Industrial Technology: Timber Products and Furniture Technologies
Course Outline
Are you interested in a career in the timber industry such as furniture designer, builder, carpenter or do you just have a general interest in making products from timber?
Industrial Technology is a practical, non-vocational 2 Unit course for Years 11 & 12.
It is similar in some areas to Design and Technology, however, where Design and Technology focuses on the “general design process”, Industrial Technology focuses more on specific skills and knowledge associated with the timber industry such as,
construction skills to allow you to manage and build a major project primarily from timber. This major project will be worth 60% of the final HSC assessment in this subject.
current manufacturing techniques and technologies as used in the timber industry
design limitations in work with wood
environmental issues associated with the timber industry
common management structures of companies within the timber industry
The Preliminary Course (Year 11)
The preliminary course uses Project Work as a means of attaining the required construction skills and associated theoretical knowledge. Students will also study the timber industry in general, covering the Structural, Technological and Environmental issues that affect that industry.
Student work sample
The HSC Course (Year 12)
The HSC course will focus on the student’s own major work. The major work will be marked by external examiners and will form part of both the school’s assessment and the HSC assessment. A folio will accompany the major work and will show evidence of planning and management of the major work.
The students must also undertake an in-depth study of one company within the timber industry and produce a report based on that study. The study of industry and the theoretical components of the course will be examined at the HSC in a one and a half hour exam. This exam is worth 40% of the final HSC mark.
Students electing Industrial Technology must construct a major work that is made primarily from timber.
Students may study any combination of Engineering Studies, Industrial Technology and Design and Technology in the senior school.
There are no pre-requisites for Industrial Technology however those students that have studied Industrial technology – Wood or Graphics Technology in the junior school would find their knowledge and skills from those subjects an advantage in this course.
Student work samples
Turramurra High School Virtual Showcase
Due to COVID-19 the Turramurra High School Showcase went virtual. Since then we have catalogued the HSC Major Works from each year. Please click on the button below to view the amazing Major Works from THS students.