Program Overview

EMT303 Design & Technology Project

This subject builds on prior learning in the practice of design and use of technologies, tools, materials and equipment, as students demonstrate skills of designing and managing a coherent design project. Students will: understand the relationships between design, technology, creativity, innovation and enterprise; apply design concepts, criteria and considerations to technology processes and production skills; and implement ways of communicating, evaluating, assessing, reporting on and presenting a designed product, system, service or environment. The subject also enables students to consider emerging technologies and preferred futures.

Availability

• Session 2 (60)
• On Campus: Wagga Wagga Campus
• Online: Wagga Wagga Campus

Subject Information

Grading System

HD/FL

Duration

One session

School

School of Education

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:

• explain the relationship between design, technology, creativity, innovation, and enterprise;
• apply design concepts, criteria and considerations to design ideas;
• make judgements about appropriateness of planning and management decisions;
• produce a coherent product or system or environment;
• demonstrate a range of strategies to communicate, assess, evaluate, report on and present designed solutions;
• demonstrate clear and accurate writing and professional written and other communication skills including: effective research skills; use of appropriate educational terminology, and the ability to use referencing and citation conventions.

Syllabus

This subject will cover the following topics:

• Understanding the relationship between design and technology in technology education
• Making decisions in design and technology experiential approaches
• Deriving models for critiquing, exploring and investigating aspects of design
• Reading a design and technology curriculum for project-based learning
• Identifying, generating, articulating and establishing criteria and evaluating design ideas
• Establishing and achieving outcomes with efficient planning and management
• Testing, selecting, developing and using resources and materials to manage production processes
• Implementing production of a coherent product, service, system or environment
• Communicating visually, verbally, graphically, digitally [written/audio], by representation, modelling a prototype, collaborative approaches, presenting a portfolio, and marketing
• Evaluating local and global domestic, community, industrial, business and government projects, including emerging approaches to design and technology
• Developing project-based design and technology curriculum materials: integration, sequence, variety and relevance
• Linking designed solutions and outcomes, evaluation and assessment strategies