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Design and Technology study guides
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- Eduqas GCSE Design and Technology: core design principles - a complete overview
A deep-dive Eduqas GCSE Design and Technology guide to core design principles. Covers new and emerging technologies, enterprise and production systems, design strategies and the iterative process, anthropometrics and ergonomics, briefs and specifications, and communicating design ideas.
π 13 min readC600 - Eduqas GCSE Design and Technology: manufacturing processes - a complete overview
A deep-dive Eduqas GCSE Design and Technology guide to manufacturing processes. Covers wastage and addition, deforming and reforming (moulding), scales of production, CAD/CAM, jigs, quality control and tolerances, and surface treatments and finishes.
π 13 min readC600 - Eduqas GCSE Design and Technology: materials and their properties - a complete overview
A deep-dive Eduqas GCSE Design and Technology guide to materials and their properties. Covers papers and boards, timbers, metals, polymers and textiles, their physical and working properties and sources, and selecting and costing materials from stock forms.
π 14 min readC600 - Eduqas GCSE Design and Technology: sustainability and society - a complete overview
A deep-dive Eduqas GCSE Design and Technology guide to sustainability and society. Covers the product life cycle and the 6 Rs, the ecological and social footprint, social, cultural and ethical issues, and smart, modern, composite and technical-textile materials.
π 13 min readC600 - Eduqas GCSE Design and Technology: technical systems and mechanisms - a complete overview
A deep-dive Eduqas GCSE Design and Technology guide to technical systems and mechanisms. Covers energy generation and storage, the systems approach to designing, input/process/output components, forces and motion, and gears, pulleys and cams with ratio calculations.
π 14 min readC600 - Eduqas GCSE Design and Technology: the design and make NEA - a complete overview
A deep-dive Eduqas GCSE Design and Technology guide to the design and make NEA (Component 2). Covers the contextual challenge, investigating the context and user, generating, developing and modelling ideas, making, testing and the final evaluation, and the assessment objectives.
π 12 min readC600