Students investigate the origins and roles of food through time and across the world. Students will also focus on commercial food production industries, and look at food production in small-scale domestic settings, as both a comparison and complement to commercial production. Students gain insight into the significance of food industries to the Australian economy and investigate the capacity of industry to provide safe, high-quality food that meets the needs of consumers.

Students focus on the analysis, modification and improvement of a product design with consideration of sustainability. They consider how a redeveloped product should attempt to solve a problem related to the original product. Where possible, materials and manufacturing processes used should be carefully selected to improve the overall sustainability of the redeveloped product.

This study enables students to study fundamental mechanical and electrotechnical engineering principles, including the representation of mechanical and electrotechnical devices, the motions performed, the elementary applied physics, and the mathematical calculations that can be applied in order to define and explain the physical characteristics. Students apply their knowledge and construct functional systems.