How do they match: Electrical and Electronics Drafters

  • Prepare wiring diagrams, circuit board assembly diagrams, and layout drawings used for the manufacture, installation, or repair of electrical equipment.

  • Prepare and interpret specifications, calculating weights, volumes, or stress factors.
  • Assemble documentation packages and produce drawing sets to be checked by an engineer or an architect.
  • Examine electronic schematics and supporting documents to develop, compute, and verify specifications for drafting data, such as configuration of parts, dimensions, or tolerances.
  • Train students to use drafting machines and to prepare schematic diagrams, block diagrams, control drawings, logic diagrams, integrated circuit drawings, or interconnection diagrams.

  • Document technical design details.
  • Prepare detailed work plans.
  • Prepare technical reports for internal use.
  • Confer with technical personnel to prepare designs or operational plans.
  • Review technical documents to plan work.