Program: CADD Technology, CA - College of Southern Nevada

2025-2026 Catalog and Student Handbook

Aug 04, 2025

CODE: CADD-CT | TOTAL CREDITS: 30 | FINANCIAL AID ELIGIBILITY: Eligible

This certificate is not intended for transfer to NSU, UNLV, or UNR. Some of the courses may be eligible for transfer depending on the policies of the institution you are transferring to. Students who wish to transfer should consult with their assigned advising unit.

ACADEMIC MAP: Map: CSN CA CADD Technology

SCHOOL: School of Advanced and Applied Technologies

DEPARTMENT: Department of Applied Technology

AREA OF STUDY: Industry, Manufacturing, Construction & Transportation

GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION

Important information about the educational debt, earnings, and completion rates of students who attended this program are located at www.csn.edu/gainful-employment.

DESCRIPTION

This program provides students with the skills to plan, prepare, interpret technical drafting documents, and create additive manufacturing prototype models. Students develop these skills through computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) workstations and 3D printers. Instruction also includes office standards, ethics, equipment maintenance, and production techniques.

COMPUTATION & HUMAN RELATIONS COMPONENTS

Computation: MATH 104B or above (except MATH 115 and MATH 122 and MATH 123)
Human Relations: CADD 250

NEED HELP WITH THIS DEGREE OR SELECTING A COURSE?

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Student Learning Outcomes

Create Two-Dimensional drawings and Three-Dimensional solid models using the CAD software that will apply to the students discipline to a degree of 80%.
Apply office standards, techniques and procedures in the workplace to a degree of 80%.
Design projects specific discipline of study and create documents and/or solid models to a degree of 70% in Capstone class.
Demonstrate mathematics, communications skills, and other core degree requirements.

General Education Requirements

TOTAL GENERAL EDUCATION CREDITS: 3

Communications (3 Credits)

COM 115 - Applied Communication

Major Requirements

TOTAL MAJOR REQUIREMENTS CREDITS: 27

Grades of D+, D, and D- in the major requirements (occupational) area in a Certificate of Achievement program will not count toward graduation requirements.

Core Requirements (24 Credits)

CADD 100 - Introduction to Computer Aided Drafting
and CADD 105 - Intermediate Computer Aided Drafting
and CADD 140 - Technical Drafting I
and CADD 141B - Technical Drafting II
and CADD 245 - Solid Modeling and Parametric Design
and CADD 250 - CAD Systems Management
and CADD 299B - CADD Capstone
and MATH 104B - Applied Mathematics or above (except MATH 115B and MATH 122 and MATH 123)

Elective (3 Credits)

Choose one of the following courses: