ELEC0001: Applied electromagnetics 1
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX80 PR20
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To give students an understanding
of electromagnetism so that they can calculate fields, forces
and induced emfs in and around simple geometries of current carrying
conductors and appreciate the concept of electromagnetic wave
propagation in free space.
Content: Electrostatics: introduction to the electrostatic
field; definition of electric flux, flux density and field strength;
Gauss' theorem and the calculation of electric field strength
and capacitance.
Magnetism: introduction to the magnetic field; forces between
current-carrying conductors; definition of B, H and permeability;
Amperes circuital law, the effect of magnetic materials; the Biot
Savart law applied to a circular circuit and cylindrical solenoid.
Displacement current. Calculation of field values in simple geometries.
Electromagnetism: Faraday's law and electromagnetic induction.
Definition and calculation of self and mutual inductance. The
simple transformer and generator. Energy storage in the e.m. field
and forces in electromechanical transducers.
Wave propagation: statement of Maxwell's equations; derivation
of the equations for wave propagation in free space and in lines
with sinusoidal excitation.
Insulating materials: permittivity, dielectric losses, breakdown
mechanisms.
Magnetic materials: permeability, hysteresis and losses, saturation
effects. Hard, soft and rare-earth materials, ferrites.
ELEC0002: Energy distribution & utilisation 1
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX80 PR20
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To provide a basic understanding
of the way in which electrical machines and power systems operate.
To enable students to calculate the steady-state performance of
common types of d.c. and a.c. machines and the performance of
a.c. power systems.
Content: Three-phase supplies. Inductors and actuators.
Single and three-phase transformers. D.C. machines: generated
voltage, torque production, action of motors and generators, control
methods. Three-phase windings and rotating mmf distribution. Three-phase
induction motors; construction and action of squirrel-cage type,
equivalent circuit, characteristics. Three-phase synchronous machines:
construction and action of round-rotor type, equivalent circuit,
generating and motoring characteristics.
Nature of power systems: generation transmission and distribution
networks; system components, typical sizes; selection of voltage
levels. Three phase theory: line and phase voltages, star and
delta connections, lead/lag VArs, S=VI*, 4 wire system, h operator.
Power factor correction. Generator synchronisation and behaviour
when synchronised. Methods of voltage control in a power system.
Synchronous generator operating charts. Transmission line operating
charts and matrix representation.
ELEC0003: Software & computing 1
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX40 CW40 PR20
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To provide a basic understanding
of computer hardware and software. At the end of the course students
will be able to explain the basic components of a computer including
local area networks, design structured program units using flow
charts and structure charts, and develop program code using the
MATLAB programming environment.
Content: Overview of computer hardware: basic computer
layout, CPU, memory, buses and peripherals. Programming in machine
code, assemblers and compilers. Data representation.
Introduction to MATLAB and programming environment: variables,
program sequence, conditional processing, iteration, interface
to functions, plotting graphs.
Introduction to structured programming, program elements, flow
charts, structure charts, abstraction and decomposition.
Local area networks, wide area networks, the internet.
ELEC0004: Electronic devices & circuits
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX80 PR20
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To introduce students to
the electrical properties of semiconductor materials, based on
atomic and crystal structure. To develop the behaviour of electronic
components formed from the semiconductor materials. To provide
the design techniques for incorporating these devices into electronic
circuits. At the end of this module students should be able to:
understand and explain the basis of electrical conduction in materials
and devices and use this to explain the circuit behaviour of semiconductor
devices; to design practical circuits based on these devices,
such as rectifier circuits, small signal amplifiers, etc.
Content: Atomic theory: atoms, crystals, energy band structure
and diagrams, electrical conduction in solids. Semiconductors:
intrinsic, p & n type doping, extrinsic semiconductors, conduction
processes (drift and diffusion). Devices: p-n junctions, metal-semiconductor
junctions, bipolar junction transistors, field effect transistors,
p-n-p-n devices. Circuits: diode circuits, rectification, clamping
and limiting, thyristors and controlled rectification. BJT circuits,
biasing, amplifier configurations, FET circuits. General principles
of amplification: small signal equivalent circuits, frequency
response.
ELEC0005: Digital electronics 1
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX80 PR20
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To introduce students to
the design and operation of logic systems including combinational
and sequential logic circuits. To illustrate the applications
of these circuits in digital subsystems and systems and to appreciate
the advantages of the alternative methods of implementation. At
the end of this module students should be able to: manipulate
Boolean expression including minimisation by algebraic and graphical
techniques; design basic combinational and sequential digital
circuits from functional specifications.
Content: Combinational logic: the binary system, Boolean
algebra and gates, logic maps, minimisation. Applications: adders,
subtractors, comparators, parity circuits, multiplexers, encoder/decoder
circuits. Programmable logic implementations: ROM, PLA & PAL
structures and implementation of logic circuits. Sequential logic:
synchronous and asynchronous circuits, latches and flip-flops,
registers and counters. State machines and design methods, internal
state reduction, state assignment methods.
ELEC0006: Control & instrumentation
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX80 PR20
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To give students a basic
understanding of the modelling of electro-mechanical systems,
and the analysis and design of closed loop control systems. To
give students a grounding in the practical issues involved in
designing the major components of a closed-loop control system.
This includes all aspects of basic feedback control from measurement
of system variables to the provision of appropriate inputs to
the system plant so that it can meet the demands placed on it
both in terms of transient response performance and final setting
point.
At the end of this module students will be able to produce total
electrical equivalent circuits for simple electro-mechanical systems,
analyse systems in both the frequency and the time domains, be
able to design simple transducers, analyse basic closed-loop and
open-loop stability and design simple closed-loop feedback control
systems to meet given transient and steady state performance criteria.
Content: Energy convertors: analogous and dual circuits,
coupling between subsystems, mutually coupled electrical circuits
and total electrical equivalent systems. Frequency response: graphical
representation of performance, pole/zero diagrams, polar and Bode
diagrams. Transducers and intelligent instrumentation: analogue
and digital forms for measurement of mechanical (proximity, speed,
torque, acceleration etc.) electrical (voltage, flux, current,
etc.) and fluid (mass, flow, volume flow, point velocity flow,
etc.) quantities. Information transfer, interfacing and processing
of signals. Introduction to closed loop systems: forward path
and feedback compensation, examples to include speed regulator
and position controller, block diagram and signal flow diagram
representations, system stability criteria, steady state error
and basic time and frequency domain design methods.
ELEC0007: Circuit theory
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX80 PR20
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To give students a basic
introduction to electrical circuit theory, and provide them with
an understanding of how to use circuit element models as a means
of analysis and design as required by many other course modules.
To further introduce them to transform methods of analysis and
to mathematically model a circuit by means of a transfer function.
After completing this module students should be able to solve
steady-state problems in both d.c. and a.c. circuits, involving
concepts of voltage, current, impedance and power, using a range
of circuit theorems and phasor diagrams. Students should also
understand frequency dependent concepts such as resonance and
magnetic-coupling. Finally students should be able to use Laplace
transforms to solve the transient response of simple RL, RC, and
RLC circuits, together with the frequency response of corresponding
transfer functions.
Content: D.C. circuits, independent and dependent voltage
and current sources, Ohms Law, Kirchoffs Law, series and parallel
circuits, power. Nodal and Mesh analysis, node and loop equations
for circuits containing independent voltage and current sources.
Circuit Theorems, linearity, superpostion, Thevenin, Norton, maximum
power transfer. A.C. circuits, capacitors and inductors, series
and parallel combinations, sinusoids and phasor diagrams, the
'j' operator, impedance and admittance, instantaneous and average
power, effective and R.M.S. values.
Circuit Theorems, application of previous circuit theorems. Resonance,
series and parallel, Q factor, bandwidth, universal resonance
curve. Magnetically Coupled Circuits, self and mutual inductance,
the simple transformer, power balance. Laplace Transforms, basic
introduction to, and application of, Laplace transforms to the
transient analysis of RLC circuits, transfer functions, pole-zero
diagrams.
ELEC0008: Signals & communications
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX80 PR20
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To introduce students to
the principles and importance of signal processing and communications
and to illustrate these principles with typical applications.
At the end of this module students should be able to: understand
the difference between audio, video and data signals; construct
and use mathematical models of simple signals; appreciate the
interaction between time and frequency domains; understand the
importance of, and general limitations of, digital signals; calculate
the time and frequency responses of a simple digital filter; apply
the Z-transform to a digital filter; understand the role of poles
and zeros in determining a filter response; construct simple models
of modulated signals; appreciate the basic principle of modulation
and demodulation; appreciate the basic trade-off between bandwidth
and signalling rate.
Content: System models: signal sources, audio/ video/ data;
information, definition/ measurement/ source coding; system model
for communications and measurement, source/ transmission/ coder/
modulator; design objectives for typical systems, e.g. mobile
telephone, measurement system.
Signal models: complex phasor, multi-frequency signals, Fourier
series: continuous and discrete-time signals, properties of power,
energy; analogue-digital conversion, sampling theorem, quantisation
noise.
