This course requires 2 options.
Engineering Trades 3
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Colin Lawrence.
This course is centred around a single complex practical that involves the precision machining of 3 components to make an assembly. There are also a number of theory assessments that compliment the programme.
Course content is subject to change as standards become obsolete or are superseded.
This course undertaken in an Engineering Workshop.
Course Overview
Term 1
Theory content and assessment around metals, composition and properties.
Introduction to components and machining processes and order.
Term 2
Manufacturing components begins.
Process sheets are developed as progress is made.
Term 3
Component manufacture completed and assembly verified.
Theory tasks and assessments completed.
Term 4
Component manufacture completed and assembly verified.
Theory tasks and assessments completed.
Prerequisites
If you did not take a pathway course at Level 2, or achieved fewer than 14 credits in that course, you will need HOD approval
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
External
NZQA Info
Demonstrate knowledge of the composition of common engineering metals
NZQA Info
Demonstrate knowledge of common engineering metals
NZQA Info
Construction and Mechanical Technologies 3.22 - Implement complex procedures to make a specified product using a Computer Numerical Controlled (CNC) machine