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Overview

This course is designed to involve students in activities which develop innovation and flair when designing products. Throughout the course, students develop their skills through work in a range of designing, modelling, materials for production and media, including the use of ICT.

The course aims for students to become autonomous and problem solvers as individuals and members of a team.

The course allows students to progress either directly to employment, or to study for an Advanced level qualification in Design and Technology and GNVQ Manufacturing and Engineering.

Specification Aims

The aims of this specification are to:

• provide the opportunity to develop a student's design and technology capability and in particular to encourage imagination, innovation and flair.
• encourage students to combine their designing and modelling skills with knowledge and understanding, in order to produce outcomes capable of rigorous testing.
• promote design and technology capability in students through activities which involve a range of contexts, materials, processes and to lead to tangible outcomes.
• give opportunities to develop design capabilities and the confidence to design, make and modify products for identified purposes, selecting and using resources effectively.
• promote the use of graphic techniques and ICT including computer- aided design (CAD), to generate, develop, model and communicate design proposals.
• promote the use of computer- aided manufacture (CAM) in single item production and in batch or volume production.
• encourage the development of students' critical and aesthetic abilities, enabling them to evaluate design and technology activity, including their own, in the context of an identified need.
• encourage the development of students' consideration of function and ergonomics.
• encourage the development of students' understanding of the needs and values of a range of users including spiritual, moral, social, and cultural considerations.
• promote the keys skills of communication, application of number, IT, working with others, improving learning and performance and problem solving.
• encourage the development of students' thinking skills, financial capability, enterprise and entrepreneurial skills.
• encourage the development of students' understanding of work-related learning and the principles of sustainable design and production systems.
• encourage students to consider how present and past design and technology, relevant to a designing and making process, affects society.
• encourage students to recognise that the work of past designers can influence the development of design thinking.
• encourage students to consider the uses and effects of new technologies and modern materials on product design and manufacture.
• provide for activities which give students opportunities to work both individually and as a member of a team.