Course topics.

Try this with Industrial Technology

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Organisation, management levels and structure of a focus area business
• Restructuring, production efficiency and quality control in industry
• Mechanisation, mass production and automation: effects on efficiency and viability
• Waste minimisation, recycling, pollution and sustainable development
• Local, state and federal legislation and the sustainability of the industry
• Industrial relations, EEO, contracts, multi-skilling and career pathways
• WHS legislation, risk assessment, safety training and workplace culture
• How historical developments in processes, materials and work practices shaped the industry
• Research, idea generation, sketching, prototyping, modelling and testing
• Production and working drawings: conventions, interpretation and presentation
• Time plans, finance plans, costing and the Major Project management folio
• Characteristics of quality manufactured products and applying quality control
• Safe work practices, PPE, risk control and workshop equipment maintenance
• Properties, characteristics and justified selection of materials in the focus area
• Manufactured, engineered and composite materials: manufacture, use and environmental impact
• Joining, fastening and assembly techniques and their appropriate selection
• Shaping, forming and machining processes in the focus area industry
• Preparation, finishes and their environmental and WHS issues
• Safe set-up, operation and maintenance of high-risk tools and machinery
• Emerging technologies in the focus area industry and their industrial impact