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Pg. 4 The Clackamas Print
Wednesday, February 23,1994
Drafting department gains world-wide respect
by Tina McFarland
The Print Editorial Staff
This is the first of a
two-part report on specific
advantages of Clackamas'
Drafting Department. Next
week's topic will cover the
use of Virtual Reality in
computer-aided drafting.
Although many people
here do not know it, Clackamas
Community College is known and
respected around the world. Quite
a reputable teaching staff comes
from Clackamas.
In fact, many of the in
structors'-here have developed
course material. Notonly that, but
some of those instructors have
even written and published text
books.
One of the departments
that is particularly well-known for
its texts and course material is the
Drafting department.
. “The department is
known throughout the world.
We’ve gotten letters from India,
Malaysia, China, Israel (to name a
few) all requesting information
on starting courses there and want
ing to get the book,” said Terence
Shumaker, drafting instructor and
co-authorof AutoCAD textbooks.
“The book” Shumaker
was talking about is a text book
entitled “AutoCAD and Its Appli
cations” written by Shumaker and
David Madsen, drafting depart
ment chair. This text, however, is
not just an ordinary AutoCAD
text. It is a book that is currently
a best-seller in North America.
This AutoCAD text has
been adopted nationwide by ITT
Technical Institute as part of its
course material. Shumaker said
the ITT contract was so large that
the publisher put an ITT emblem
on the books produced for that
school.
Not only that, but it is
currently being sold in the U.S.,
Germany and French-speaking
parts of Canada, as well as in
France. And, the publisher hopes
courtesy of Terence Shumaker
This 3-D model of the campus was developed by students in Terence Shumaker’s Computer-Aided Drafting class.
to publish the book in Spanish
also.
Although no Spanish
publisher has been found yet to
buy the rights, Shumaker said the
plan is to get the book marketed in
the Southwestern United States as
well as Mexico.
“We’re very excited that
the German publisher heard about
the book and thought it was good
and vfanted to buy it,” Shumaker
said.
In order to translate a
book into a foreign language and
market the book in that country,
the publisher must sell the rights
of the book to a publisher of an
other country who then finds some
one to translate the book. The
whole process involves quite a lot
of research on both parts.
According to Shumaker,
the AutoCAD text is so popular
because it is easy to understand.
The publisher, Goodheart-
Willcox, is known and well re
spected for its vocational and
technical text books. Both
Shumaker and Madsen have writ
ten other textbooks for that pub
lisher.
Shumaker stated that in
structors write text books because
they have “developed course ma
terial that works,” and publishers
are always looking for new text
book authors.
To have a textbook pub
lished, the author must take a
proposal to the publisher which
includes the subject matter and
examples of illustrations and
graphs, as well as toll the pub
lisher why this book is any differ
ent from all the other textbooks on
the same subject
“You have to do your
homework on the other books and
how to handle yours differently,”
Shumaker said. When an author
writes a textbook, he is under a
time line that is imposed by him
self and by the publisher.
“You never know the
complexity of a project until you
get into it. And you always find it
is more complex than you antici
pated,” Shumaker said.
“When you write a text
book, you can forget abouta social
life,” he added.
Writing the book and
having it published is only half of
the story. The other half consists
of revising the text and working
around any bugs thatmay be in the
pre-release software.
Each time the AutoCAD
software is upgraded, which is
Speaker shares benefits of massage
by Cori Kargel
The Print Staff
“To become self-aware,
we have to slow down ... (think
about) listening to our bodies,
listening to our soulsrlistening to
dur spirits.”
These words of wisdom
wereofferedby guest speaker Kitty
Lawrence at thd Feb, 16 Focus on
Women Issues Breakfast.
Lawrence, a licensed massage
therapist, spoke about the differ
ent types and benefits of massage,
herbs and spas.
“It’s not just a woo-woo
alternative. More and more now,
it’s becoming respected/’
Lawrence said.
