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Why study Design and Manufacture?

This course allows you to explore the multi-faceted world of product design and manufacturing. Creativity is at the heart of this course and its combination with technology makes it exciting and dynamic.

Design and Manufacture provides you with skills in designing and communicating design proposals, allowing you to refine and resolve your design ideas effectively. The course stresses the integration of designing and making, highlighting the close relationship between designing, making, testing, and refining design ideas.

The skills you learn in this course give you a broad range of potential for jobs or careers; in the expressive arts, mathematics, science, information technology, as well as in craft, design, engineering and graphics.

  • National 4
  • National 5
  • Higher

    This course is suitable for learners attracted by practical activities. It provides a foundation for those considering further study or a career in design, manufacturing, engineering, science, marketing, and related disciplines.

    Levels available -              National 4 National 5 and Higher

    Course Outline Both National 4 and National 5

    Students will study the following:

  • Design - This covers the product design process from brief to design proposal. It helps learners develop skills in initiating, developing, articulating and communicating simple design proposals. It allows them to develop an appreciation of the design/make/test process and the importance of evaluating and resolving work on an on-going basis. It allows them to develop an appreciation of design concepts and the various factors that influence the design of products.
  • Materials and Manufacture - This covers the product design process from design proposals to prototype and product. It allows learners to ‘close the design loop’ by manufacturing their design ideas. It allows learners to develop practical skills that are invaluable in the design/make/test process. It helps them gain an appreciation of the properties and uses of materials, as well as simple manufacturing processes and techniques. It allows them to refine and resolve design and manufacturing solutions.
  • Design and Manufacture assignment  -  Students will complete a final design assignment in response to a design brief set by the SQA.  The brief will relate to a straightforward product design scenario. The response will include a folio, a model, or a prototype, or a completed product.
  • ADDED VALUE UNIT: ADDED VALUE PROJECT/ASSIGNMENT

    Learners will extend and apply their knowledge and skills through the units at National 4.  To pass at National 4 level, young people must complete the final design brief and design a project, through to the manufacture of the project in the school workshop.

    Progression

    National 4 learners must have previously been successful at Level 3 and, if successful, can possibly progress onto National 5 (S5)        National 5 learners must have previously been successful at Level 4 or 5 and, if successful, can progress to the Practical Metalworking senior phase option.

    Assessment Requirements 

    •             Continuous workshop assessment

    •             The two units are combined throughout the year with practical design tasks and practical projects.

    •             Completed Added Value Project – January to April

    •             No final SQA examination           

    •             Continuous workshop assessment

    •             The two units are combined throughout the year with practical design tasks and practical projects.

    •             Completion of Practical Assignment – January to April

    •             SQA Course Examination

    Possible careers

    •             Architect

    •             Biocarbon engineer

    •             Steel fixer          

    •             Set designer

    •             Civil engineer

    •             Automotive engineer

    •             Quantity surveyor          

    •             Product Designer

    •             Welder

    •             Robotics engineer

    •             Interior designer

    Links to further info

    Design and Manufacture course spec’s at all levels:  https://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/47450.html

    Revision materials / course resources:  www.technologystudent.com and https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/subjects/z6xpb9q

    Twitter: @STMtechnologies