Signal processes, introductory treatment of: linear systems, frequency
response, impulse response, convolution; frequency description
of sampled signals; filters, their use, lowpass/ highpass/ bandpass/
bandstop, digital and analogue filter characteristics; implementing
digital filters, convolution, difference equation, Z-transform,
poles and zeros, frequency response; averaging filters; modulation,
principles of carrier-borne signals, frequency changing, AM/FM;
demodulation principles.
Communications principles: channel capacity, bandwidth, signalling
rate; multiplexing of signals, broad principles of FDM/PCM/TDMA/CDM.
ELEC0011: Energy systems
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX100
Requisites: Co ELEC0012
Aims & learning objectives: The aim of the unit is
to introduce students to some of the factors influencing the provision
of electrical energy in the United Kingdom and to show how technical,
commercial, social and political matters interact to shape energy
policy.
On completion of the unit students should be able to: explain
the shape and operation of the privatised electricity supply industry
(EPI); explain how the Pool operates and how pricing works; understand
the process of regulation of supply and distribution; understand
the principles of the Carnot and Rankine cycles sufficiently to
explain conversion efficiences and the arguments for developing
CHP and CCGT systems; use simple financial methods such as discounted
cash flow to evaluate cost benefits of long-term energy projects;
assess the social and technical issues involved in introducing
new systems such as district heating; comment critically on the
introduction of renewable/unconventional energy sources.
Content: Energy requirements for the U.K.; domestic and
industrial, resources and options. The electricity supply system
pre-and post-privatisation, pricing mechanisms, dispatch, the
Pool. Energy conversion: the Carnot cycle, the steam turbine,
conversion efficiency, electrical efficiency, heat loss, the thermal
trap. CHP systems: an outline of back-pressure and ITOC systems,
district heating, social acceptance and effect of tariffs. Planning
and siting a new station, effect of connection and operating charges,
financial planning, use of DCF to evaluate long-term projects.
Alternative energy systems, short-term and long-term technologies.
Energy saving strategies, heat loss calculations for domestic
premises.
ELEC0012: Quality & design
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX50 CW50
Requisites: Co ELEC0011
Aims & learning objectives: To introduce students to
the concept of quality and its importance in professional engineering.
After completing the course, the students will be able to explain
the relevance of fitness for purpose, undertake a basic needs
analysis, comment on the importance of accepted standards and
define the role of a professional engineer.
Content: Quality, BS 4887, BS 5750, ISO 9000. Techniques
to develop the understanding of Quality. Quality control and assurance.
Needs analysis, target specification, design specification and
performance specification. Standards management. Quality in design,
quality in production. Production organisations. The design, construction
and evaluation of a practical electrical/electronic system.
ELEC0013: Energy distribution & utilisation 2
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 PR20
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To provide a thorough understanding
of the operation of the principal types of a.c. machines and to
provide models for the calculation of machine performance. To
give an understanding of the design of electrical machines. To
develop the fundamental concepts of power system operation. To
introduce power conversion techniques by examining power semi-conductor
switching circuits and analysing problems associated with their
practical implementation. On completion of the unit students will
be able to: calculate the performance of 3-phase transformers,
induction machines and synchronous machines; carry out analyses
of symmetrical and asymmetrical fault conditions in power systems,
explain the principles of protection; explain the basic operating
principles and perform simple analyses of common power-electronic
systems including line-frequency rectifiers, d.c. to d.c. convertors
and d.c. to a.c. invertors.
Content: The per-unit notation. Single and 3-phase transformers:
construction, operation, connections, relevant calculations, harmonics.
Three-phase induction machines: construction, operation, equivalent
circuits, characteristics, starting methods, transients.
Three-phase synchronous machines: construction operation and action
of round rotor, salient pole and reluctance types; equivalent
circuits, phasor diagrams; elementary treatment of transients.
Two port network representation of transmission lines, per unit
system, fault analysis: symmetrical components and phase-frame
analysis; introduction to power system protection.
Power semiconductor devices; introduction to the conduction, switching
characteristics and drive requirements of diodes, thyristors and
power transistors.
Line frequency power convertors; introduction to single and three-phase
rectifier circuits operating with resistive and inductive loads.
d.c. to d.c. power convertors; introduction to switched-mode power
supplies and the principles of operation of step-down and step-up
convertors.
ELEC0014: Electronic design
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To introduce students to
the design process by taking a requirement through to a prototype
device.
After completing the unit, students should be able to: write a
design specification for a product; carry out a top-down systematic
design; identify and specify interface requirements for sub-systems;
and generate working circuits from conceptual circuit diagrams.
The use of CAD systems for the analysis of circuits will be an
important feature of this work.
Content: Product Design: Preparation of specifications;
definition of systems and sub-systems.
Design Management: introduction to project management techniques;
design and documentation control.
Realiability methods: FMEA, FTA, reliability estimating.
Design exercise: working in groups to produce a working prototype
of a small system using electronics for monitoring, control, measurement
or signal processing.
ELEC0016: Mechanical science (interim)
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To model and analyse some
relevant mechanical problems that occur in various fields of electrical
engineering.
After completing this unit it should be possible to: set up and
solve equations that represent static and dynamic systems; perform
calculations on vibrating systems and rotating systems with unbalance.
Content: Review of first year material: force systems and
solution of problems in two and three dimensional, statics, friction
and dynamics using force-mass-acceleration, work-energy or impulse-momentum.
Examples of translational and rotational motion of rigid bodies;
dynamometer measurements, motion of self-propelled vehicles, drives
incorporating gears, flywheels. Vibrating systems; free and forced
vibrations, damping. Control of vibration; balancing of rotating
machinery, whirling of flexible shafts, isolation of vibrating
bodies.
ELEC0017: Communication principles
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 PR20
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To introduce students to
the basic principles of communications and to provide a good understanding
of the techniques used in modern electronic communication systems.
At the end of this module students should be able to explain and
analyse the basic methods of generation and detection of modulated
signals; calculate the available power of a modulated signal;
analyse the operation of first and second order phase locked loops;
understand the function of source, channel and line coders in
digital transmission systems and the limitations imposed by restricted
bandwidth and signal to noise ratio; describe the characteristics
and relative performance of the various digital modulation schemes.
Content: Communication systems and channels, media characteristics.
Attenuation, distortion and noise. Broadcast and point-point systems.
Simplex and duplex operations. Networks. Modulation systems: methods
of generating and detecting modulated signals, quadrature modulation,
FDM. Phase lock loops. Radio transmitter and receiver architecture,
OSI reference model, Internet and TCP/IP protocols. Functional
elements of a digital communications system. Source entropy and
coding. Bandwidth, signalling rate and multi-level signals. SNR/bandwidth
trade-off. Spectrum shaping and intersymbol interference. Noise
and BER and error control. Digital signal formats, spectral properties,
clock encoding and recovery. Digital modulation generation and
detection of ASK, FSK, PSK, DPSK and QPSK.
ELEC0018: Control system design
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 PR20
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To give students a basic
understanding of a wide range of control system design techniques,
both approximate graphical methods and exact numerical solution
techniques. The methods taught will include ways to deal with
all commonly met situations in controlling electro-mechanical
systems (time variant systems, systems with badly known parameters,
systems with non-linearities and time delays).
At the end of this module, students should be able to design forward
path and feedback path compensation networks for multiple input,
single output systems. They should appreciate how assumptions
about the plant model and its order can affect the accuracy of
the solutions obtained using graphical design techniques in the
frequency domain. They should be able to understand how feedback
leads to a reduction in the sensitivity to plant parameter values.
They should be able to determine the equivalent small signal linear
model for a system that includes more than one non-linearity.
They should be able to analyse the effects of a single non-linearity
at any point within an otherwise linear multiple loop control
system.
Content: Design in the time and frequency domain: the use
of graphical analysis and design methods that are used in control
including root locus, Nyquist and bode design techniques. State-space
representation: concepts including the matrix form of state equations,
leading to state and output feedback using state equation methods.
Design for sensitivity, robust control: basic concepts of sensitivity,
analysis and design of control systems to take account of sensitivity
of the controller to parameter plant variations. Design of systems
with non-linearities: small signal linearisation, quasi-linearisation,
the phase-plane and the describing function method used to analyse
systems with time delay, dead-zone, clip limits, relay action
and hysteresis.
ELEC0019: Digital signal processing 1
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 PR20
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To introduce students to
the basic techniques of DSP and to illustrate these techniques
with practical applications. At the end of this module students
should be able to: use the DFT and FFT operations; understand
the causes of spectral leakage and its alleviation; appreciate
the difficulties of obtaining the spectrum of a time-varying signal;
understand the filter design problem and the classical approximations;
understand the properties of linear phase and phase shift FIR
filters; design such filters using standard procedures; understand
the structure and properties of IIR filters; design such filters
using impulse invariance and bilinear techniques; use the amplitude
descriptors of random signals; appreciate the benefits of averaging
random signals; apply the foregoing to practical situations.
