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The Design
Opportunity
Describe what is meant by a “design opportunity”.
Describe three possible courses of action that we
could take when we identify a design opportunity.
Explain why doing nothing at all may be
immoral.
The
Design Specification
Explain what design specifications are.
Explain why the morality with which a design
specification is compiled affects the quality, safety
and suitability of a design.
The
Design
Explain how the morality with which a product is
designed affects the quality of the product and the
health, safety and well being of the manufacturers and
users of the product.
The
Choice of Manufacturing Materials
Explain why people have a moral duty to use the
world’s remaining resources carefully and wisely.
State two manufacturing materials that some
people say are immoral to use.
Recycling
Materials
Explain what is meant by “recycling materials”.
Explain why far less energy is usually used in
recycling materials than in the primary conversion of
raw materials such as metal ores.
Describe three benefits to our environment that we get
from recycling materials.
State whether recycling is usually morally good
or morally bad.
Use
of Energy
Explain why many of the world’s leaders are
concerned about the effects of our energy use.
Explain why it is a moral issue for us all.
Describe three ways that people can reduce their
consumption of energy.
The
Manufacturing Processes
Describe at least six moral issues relating to
manufacturing processes.
Choice
of Manufacturer
Describe two reasons why a business might choose to
have its products manufactured in various parts of the
world. Discuss
the moral implications for businesses moving their
manufacturing operations from one country to another.
Quality
Explain why designers should be morally bound to
design good quality products and manufacturers should
be morally bound to make good quality products.
Describe some possible consequences of poorly
designed or manufactured products.
Health
and Safety
Explain how
the morality of a designer’s decisions can affect the risks faced by the manufacturers and
users of products, systems and environments.
Explain why it is a designer’s duty to eliminate
hazards where feasible and where hazards cannot be
eliminated, to reduce the risks as far as is
reasonably practicable and to provide information
about remaining risks to health and safety.
Crash
Tests
Explain why car designers use computer modelling and
crash tests when they are designing and modelling a
new car.
Product
Labelling
Explain
why manufacturers are morally and legally bound to label
their products accurately.
Describe some of the possible consequences of
inaccurate labelling.
Products
That Encourage Role Play
Discuss
the moral responsibility of the designers and
manufacturers of products that encourage role play.
Describe at least five products that encourage
role play.
Describe a product that encourages role play of a
violent nature.
Products
That Encourage Racism
Describe
how the design of a product could encourage racism.
Describe the moral responsibility of designers
and manufacturers with regard to racism.
Hunger
Research
the main causes of hunger in the world.
Describe in detail, at least one product, system or
environment that could help reduce hunger in the world.
Water
Research
the main causes of water shortages in the world.
Describe in detail, at least one product, system or
environment that could help reduce water shortages,
somewhere in the world.
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