Level 3 Engineering

Year 1 Units of Study:1: Engineering Principles2: Health & Safety3: Engineering Product Design4: Engineering Quality10: Computer Aided Design12: Pneumatics & Hydraulics19: Electronic Devices25: Metallic Materials35: Computer Programming

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I would like to extend a warm welcome to you as you start within theEngineering and Built Environment department at Cronton SixthForm.

After completion of the course, successful students often choose totake further study in subjects such as electrical, mechanical andaeronautical engineering at degree level or progress onto our HNCEngineering course.

We would like you to settle into life as a student at the collegesmoothly. We have always considered Cronton Sixth Form to be thefriendliest College and we hope you do to.

Support is available from all staff, but particularly your personal tutorwho you will meet in each week when starting college.

I look forward to meeting with you in September!

Head of SchoolJo Hall

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1: Engineering Principles

Need to brush up on your maths before starting college in September?Complete a free Open Learn course called “Everyday Maths 2 for Construction and Engineering” online now. Follow the link below.

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/everyday-maths-construction-and-engineering-2/content-section-overview-0?active-tab=description-tab

This unit will develop your mathematical and physical scientific knowledge and understanding to enable you tosolve problems set in an engineering context.

There are many practical situations in engineering in which solving equations is needed. Here are some worked examples to demonstrate typical practical situations.

In order to be a successful engineer, you will need to develop your problem solving skills. You will encounter unfamiliar mathematical problems throughout your career. Have a go at the problems below and let us know how you get on.

Answers:

The Unilever ChallengeTask 1:

Unilever are a world leading company in the consumer goods industry and branding is a huge part of what they do. Producing food, to cleaning agents, PG Tips to Dove, Ben & Jerry's and CIF.

Unilever makes some of the best known brands in the world. All of Unilever’s brands are on a journey to reducing their environmental impact and increasing their positive social impact. Successful branding is key to selling products.

Unilever would like you to build a brand concept from a given brief, but firstly you must decide on the region you are going to pitch your new product to. Read through the information on this page.

Now you will need to decide who you are designing your product for by deciding on your target consumer and which region you would like to sell in. You will have to decide from the following information:

Chosen Region:

3: Engineering Product Design Engineering products are part of our daily lives, from aircraft to the smallest electronic circuits found in medical devices.Engineering products are designed as a result of the identification of a need or opportunity, and then engineers usingcreative skills and technical knowledge to devise and deliver a new design or improvements to an existing design.

3: Engineering Product Design Task 2: Given the information from the previous page, you must now decide on a project brief. You must try to stickwith this project brief throughout the task

Project Brief Chosen:

Task 4: The next part of the project, is to create a claims & appraisal package.

• Keeping your target consumer’s needs in mind, use your branding and your product’s unique selling point to decide on 3 key claims you would like to make about your product

•One of your claims must be a benefit claim e.g. less frizz, more shine, 10x smoother

•Once you have established your claims, decide on how you are going to support your benefit claim, what types of measures could you use in the lab to support it?

3: Engineering Product Design The following page is a list of activities that you would complete during the development of a new product. Readthe information carefully and use the next page to create notes.

Task 3: Once you have decided on your country and consumer, Unilever would like you to begin building your brand mission statement and the key messages behind your brand. Start thinking about what your brand stands for & your unique selling point.

Task 9: Now you have created your concept, you must market your product. Create a 30 second pitch of your concept for media of your choice e.g. for TV, Radio, Digital, a buyer pitch, a leaflet, a billboard.

Task 5: Packaging is an essential part of the product design. Without packaging, the consumer would not be able to get their product home. Waste and its impact on the environment is at the forefront of consumers mind

Consider:A packaging design that explains the different elements of the pack e.g. how is the product expelled from the pack (is it squeezy, shakeable etc). How has it been designed to be convenient for the consumer? Which bucket does the pack fall into (less plastic, better plastic, no plastic)? Why did they pick this pack? A label design that incorporates the branding .

Task 7: Now you have a product, You must consider the finances! Note where you intend to make the product, natural formulations cost around 50p in R1, 35p in R2 and 65p in R3 however no plastic packaging is cheaper in R3 (70p) Factories are cheaper to run in R2 (£2) and R1 but advertising is cheaper in R3 (£1)

Task 8: Now you have begun collecting more information about your product, you are to create a new Instagram page to in the lead up to your product launch. Consider what your first post might be? Consider what your page will be called? Consider the caption you might write! Make notes on the next page.