Content: Digital spectral analysis: applications and targets;
principles of the DFT and FFT; effect of finite window, spectral
leakage and its estimation; leakage reduction with shaped time
windows; analysis of time-varying signals, uncertainty; performance
of some typical spectral analysers. Digital filter design: approximation
functions, Butterworth/ Chebyshev/ Bessel/ Elliptic; FIR, properties,
linear phase, phase shift, differentiator; design techniques,
Fourier series, frequency sampling; use of Kaiser, Parks-McClellan
methods; IIR, properties; design techniques, impulse invariance,
bilinear transformation; implementation issues. Random signal
amplitude properties; ensemble and random variable; cdf, pdf;
moments, variance; averaging with independent samples. Applications:
spectral analysis of noise-free waveforms, including modulated
signals; use of filters in communications and in measurement;
detection of baseband digital data signals in noise; radar detection
probabilities; quantisation noise in analogue-digital conversion.
ELEC0020: Electronic circuits & systems
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 PR20
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To enable students to design
a wide range of linear and non-linear feedback circuits based
on operational amplifiers, filters, waveform generators and comparator
circuits. To extend the concept of feedback to oscillator circuits.
To examine the design of integrated operational amplifiers and
the impact of practical of devices on circuit performance. To
introduce different types of power amplifier. To study stabilised
voltage and current supplies.
After completing this module the student should be able to: design
linear and non-linear feedback amplifier circuits using operational
amplifiers and understand the impact of the limitations of the
amplifiers on circuit performance; design LC,RC and crystal oscillator
circuits; design simple class A, B, AB, C and D amplifiers and
understand how to use commercial series regulators and switched
mode regulators.
Content: Linear system design: ideal operational amplifier
feedback circuits, summing junctions, buffers, integrators, differentiators,
logrithmic amplifiers; non-ideal operational amplifier characteristics,
finite gain and input impedance, bandwidth and slew rate, frequency
stability, stability of cascaded op-amp circuits with overall
feedback; active filter design, Salen Key circuit, Butterworth,
Bessel and Chebyshev filters. Quasi-linear circuits: ideal diodes,
comparators, Schmitt triggers, monostables and waveform generators,
analogue switches (A/D and D/A converters). Discrete component
implementation of IC operational amplifier circuits: bipolar transistor
and FET small-signal equivalent circuits of differential amplifiers
and direct-coupled amplifiers, active loads, level shifting circuits,
op-amp output amplifiers. Oscillators: basic principles, Wein
bridge, Hartley, Colpitts and RC oscillators, crystal equivalent
circuit, crystal oscillators. Power amplifiers: basic circuits
and conversion efficiency of class A, B, AB, C and D amplifiers,
complementary-symmetry and quasi-complementary-symmetry amplifiers.
Power supplies: Zener diode shunt voltage regulator, band-gap
references, series regulator circuits, 78XX and op-amp based series
regulator, swtiched-mode regulators.
ELEC0021: Digital electronics 2
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 PR20
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: The course provides a foundation
for the design of asynchronous sequential logic circuits using
formal design methods and the implementation of these circuits
using the different families of logic IC is introduced. The implementation
of sequential logic is extended to microprocessors and the aim
is to enable students understand the architecture of microprocessors
and to design and implement simple real-time microprocessor systems.
Students should be able to design a wide range of asynchronous
logic circuits using finite state-machine methods and to implement
them with the most appropriate family of SSI and MSI logic gates.
They should be able to describe the operation of a microprocessor
in terms of its general architecture and understand how microprocessors
can be programmed and used in a variety of real-time applications.
Content: Asynchronous sequential circuits: finite state
machine description; primitive flow tables; internal state reduction,
merging and row assignment problems; essential hazards and races.
Logic IC families: TTL, CMOS, ECL and I2L, etc.; input conditions,
signal levels, noise margins, switching times, power dissipation
and gate loading. Computer architecture: the Von Neuman architecture,
CPU, volatile and non-volatile memory (ROM, SRAM, DRAM, EPROM
etc.), peripheral devices. General purpose microprocessors: architecture,
arithmetic and logic units, program control sequences, microcode,
register organization. Control: exception processing, interupts,
resets and CPU initialisation, software traps. Bus control: synchronous/asynchronous
bus timing diagrams, multiplexed bus. Real-time microprocessor
systems: machine code programming; address decode-read/write operations,
etc.; analogue and digital input/output; interupt driven I/O vs
polled I/O; case studies of various 8/16 bit microprocessors.
ELEC0022: Applied electromagnetics 2
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 PR20
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To give students an understanding
of how electromagnetic field solutions are determined in a number
of engineering problems. To introduce the basic concepts behind
the description of electromagnetic waves. After completion of
this module students should be able to determine the stored energy
and power flow and power loss in an electromagnetic field problem.
Calculate voltage, current, and input impedance of simple transmission
line circuits, and determine components for matching circuits,
either using a Smith chart or by algebraic manipulation. Determine
the basic reflection and transmission properties of plane waves
at electromagneitc boundaries. Describe the radiation and circuit
properties of simple antennas. Calculate the power budget for
simple radiating transmission and radar systems. Determine characteristic
impedance and phase constant and power flow in rectangular waveguide.
Content: Electromagnetic fields: field definitions and
the Maxwell equations; general solution to the Maxwell equations;
energy in fields and circuits, power flow and the Poynting Vector;
boundary conditions. Transmission lines: basic concepts; propagation
constant and characteristic impedance; phase velocity, group velocity
and signal distortion; line voltage, current, impedance and power
flow; reflection and transmission; Smith Chart calculations; load
matching and circuit examples. Plane waves: the plane wave solution;
polarisations; propagation in dielectrics, lossy dielectrics and
conductors, and the skin depth; reflection and transmission at
a boundary (normal and oblique incidence); propagation examples.
Antennas: antenna parameters and system characterisation by the
Friis and radar equations; small dipole and loop antennas; phased
array and radiating aperture antennas. Waveguides: waveguides
modes of propagation; power flow and power loss, comparison with
coaxial cables; waveguide passive devices.
ELEC0023: Software & computing 2
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 PR20
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To develop skills in writing
good quality software using the ANSI C programming language. To
provide an understanding of the principles of structured programming.
To provide an appreciation of the importance of good software
structure and documentation. After completing the course, the
student should be able to (i) to design and implement C language
functions and programs according to a given specification, (ii)
to locate and correct sematic and syntactic errors in a given
C language program, (iii) to produce well structured software
having good layout and documented with appropriate comments, and
(iv) to explain various aspects of the C language such as scope
or type conversion rules.
Content: Fundamentals: character set, identifiers, keywords,
fundamental data types, constants, variables, arrays, declarations,
statements, #defines, operators and expressions. Compiling and
running a C program. Data input and output: use of the C library
of standard functions, interactive programming. Control statements:
conditional execution and looping statements in C. Correct usage
of these statements in structured programming. Functions: defining,
accessing and passing arguments to functions. Prototypes. Modular
programming. Arrays: defining, processing and passing arrays to
functions. Multidimensional arrays. Strings and string processing.
Pointers: declaring pointers. Passing pointers to functions. Relationship
between pointers and arrays. Operations on pointers. Dynamic memory
allocation. Advanced use of pointers. Structures and Unions: defining
and accessing structures. User-defined data types. Pointers to
structures. Self-referential structures: linked lists, trees.
Unions. Low-level programming: description of support offered
by C, such as register variables, bitwise operations, use of bit
fields. Standards: differences between ANSI and K & R standards
for the C language. The C++ programming language.
ELEC0027: Digital signal processing 2
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To enable students to use
the techniques for measurement and analysis of random signals.
To introduce the concepts of adaptive signal processing. To review
some issues of signal processing architecture. After completing
this unit, the student should be able to: use the autocorelation
function and spectral density measures of random signals, in typical
instrumentation applications; appreciate some of the difficulties
in obtaining the spectrum of a random signal; describe the basis
of adaptive filtering, with applications; appreciate some of the
issues involved with choosing a DSP configuration.
Content: Random Signal Descriptors: Autocorrelation function
and power spectral density, cross-correlation function. Application
to averaging and spectrum analyser. Spectral Estimation: Averaged
periodograms, Welch's method, parameter estimation. Application
to voice processing (LPC), detection of signal in noise. Adaptive
Processing: Wiener filter, LMS principle. Application to removal
of interference, adaptive equalisation, echo cancellation. DSP
Architectures: DSP devices, their structure and performance. Multi-rate
processing, decimation, interpolation, spectral zoom.
ELEC0028: Software & computing 3
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To give students an understanding
of the most important concepts and principles of the development
of large software systems (programming 'in the large'). To enable
students to modularise problems using the object-oriented approach,
and to write formal software specifications. To enable students
to write object-oriented software modules in C++. After completing
this course, the student should be able to: Explain the stages
in the software development cycle. Determine procedures for testing
a given specification or implementation of software. Given a description
of a problem, modularise the problem and identify the data abstractions
that would be required to solve this problem. Given a suitable
problem description, generate the corresponding formal specification.
Explain the concepts and principles underlying the design of software
for real-time (reactive) systems. Explain the concept and importance
of safety-critical software. Explain the concepts underlying the
object-oriented programming paradigm. Use object-oriented methods
to develop C++ language programs.
