Course Title: Make scale models

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2019

Course Code: VART6477C

Course Title: Make scale models

School: 320T Architecture & Urban Design

Campus: City Campus

Program: C5382 - Diploma of Product Design

Course Contact: Robin Blood

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4819

Course Contact Email: robin.blood@rmit.edu.au


Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Nominal Hours: 50

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.

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

None

Course Description

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to make 3-dimensional (3D) scale models in response to specifications, which may be part of a brief. The focus of this unit is on the technical skills required to make accurate scale models to designed specifications. Design skills are found in other units within the Visual Arts Craft and Design Training Package. People working in many industries require the skills and knowledge in this unit, and the unit is written to allow for contextualisation to a particular industry context. Within the cultural industries this unit is relevant for people working across multiple sectors.


National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:

CUAACD304 Make scale models

Element:

1. Prepare to make scale models

Performance Criteria:

1.1 Clarify scale model requirements based on relevant documentation, verbal briefs and consultation with relevant people
1.2 Identify potential challenges and plan work to minimise risk in consultation with relevant personnel
1.3 Select techniques for model making consistent with project requirements
1.4 Confirm presentation requirements, including timelines, for final scale models
1.5 Confirm equipment, materials and work space requirements
1.6 Set up work space and equipment according to safety considerations and organisational procedures

Element:

2. Complete model construction

Performance Criteria:

2.1 Use safe work practices to make preliminary models representing core dimensions in line with specifications
2.2 Review preliminary models against objectives and specifications in consultation with others
2.3 Confirm that intellectual property and other relevant legislative requirements are met
2.4 Make required adjustments to models
2.5 Complete models to project objectives
2.6 Present models to relevant colleagues in line with project and organisational requirements
2.7 Follow organisational storage and inventory procedures
2.8 Seek and use feedback from others to improve own skills


Learning Outcomes


On successful completion of this course, you will have developed and applied the skills and knowledge required to demonstrate your competency in the above elements.

During this course you will be shown different methods and meterials that will allow you to build a model of your designs.  You will work from drawings, mock-ups and CAD/CAM models to fabricate accurate and neatly finished representations of your products.


Details of Learning Activities

For a detailed list of learning activities and class structures please refer to CANVAS site and this course.


Teaching Schedule

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Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts


References


Other Resources

A list of all resources requirements can be found in your CANVAS shell.


Overview of Assessment

The assessment context must provide for:
   • practical demonstration of skills using required materials, tools and equipment to make scale models for a specific workplace purpose
Assessment may incorporate a range of methods to assess performance and the application of essential underpinning knowledge, and might include: 
   • evaluation of scale models made by the candidate 
   • oral or written questioning to assess knowledge of scale model-making techniques 
   • review of portfolios of evidence
   • third party workplace reports of performance by the candidatethe candidate
Assessment methods should closely reflect workplace demands and the needs of particular groups (eg people with disabilities, and people who may have literacy or numeracy difficulties eg speakers of languages other than English, remote communities and those with
interrupted schooling).

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Assessment Tasks

For a detailed list of learning activities and class structures please refer to CANVAS site and this course.


Assessment Matrix

For a detailed list of learning activities and class structures please refer to CANVAS site and this course.

Other Information

For all information please refer to CANVAS site and this course.

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