GCSE+Electronics+Coursework+Planner


 * GCSE Electronics, Systems & Control**
 * Coursework Planner**
 * 1. Chosen statement
 * 2. Situation / Brief
 * 3. User group


 * 4. View of the user - Questionnaire
 * 5. Similar products on the market - evaluate - product analysis
 * 6. Collect relevant data
 * 7. Who, what, when, where, why?
 * 8. Specifications - including //batch// production


 * 9. Wide range of ideas - (at least 8), annotated
 * 10. Development of favoured solution
 * 11. Compare ideas to specification
 * 12. Choose an idea giving strengths and weaknesses (evaluate)


 * 13. Investigate and test materials, production methods, components, finishes and construction
 * 14. Mass production techniques - jigs, moulds, formers
 * 15. Specification Check - does it meet the brief?
 * 16. Working drawings / component sheets, cutting list - including sizes
 * 17. Cost sheet of materials and components
 * 18. Control systems needed - flow diagram


 * 19. Plan for manufacture / sequential drawing / time chart
 * 20. Risk assessment
 * 21. Produce your ideas to a high standard using jigs and formers


 * 22. Test your product in its intended setting
 * 23. review your work against your specification
 * 24. Redesign and modify any jigs / formers. Single products / batch production
 * 25. Evaluate your work - suggest improvements

This is a checklist for you to use as a guide, along with the coursework booklet. Read carefully and judge your work accordingly, can you identify which parts you have covered and which you have yet to do.