Fashion Engineering
Earn a certificate in Fashion Engineering from Goodwin College's School of Technology and Professional Studies. Learn the techniques professionals in the fashion industry use to design and produce quality, upscale clothing.
Through this non-credit program, you will learn techniques in draping, drafting, and sample-making through practical, hands-on experience and will be able
to immediately apply these skills on the job, in a work-from-home business, or for your personal sewing needs.
The certificate program, which can be completed in less than a year, consists of the six classes noted below. Each class may be taken individually, however, for those who have specific objectives.
Please note that all courses require previous sewing experience.
For more information, contact Patricia Gremmel, Program Assistant at 215-895-2154 or by email at patricia.gremmel@drexel.edu.
Fashion Engineering Courses:
Drafting & Fitting Pants and Skirts
- Duration: Nine three-hour classes
- Instructor: Laurel Hoffmann
- Description: Learn the professional drafting skills needed to draft and custom fit straight skirt, basic pant and optional pleated pant patterns from personal measurements. Professional sewing skills are demonstrated so students can eliminate unnecessary home-sewing procedures to speed your work and make sewing easier. CEU's 2.7.
- Fee: $350 (Students must also purchase two textbooks, Drafting & Fitting Pants and Skirts and Sewing Pants and Skirts, for an additional fee of $90.)
- Next Available Course Offering: Winter Term, 2010
Design Room Techniques
- Duration: 8 three-hour classes
- Instructor: Laurel Hoffman
- Description: An introductory course to the Fashion Engineering Certificate Program. Students learn zipper sets, hem finishes, pull through and sew out procedures, seams and more. Students will compile a sample book of professional, high end pattern making and sewing techniques that are used in the industry. Some sewing experience is required. CEU's: 2.4.
- Fee: $300 (Students must purchase the textbook Design Room Techniques for an additional fee of $65.)
- Next Available Course Offering: Winter Term, 2010
Copying a Man’s Shirt (Copying a Ready-Made Garment)
- Duration: 10 three-hour classes
- Instructor: Laurel Hoffmann
- Description: In this hands-on course, you will learn professional flat patterning and draping methods employed in industrial designing departments. Using this technology, you will not only learn to reproduce the original pattern, but enhance the original garment's design and produce a garment of higher quality. CEU's: 3.0.
- Fee: $390
(Students must also purchase a textbook, Copying a Man’s Shirt, for an additional fee of $60.)
- Next Available Course Offering: Fall Term, 2010
Grading & Sewing a Blouse and Jacket
- Duration: 10 three-hour classes
- Instructor: Laurel Hoffmann
- Description: Students work at their own pace to test their grading coordinates developed in the prerequisite course, Fitting Home Sewing Patterns. They will learn high-end professional grading, drafting, cutting, and sewing skills that are in high demand in the industry. CEU's 3.0.
- Prerequisite: Fitting Home Sewing Patterns. All students who have taken Fitting Home Sewing Patterns are eligible for this course. Fitting Home Sewing Patterns work does not have to have been completed.
- Fee: $390
(Students must also purchase the next textbook needed, Grading & Sewing a Blouse for an additional fee of $50; or Grading & Sewing a Jacket to Fit, for an additional fee of $65.)
- Next Available Course Offering: Fall Term, 2010
Fitting Home Sewing Patterns (Grade to Fit)
- Duration: 12 three-hour sessions
- Instructor: Laurel Hoffmann
- Description: This patternmaking/ fit course is the first in a series of two courses that enables students to produce professional patterns that fit from home sewing patterns. This course introduces custom grading and explains grade rule. It is essential for anyone planning to work in the industry or planning to start a clothing manufacturing business. CEU's: 3.6.
- Fee: $460 (Students must also purchase a textbook, Grading to Fit, for an additional fee of $65.)
- Next Available Course Offering: Spring Term, 2010.
Marketing to the Fashion Industry
- Duration: 10 three-hour classes
- Instructor: Laurel Hoffman
- Description: Intensive writing/ business/ art course in which students develop their business ideas, determine niche market, research that market, write a business plan, make presentation boards, and give a presentation to the class. CEU's: 3.0.
- Prerequisites: Any one of the following-- Drafting and Fitting Pants and Skirts, Copying a Man's Shirt or Grading and Sewing a Blouse and Jacket.
- Fee: $390 (Students must purchase the Marketing textbook for an additional fee of $30.)
- Next Available Course Offering: Spring Term, 2010.
