This video takes the Toyota Camry as a case study for design and marketing. Market research identifies the users’ needs, leading to the design brief. The prototype takes shape using sketches and CAD-CAM packages. Ongoing tests and trials fine tune the design and ensure quality control. The final steps are the manufacturing process and launch. Produced with support from Toyota. Open-captioned version.
Grade levels: Senior High (10-12)
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Cookies and Crackers
This video provides an inside look at mass production inside Arnott’s biscuit factory, showing stages of processing and manufacture. Topics include food additives are examined using two types of biscuit dough; use of fat for a short texture; how biscuits are shaped, cooked and hygienically packaged on the production line; quality assurance checks for contamination; food technologists developing new products.
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Designing Toys
Filmed in Australia, Britain and Canada, this video provides an informative and entertaining account of how toys are designed, manufactured and marketed. Toys featured include a toy oven, a model racing car, bath toys, puppets and simple wooden toys. Designers and manufacturers discuss how they manage the process from design brief to prototype testing, modification and marketing.
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Cotton Processing
Topics covered include spinning, weaving, dyeing, quality assurance, the design process, marking up, cutting and marketing.
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Women in Development
Ideal for Secondary Geography and Society and Culture courses, this video analyses the impact of gender roles on the lives of women in Vietnam, Micronesia, and the Solomon Islands. The focus of the video is on women’s health and education issues, and women’s role in environmental issues. Produced with assistance from AusAID.
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WWII – Conflict in the Pacific Part 1
Topics examine include the emergence of Japan as a major power, the US Neutrality Act, the Second Sino-Japanese War (China Incident), Japanese occupation of Indochina, Japanese strategy for war against the USA and Britain, bombing of Pearl Harbor, fall of Singapore, bombing of Darwin, and Japanese conquest of South East Asia.
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Dinosaurs
Innovative scientific methods used to answer basic questions about dinosaurs. Topics include what did dinosaurs look like, what did they eat, how big and how strong were they, how did they move, why did they have long tails and necks, who did they fight and why?
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Chemical Equilibrium
Imaginative analogies and models bring this complicated subject within reach. Topics examined include familiar systems, effect of temperature, molecular view of equilibrium, equilibrium in phase change and solutions, notations and conventions, limestone caves, and Belousov-Zhabotinsky.
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Computers in Food Technology
Topics examined include market research, how consumer trends are analyzed using bar coding and loyalty card schemes and using the New Foods Database to assess the competition; the test kitchen,use of on-line databases and spreadsheets to instantly assess the nutritional qualities and costs of test recipes; food safety, tracing the causes of food poisoning using DNA extraction and database analysis; labeling, how the En-label program helps manufacturers comply with legal labeling requirements.
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Careers in Hospitality
This video is aimed at the student interested in a future in the hospitality industry and facing a choice between private college, TAFE and university. We look at each institution, focusing on a student taking the course, rather than the institution. We find out what led each individual to make the choice they did, and what their prospects for the future are.