ENGR 185 Syllabus

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Prof. Susan Sherod
email: sherod_susan@sac.edu
Office Hours: 4 - 6p Monday & Wednesday

Course Description:  Advanced course in the use of CAD software customization. Topics include DXF format, scripts, macros, customizing and creating image tile menus.

Textbook Information:  AutoCAD Platform Customization: User Interface, Ambrosius, 978-1-118-79890-4, AND the AutoCAD Customization Guide Reference, AND the AutoCAD User's Guide.

Additional Course Information:  This course is hybrid, which means you do must do significant work outside of the scheduled lab hours, including reading, study, practice, assignments and some assessments. The syllabus is the main guide to the schedule for the course. It will benefit students greatly to establish learning partners in the course. Students without prior AutoCAD knowledge will need to work harder to succeed with this course.
Course Learning Objectives: Completion of this course is the "capstone" within the CAD certificate/degree programs.
Student Learning Objectives:  Students will complete a series of AutoCAD Customization projects.

Meet Your Instructor: Professor Sherod

Susan M. Sherod holds a B.S. in Architectural Studies from the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana, IL (3.55 GPA), an M.A. in Industrial and Technical Studies from California State University, Los Angeles (4.0 GPA), and Master of Architecture from NewSchool of Architecture and Design, San Diego, CA (3.93 GPA). Sherod recieved two awards from CSULA: Outstanding Graduate Student, and an Alumni Acheivement Recognition Award.

Sherod began her career in Architecture and is a licensed Architect in the state of CA. Sherod has taught CAD since 1993. Sherod has taught technical drafting since 1995. Topics taught have included math preparation, computer use, web page authoring, architecture, engineering technology and employment preparation studies. Sherod authored online training materials for teachers in 1995, and served as consultant to OTAN in 1999. Sherod won a CAROP Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award in 2000.

Past teaching assignments included College of the Canyons in Valencia, California, an AutoDesk Training Center at College of the Canyons, in Valencia, California, West Valley Occupational Center in Woodland Hills, California and ORT Technical Institute in Sherman Oaks, California. Sherod joined the staff at Santa Ana College (SAC) Engineering Department in Fall of 2000. 

Since joining Santa Ana College Sherod has created new certificate programs, new courses and revised programs and courses significantly. Sherod has enhanced her courses with the online Learning Management System (LMS) software used by SAC. Sherod wrote a proposal for a grant for curriculum improvement in Summer of 2001 and was awarded a grant to develop one of the classes as 100% online which was the first such course available in the engineering department. This course, ENGR 142, included lecture and lab components all online, but with an in person final exam requirement that at the same time allowed for proctoring for the in person final exam. Sherod has also contributed to the development of a tech-prep website for the SAC Engineering Department. Sherod implemented the 2010 Imperative through all AEC courses to include ecological literacy and reduction of fossil fuel use. Sherod's sabbatical work was focused in the area of Energy Studies. Sherod has served on the Facilities Committee, and anchored the Environmental Task Force for Santa Ana College. Her recommendations are sustainable, money-saving, and proposed solutions include documented savings possible for strategies such as LED tube lamps, solar assisted natural ventilation, and exterior shading options. Sherod has been a member of the Engineering Liaison Council since 2001, and served as the Southern CA representative. Sherod has participated in Statewide Career Pathway Discipline work groups as well as facilitated for them. Sherod has attend LAOCRC meetings in the Energy and Utilities Sector. Sherod's community service efforts began with local cleanups along a river in her high school years. Her service over the years of her career have been memberships and volunteer plus pro-bono work in numerous orgs such as Nature Conservancy, National Wildlife Federation, Tree People, CRSP, Eco-Home Network, Los Angeles Eco-Village, Sierra Club, and Surfrider Foundation, where she served as Intern Coordinator, and then Executive Committee member at a chapter, for several years.

Sherod has completed numerous trainings for online teaching, including SAC's Online teaching Certificate in 2014.  Most recently Sherod completed the LMS Canvas Bronze and Silver Certificates and Badges 2017 training.