Level 3 Design Technology

In Design Technology, students develop skills by designing and making Products.

Students are expected to take their high-quality Prototype Products home with them on completion of their course.

Over the year, students will develop their skills in the Design Technology practical area, further developing their skills in how to research, analsye, design, and make products, using a range of tools and equipment including Computer Aided Design and Manufacture, laser cutting and 3D Printing.

Students will work on Design and Make projects within a Context / Theme. 

Within the given Context / Theme students will research, design, develop, manufacture, and test their own Prototype Product for a specific purpose and Customer / Stakeholders of their choosing.

Throughout the course Students will complete a Design Portfolio using Google slides which will document their research, designing, making and testing. 

This portfolio of work will be used to assess their project work against Technology Achievement Standards.

In Year 13, students should expect to learn, develop, and use advanced skills and techniques, demonstrating independence, creativity, efficiency, and optimization.

Complex procedures to integrate parts using resistant materials

• Integrating parts using resistant materials: Planning, preparing parts, and integrating them to create a product.

• Automated manufacturing: CNC designing and making, optimization, and efficiency

• Precision machining: CNC

• Reverse engineering: Analyzing existing products for improvement

• Advanced joinery: Mortise and tenon, loose tenons, and laminating

• Forming processes: Making own jigs and formers for bending, shaping, and forming

• Surface treatments: advanced finishing techniques

• Assembly techniques: Complex fastening systems
  
  

Workshop Safety:

• Machine Tools
• Power Tools (including Routers and biscuit jointers)
• Independent Laser cutter use
• CNC

Professional Practice

• Planning for quality assurance and efficiency