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Produced by The Centre for Industry Education Collaboration (CIEC), this set of activities allows students to investigate the properties of polymers in relation to the design requirements for a sleeping bag.
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Product design: create an ergonomic shopping bag
Designers must consider how people will interact with their products and systems. The use of ergonomics and anthropometric data allows them to make sure their products are comfortable and efficient to use.
This resource focusses on how ergonomics and anthropometric data can be used to design a product.
Product Design: Design Guides
A set of design guides for Key Stage Four focusing on product design providing a straightforward way for students to become familiar with the sorts of questions they should ask when designing for a particular focus area.
The design guides can act as a stimulus for students who are having difficulty in...
Product Design: Polymers in Sleeping Bags
Produced by The Centre for Industry Education Collaboration (CIEC), this set of activities allows students to investigate the properties of polymers in relation to the design requirements for a sleeping bag.
Students carry out an investigation of the design and manufacture of sleeping bags as a product...
From The Centre for Industry Education Collaboration (CIEC), this book contains a range of science investigations that have been adapted for secondary-school students with particular learning needs.
In these activities appropriate teaching and learning strategies allow special needs students to play a full...
Product Design: Pop Bottles
From The Centre for Industry Education Collaboration (CIEC), these materials consist of three parts relating to the choice of materials and production processes involved in the manufacture of plastic bottles for carbonated drinks. The three sections are:
...Product Design: Sports Shoes
From The Centre for Industry Education Collaboration (CIEC), these activities deal with the different stages of market research, product design, selection of materials and manufacturing processes in the sports shoe industry.
Through a range of activities and practical investigations, students gain a greater...
This project, designed for 14-16 year olds, builds upon the previous age group's project, but its resources focus on each of the subject areas and provide students with a more in-depth study of these. This element shows pupils how to design and make products for lighting, seating, automata, toys and games, body...
Product development engineer
This video presents Chris Bellamy who is a product engineer at Jaguar Land Rover. Chris describes the benefits of the company’s graduate scheme and his current role within a ‘body engineering’ team which designs all visible aspects in a vehicle. Chris talks about his early interests and why he decided to study...