Content: The software life cycle. Formal specification.
Modularisation. Real-time systems.
Safety-critical systems. Software testing. Object-oriented programming
in C++.
ELEC0029: Digital networks & protocols
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To give users an understanding
of the principles and current practice employed in digital information
networks. To indicate the directions of future development in
network technology. To enable a network user to estimate performance.
Students should be able to: understand the broad principles of
the ISO 7-layer model of a network and be able to apply it: compare
the different forms of network topology and means of multiple
access; compare the characteristics and application areas of WANs,
LANs, and MANs; describe the broad operation of V24, X25, TCP/IP,
ISDN, ATM network protocols; appreciate the complex demands of
internet working and some current solutions; discuss the need
for network management structures and signalling networks (CSS7)
and describe some simple ones; describe the operation and evaluate
broad performance measures of contention and token-passing LAN
protocols, over ring and bus topologies; calculate the performance
of various ARQ data link control strategies; calculate the performance
of simple queuing structures as applied to digital network nodes.
Content: Overview: Applications and services, sources of
information, transmission media. The ISO 7-layer model. Switching
(circuit, message, packet), network structures (WAN, MAN, LAN).
WANs: The PSTN, access networks, trunks & multiplexing, V24
modem access, X25 packet network, ISDN developments, BISDN and
ATM. Network supervision and management, CSS7 control network.
LANs: Characteristics, topologies, Ethernet, token-passing, performance
calculations. Interworking: Hubs, bridges, switches, routers and
gateways. MANs: Characteristics, FDDI, DQDB. Data Link Control:
Synchronism, error detection, frame protocols, ARQ operation,
performance comparisons of stop-and-wait, go-back-N, selective
repeat. Traffic Analysis: Poisson arrival statistics, the Erlang.
Simple queuing models, M/M/1,M/D/1, M/G/1. Application to packet
switch and simple network.
ELEC0030: Communication engineering
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To introduce students to
the more advanced topics in analogue communication systems. After
completing this module, students should be able to: Analyse the
different forms of analogue modulation; explain and analyse the
different methods of penetrating and detecting modulated signals;
explain the basic concepts of transmission and reception of radio
signals; explain the nature and properties of electrical noise;
calculate the noise factor and the effective input noise temperature
of a network; evaluate the output signal-to-noise ratio of a communication
link; analyse the detection of modulated signals in the presence
of noise.
Content: Analogue modulation systems: AM, FM, SSB, vestigial
sideband. Bandwidth and available power of modulated signals.
Means of generating and detecting modulated signals. Applications
of analogue systems to broadcasting and mobile radio. Radio transmitter
and receiver configurations. Physical sources and statistical
properties of electrical noise. Evaluation of noise: signal-to-noise
ratio, noise figure, noise temperature, methods of measuring noise
figure. Detection of modulated signals accompanied by noise: coherent
and non-coherent detection of full carrier AM signals, detection
of suppressed carrier AM and SSB signals, detection of FM signals.
Threshold levels: AM threshold, FM threshold. Comparison of analogue
modulation systems.
ELEC0031: Digital communications
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To introduce students to
more advanced topics in digital communication systems. On completion
of the course, the student should be able to understand the main
operating features of digital communication systems, including
the relative performance of the various modulation methods, the
efficiency of error detection and correction methods and the security
of encryption systems.
Content: Digital modulation techniques: review of binary
modulation and demodulation; QPSK, OQPSK, MSK; QAM and trellis
coded modulation. Channel coding: linear block codes for error
detection and correction; cyclic codes and shift register generation
and detection; Hamming, BCH, RS and Golay codes. Convolution coding:
definition, generation and distance properties of convolution
codes; Viterbi decoding with hard and soft decisions; sequential
and feedback decoding; interleaving. Spread spectrum techniques:
overview and pseudonoise sequencies; direct sequence and frequency
hopping systems; synchronisation. Encryption and decryption: cipher
systems and secrecy; practical security; stream encryption; public
key cryptosystems.
ELEC0032: Microwave engineering
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: This course introduces
students to the engineering techniques and approaches required
at microwave and millimetre wave frequencies (1-100 GHz). This
includes circuit design concepts using matrix formulations and
in particular the scattering matrix representation. The different
transmission line technologies which are available at these frequencies
are examined and the advantages/disadvantages and applications
of each are discussed. Passive and active components are introduced
and the use of each in microwave sub-system design is outlined.
Examples of such sub-systems are amplifiers, phase shifters, detectors,
mixers, filters, etc., suitable for use in MICs and MMICs.
After completing this unit the student should be able to appreciate
the various technologies available for high frequency design and
circuit realisation and be able to select the appropriate technology
for a particular application. In addition the student should be
able to design a variety of circuit elements and sub-systems,
analyse the performance of these and be able to meet the engineering
specifications for particular sub-system and system design.
Content: Matrix description of microwave circuits: ABCD
or chain matrix, Z and Y matrix, scattering matrix; circuit conditions
of reciprocity, symmetry and losslessness. Transmission line technologies:
waveguides and discontinuities; planar transmission lines (microstrip,
coplanar line, slotline, etc.) and discontinuities; dielectric
lines; applications of different types of line. Couplers and hybrids:
waveguide couplers (2-hole and multi-hole); parallel microstrip
line couplers; branch line, rat-race and power divider structures.
Passive devices: lumped impedance elements; microwave filters-transmission
line and quasi-lumped element types; bias networks. Diodes: device
equivalent circuits; detector diode current sensitivity, tangential
signal sensitivity; mixer circuits - single diode, balanced and
image rejection. Control circuits: limiters, attenuators, switches,
phase shifters - reflective diode and switched path, switched
filter. Amplifiers: reflection amplifier, transistor amplifier;
gain, stability and matching networks.
ELEC0033: Power electronics
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: Aims: to analyse examples
of high-frequency switched-mode power electronic systems and introduce
control methods and applications. Objectives: after completing
this unit, students should be able to explain the operation of
a range of power-converter circuits and discuss typical applications;
model and analyse power converters to characterise steady-state
and dynamic performance; compare attributes of different converter
operating modes and control methods; and identify salient limitations
imposed on converter operation by practical component imperfections.
Content: Power semiconductor devices: salient device imperfections,
application at high switching-frequency. Unisolated DC-to-DC switched
-mode converters: common circuits their characteristics and applications,
continuous and discontinuous modes of operation. Isolated DC-to-DC
switched-mode converters: common circuits their characteristics
and applications, transformer model and reset requirement. DC-to-DC
converter dynamic modelling and control: small signal modelling,
closed-loop controller design. Active power-factor correction
systems: limitations of passive methods, examples of active correction
circuits.
ELEC0034: Electrical machines & drives
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To understand the operation
of stepping motor and switched-reluctance drives and the design
of windings used in induction motor drives. To appreciate the
essential features of electrical machine design. To understand
the way in which electrical machines and power supplies interact
in variable-speed industrial and traction drives and to appreciate
the constraints imposed by each of the components. To be able
to perform calculations to assess the design and performance of
typical industrial and traction drive systems.
Content: Stepping motors: types, construction and action,
static and dynamic characteristics and development of models.
Switched reluctance motors: construction and action, torque calculation,
rotor position sensing and power supplies. Three-phase induction
machines: types of windings and design aspects. Rating of machines
for industrial drives: heating effects, duty cycles. Outline the
design of electrical machines: output equation, specific loadings
and other constraints. Vehicle motion and traction duty cycles:
description of electrical traction, dynamics of vehicle motion
and vehicle movements. Traction motors: d.c., induction and synchronous
machines; requirements peculiar to traction and comparison of
types. D.C. drives: description, d.c. to d.c. and a.c. to d.c.
drives. A.C. drives: description, induction and synchronous machine
drives using voltage-source and current-source invertors, d.c.
fed invertor traction drives.
ELEC0035: Design exercise
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To provide students with
an opportunity to use the latest CAD facilities in areas of their
interest and to engage in design using these facilities. On completion
of the unit, students should be able to use the particular CAD
suite with ease to carry out design and analysis exercises.
Content: The detailed programme will vary to suit the needs
of the different programmes of study and the interests of the
particular students. Each student will be given one or more designs
to evaluate and improve using in-house CAD facilities and either
in-house or commercial software as appropriate.
ELEC0036: Project - 3rd year (Sem 1)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To provide students with
an opportunity to develop further their ability to define, plan
and execute a technical project under limited supervision, but
with individual responsibility for the outcome.
On completion of the unit students should be able to accept responsibility
for delegated tasks within a project area, plan a scheme of work
and complete it to a standard expected of a young professional
engineer. The student should be able to develop innovative solutions
to problems and produce designs which meet the requirements of
the project.
Content: Students will choose a title from a list of topics
offered by the department. The project solution may be implemented
in hardware or software or a combination of both. Students will
be expected to follow through the accepted problem solving route
beginning with the identification and specification of the problem
and proceeding to proposals for solution, analysis of alternatives,
implementation of chosen solution and final proving and acceptance
testing. The production of a planned timetable of goals and milestones
will be expected and the final report should contain evidence
that the plan has been adhered to, or modified, as necessary.
