Course aims:

knowing, understanding and a correct using of fundamental ideas, concepts specific to Descriptive Geometry;
knowing how to represent a point;
knowing how to represent a straight line;
knowing how to represent a plane.

Course Entry Requirements:

N/A

Course contents:

C1. The Subject of Descriptive Geometry. General Considerations on Projections. Elements of Projection Theory

C2. Representation of the Point in the Dihedral and in the Epure
C3. Representation of the Point in the Trihedral and in the Epure (Trihedra I–IV)

C4. Representation of the Point in the Trihedral  and in the Epure (Trihedra V–VIII).

C5. Particular Cases of Points

C6. Symmetry of Points with towards to the Projection Planes

C7. Symmetry of Points towards to the projection axes and to the origin of the coordinate system.

C8. Representation of Straight Lines in the Trihedral  and in the Epure

C9. Particular Cases of Straight Lines

C10. Construction in the Epure of the True Length of a Line Segment and of the Angles It Forms with the Projection Planes

C11. Relative Positions of Two Straight Lines. Projection of Plane Angles

C12. Traces of Straight Lines

C13. Representation of the Plane

C14. Traces of the Plane

Teaching methods:

Lecture, conversation, exemplification

Learning outcomes:

- to accustom students with terminology, methods, equipment and instruments specific of this discipline; - to give students the basics concepts needed to obtain a representation; - understanding of issues they will encounter in their future profession.

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Written exam – 60%; Portfolio of practical work – 40%

Recommended reading:

Delia Dragan, Raluca Nerisanu, Geometrie descriptiva – Teorie si probleme/Theory and Problems of DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY, U.T. PRESS, Cluj Napoca, 2015,
Holliday – Darr Kathryn, Applied Descriptive Geometry, Thomson Delmar Learning, New York, 1998,
Krylov N., Lobandievsky P., Men S., Descriptive Geometry, Mir Publishers, Moscow, 1968,