Overview
Autumn term
Key ideas and topics covered
Working on component 3a:
- What is engineering? Investigate Engineering sectors, famous engineers and products
- Hazards and risks – creating risk assessments
- Prototypes
- Disassembly of products
- Handling materials
- Recording a process
- Displaying data
- Measuring using engineering tools
Practical elements:
- Using hand tools
- Fixings
- Working to as brief to create a six-sided bias dice
Working on component 1a:
- Product research – power tool, bike or car
- Investigate product systems, components, materials, functions, manufacture
- Engineering sectors – how they contribute to making a product
- Large global companies
- Small to medium enterprise
- Job roles
Working on component 2b:
- Disassembly techniques – recording of observations
- Product design specification
- Mock exams
Spring term
Key ideas and topics covered
Working on component 3b:
- Interpretation of a brief
- Features of engineering products – dimensions, tolerances, surface finish and form
- Materials – polymers, metals
- Manufacturing processes – cutting, shaping, forming, joining
Practical elements:
- 3D sketching
- Design sheet
- Engineering drawing
- Finishing techniques – using oils, stains, waxes and dyes
- Marketing
- CAD
Working on component 1b:
- Product research – credit card multi-tool
- Create a brief – physical requirements, aesthetics, size, function, performance requirements
- Sketching and designing
- Physical modelling in card
- CAD
Working on component 2c:
- Production plans
- Safety, marking out, cutting – recording process
- Drilling, filing, shaping
- Quality control
- Tolerances
Summer term
Key ideas and topics covered
Working on component 3c:
- Types of engineering drawing
- Identifying issues
- Industrial production
- Improving solutions
- CAD/CAM
- Robotics in production
Practical elements:
- Creating products from an engineering drawing
- Mild steel – marking out, drilling, cutting, filing, stamping
- Quality control
Working on component 2a:
- Investigation into a brake caliper
- Product specifications
- Materials used in components and component availability
- Materials properties and uses
- Manufacturing processes – die casting, injection moulding, stamping and coiling
Component 3:
- ‘Skills’ – recording observations form practical work, processing results, evaluations of tests, annotating design diagrams, explaining issues
- Reviewing production processes