An early viva will be conducted by the internal examiner, who
is not the project supervisor, and an end-of-project viva will
be conducted by two other members of academic staff. A written
report on the background to the project, together with a project
plan and literature review, will be submitted part way through
the project and then incorporated into the main project report
which will be submitted on completion of the project.
ELEC0037: Computer graphics including multimedia applications
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To provide students with
a theoretical and practical knowledge of 2D and 3D computer graphics.
To enable them to apply such knowledge in computer aided design,
multimedia environments and scientific visualisation. After completing
this module, students should be able to: Describe algorithms for
constructing 2D and 3D graphics primitives on a raster device
and also explain the underlying principles; use matrices to transform
objects in 2D and 3D space; explain and describe ways of projecting
3D objects onto a 2D screen; compare and contrast 3D rendering
and shading techniques; describe and compare various standard
graphic file formats used in multimedia environments.
Content: Two-dimensional graphics: Low level line-drawing,
polygon-filling, circle-drawing, curve-drawing algorithms. Clipping.
2D transformations: translation, rotation, scaling, reflection.
Three-dimensional graphics: 3D object representation. Homogeneous
coordinate system. 3D transformations: translation, rotation,
scaling, reflection. Parallel and perspective projections. 3D
clipping. Rendering three-dimensional objects: Hidden surface
algorithms. Lighting models, shading algorithms. Anti-aliasing.
Graphics in multimedia environments: Study of various graphics
file formats used in multimedia applications.
ELEC0038: Principles of optoelectronics
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To present and explain:
the physical principles of a range of optical materials and devices;
the concepts and analysis of optical waveguides and some guided
wave passive and active optical devices such as modulators, couplers,
switches, LEDs and lasers, leading to the elements of integrated
optical circuits. To prepare students to cope readily with the
complexities and details of ''real'' and advanced devices.
After completing the unit the student should have: a clear understanding
of modal propagation of optical signals in cylindrical (fibre)
and dielectric slab optical waveguides relating to passive and
active semiconductor optical devices; a good knowledge of the
ideas and rules of stimulated and spontaneous; emission/absorption
(with emphasis on semiconductor media) that form the basis for
lasers and optical detectors; a working knowledge of typical semiconductor
lasers and LEDs and a familiarity with the operation of recent,
advanced device structures.
Content: Overview of optical communication systems. Review
of the laws of reflection and refraction. Representation of optical
gain/loss as a medium with complex refractive index. Waveguide
couplers and optical spatial switches; mirrors and modal reflectivity;
high and antireflection coatings. Analysis of the Fabry-Perot
resonator in the context of passive and active optical devices.
Review of semiconductor theory: energy band diagrams; carrier
transport; recombination processess; p-n junctions, Fermi and
quasi-Fermi levels. Principles of laser action: emission and absorption
of radiation; inversion population in discrete atomic systems
and in semiconductors; concepts relating to quantum well material.
Semiconductor lasers and LEDs; heterojunction material and device
structure; operational principles and typical characteristics.
Schemes for direct and indirect modulation. Optical detectors:
photon absorption and photoconductivity; diode photodetectors
and improved structures - PIN and avalanche photodiode; quantum
efficiency and responsivity; introduction to noise in detectors.
Description of advanced devices introduction to integrated optical
circuits.
ELEC0039: Power system analysis
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To provide students with
an insight into, and a basic understanding of, analytic methods
applied to power system analysis.
After completing this unit, students should be able to: perform
a multi-node load flow analysis and exercise an informed choice
over the solution technique; explain the techniques of dc power
transmission including its benefits compared to ac transmission
and demonstrate an understanding of the use of dc transmission
worldwide; conduct a simple stability study and explain the influence
of AVR and governor types on system stability; analyse transients
on power systems caused by switching operations or faults for
both single and multi-phase situations, and hence be able to specify
insulation requirements.
Content: Load flow analysis: network matrix representation,
Gauss-Seidel and Newton-Raphson solution techniques. AC/DC conversion:
converter types, dc transmission, advantages compared to AC transmission.
Basic stability considerations: machine inertia, equal area criterion,
effect of AVRs and governors. Overvoltages: switching and fault
overvoltages, Bewley Lattice diagrams, switchgear principles,
current chopping, insulation coordination. Modal component theory:
wave propagation in multiphase networks.
ELEC0040: Power system protection
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To provide students with
an insight into, and a basic understanding of, power system protection
applications and modern digital relaying techniques.
After completing this module, students should be able to: divide
a power system network into manageable units suitable for protection;
design a non-unit protection scheme for distribution feeders and
determine appropriate relay settings; explain the characteristics
and limitations of protection primary transducers; design a distance
protection scheme for transmission line circuits; explain the
design and operation of digital transmission line protection.
Content: The protection overlay: Protection and metering
transducers. Fuses. Overcurrent protection: relay types, operating
characteristics and equations, grading, applications. Differential
protection: voltage balance and circulating current schemes, biased
characteristics and high impedance schemes. Applications to the
protection of transformers, feeders and busbars. Distance protection:
basic principle, block average comparator, zones of protection,
residual compensation, power swing blocking. Digital Protection:
Relay hardware. Digital signal processing in protection relays.
Digital distance protection. Digital differential protection.
ELEC0041: Control engineering
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To provide an understanding
of the design of closed loop controllers in the time domain and
their practical implementation. To introduce students to the practical
issues involved in the design and implementation of discrete time
controllers using microprocessors and z-domain design techniques.
After completing this module, students should be able to: calculate
the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of any linear continuous time
plant, use the above to determine the observability and controllability
of plant dynamic modes and design controllers to change the modal
frequencies. describe any linear continuous time system that is
to be controlled using a discrete time controller in the z-domain.
design unity feedback discrete time controllers to meet a range
of performance specifications for step and ramp input functions.
Content: Design of linear systems in the time domain, observability
and controllability. Simple modal synthesis. Digital control methods,
micro controllers and their application. Real time computational
methods in control.
ELEC0042: Project engineering
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To provide students with
an understanding of project management and to define the projects
objectives, plan the enterprise, execute it and bring it to a
successful conclusion for all parties involved.
After completing this module, students should be able to: define
the projects objectives and the roles of the key participants;
produce a project plan; design and control management procedures;
and explain the procedures required to bring that project to a
successful conclusion.
Content: Project definition: Principal types of project.
Project outline. Roles of key participants. Defining objectives.
Project planning: Defining sub-projects. Time scheduling. Costings.
Defining resource requirements. Standard planning techniques.
Computer planning techniques. Risk assessment and analysis. Project
control: Quality standards. Setting milestones. Progress monitoring.
Management information systems. Variance analysis. Communications
handling. Changes to specification. Corrective action. Project
completion: Customer acceptance. Project audits. Final reports.
ELEC0043: Fundamentals of electromagnetic compatibility
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Undergraduate Masters
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To provide an introduction
to the fundamentals of EMC.
After completing this module students should be able to: demonstrate
and understand the terminology used in EMC; explain the cause
of interference in terms of the interaction of charges, currents
and fields; identify interference problems and suggest solutions;
demonstrate the use of EMC principles for interference free design.
Content: Revision of electromagnetic field theory. EMC
terminology, electromagnetic emissions (EME), electromagnetic
susceptibility (EMS), electromagnetic interference (EMI). Sources
of disturbances, man made sources, natural sources. Levels of
EMC, component, circuit, device, system. Coupling paths, common
impedance, capacitive coupling, inductive coupling, radiation,
electric dipole (small), magnetic dipole (small), radiation through
an aperture. Common mode and differential mode signals, filtering.
Properties of conductors, DC and AC current flow, skin depth,
AC resistance, inductance (internal and external). Shielding.
Inductive crosstalk, capacitive crosstalk, near end crosstalk.
Effect of nearby conducting plane. Parasitic effects in components,
resistors, capacitors, inductors, transformers. Protective earth
and signal reference, earth loops. Effect of ESD. Choice of signal
reference and cabling. Testing, regulations. Measuring the electromagnetic
environment.
ELEC0044: An introduction to intelligent systems engineering
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Undergraduate Masters
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To provide students with
an understanding of the fundamental principles of major intelligent
system techniques. To show how to apply intelligent system techniques
to solve engineering problems. After completing this module, the
student should be able to: construct a simple rule based expert
system; explain the major components of a fuzzy logic system and
conduct fuzzy inference; describe the major type of neural networks
and their learning algorithms; construct multilayer neural networks
for pattern classification; apply a simple genetic algorithm to
solve optimization problems.
Content: Expert Systems (ES): major characteristics of
expert systems; techniques; rule-based expert systems; knowledge
acquisition; applications. Fuzzy Logic (FL): fuzzy set theory;
fuzzy inference; fuzzy logic expert system; fuzzy control. Neural
Networks (NS): artificial neurons and neural networks. Learning
process: error-correction learning; Hebbian learning; Boltzmann
learning; competitive learning; supervised/unsupervised learning.
