Year 9 Advanced Manufacturing

LENGTH OF COURSE: Semester Only
ASSUMED BACKGROUND: Nil
SUBJECT CHARGES: Nil

Advanced Manufacturing is all about turning your ideas into reality using cutting-edge technology. You’ll learn to master the art of design and the science of production. From sketching your vision to bringing it to life with laser cutters, 3D printers, and CNC machines, you’ll gain the skills to create amazing, functional, and sustainable products.

CONTENT
Course content will be a selection of the following:

Process and production skills: Develop knowledge and skills in using advanced manufacturing processes such as laser cutting, 3D printing, CNC routing and vinyl cutting to produce designed products. Integrate microprocessors and electronics to produce products with increasingly complex functionality. Develop an understanding of the characteristics and properties of advanced technologies and how they can be combined to produce sustainable designed solutions with increasing complexity

Investigating and designing: Develop capacity to design and communicate intent, addressing aesthetics, ergonomics, functionality, and usability in design. Develop understandings of ethical, legal, social, economic, environmental and sustainability factors in product design. Prepare products for production, using a range of digital technologies.

ASSESSMENT TYPES

Specialist Skills Tasks
Ability to design and produce solutions to given criteria using specialised production or design skills.

Design Portfolio & Product
Design, produce and evaluate your own product. The product to develop can be chosen by the student in collaboration with their teacher as cost, space, time and capacity need to be considered.