Design and Development for Engineering and Manufacturing
Core content
Students will develop an understanding of a broad range of issues relevant to the sector, including:
- working within the Engineering and Manufacturing Sectors – an understanding of how materials, conditions and context influence design processes and products
- essential mathematics for engineering and manufacturing – a knowledge and understanding of mathematics including standard matrices and determinants and standard trigonometry
- materials and their properties – understanding material processing techniques and their effects on materials and material quality, the condition of materials, how these are managed, and materials testing methods and techniques
- business, commercial and financial awareness - basic commercial principles including commercial priorities and markets, customers/clients/partners and resource allocation
Options to specialise
In addition to the core content, each student will also complete at least 1 module of occupation-specific content:
- Mechanical engineering
- Electrical and electronic engineering
- Control and instrumentation engineering
- Structural engineering
Awarding Organisation resources
City & Guilds has developed a wide range of resources to help providers to deliver the Design and Development for Engineering and Manufacturing T Level.
Approval and quality assurance
- Support to help providers through the approval process can be found here.
Registration, entries and results
- Information on how to register learners for their T Level as well as how to make bookings for the correct assessment series can be found here.
Teaching, learning and planning resources (found in the teaching, learning and planning resources tab of this page)
- Essential guidance and information for the planning, delivery assessment and administration of the T Level TQs, including key dates schedules and Higher Education information.
- Past papers, mark schemes and chief examiner reports for core and occupational specialisms (also includes specimen papers and mark schemes).
- Example Employer Set Projects, with briefs, tutor guidance and mark schemes.
- Guidance on how to deliver and mark assessments which form part of the T Level technical qualifications (found in the assessment guidance tab of this page).
Tutor and learning materials (found in the curriculum delivery planners and tutor resources tabs of this page)
- For both the core component and occupational specialist component, including curriculum planners, schemes of work and worksheets.
Video Resources
City & Guilds has a selection of on-demand webinars that you can find below. A number of the webinars were recorded before the recent core exams and ESP decoupling confirmation. Please watch this short video before watching any of the on-demand events.
- T Level Introduction (Design and Development). Watch the video here and find the slides here.
- Curriculum planning. Watch the video here, find the slides here and find sample curriculum plans here.
- Preparation for core exams and assessments. Watch the video here and find the slides here.
- Preparation for the Employer-Set Project assessment (Design and Development). Watch the video here and find the slides here.
Other resources include:
- Skills England progression profiles
- Occupational Maps: Skills England
Gatsby resources
The Technical Education Networks programme supports teachers bringing industry and the classroom closer together by delivering an engaging and enriched curriculum for their students in an evolving education landscape, drawing on expertise of specialist teachers, employers and professional bodies. Please find the resources page here.
Research – Macrosequencing of curriculum:
Macro-sequencing is a structured and logical progression of a programme informed by strong pedagogical decisions. This research, in partnership with the Association of Colleges, has collated feedback from 55 providers who took part in the research: 24 completed a survey, 51 had in-depth interviews, and 55 attended focus groups between January and August 2023. This research presents one model for the macro-sequencing of the T Level Design and Development for Engineering and Manufacturing together with feedback on implementing diagnostic assessments, sequencing core and occupational specialism content, embedding skills into the curriculum and implementing industry placements.
Please find the research here.
AoC resources
Please find AoC's resource depository here.
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