Perception and multilayer perception; self-organising Kohonen
networks; Hopfield neural networks; practical implementation and
applications. Genetic Algorithms (GA): adaptation and evolution;
a simple genetic algorithm; genetic algorithms in optimization;
genetic algorithms in control.
ELEC0046: Neural network applications in engineering systems
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Undergraduate Masters
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: The students are expected
to gain a practical understanding of the application of neural
networks to engineering system problems. The students will be
expected to understand every stage of the development of a neural
network solution from choosing an architecture to determining
appropriate feature extraction and implementation technology.
After completing this module, students should be able to: identify
different neural network architectures including Kohonen, multi
layer perception and auto associative types; choose an appropriate
architecture for particular engineering tasks; identify hardware
and software implementations of artificial neural networks; understand
training rules used for neural networks and carry out calculations
associated with the generalised back propagation delta training
rule.
Content: Sensor layer neural networks, cognitive layers
in neural systems, general neural network system architecture.
Speech recognition, Kohonen feature maps, language and vision
systems, multi-layer image recognition: the neocognition. Security
systems, applications in power systems. Alternative hardware implementations,
future applications, limitations on current neural network technology.
ELEC0047: Design & realisation of integrated circuits
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Undergraduate Masters
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: This course covers all
aspects of the realisation of integrated circuits, including both
digital, analogue and mixed-signal implementations. Consideration
is given to the original specification for the circuit which dictates
the optimum technology to be used also taking account of the financial
implications. The various technologies available are described
and the various applications, advantages and disadvantages of
each are indicated. The design of the circuit building blocks
for both digital and analogue circuits are covered. Computer aided
design tools are described and illustrated and the important aspects
of testing and design for testability are also covered.
After completing this module the student should be able to take
the specification for an IC and, based on all the circuit, technology
and financial constraints, be able to determine the optimum design
approach. The student should have a good knowledge of the circuit
design approaches and to be able to make use of the computer aided
design tools available and to understand their purposes and limitations.
The student should also have an appreciation of the purposes of
IC testing and the techniques for including testability into the
overall circuit design.
Content: Design of ICs: the design cycle, trade-offs, floorplanning,
power considerations, economics. IC technologies: Bipolar, nMOS,
CMOS, BiCMOS, analogue, high frequency. Transistor level design:
digital gates, analogue components, sub-circuit design. IC realisation:
ASICs, PLDs, gate arrays, standard cell, full custom. CAD: schematic
capture, hardware description languages, device and circuit modelling,
simulation, layout, circuit extraction. Testing: types of testing,
fault modelling, design for testability, built in self test, scan-paths.
ELEC0048: Radio frequency engineering
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Undergraduate Masters
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce students to
the analysis and design of radio frequency circuits and systems.
After completing this module, students should be able to: explain
the architecture of modern radio transmitters and receivers; design
a frequency synthesiser based on the digital phase-locked loop;
design a RF power amplifier using different forms of matching
networks; analyse and quantify distortion in RF amplifiers; explain
the most commonly used techniques for improving the linearity
and efficiency of radio transmitters.
Content: Architectures of modern radio transmitters and
receivers. High stability frequency sources. Frequency synthesis
techniques: direct synthesis, indirect synthesis. Small signal
tuned amplifiers. RF power amplifiers: class A,B,C and D amplifiers.
Matching networks. Efficiency of RF power amplifiers. Distortion
in RF amplifiers. Small signal and high power modulators.
Techniques for reducing distortion in radio transmitters. Techniques
for improving conversion efficiency of radio transmitters.
ELEC0049: Optical communication systems
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Undergraduate Masters
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To introduce students to
the analysis and design of radio frequency circuits and systems.
After completing this module, students should be able to: explain
the architecture of modern radio transmitters and receivers; design
a frequency synthesiser based on the digital phase-locked loop;
design a RF power amplifier using different forms of matching
networks; analyse and quantify distortion in RF amplifiers; explain
the most commonly used techniques for improving the linearity
and efficiency of radio transmitters.
Content: Architectures of modern radio transmitters and
receivers. High stability frequency sources. Frequency synthesis
techniques: direct synthesis, indirect synthesis. Small signal
tuned amplifiers. RF power amplifiers: class A,B,C and D amplifiers.
Matching networks. Efficiency of RF power amplifiers. Distortion
in RF amplifiers. Small signal and high power modulators.
Techniques for reducing distortion in radio transmitters. Techniques
for improving conversion efficiency of radio transmitters.
ELEC0050: Radiowave communication systems
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Undergraduate Masters
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To give students an understanding
of the key parameters and trade-offs needed to set up a wireless
link in a variety of applications (e.g. Fixed wireless links,
mobile links and radar systems). To introduce the basic concepts
of the main antenna types, propagation paths between antennas
and radio communication/radar systems. After completion, students
should be able to: understand the operation and use of antennas;
understand the main factors influencing propagation of radio waves
in terrestrial and space systems; calculate the power budgets
for radio and radar links in various environments; appreciate
the various types of signal fading and appropriate methods for
reducing the effects of fading; calculate the basic operating
parameters of pulse and CW radar systems, and appreciate the methods
used to improve radar resolution.
Content: Radiowave Propagation: Plane wave propagation
and polarisation; simple antennas, arrays and apertures; power
budget calculations for communication and radar systems; reflection,
refraction and diffraction; ground wave, Sky wave, troposcatter
and satellite links. Fading and diversity: Multipath fading and
shadow loss; statistical channel models and delay spread; diversity
types and implementation issues. Systems: Fixed point wireless
links; pulse, doppler, CW and FMCW radar systems; mobile radio
systems; cellular systems and frequency reuse; satellite systems
- geostationary and low orbit; indoor wireless.
ELEC0051: Mobile & wireless networks
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Undergraduate Masters
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To provide an overview
of the evolution and current status of digital cellular radio
systems and wireless networks from a predominantly systems perspective.
To outline key radio systems, satellite based systems, infrared
wireless office systems and describe how these might be capable
of handling multimedia data. The course will look in detail at
security, network access and network management.
On completion of the course, the student should be able to understand
the main operating features of digital cellular radio systems;
be able to carry out simple capacity calculations and appreciate
the key differences between TDMA and CDMA multiple access methodologies.
Content: Wireless and Mobile Networks: radio point-to-point,
infrared, cellular, wireless LANs, satillite-based LANs, overview
of the physical layer. Cellular Systems: early systems, cell structures,
path loss, multipath propagation, inter-cell interference, frequency
re-use, spectral efficiency, cell capacity to handle calls - Erlangs,
call demand and required number of channels, cell splitting and
sectorisation, network topology. Channel Utilisation Schemes:
modulation and multiplexing, comparisons of FDMA, TDMA and CDMA
multiple access schemes, and spread-spectrum modulation. Cellular
Radio Interfaces: AMPS, GSM and IS54 TDMA systems, IS95 CDMA spread-spectrum
system. Message formats and network access protocols, identification
numbers, establishing and maintaining calls to and from mobiles,
roaming, hand-off problems, backbone network interconnection.
GSM layers and protocols. PCN overview: CT2 and CT2 Plus, DECT,
DCS1800, key differences between digital cellular radio and PCN
systems and services. Use of MANs - DQDB. Satellite based systems:
comparison with terrestrial systems, network topology issues,
network access protocols vs multiple access systems. Provision
of data services over mobile and wireless systems: restrictions.
Data link layer, data link protocols, ARQ, link layer operations.
Network and transport layers. Security: secure modulation methods,
data encryption, smart cards. Network Management.
ELEC0052: Project - 4th year (Sem 1)
Semester 1
Credits: 12
Level: Undergraduate Masters
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To develop further the
skills of practical project engineering and where possible to
give students experience of working on realistic engineering problems
in small groups.
On completion of the unit students should be able to accept responsibility
for delegated tasks within a project area, plan a scheme of work
and complete it to a standard expected of a young professional
engineer. The student should be able to develop innovative solutions
to problems and produce designs which meet the requirements of
the project.
Content: Students will choose a title from a list of topics
offered by the department. The project solution may be implemented
in hardware or software or a combination of both. Students will
be expected to follow through the accepted problem solving route
beginning with the identification and specification of the problem
and proceeding to proposals for solution, analysis of alternatives,
implementation of chosen solution and final proving and acceptance
testing. The production of a planned timetable of goals and milestones
will be expected and the final report should contain evidence
that the plan has been adhered to, or modified, as necessary.
An early viva will be conducted by the internal examiner, who
is not the project supervisor, and an end-of-project viva will
be conducted by two other members of academic staff. A written
report on the background to the project, together with a project
plan and literature review, will be submitted part way through
the project and then incorporated into the main project report
which will be submitted on completion of the project.
ELEC0053: Digital video & audio
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Undergraduate Masters
Assessment: EX75 CW25
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To introduce the theory
and practice of digital video and audio in Information Processing
Networks. After completion of the unit students should be able
to: understand the representation of digital video signals, and
the compression and communications techniques for digital video
in networks; write software for the processing of digital video
in Multimedia Applications; understand the effects of system performance
on the Quality of Service of a digital video system; understand
the basic principles of human auditory perception, and its influence
on digital audio processing; understand current technologies for
sampling, representation and reconstruction of audio information;
understand and apply methods for digital audio compression.
