students who have no experience in Photoshop. Step-by-step demonstrations that are easy to follow for beginning level learners are provided which instruct on the basic commands and functions of the program. The course covers pedagogical features that are designed to assist teaching and enhance learning. | |
| TEDR 2220 | Mold Design | 2 | $190 | This course teaches procedures necessary for using parametric design tools to create and analyze effective mold designs. It will instruct through different tasks, from designing or repairing a mold, to developing complex parting lines, from making a core in the part mode to advancing through more complex tasks in the assembly mode. Every project is based on real world products. Each of these projects has been broken down and developed into simple, comprehensible steps. | |
| TEDR 2230 | Machine Power Design | 2 | $190 | This course will explore modeling and principles of motion and power systems to create a complete working production set of drawings and movable assemblies. These systems include gear, sprocket, thread, fastener, bearing, bushing, spring, and cam creation. | |
| TEDR 2240 | 3D Printing and Advanced Manufacturing | 2 | $190 | This course explores 3D printing, advanced manufacturing techniques, and modern product design. Various technologies, equipment, model preparation, and general hardware maintenance will be covered. This course will explore how to disassemble, measure, and model all the pieces and parts that make up an approved assembly using CAD software and design changes will take advantage of advanced manufacturing techniques. This course will cover topics on how to use scanned sketches, 3D scanning, and traditional measurement tools. This course allows for team projects to expand the design beyond the abilities of a single drafter and incorporate design changes into the project. This course will focus on a design proposal, high quality product renderings, and the production of working drawings for each part and full assembly. |
Rex received a drafting certificate from Ogden-Weber Area Vocational Center in 1987. He has nine years of industry experience as a CAD drafter working for Chromalox, Fram Inc., Bourn’s Sensors/Controls, and KHI Engineers prior to receiving the CAD drafting instructor position here at the Ogden-Weber Technical College in 1996. In 2006, he received an Associates of Applied Science Degree in Design Graphics Engineering Technology from Weber State University.
Office Hours (by appointment)
M & T: 4:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
W-F: 7:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location
Manufacturing Tech 201A
rex.thornock@otech.edu
801-627-8360