Engineering

Course summary

Identifying requirements. Learning from existing products and practice. Implications of wider issues. Design thinking and communication. Material and component considerations. Technical understanding. Manufacturing processes and techniques. Viability of design solutions. Health and safety. Mathematical and scientific knowledge of materials. Component 01: Principles of Design Engineering Written examination: 1 hours 30 minutes; 26.7% of the qualification; 80 marks Students will analyse existing products, demonstrate applied mathematical skills and their technical knowledge of materials, product functionality, manufacturing processes and techniques. Component 02: Problem solving in Design Engineering Written examination: 1 hours 45 minutes; 23.3% of the qualification; 70 marks Students will apply their knowledge, understanding and skills of designing and manufacturing prototypes and products to given situations and problems. Component 03/04: Iterative Design Project Non-examined assessment; 50% of the qualification; 100 marks Central to this non-examined assessment is the requirement for students to understand and apply processes of iterative designing in their Engineering practice: exploring needs, creating solutions and evaluating how well the needs have been met. Students identify an engaging and challenging context of their own choice that offers design opportunity or problem to respond to in the development of a design solution. They create a chronological portfolio of evidence in real-time as they design, make and evaluate the project according to the iterative processes of explore, create and evaluate.