Content: Digital Video: Concepts and standards, broadcast
requirements and standards. Compression techniques for multimedia:
Motion JPEG and other intraframe techniques, H32X, MPEG, motion
prediction, interpolation and other interframe techniques. Emerging
technologies: Object based coding, motion analysis, multiresolution
techniques, video description languages, software codecs, MPEG-IV.
Quality of Service issues: Redundancy, intra/inter coding, data
loss and error correction. Human Auditory Perception: Bandwidth
and dynamic range, temporal and frequency masking, critical bands.
Speech and audio signals. Current digital audio technologies:
companding, sampling, error correction and interpolation. Audio
Compression methods and standards. Audio with video in Information
Processing Networks - synchronization, delay and Quality of Service.
ELEC0054: Digital image processing
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Undergraduate Masters
Assessment: EX75 CW25
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To introduce the theory
and practice of digital image processing, with particular emphasis
upon standards for image coding and transmission. After completing
this unit, students should be able to: explain the elements of
human visual perception, image processing, quantization and of
colour images; explain the use of the two dimensional discrete
Fourier and Cosine transforms in image processing; solve problems
concerning the enhancement of digital images by spatial or frequency
domain techniques; solve problems concerning the restoration of
degraded images by various standard techniques including inverse
filtering and Wiener filtering; explain the elements of lossless
and lossy data and image compression, and image compression standards.
Compress and decompress simple data streams using basic techniques.
Content: Images and image sensors: Monochrome and colour
vision. Sampling, reconstruction and quantization. Filtering:
Moving average filtering. Edge enhancement. Fourier domain filtering.
Segmentation: Segmentation by shade or hue. Segmentation by texture.
Feature extraction. Enhancement and Restoration: Inverse filtering.
Wiener filtering. Registration and estimation. Colour: HSV processing.
Enhancement and restoration. Segmentation. Image coding: Lossless
coding. Transformations. Quantization. Entrophy coding. Progressive
coding. Standards for coding and transmission of images.
ELEC0055: Power system planning
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Undergraduate Masters
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To introduce students to
the main techniques for load forecasting and planning in power
systems.
After completing this module, students should be able to: Carry
out short & long term forecasts for power systems. Conduct
reliability and load flow studies. Understand and apply techniques
for stability and contingency studies.
Content: Short and long term forecasting. Reliability and
unit commitments. Loadflow and short circuit studies for system
planning. Voltage regulation of distribution systems. System outages
and contingency analyses. Probabilistic load flow studies. Transient
stability of large systems. Load dynamics and simulation for power
system severe emergencies. Short and long term stability studies.
System contingency analysis. Loss of generation and load shedding
techniques. Criteria of voltage stability.
ELEC0056: Power system control
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Undergraduate Masters
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To introduce the main methods
used in power system control and the issues involved in the control
of extended power systems. To introduce some modern control techniques.
After completing this module, students should be able to: apply
modern control methods in power systems.
Content: Application of modern control methods in power
systems; digital and fuzzy control techniques. hierarchical and
decentralised methods. The concept of automatic generation control
in large systems, economical dispatch and load/frequency control.
ELEC0057: Power electronics & drives
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Level: Undergraduate Masters
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To understand the operation
of the types of power-electronic supplies which are currently
used in d.c. and a.c. drive systems. To study the use of permanent-magnet
and induction machines in industrial and traction drives. To gain
an appreciation of the remote electromagnetic effects that are
caused by switching converters. To be able to perform calculations
to assess the overall performance of typical drive systems and
to estimate their electromagnetic effects on the environment.
Content: Converter power supplies: rectification and inversion,
effect of transformer impedance, regulation and overlap. PWM power
supplies: variable frequency converter types, analysis of waveforms
and spectra. Practical aspects of inverter implementation, managing
sources of distortion, control circuits, power stage design. Small-scale
machine and drive systems: brushless d.c. machines and their use
for computer peripheral drives and vehicle drives. Steady-state
and transient analysis of systems. Field-oriented control schemes
for synchronous and induction machines. Introduction to electromagnetic
capability in traction and industrial environments. EMI noise
sources and types of coupling. Modelling of inductive and constructive
interference.
ELEC0058: Numerical methods in cad
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Undergraduate Masters
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To introduce students to
numerical methods used to simulate engineering problems. After
completing this unit, students should be able to: use the numerical
methods covered in the unit to solve example applications; design
programs to implement numerical algorithms.
Content: Solution of linear equations: Gauss-Jordan elimination.
Pivoting. Gaussian elimination. Back-substitution. LU decomposition.
Sparse linear systems. Skyline solvers. Iterative methods. Steepest
descent. Conjugate gradient method. Pre-conditioned conjugate
gradients. Non-linear systems of equations: root finding; one
dimensional functions; bisection; secant method; Newton-Raphson;
multidimensional Newton-Raphson. Time dependent problems: single
step time marching schemes; forward difference, backward difference,
midpoint difference, general theta scheme. Stiff systems. Stability.
Application of time stepping schemes to circuit modelling. Optimisation
(minimization or maximization of functions): one dimensional search.
Downhill simplex method in multi-dimensions. Simulated annealing.
Evolutionary models.
ELEC0059: Finite element analysis
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Level: Undergraduate Masters
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To provide students with
an understanding of some of the finite element methods for solving
common partial differential equations, with particular regard
to electromagnetics.
To enable them to use finite element computer packages with some
understanding and to develop their own methods when necessary.
Content: The trial solution method and its relationship
with finite element methods. The collocation, subdomain collocation,
least squares and Galerkin methods of optimisation. One and two
dimensional shape functions. One and two dimensional finite element
methods. Deriving and using magnetic scalar and magnetic vector
potentials in representing magnetic field problems. How symmetry
may be exploited in 2D electromagnetic field problems. How quantities
of engineering interest such as force and inductance can be derived
from the potential solution. How a simple 2D finite element package
works.
ELEC0060: Project - 3rd year (Sem 2)
Semester 2
Credits: 12
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
A continuation of ELEC0036.
ELEC0061: Project - 4th year (Sem 2)
Semester 2
Credits: 12
Level: Undergraduate Masters
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
A continuation of ELEC0052.
ELEC0062: Industrial placement
Academic Year
Credits: 60
Level: Level 2
Assessment: OT100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide practical experience
in the application and usefulness of knowledge and skills gained
at the University, by working in a relevant industrial environment.
Content: The content varies from placement to placement.
In choosing the placement, the University will try to ensure that
the project offers adequate opportunities for the student to demonstrate
competence in a least six of the eleven assessed categories: application
of academic knowledge; practical ability; computational skill;
analytical and problem solving skill; innovation and originality;
time management; writing skills; oral expression; interpersonal
skills; reliability; and development potential.
ELEC0063: MEng year abroad
Academic Year
Credits: 60
Level: Undergraduate Masters
Assessment: OT100
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To assist the student develop
personal and interpersonal communication skills and to develop
the ability to work and interact effectively in a group environment
in which cultural norms and ways of operating may be very different
from those previously familiar.
To develop an understanding of the stresses that occur in working
in a different culture from the UK, and to learn to cope with
those stresses and work efficiently. To develop the self-confidence
and maturity to operate effectively with people from a different
cultural background.
To develop the ability to operate at a high scientific level in
the language of the country concerned; this would include oral
communication and comprehension as well as reading and writing.
Content: It is assumed that the student abroad will accomplish
work equivalent to 60 University of Bath credits (10 units). Details
of these are necessarily left to negotiation with individual University,
students and the Bath Director of Studies. A project should be
completed either abroad or during the Summer semester/term at
Bath.
ESML0144: Chinese stage 1A (beginners) (3 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: Chinese
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0145
Aims & Learning Objectives: An introduction to basic
Chinese ("putonghua") as a preparation to communicating
in a Chinese context.
Content: Basic Chinese grammatical forms. Recognition and
production of essential Chinese characters; the Chinese phonetic
system and the Pinyin system. Initial emphasis will be placed
on speaking and listening. Reading and writing tasks of an appropriate
nature will be gradually incorporated. Special attention will
be paid to the recognition and differentiation of tones.
Flexible provision dependent on demand, but selection criteria
based on past examination performance and a needs analysis may
be imposed and/or prioritisation according to Programme requirements.
Usually some evidence of competence in another foreign language
is required.
ESML0145: Chinese stage 1B (3 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0144
Aims & Learning Objectives: A continuation of Chinese
Stage 1A
Content: A continuation of Chinese Stage 1A
ESML0146: Chinese stage 2A (post beginners) (3 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: A course to consolidate
existing knowledge of Chinese, to develop listening, reading,
speaking and writing, and to reinforce grammar, in order to enable
students to operate in a Chinese speaking environment.
Content: This unit contains a variety of listening, reading,
speaking and writing tasks covering the appropriate grammatical
structures and vocabulary and there will be continued emphasis
on tones and pronunciation.
