From brief to finished product: design process, materials, and the management of a sustained project.
These are the statements the Industrial Technology syllabus makes about Design and the Major Project. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
The design process and iteration - Design and the Major Project, Year 11.
Client briefs and specifications - Design and the Major Project, Year 11.
Research, testing and prototyping - Design and the Major Project, Year 11.
Material selection and properties - Design and the Major Project, Year 11.
Processes, tooling and jigs - Design and the Major Project, Year 11.
Quality control and tolerances - Design and the Major Project, Year 11.
Project planning and documentation - Design and the Major Project, Year 11.
Evaluation against the brief - Design and the Major Project, Year 11.
Intellectual property and design protection - Design and the Major Project, Year 11.
Costing and the economics of a project - Design and the Major Project, Year 11.
Year 11 Course Examination Shape is 100 marks in 150 minutes. Questions on Design and the Major Project are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Industrial Technology uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Design and the Major Project is module 2 of 3 in Industrial Technology. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Industrial Technology dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.