DESIGN TECHNOLOGY

Head of Department: Mr Alan Beaty

Email: amb@barneyschool.org.uk

Course name: Resistant Materials Engineering (0979)

Exam board: CIE (Cambridge International Examinations)

WHY DESIGN TECHNOLOGY?

The Cambridge iGCSE syllabus enables students to identify, consider and solve problems through creative thinking, planning, design and development by working with a range of different materials, tools and processes. Students gain technical and design thinking awareness as a result, and develop skills such as initiative, resourcefulness, enquiry and ingenuity. Students also develop a range of communication skills central to designing, making and evaluating.

SYLLABUS CONTENT:

1. Product Design

• Identification of problems, conducting a range of research techniques and production of a design specification.

• Generation of initial ideas and concepts with evaluation.

• Development of ideas, environmental and sustainability considerations, prototyping and modelling of design proposals. Computer Aided Design and engineering drawings.

• Planning for production, Health and Safety, and evaluation of product with suggestions for further improvements.

2. Resistant Materials

• Types of materials, woods, metals and plastic. Smart and modern materials and composites. Preparation of materials, setting, measuring, marking out and testing, shaping materials, joining and assembly. Finishing materials.

ASSESSMENT:

The course is assessed by coursework and two examinations at the end of Year 11:

Paper 1 Product Design: 1 hour 15 minutes, worth 25% of the qualification.

Questions will be based on the Common content: Product Design

Paper 3 Resistant Materials: 1 hour, worth 25% of the qualification.

Questions will be based on the Specialist option: Resistant Materials content and the Common content: Product Design

Component 2: Coursework Project, worth 50% of qualification.

This is a School-based assessment, internally assessed and externally moderated.