The Soldering License

1 Introduction

Learn it

Design Engineering is a superb for taking your maths and physics skills, and applying them to problems in the real world.
You'll develop creativity, problem-solving and practical skills throughout the course, make some excellent products to keep forever, and hopefully enjoy yourself along the way.
Before we get stuck into anything practical, we need to consider Health & Safety - sensible precautions we take in the Systems labs to avoid injury

Try it

Looking around the room, there are lots of pieces of different equipment. Laser cutters, 3D printers, PCB etch tanks, soldering irons, drills and so on. Some items you might recognise, and others you'll learn about in lessons.
With a partner, try and come up with some ideas for working safely in a systems lab (Don't run around the room, for instance).
Look at the equipment you can see around the room. Do you know what any of it does? How might it be able to injure someone? How do you think you could avoid problems?
Where are lines of stripy tape on the floor. Why do you think they are there?

Contextual Challenge (the problem that needs solving)

Over the next 3 years, you will be making a number of projects that require soldering. So in our second project we are going to learn how to solder for our future projects. We also want a product that both promotes the school and it useful i.e. it can be used as a fridge magnet to hold all of our certificates.

The below table helps us to prioritise the requirements for our storage box, this table is known as a SPECIFICATION.

Specification (the list of criteria that needs completing to solve the problem)

Must	Should	Could
Help students learn how to drill and solder their PCBs	Have a range of components we can learn about	Have the school name as part of the design
Have a strong magnet to stick to a fridge	Use single and multicore wires	Contain resistors, diodes, chip carriers
Be safe to handle - no sharp edges	Know how we can make a PCB using Circuit Wizard	Use a range of resistors to allow the students to learn how the colour bands inform of their values
Be non functional i.e. doesn't work	Allow the students to be able to use a multimeter to measure the value of resistors

2 Badge It

Load up notepad or Word on your computer, and paste the text below into the empty document:

1. You could wear an ________ when doing any practical work to protect your clothing.

2. Always wear safety _______________ when doing any practical work.

3. Never use any _____________ that you have not been shown how to use safely.

4. Always place the soldering _________ in the solder station when not in use.

5. Never ______ in the workshop.

6. Do not _________ objects around the workshop.

7. Always __________ to instructions carefully. 

8. Make sure any long ________ is tied back before using any machines.

9. Ensure any Loose ___________ is either removed or tied back before using any machines. 


Equipment  Run  Throw  Apron  Hair  Goggles  Iron  Listen  Clothing

Using the words underneath the statements, fill in the missing spaces.
When finished:
- In your 'Year 7 - Design Engineering' folder you have created in your 'H' drive.
- Make a 'Soldering License' folder inside it
- Make a '1 - Licence' folder inside that
- Save your work in this folder, calling it 'Safety.txt'
Upload the work to www.BourneToLearn.com using the username and password your teacher has given you.