Design and Manufacture : Higher

Entry Requirements:

  • National 5 Design and Manufacture Course
  • Direct entry as Crash Higher for S6 only – individual cases considered by PT.

Course Content:

The Course provides a broad and practical experience in product design and manufacture. It provides opportunities for learners to gain skills in designing and communicating design proposals and opportunities for learners to refine and resolve their design ideas effectively.

The Course stresses the integration of designing and making. It confirms that design is an interactive process. The Course highlights the close relationship between designing, making, testing and refining design ideas.

The Course provides opportunities for learners to apply practical skills and an understanding of the properties and uses of materials and manufacturing processes. It does so in a way that allows learners to inform and refine their own design proposals. It offers them opportunities to explore design alternatives and to consider the manufacturing practicalities that these design alternatives bring to light.

The Course combines elements of creativity and designing for aesthetic or visual impact with elements of designing for the practicalities of manufacturing. It helps the learner appreciate the importance to a product of form, function and performance. It helps them develop strategies for the evaluation of these attributes and to refine and resolve their designs accordingly.

The Course provides learners with opportunities to develop:

  • research skills
  • idea generation techniques
  • the ability to read drawings and diagrams
  • the ability to communicate design ideas and practical details
  • the ability to devise, plan and develop practical solutions to design opportunities

The Course allows learners to engage with technologies. It allows them to evaluate both the impact that design and manufacturing technologies have on our environment and society and how technologies have impacted on the world of the designer and on the manufacturing industry.

Assessment:

  • Component 1 – Assignment (70 marks)
  • Component 2 – Question Paper (70 marks)

Total – 140 marks

Please Note: Very little of this course is spent in the workshop. Only 8% of the course is full scale model making. It is quite different from the N5 course, the majority of models made are small concept models.

Progression Pathway:

  • Advanced Higher Design and Manufacture