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Links to the UK curricula
This section details the QCA required topic areas for this subject. By clicking on a QCA topic title below you will be taken to the relevant section of the gcsEASE website where the topic is dealt with.
Unit 1 – Design and communication
- The design process
- What does the client really want?
- Brainstorming and sketching
- Designing the product
- Engineering drawings
- Orthographic drawings
- Dimensions and tolerances
- Exploded diagrams
- 3D modelling
- Schematic diagrams
- Flow diagrams
- Project planning
- The design folder
Unit 2 – Engineered products
- electronic assembly
- pin-through-hole printed circuit assembly
- electronic components
- pin-through-hole passive components
- pin-through-hole active components
- surface-mount assembly
- surface-mount passive devices
- surface-mount active components
Unit 3 – Applications of technology
- Evolution of products
- Testing and quality control
- Sensors and actuators
- Digital and analogue
- Control systems
- Digital computer systems
- Electronic communications
- The product at the end of its life
