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Design and Applied Technology
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Free Design and Applied Technology study notes for Senior Secondary (HKDSE) students. Each chapter covers a key topic with examples and practice prompts you can continue inside the thinka app.
Design and Innovation
Technological Principles
Compulsory Part — Strand 1: Design and Innovation
Design in practice
Design process, creativity and project management
Design considerations
Product standards and design evaluation
Design and communication
Value and Impact
Compulsory Part — Strand 2: Technological Principles
Nature of technology
Energy and energy resources
Materials and standard components
Production process
Systems and control
Mechanical systems and physical structure
Logic gates and basic electronics
Automation
Compulsory Part — Strand 3: Value and Impact
Values in technology and design
Intellectual property and product evaluation
Environmental responsibility and appropriate technology
Historical and cultural influences
Entrepreneurship and enterprise
Elective Module 2A: Automation
Basics of control systems
Pneumatics
Electro-pneumatic systems and applications
Programmable control systems
Robotics
Creative Digital Media
Elective Module 2B: Creative Digital Media
Media literacy
Digital media products and related business
Digital media design
Visual composition and communication design
Digital media production
Design Implementation and Material Processing
Elective Module 2C: Design Implementation and Material Processing
Materials, components and systems
Materials, structures and new materials
Mechanisms
Processing and manufacturing
Scale of production, quality assurance and control
CAM
Electronics
Visualisation and Computer-aided Design (CAD) Modelling
Elective Module 2D: Electronics
Electronic signals, devices and circuits
Ohm's law, potential dividers and power
Logic circuits, truth tables and Boolean expressions
Analogue and digital electronics
Latch circuits, memory and counters
Integrated circuit, micro-controller and interfacing
Evolution of electronics in modern society
Elective Module 2E: Visualisation and CAD Modelling
Product visualisation and 3D modelling
Technical visualisation
Pictorial and engineering drawing
Standards, conventions, symbols and data presentation
Computer-aided design
Applications of CAD and visualisation
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