Drawing Q

When an Engineering Drawing course assembles, it is not unusual for a whole term to pass before one can pick out those students who require special help in the subject. One assumes, often erroneously, that those having previous drawing experience will out‐perform those starting from scratch. This may be true in the early weeks, but it is often the reverse at the end of the session. Most students take engineering drawing in their stride but some, unfortunately, find it very difficult, and devote far too much time to it. This can reflect on their progress in other subjects. Indeed it can happen that a student whose sole poor subject is drawing fails at the end of his first year at college. Frequently a student is mathematically bright but his lack of drawing sense, his inability to conceive a solid object when projected on to a plane surface many times goes unnoticed until it is too late.