Subject Code: 1TSTC
Credit points: 10 points
Length of course: Semester
Recommended Background: Satisfactory completion of Year 10 CAD

Course Outline:
Students identify, create, initiate, and develop products, processes, or systems. They learn to use tools, materials, and systems safely and competently to complete a product.

Students explore technologies in both contemporary and historical settings, and analyse the impacts of technology, including social, environmental, and sustainable consequences. In this focus area, students use images, sounds, or other data to design and make products that communicate information.

Contexts include computer-aided programs, graphics, multimedia, photography, or web-design.

Topics Included:
The program is designed to explore mechanical engineering concepts and advanced modelling concepts in CAD. Students design, test and create machine parts based on the science of materials. Students use complex mathematical models e.g. gear design. This course caters for students who may wish to pursue a career in an engineering discipline at university. The course culminates in student design of a multicomponent working model of a machine.


Assessment:
  • Product 30%
  • Folio 40%
  • Skills and Application Tasks 30%


Additional Costs:

  • Nil