Task 6: Design design design! You have chosen your region and your brief. You must now design your product! Consider shape, size, aesthetics, bold statements, getting across your key claims clearly!

Brand Concept

Consumer Region:

Brand Name:

Product Name:

Product Benefits:

Tag Line:

3: Engineering Product DesignKey claims (benefits of your product)

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Brand LogoSupply Chain & Manufacturing

Total product cost -

Retail price -

Profit margin -

Launch timing -

What action did you take to solve the issue that arose and why?

Packaging Materials and Design

(less plastic, better plastic, no plastic?)

Advertising Campaign

Create an advertising campaign, weather it is a leaflet, video, design poster or PowerPoint for a buyers meeting

4: Quality & Commercial Engineering As an engineer, it is important that you understand some of the commercial and competitive considerationswhich ensure that engineering organisations thrive. You will need to apply these principles to technicalengineering projects to ensure that they add value to the organisation and are profitable. This unit will helpto prepare you for an engineering apprenticeship, higher education and technician-level engineering roles.

Jaguar Land Rover – Case Study

Jaguar Land Rover is an important international, national and regional employer. Many engineers in thelocal area will be employed by JLR at their Halewood plant.

In Year 1, you will visit the Halewood plant to get first-hand experience of how successful engineeringcompanies operate. For you to become a successful engineer and progress to management in engineering,it is important that you understand business and commercial aspects of engineering companies.

Watch the video about JLR’s Sustainable Business Model and answer the questions below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDW_Vt6UwF4

0:58 What are the 3 essential passions in the JLR strategy?

2:07 Explain 3 ways that JLR is considering future developments in the automotive industry.

5:13 Why do you think the following skills areimportant to future growth at JLR?

Engineering:

Research & development (R&D)

Sales & commercial

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Engineering Materials: Young Modulus ExperimentWe have devised a procedure to carry out an experiment to find the Young Modulus of astrawberry lace. As you carry it out, you will find it is far from perfect but, you should havesome fun doing it and hopefully get a decent result.

You will complete similar experiments throughout your metallic materials unit in year 1;determining the characteristics of metals.

You will need:•2 packets of strawberry laces•Dark pen (preferably permanent marker)•Measuring jug (needs to measure to at least every 50 ml)•Ruler / tape measure•Empty bottle (with a lid)•Water•Free Google account (to use Google Sheets to perform the analysis)

Method:

25: Metallic Materials

1. Watch: Understanding Young’s Modulus2. Watch the experimental method: Measuring the Young Modulus of a strawberry lace.3. Complete the experiment4. Record your results here: Measuring Young’s modulus spreadsheet (you will need a google account, if you don’t alreadyhave one).

Safety: Don’t eat the strawberry lace that you mark with the pen

Young’s Modulus for strawberry lace = Pa

In this unit, you will investigate and research the microstructures of ferrous and non-ferrous metallic materials,some of which will have been processed, for example heat treated.

Basic Programming

Task 1: Test your beginner coding skills using the VEXVR programming zone. Based on “scratch”programming this online software will help you tothink like an engineer, whilst programming yourrobot.

Click here to begin: https://vr.vex.com/

Task 2: Change the “playground” to the “wall maze”and make it through in just one run!

35: Computer Programming In this unit, you will learn how computer programming tasks are performed in engineering organisations, theroles of individuals in typical software projects and the methodologies that can be implemented to support thedesign and development phases of a project.

You will have the opportunity to build VEX robots during your time atcollege. Keep an eye out for projects and extra curricular activitiesusing these kits.

Introduction to ArduinosYou will use visual studio throughout your computer programming unit. Programming is an importantskill for modern engineers to have, because many young engineers will go on to careers in digitalmanufacturing, robotics and automation. In Year 2, you will use these skills to build and programmeArduinos and electronic components in your Microcontrollers exam.

Task 1: Create an account on TinkerCAD. Use the following video as a step-by-step guide to building avirtual circuits and programming a virtual Arduino.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MojSo7OtF9w&t=18s

Already a coding pro?

Can you do something cool using TinkerCAD/Ardunio and demonstrate it in college during induction…?