St Peter’s School (Cambridge)
Level 3 - Product Design
Course Description
This is a practical and theory-based course involving designing, planning, testing and prototyping. Students are expected to work independently and creatively to find a suitable solution to the achievement standard brief.
The topics covered will equip students with essential workshop skills using traditional and machine manufacturing techniques including computer-aided design (CAD). Theory-based learning will strengthen the practical tasks completed, developing all the design and manufacturing areas of product design.
This course is ideal for university entrance students, training students to think like a professional in industry. Students are encouraged to approach their learning from a mass production manufacturing point of view and look at a range of global processes used when designing and manufacturing. Whilst students will create one functional prototype to scale in the first unit, they will be required to understand how the product could be commercially manufactured and show how it would meet industry standards using computer numerical control (CNC), computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacture (CAD/CAM) and workshop machines to a higher level of precision.
Students are expected to produce work of a high standard, including the overall finish and application of their unique design solutions. It is also expected that students will work with a stakeholder to design and manufacture with an end user in mind. It would be anticipated that students will change, develop and reevaluate their intended outcome as learning unfolds.
Pre-requisites
To have completed Year 11 and/or Year 12 in product design, reisitant materials or DVC. Students are required to be resilient through the course as they learn and develop new skills in multiple ways following the design cycle, identifying their strengths and using them when working within a brief. Entry at discretion of Head of Facutly: technology for students new to technology.
Notice of risk - students of technology courses should be compliant with all health and safety guidelines to protect themselves and others. Students failing to do so could be removed from the course.
Course Specific Costs
Cost will cover materials/resources/consumables used in the workshop, charged out individually as used. This cost is dependent on student-driven outcomes.
Material costing over $150 are parental approved before the manufacturing begins. Students can take their products home at the end of the course.
$10 - A small excursion to an industrial workshop
Pathway
This subject leads to all higher education degrees or further training, including engineering, architectural principles and design qualifications. This course is also suitable for a pathway to higher levelled professions such as bespoke joinery and furniture making. The skills learned in this course are easily transferred to multi-disciplinary courses at university as it teaches the foundation used in all areas of design and manufacturing, sustainable design, form Vs function and challenges traditional and modern manufacturing methods. The level of CAD/CAM and problem solving introduced in this course is highly sought after in the creative and technicanl industries.
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
External
NZQA Info
Generic Technology 3.4 - Develop a prototype considering fitness for purpose in the broadest sense
NZQA Info
Generic Technology 3.5 - Demonstrate understanding of how technological modelling supports technological development and implementation
NZQA Info
Construction and Mechanical Technologies 3.22 - Implement complex procedures to make a specified product using a Computer Numerical Controlled (CNC) machine
Approved subject for University Entrance
Number of credits that can be used for overall endorsement: 14
Disclaimer
Specific course content may change from what has been advertised in order to remain current and meet students' needs.
The school has the right to make the best decision based on both staffing, and overall student interest, when preparing the final timetable.
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