Craighead Diocesan School
Year 11 Diploma - Product Design Technology
Subject Description
Teacher in Charge: Mrs K. Gray.
Year 11 Diploma - Product Design Technology
Product Design is an exciting course that focuses on critical and creative design thinking by using the design process to develop tangible items that have a specific function within people's everyday lives. It is about understanding the needs of the people and how they will interact with the product. Product designers use visualisation methods of 2D or 3D forms (including CAD) to show design ideas. Product designers are innovators and adaptive. This ethos is at the heart of their technological practice. This subject is a hands-on, creative subject that encourages students to explore the strands of the technology curriculum through the design and creation of fit-for-purpose outcomes. This course will allow students to experiment with a range of materials to realise their designs.
Prerequisites:
Two semesters of Year 10 Technology subjects.
Students without prior learning in Technology must discuss intentions with the Head of Department.
Students wanting to be assessed in more than one Technology course must see the Head of Department before finalising courses.
Topics Covered
Outline of Course:
* How to carry out a design process and how to refine the outcomes they develop.
* Understand and use technological practice to address a brief and develop specifications relating to real-world need or opportunity.
* How to analyse their own and others' outcomes.
* Evaluate design to determine whether an outcome is fit for purpose.
* Project One: Experiment with different materials (Sustainability/making something small for a stakeholder).
* Project Two: Bluetooth speakers
Subject Costs
Students will be required to pay for materials needed for practical projects and these will be charge to accounts.
Purchase a yearly Creative Cloud license (approx. $8 organised as a user license through the school's Adobe account) this will be charge to your account.
There may be costs associated with the new modelling software that are yet to be determined - you will be advised at the beginning of the 2025 school year.
A Device: As per school's Device recommendations that will run Photoshop.
Assessment Information
1. Experiment (Outcome Based): Experiment with different materials to develop a Materials and Processing Technology outcome.2. Sustainability (Portfolio Based): Demonstrate understanding of sustainable practices in the development of a Materials and Processing Technology design
3. Speaker (Outcome Based): Develop a Materials and Processing Technology outcome in an authentic context
4. Develop (Portfolio Based): Undertake development of a Materials and Processing Technology outcome to address a brief
Pathway Possibilities
Engineering Machinist, Copywriter, Survey Technician, Agricultural/Horticultural Scientist, Air Force Officer, Mechanical Engineering Technician, Paramedic, Business Analyst, Software Developer, Patternmaker, Aquaculture Farmer, Marine Biologist, Army Officer, Army Soldier, Medical Physicist, Electronics Engineer, Bank Worker, Biochemist, Biomedical Engineer, Biotechnologist, Fabrication Engineer,
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