>more CAD seats than MechE's Unless you're an EI fresh out of college, engineers probably won't spend many billable hours in CAD. Your time is too valuable, an

>more CAD seats than MechE's Unless you're an EI fresh out of college, engineers probably won't spend many billable hours in CAD. Your time is too valuable, and most contract rates won't be high enough to have engineers doing drafting. (EI = Engineer Intern, for getting your 4 years of experience for becoming a PE, which is similar to a Medical Resident for physicians.) We have a pool of draftsman that handle most of the actual drafting, at the direction of PEs, which let's the PEs focus on actual design and other things that can be billed at higher rates. But since CAD is still installed on the PE's computers, they're probably still counted as users, even if it's mostly for review, printing, minor redlines, etc.