Design and Technology (Engineering)

Course summary

The course develops your creative design skills and gives you the technical ability you need to use production methods and materials creatively, including general and specialist IT skills, such as computer-aided design (CAD). Studying Product Design makes you proficient in these areas and prepares you for Higher Education, industry, entrepreneurship, and careers in many related areas. Our A level requires you to identify market needs and opportunities for new products, initiate and develop design solutions, and make and test prototypes/products. You acquire subject knowledge in design, technology, and engineering, including how a product can be developed through the stages of prototyping, realisation, and commercial manufacture. This qualification will excite and engage you with contemporary topics covering the breadth of this dynamic and continually evolving subject. It creates empathetic learners who develop the ability to confidently critique products, situations, and society in every walk of life, now and in the future. Our Department participates in many national Design and Engineering competitions and runs a biannual residential trip, to learn about the automotive and renewable energy industries.