Unit+1.+Coursework.

=This year you must choose the topic for you major elective project from on one of these:=

**Tasks for 2010 - 2011.**
Topics for this year are noted below. Your major elective project MUST BE developed from one of these contexts:

1. **Storage**, eg **•** A small lockable box/container for holding personal objects such as jewellery or other valuable items. **•** A bathroom cabinet with storage space for cosmetics and medicines.

2. Lighting, eg **•** An adjustable lamp for use when doing homework. **•** A nightlight for young children who are afraid of the dark.

3. **Furniture**, eg **•** A novelty seating unit for use in children’s nurseries. **•** An occasional table suitable for use in waiting rooms.

4. **Leisure**, eg **•** An educational toy to help with counting and shape recognition. **•** A mobile cart/buggy that can carry toys from place to place.

5. **Outdoors**, eg **•** A grabbing device for picking up small pieces of outdoor debris. **•** A trolley to transport heavy objects.

Summer Holiday work.
Choose the context in which you to work and collect as much relevant research materials as is possible, this should include:

Photos, sketches, drawings, data, information on materials and their properties and why they are important to the products you are researching into, markets, costs, uses, function, safety, dimensions, human factors (ergonomics and anthropometrics) again related to YOUR area of study.

=Assessment of your work.=