Metal Technology

Content

This course focuses on welding, machining, and following safe operating procedures when designing and building metal products.  

The focus of term one is welding: oxy-acetylene welding (fusion and braze welding), metal inert gas (MIG) welding and manual metal arc welding (MMAW), also known as stick/arc welding. Students work through the design process to investigate, plan, generate, and evaluate their own square-framed projects. Materials are predominantly hollow steel tubes (square or round) with some flat steel as required.   

The second term focuses on metal lathe operation. The project is a brass sprinkler head and involves facing, turning, drilling, thread tapping, and use of hand tools. 

Assessment

Tasks may include:

• Design folio
• Series of sample welds
• Metal project production
• Evaluation of the metal project 
• Welding process investigation
• Metal lathe operations 
• Brass sprinkler head production
• Lathe presentation  

Additional Information

Students receive a fixed amount of material to produce their design. Extra materials can be purchased through the school. Alternatively, students can negotiate with the teacher to bring extra material from home for their projects.