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PHILOSOPHY & VISION
PHILOSOPHY & VISION
Engineering stimulates the mind. It’s a chance to get out and get your hands dirty: make things, dismantle things and fix things. Completing this course could be the start of you being an engineer for life. You can study mechanical, electrical/electronic and engineering design. This course will broaden your experience and understanding of engineering and help you to develop specific knowledge and skills.
An engineer is someone who designs, builds or maintains machines, engines and structures, and, an engineer even develops ideas and systems to help protect the environment. Engineers help to create everything around us, involving almost every element of modern-day life; constantly inventing and adapting designs to meet our demands. Studying engineering will help develop your technical and practical skills in areas such as research, observation, measurement, making, disassembly and computer aided design. You will gain in depth knowledge of engineering companies and the different sectors within engineering. You will learn to plan and implement an engineering project and build skills and knowledge in finding solutions to engineering problems. You will make physical outcomes using the facilities on offer in the fully equipped workshops and design not only through drawing, but through the use of the recently upgraded computer aided design suite.
Problem solving, our way to a better future!
Problem solving, our way to a better future!
Year 10
Year 10
Your time spent in Engineering will involve a range of design and make experimentation tasks that result in the testing and recording of data. Tasks will be linked to engineering problem solving. Independent and group work will form the basis of these activities. It is important to be able to work and communicate within a team. These are skills that will be developed as you take on different roles within a design team. You also will have the opportunity to work by yourself on a range of practical tasks to build your knowledge of health and safety in the workshop and ability to use a range of engineering processes in metals and plastics work. You will then explore Engineering sectors and complete a case study on an engineering company looking at the different job roles within the sector. You will also investigate the role of design in the production of engineered products.
During year 10 you will complete an investigation into materials, components and the making process. You will also investigate and explore an engineered product looking at how it has been designed and manufactured. Through this disassembly you will discover why certain materials are used for certain applications and how these materials are processed to become their final outcome. You will then plan, reproduce, inspect and test a final solution. You will develop transferable skills such as problem solving, communication and critical thinking.
Year 11
Year 11
The final year of the course will have you working from engineering briefs with problems you need to respond to. The solutions you create will need to be tested. You will be given the opportunity to carry out tests, collect and analyse data, reflect on your findings, consider any issues and suggest your solutions. You will apply your developed skills in problem solving, design and communication.
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