This term is sexist, outdated, silly, and irrelevant. It has been replaced in most progressive companies with "Designer". The term "Draftsman" is about as relevant as the term "Blacksmith", "Shoe Cobbler" or "Milkman".
At best, entry level employees are called "Drafters". Most large progressive companies promote their people to Designer I, II, III, and then to Senior Designer on to Lead Designer.
Lead Designers still produce some drawings, but do mostly supervision, quality control and checking. The skills and training needed by good designers these days are slightly more advanced than the old time draftsman of yesteryear.
If you are still using the term "Draftsman" or making references to the "Drafting" department, maybe you should just go ahead and file that application for Social Security.
Break out the Poli-grip and the rockin chair, old timer! But... please, get out of the engineering field.
2007-09-11 04:05:34 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
TLBS101,
You have a bad attitude and I'm sure working with you is a complete disaster. People like you are a dime a dozen. You don't sound qualified to write or comment on this subject. It sounds like you work for a small, backwoods company that fits you just perfect.
In a modern workforce, (unlike your company), job titles are found to matter immensely and do affect attitudes and productivity. If you would adjust your bad attitude, maybe you would find this easier to understand. People like you are pathetic and outdated.
2007-09-11 07:16:06 · update #1
I think you are finding a problem where there is none. Most companies use the term CAD engineer or something similar.
Either way, it is simply a name with no prejudicial background. On the other hand, by your last two sentences, YOU are showing prejudice against experienced staff.
2007-09-11 04:20:41 · answer #1 · answered by tkquestion 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
In the field I work in, most of our clients classifiy draftsman as a technician; Often a CADD Technician. A Designer is considered someone with a minimum of a four year degree and usually hold an intership certificate for engineering or surveying. However, my techs are not in the least offended if you call them Drafters as most have spent most of their career drawing on the board. And they were very good at it. Every job is important and what you call it doesn't really matter as long as you are understood.
2007-09-11 06:38:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can call someone a "maintenance engineer" all you want, but he/she still empties trash cans, mops and vacuums floors, uses cleaning chemicals, etc. as a janitor.
You can call someone a "sanitation engineer" all you want, but he/she still drives a garbage truck and picks up trash on the street.
You can call the guy/gal who takes my sketches and rough drawings with dimensions, properly selected component types, properly calculated component values, tolerances, sizes, and properly connected netlists; to produce working blueprints anything you like, but he/she is still the person who converts sketches into blueprints. The only 'designing' aspect of his/her job (at my company) is that they layout PCBs, using CAD tools.
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2007-09-11 04:26:57 · answer #3 · answered by tlbs101 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
do you mean draughtsmen ? why do you youngins want to keep on changing the terminologies here. can't you have any respect and just wait for us to die? hell, it'll only take 4 more years. the term designer should be limited to people who have a bachelor's degree in design be it archtectural, structural or mechanical. a draughtsman or draughtsperson takes what the designer has sketched and transforms it into workable contract documents (i.e. drawrings).
2007-09-11 04:11:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with tkquestion. I'm one of those old timers and I call them draftsmen, designers, cad operators or what ever is appropriate for the work they do. I also think how you value their work and contribution is far more important to them that what name you call them.
2007-09-11 06:01:09 · answer #5 · answered by oil field trash 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
call them whatever you like as long as you don't address engineer those without license to practice engineering.
2007-09-11 14:47:58 · answer #6 · answered by jesem47 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you go out and look to get offended, then you will get offended. Quit getting hung up on semantics.
2007-09-11 06:19:56 · answer #7 · answered by luke7785 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