“Let’s pay attention to
our feelings. They’re a great
source of incredible wisdom and
guidance for us,’’she encouraged.
Lawrence, an instructor
at the Oregon School of Massage,
has nearly 18 years of massage
experience. She also grows and
uses her own herbs-nn “wonder
ful, potent potions," and teaches
others how to do the same: Most
of these natural remedies are in
the form of herbal teas custom-
made for specific conditions. For
instance, strong ginger tea can be
used as an energizer, while cha
momile tea soothes and relaxes.
Lawrence expressed the
belief that physical and mental
health concern the entire body,
not just individual areas.
“More and more we have
become dominated by the idea of
dealing with symptoms/’
Lawrence said. “We don’t really
listen to what our bodies are tell
ing us.”
As part of her presenta
tion, Lawrence talked her 50-per-
son audience through an energiz
ing relaxation session. Speaking
in a soothing, slightly hypnotic
voice, she encouraged them to do
things including closing their eyes
and imagining their personal en
ergy flowing through their bodies.
Karen Hicks, the
Clackamas archivist and part-time
reference librarian, heard about
the breakfast through a staff flyer.
“It was interesting to see all these
other people who were interested
in alternative methods,” Hicks
said.
“I thought it was inter
esting. I enjoyed the talk,” added
Dorothy BanHom, another mem
ber of the audience.
In addition to herbal rem
edies, Lawrence also gave her lis
teners some basic advice about
skin and outer body care. She
listed salt scrubs, olive oil and
oatmeal baths among her favor
ites.
Lawrence encouraged
her audience to be proud of and
comfortable with their bodies,both
inside and out. She recognized
that both society and individuals
place too much emphasis on physi
cal appearance. “Somehow we
feel that the only body that’s ac
ceptable is that of a 17-year-old
athlete,” Lawrence scoffed.
All in all, Lawrence em
phasized caring for and listening
to the body as a whole. “We have
lots of different ways of tuning
into what’s gonna help us,”
Lawrence concluded.
about every 18 months, the text
must be updated. Theauthormust
look for new material in the up
dated software and decide how to
weave it into the already-written
text.
According to Shumaker,
this Drafting department is one of
the most published departments
in the U.S. All of the full-time
drafting instructors and two of the
part-time instructors have writ
ten,co-authored, and/or published
textbooks. The total number of
texts published in this department
alone is20, and with good reason.
Autodesk, an authorized
professional training program for
AutoCAD, provides 3-D model
design for the AutoCAD program
here. There are 300 licensed
Autodesk training centers in the'
world, and Clackamas is one of
the top-10 training centers in North
America.
Last year alone, in the
results for the number of people
trained by Autodesk training cen
ters, Clackamas was tied for first
place in the world. Shumaker
attributes this success to the
department’s dedication.
“It’s because we’ve al
ways strived to maintain that
progress,” he said. “It’s a definite
increase in personal reputation,”
he added.
So what is AutoCAD?
Much to contrary belief, AutoCAD
has nothing to do with the auto
motive industry. It is drafting,
done with the help of a computer.
“Anything that is built
had to bedrawn first. AutoCAD is
a generic drawing package that
draws the initial design on a com
puter,” Shumaker said.
Several years ago, the
college’sarchitecttook AutoCAD
here to “convert from pencils to
computer.” When the new build
ings were put in, such as Gregory
Forum and Dye Learning Center,
they were designed in AutoCAD.
“The majority in the field
use CAD. Few still use the board
(pencil drawings). Freehand is
still valid, we still teach it here,
however, in a couple years we will
probably switch completely to
CAD in this department,”
Shumaker said.
The CAD program here
is a two-year program that, upon
completion, sends students into
the work force.
“Weplacejustabout 100
percent of our students. We ac
tively help them get jobs. In fact,
there are several companies in
town who won’t advertise for
openings, they will only call us.
" A lot of people advance
rapidly in their jobs because they
have learned so much here,”
Shumaker said.
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