Engineering Resources

About this website

This is a resource website set up for the benefit of both the pupil and the teacher..

It incorporates strategies needed in order to solve any Irish Leaving Certificate Engineering Brief.

Why?

All too often pupils tend to replicate other designs on the market. As a result projects lack inventiveness and originality.
To encourage creativity in design
To encourage creative problem solving.

Main pages

Analysis Of Brief:

The analysis of brief will guide you into how to tackle your brief at first and steps how to get an understanding of it. The page has PowerPoints, a tutorial, slideshows and other relevant information.

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Mock-Up/Inventiveness

This page is very useful in order for you, or your class, to come up with origianal and inventive design solutions to the brief. The page contains links to 6 of these strategies.

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Investigation Of Solutions

In this page you will be guided through useful steps to come-up with possible solutions to the brief. It demonstrates the best approach to take for completing this section of the brief. The page has PowePoints, a slideshow, a tutorial video and links to the related strategies.

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Critera For Selection Of Solution

In this page you will again find PowerPoint/Slides and relevant information, in order to guide you with the best approach to take in order to complete this part of your brief.

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Sample Solutions

This page will direct you to the solutions to 2007, 2008 and 2011 briefs using 3 of the 6 inventiveness strategies.

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Contact info

Contact me (Robert) at:

0724998@studentmail.ul.ie

If you have any qeerys please do not hesitate to drop me an email and I will get back to you as soon as possible. I would appreciate any comments or recommendations you may have on how to improve this site.

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Declaration

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