Course Title: Identify purpose and performance outcomes of technical textile product
Part A: Course Overview
Program: C5210
Course Title: Identify purpose and performance outcomes of technical textile product
Portfolio: DSC
Nominal Hours: 40.0
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) |
MANU7217C |
Brunswick Campus |
TAFE |
350T Fashion & Textiles |
Face-to-Face |
Term1 2010 |
Course Contact: Inna Konopov
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 9197
Course Contact Email: inna.konopov@rmit.edu.au
Course Description
The course provides an extensive study in understanding technical textile products behaviour and performance, to identify the opportunities to develop a product on a market, to analyse various technical textile products in order to recognise the manufacturing process, to understand the impact of the fibre characteristics and used technologies on the technical textile products, to select the textile elements and manufacturing processes to design the final product for such industries as Automotive, Geo, Agro and Medical.
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
LMTTN2003B
National Competency Codes and Titles
National Element Code & Title: |
LMTTN2006B Identify purpose and performance outcomes of technical textile product |
Elements: |
1. Identify purpose of technical textile |
Learning Outcomes
Overview of Assessment
Students will study the technical textile manufacturing processes, conduct research on material selection (fibre, yarn or fabric and associated materials) for various technical textile product applications including: transport, medical and hygiene products, construction and engineering, geo-textiles, protective and safety clothing, agriculture and fishing; understand the properties of technical textiles and performance characteristics, collect and analyse the technical effects desired to be achieved by the technical textile product through practical experimentation, laboratory classes and prescribed exercises.