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This course develops the theory and practice of design, including folio production and model making. In requires students to apply and integrate discreet areas of technology, forms of knowledge and specific and generic skills.

Weekly, 1 hour lecture, 2 hour workshop.

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Students will produce a number of designs in response to a range of problem briefs. Students will also be required to integrate a range of knowledge drawn from engineering, science and technology in developing solutions, models and prototypes.

This course aims to build on the first year course that provided an introduction to product design and would be a compulsory component for the Bachelor of Technological Education (BTechEd).

The aims of this course are to further expose students to the theory and practice of design, including folio production and model making. During the course students will develop folio, modelling, group working, research and presentation skills. Building on the first year course, Design T1, there will be an emphasis on such aspects as conceptual design, business aspects of design, materials selection, aesthetic design, and design analysis/evaluation methods. Students will also develop a critical awareness of current literature on design and design education. Students will be required to integrate, in the context of design problem solving, a range of knowledge and skills drawn from across other areas of their programme of study.

The course also supports students to develop the knowledge needed to meet the following elements of the Standard for Provisional Registration:

2.1.1 Have knowledge and understanding of the nature of the curriculum and its development

2.1.2 Have knowledge and understanding of the relevant area(s) of pre-school, primary or secondary curriculum

3.1.1 Plan coherent, progressive and stimulating teaching programmes which match learners' needs and abilities

3.1.2 Communicate effectively and interact productively with learners, individually and collectively.

This course also aims to develop the following University of Glasgow graduate attributes across the academic, personal and social dimensions of each: subject specialists; investigative; effective communicators; confident; reflective learners.

 By the end of the course the students will be able to:

■ Communicate using specialist design vocabulary.

■ Analyse and explore a problem, need or design opportunity and apply an appropriate design process in response.

■ Generate creative design solutions through research and investigation and explain the relevance of these solutions in difference contexts.

■ Select appropriate materials in the context of design and concept development.

■ Recognise and explain the business aspects of design such as costing, market research and market testing.

■ Display knowledge of design factors relating to manufacture, production, human factors, environmental factors and aesthetics.

■ Apply a range of soft modelling techniques to realise ideas, concepts or solutions in 3D form.

■ Construct a design folio to communicate design thinking.

■ Apply recognised methods of design evaluation.

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment. 80% attendance rule applies. Students must achieve a minimum of D3.