Product design: Design Guides
There are 8 Design Guides: Seating, Automata, Lighting, Storage, Toys and games, Testing equipment, Body adornment, and Improving quality. Each Design Guide also contains the relevant Line of Interest Resource Task(s). You can download these free of charge to use with your students.
We also include here the Mechanical Systems Design Guide, the Structural Systems Design Guide and the Electrical Systems Design Guide.
Product design: Design Guide 8 RT
Designing to improve quality Resource Task
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updated: 7 February 2007
Product design: Design Guide 9 part 1
Mechanical Systems Part 1
Your students can use this information plus the chooser charts to design mechanisms that work well and are reliable.
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updated: 7 February 2007
Product design: Design Guide 9 part 2
Mechanical Systems Part 2
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updated: 7 February 2007
Product design: Design Guide 9 part 3
Mechanical Systems part 3
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updated: 7 February 2007
Product design: Design Guide 10
Structural Systems
All products contain structural elements. Your students can use this information plus the chooser charts to make design decisions to ensure functional efficiency and aesthetic elegance...
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updated: 7 February 2007