Tauranga Boys’ College

11 Product Technology

Course Description

Teacher in Charge: Gareth Osmond.

Prerequisites

Open Entry - 10PTC preferred

Year 11 Product Technology involves:

Inventing/developing exciting new prototypes to address real needs that exist within our community. Innovation is a key component going forward in most aspects of life and is the foundation of this course.
•Students will identify an opportunity to develop their own individual product.
•They then follow a design process to develop a prototype of it.
•Students will manufacture this in the school’s workshops using a range of technologies such as welding, CNC, Hand tools, and machining.
•This course involves both academic and practical components.
•Pathway to tertiary/university courses in Engineering, Design, Technology and Product Development

Here is an example of a lighting project one of our Y11 PTC students has developed.

Course Overview

Assessment	1	2	3	4
Assess Weight	10%	20%	20%	50%
Description	Skills Manual Workshop competency/skills	Project 1 Skills, Materials, Design process, modeling. Quality Product with a quality finish	Concept Design & Build Finalize concept Research Model Develop and Build	11PTC Portfolio Lamp Build - 20% Project Reflections - 10% Health / Safety - 20%
Grade %	/ 10	/ 20	/ 20	/ 50

Click the links below to see examples of the Product Technology related courses offered at NZ and Australian universities.

https://www.aut.ac.nz/courses/bachelor-of-design/industrial-design-major

https://www.idp.com/newzealand/search/product-design

https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/study/subjects/industrial-product-design

https://www.waikato.ac.nz/study/subjects/industrial-design

https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/programme-course/programme.cfm?prog_id=93521&major_code=PINDS

Click the link below to see example products that capture the essence of Product Technology as it operates in industry.

https://idea-nz.com/news.html

https://removeandreplace.com/2013/09/24/53-simply-cool-products/

Course Overview

Term 1
Identifying a product idea.
Researching possible product.
Communications with client and stakeholders.
Exploring possible solutions
Modelling selected product idea.

Term 2
Developing a product.
Proving likely fitness for purpose.
Writing final design brief.
CAD drawing product in detail.
Starting product manufacture

Term 3
Product manufacture
Product testing.
Portfolio

Term 4
Portfolio

Learning Areas:

Technology

Assessment Information

Year 11 Tauranga Boys College Certificate

Paper	Description	Type	Weighting
Paper 11PTC1	Skill Development	Internal	10.00%
Paper 11PTC2	Idea Development	Internal	20.00%
Paper 11PTC3	Conceptual Design	Internal	20.00%
Paper 11PTC4	Make and Test Product	Internal	50.00%

All Engineering Areas, Design, All Technology areas, Product Development, Product Design, Industrial design, Architect, Building & Construction, Industrial Management, Technician, Apprenticeships, Media design, Ergonomics.