Brief History

The Horn Drafting & CAD Center was started in Houston in 1966.   The first location was on the Gulf Freeway, and we taught over a thousand students a variety of courses in manual drafting:  Basic, Piping, Mechanical, Structural, Electrical, Topographic, Aircraft & Missile, Technical Illustration, and Construction Design.  Many of these early graduates have had long and successful careers in drafting and have moved up to management and leadership positions in many Houston industries and engineering companies.

Horn Drafting was the first school to offer Computer Aided Design (CAD) courses to the public, beginning in 1982.  We progressed through a variety of systems and settled on AutoCAD in the late 1980s.  We began adding CAD courses that used special piping systems as software became more advanced (Prime, Autotrol, Pro-Pipe, Rebis, and recently CADWorx), so we have always been interested in providing the latest, and most advanced technology for our students.

We were among the first schools licensed when the state of Texas passed regulations for proprietary schools in 1972, and have averaged  a successful employment rate of over 70% for the past thirty years.

All courses are currently being taught by Anthony Horn, who holds degrees in both engineering and architecture.  He has many years of drafting and teaching experience, and takes a personal interest in all students who attend his classes.   The class size is kept purposefully small, with a maximum of eight students in a session, so that he can make sure that they all get the detailed attention needed to successfully learn this new field.

Anthony Horn has trained drafters, designers, and engineers from a variety of Houston companies, including Kellogg Brown & Root, Lockheed Martin, Shell Oil Company, Mustang Engineering, S&B Engineering, Parsons, Technip Upstream, Aker Maritime, El Paso Field Services, ABB Lummus Global, Schaffer Industries, Bechtel, as well as many others.