Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners
MSS017007A Mapping and Delivery Guide
Design for sustainability
Version 1.0
Issue Date: March 2024
Qualification | - |
Unit of Competency | MSS017007A - Design for sustainability |
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Description | This unit of competency covers the designing of a new product, or the redesigning of an existing product as a sustainable product or to improve its sustainability. It may be applied to a physical product, a service or some other type of ‘product’. | ||
Employability Skills | Not applicable. | ||
Learning Outcomes and Application | This unit is a Vocational Graduate Certificate unit and follows the AQF guidelines for such units in that it assumes an entry qualification, such as:an Advanced Diploma or Diploma in sustainability or relevant technical field,a Bachelor Degree in a relevant technical fieldother relevant higher education qualifications, often with relevant vocational practicerelevant extensive vocational practice, without formal qualifications but which result in appropriate entry level skills.This unit covers the analysis of the benefit received by the consumer and then an examination of how best this benefit can be delivered to maximise both the benefit and the sustainability of this benefit. It includes an analysis of the cradle to grave/cradle to cradle impacts of the product and the various sustainability impacts along the value chain.This unit will lead to the design specification for a sustainable/more sustainable product. It does not include the implementation of that design.It would typically be undertaken by a manager or senior technologist who has a significant sustainability responsibility work role.Skills covered by this unit may be applied individually or in a team context. | ||
Duration and Setting | X weeks, nominally xx hours, delivered in a classroom/online/blended learning setting. |
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Prerequisites/co-requisites | Not applicable. | ||
Competency Field |
Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners | Student Learning Resources | Handouts Activities |
Slides PPT |
Assessment 1 | Assessment 2 | Assessment 3 | Assessment 4 | |
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Elements of Competency | Performance Criteria | |||||||
Element: Define the benefit received by the customer |
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Element: Develop alternative ways of delivering benefit |
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Element: Develop product and process design |
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Element: Confirm design for selected alternative |
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Element: Communicate required responses as appropriate |
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