A Level 2019 Topic List
Powerpoint Resources – AS Theory
design movements – lesson 1
Ratios, Percentages, Surface Area and Volume
Trigonometry, Construction, Coordinates, Geometry & Statistics
Processes – Lamination
Processes – Material Finishes
Processes – Polymer Moulding
Processes – Adhesives
AS Level Topics
- A level processes
- Properties of Materials pg 25
- Composite Materials Pg30-32
- Composite Materials Pg30-32
- Smart Materials
- casting methods
- Metals pg 25-28
- Polymers pg 28-29
- Wood Materials pg 30
- Modern materials and Products pg 33-35
- Components – Nuts and bolts / cutting screw threads / types of screw thread pg 35-37
- Components – Spacers and washers
- screw
- gears
- bearings and bushes
- cams and followers
- Scale of Production pg 41-42
- Casting pg 43-44
- Milling and routing pg 45
- Drilling pg 46
- Turning – Centre lathe pg 46
- Turning – Wood lathe pg 49
- Extrusion pg 49
- Injection Moulding pg 49
- Blow moulding pg 49
- Vacuum forming pg 50
- Rotational Moulding pg 51
- Manufacturing techniques for mass production – jigs / patterns / formers / moulds pg 52
- Nuts, bolts and washers pg 53
- Rivets pg 53-54
- Welding pg 54
- Brazing and hard soldering pg 54-55
- Adhesives pg 56
- Material Removal processes pg 58-60
- Heat treatment of metals pg 60-61
- Conversion and seasoning pg 62
- Faults in wood pg 63
- CAD/CAM/VR/Rapid prototyping pg 63-65
- CNC machines
- Useful Resources
- Sustainability Issues
- Quality Assurance and Quality Control
- Health and Safety / COSHH
Portfolio of Creative Skills
- Product Analysis
- Cover page for this project
- Seating Design markscheme
- Lamp Project
- User profile and design spec
A2 Level Topics
- Industrial and Commercial Practice
- Systems and Control
- Design in Context
- Sustainability
- Robotics and Ai
- Technological change in Society
- Design Movements
- product lifecycle
- renewable
- Product life cycle and business models
- Legislation
A-level-Examination-Qu-grid Pupil version
Product Lifecycle
Guide to Product Design A Level
A PowerPoint guide to the course structure can be downloaded using the link below. It gives you an insight into why you should study Product Design.
Click to download ‘A Level Options Presentation‘
Revision List for February Mock Examination
Properties of materials Aluminium / mild Steel / thermoplastics / Carbon Fiber / hardwoods / softwoods
Cam types and followers – common uses and their advantages / disadvantages
Bearings and bushes – common uses and their advantages / disadvantages
Moulding Processes – injection forming / vacuum forming / blow moulding etc
British Standards – Kitemark – Quality Assurance – Quality Control – TQM