Course Title: Plastic Products And Parts Design Detailing
Part A: Course Overview
Course ID: 025954
Program: C5068
Course Title: Plastic Products And Parts Design Detailing
Portfolio: DSC
Nominal Hours: 48.0
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
PROC5054 |
City Campus |
TAFE |
320T Design (TAFE) |
Face-to-Face |
Course Contact: Julian Pratt
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4820
Course Contact Email: julian.pratt@rmit.edu.au
Course Description
The purpose of this course is to provide participants with the skills, knowledge and attitudes required to learn the principles of designing plastics products and parts, and providing a knowledge of the relationship between product, part and tooling design essential to achieving production specification outcomes.
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
Pre: PROC 5055
National Competency Codes and Titles
VBS781 |
Plastic Products and Parts Design Detailing |
Learning Outcomes
1. Discuss the major processing methods used in the manufacture of plastics products and parts
2. Describe the various types of moulds and tooling and explain their relationship to plastics product and part design.
3. Discuss the major factors to be considered when designing a functional plastics product and part.
4. Prepare a product or part profile drawing to customer specifications
Overview of Assessment
Students will be assessed by completing a major project. Students will receive ongoing feedback as they complete in class exercises supporting the project. Ongoing verbal feedback will be provided to students as the project progresses. Written assessment and feedback will be given to the student when work is returned. Late work will not be accepted.