Teaching materials will include reading passages from a variety
of sources as well as topical and relevant audio and video material.
Students are required to give short talks and undertake writing
tasks in Chinese.
Flexible provision dependent on demand, but selection criteria
based on past examination performance and a needs analysis may
be imposed and/or prioritisation according to Programme requirements.
ESML0150: French stage 7A (advanced) (3 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0151
Aims & Learning Objectives: A course to consolidate,
refine and enhance previous advanced knowledge of French
Content: This unit contains a variety of listening, reading,
speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures
and vocabulary.
Teaching materials cover a wide range of cultural, political and
social topics relating to France and may include short works of
literature.
There will be discussion in the target language of topics derived
from teaching materials, leading to small-scale research projects
based on the same range of topics and incorporating the use of
press reports and articles as well as audio and visual material.
Students are encouraged to devote time and energy to developing
linguistic proficiency outside the timetabled classes, for instance
by additional reading and/or participating in informally arranged
conversation groups and in events at which French is spoken.
Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom
work.
Flexible provision dependent on demand, but selection criteria
based on past examination performance and a needs analysis may
be imposed and/or prioritisation according to Programme requirements.
GCE Advanced Level French or equivalent required.
ESML0151: French stage 7B (3 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0150
Aims & Learning Objectives: A continuation of French
Stage 7A
Content: A continuation of French Stage 7A
ESML0152: French stage 8A (post advanced) (3 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: Continued consolidation
and enhancement of the language already acquired in French Stage
7A and 7B
Content: This unit contains a variety of listening, reading,
speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures
and vocabulary.
Teaching materials cover a wide range of cultural, political and
social topics relating
to France and may include short works of literature or extracts
from longer works. Where numbers permit, some subject-specific
material may be included, covering the relevant scientific and
technological areas and/or business and industry.
There will be discussion and analysis in the target language of
topics derived from teaching materials with the potential for
small-scale research projects and presentations. Audio and video
materials form an integral part of this study, along with newspaper,
magazine and journal articles.
Students are actively encouraged to devote time and energy to
developing linguistic proficiency outside the timetabled classes,
by additional reading, links with native speakers and participating
in events at which French is spoken.
Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom
work.
ESML0156: French stage 4A (intermediate) (3 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0157
Aims & Learning Objectives: A course to consolidate
existing knowledge of French, to develop listening, reading, writing
and speaking, and to reinforce grammar, in order to enable students
to operate in a French-speaking environment.
Content: This unit contains a variety of listening, reading,
speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures,
vocabulary and pronunciation relating to a selection of topics.
Remedial work is carried out where necessary.
Teaching materials will include reading passages from a variety
of sources as well as topical and relevant audio and video material.
Students are required to give short presentations, conduct brief
interviews and write dialogues, reports and letters in French.
Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom
work.
Flexible provision dependent on demand, but selection criteria
based on past examination performance and a needs analysis may
be imposed and/or prioritisation according to Programme requirements.
GCSE Grade C in French or equivalent required.
ESML0157: French stage 4B (3 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0156
Aims & Learning Objectives: A continuation of French
Stage 4A
Content: A continuation of French Stage 4A
ESML0158: French stage 5A (post intermediate) (3 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: French
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: This course builds on the
French covered in French Stage 4A and 4B in order to enhance the
student's abilities in the four skill areas.
Content: This unit contains a variety of listening, reading,
speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures,
vocabulary and pronunciation.
Teaching materials cover a wide range of cultural, political and
social topics relating to France and may include short works of
literature.
There will be discussion in the target language of topics derived
from teaching materials, leading to small-scale research projects
based on the same range of topics and incorporating the use of
press reports and articles as well as audio and visual material.
Students are encouraged to devote time and energy to developing
linguistic proficiency outside the timetabled classes, for instance
by additional reading and/or participating in informally arranged
conversation groups and in events at which French is spoken.
Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom
work.
ESML0162: German stage 1A (beginners) (3 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: German
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0163
Aims & Learning Objectives: An introduction to everyday
German, in order to enable the student to cope at a basic level
in a German speaking environment, concentrating on oral/aural
communication and reading.
Content: Initial emphasis will be placed on speaking, listening
and reading. As vocabulary is acquired more attention will be
given to grammar. Writing tasks of a relevant and appropriate
nature will be incorporated.
Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom
work
Flexible provision dependent on demand, but selection criteria
based on past examination performance and a needs analysis may
be imposed and/or prioritisation according to Programme requirements.
Usually some evidence of competence in another foreign language
is required.
ESML0163: German stage 1B (3 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: German
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0162
Aims & Learning Objectives: A continuation of German
Stage 1A
Content: A continuation of German Stage 1A
ESML0164: German stage 2A (post beginners) (3 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: German
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: A course to build on language
skills acquired in German Stage 1A and 1B to enhance listening,
reading, speaking and writing, and to consolidate grammar, in
order to enable students to operate in a German-speaking environment.
Content: This unit contains a variety of listening, reading,
speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures,
vocabulary and pronunciation.
Teaching materials will include reading passages from a wide variety
of sources as well as topical and relevant audio and video material.
Students are required to give short presentations, conduct brief
interviews and write dialogues, reports and letters in German
Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom
work.
ESML0168: German stage 7A (advanced) (3 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: German
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0169
Aims & Learning Objectives: A course to consolidate,
refine and enhance previous advanced knowledge of German
Content: This unit contains a variety of listening, reading,
speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures
and vocabulary.
Teaching materials cover a wide range of cultural, political and
social topics relating to German speaking countries and may include
short works of literature.
There will be discussion in the target language of topics derived
from teaching materials, leading to small-scale research projects
based on the same range of topics and incorporating the use of
press reports and articles as well as audio and visual material.
Students are encouraged to devote time and energy to developing
linguistic proficiency outside the timetabled classes, for instance
by additional reading and/or participating in informally arranged
conversation groups and in events at which German is spoken.
Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom
work.
Flexible provision dependent on demand, but selection criteria
based on past examination performance and a needs analysis may
be imposed and/or prioritisation according to Programme requirements.
GCE Advanced Level German or equivalent required.
ESML0169: German stage 7B (3 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: German
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0168
Aims & Learning Objectives: A continuation of German
Stage 7A
Content: A continuation of German Stage 7A
ESML0174: German stage 4A (intermediate) (3 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: German
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0175
Aims & Learning Objectives: A course to consolidate
existing knowledge of German, to develop listening, reading, writing
and speaking, and to reinforce grammar, in order to enable students
to operate in a German-speaking environment.
Content: This unit contains a variety of listening, reading,
speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures,
vocabulary and pronunciation relating to a selection of topics.
Remedial work is carried out where necessary.
Teaching materials will include reading passages from a variety
of sources as well as topical and relevant audio and video material.
Students are required to give short presentations, conduct brief
interviews and write dialogues, reports and letters in German.
Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom
work.
Flexible provision dependent on demand, but selection criteria
based on past examination performance and a needs analysis may
be imposed and/or prioritisation according to Programme requirements.
GCSE Grade C in German or equivalent required.
ESML0175: German stage 4B (3 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: German
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0174
Aims & Learning Objectives: A continuation of German
4A
Content: A continuation of German 4A
ESML0176: German stage 5A (post intermediate) (3 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: German
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: This course builds on the
German covered in German Stage 4A and 4B in order to enhance the
student's abilities in the four skill areas.
Content: This unit contains a variety of listening, reading,
speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures,
vocabulary and pronunciation.
Teaching materials cover a wide range of cultural, political and
social topics relating to German speaking countries and may include
short works of literature.
There will be discussion in the target language of topics derived
from teaching materials, leading to small-scale research projects
based on the same range of topics and incorporating the use of
press reports and articles as well as audio and visual material.
Students are encouraged to devote time and energy to developing
linguistic proficiency outside the timetabled classes, for instance
by additional reading and/or participating in informally arranged
conversation groups and in events at which German is spoken.
Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom
work.
ESML0180: Italian stage 1A (beginners) (3 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0181
Aims & Learning Objectives: An introduction to everyday
Italian, in order to enable the student to cope at a basic level
in an Italian speaking environment, concentrating on oral/aural
communication and reading.
Content: Initial emphasis will be placed on speaking, listening
and reading. As vocabulary is acquired more attention will be
given to grammar. Writing tasks of a relevant and appropriate
nature will be incorporated.
Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom
work
Flexible provision dependent on demand, but selection criteria
based on past examination performance and a needs analysis may
be imposed and/or prioritisation according to Programme requirements.
Usually some evidence of competence in another foreign language
is required.
ESML0181: Italian stage 1B (3 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0180
Aims & Learning Objectives: A continuation of Italian
Stage 1A
Content: A continuation of Italian Stage 1A
ESML0182: Italian stage 2A (post beginners) (3 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: Italian
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: A course to build on language
skills acquired in Italian Stage 1A and 1B, to enhance listening,
reading, speaking and writing, and to consolidate grammar, in
order to enable students to operate in an Italian-speaking environment.
Content: This unit contains a variety of listening, reading,
speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures,
vocabulary and pronunciation.
Teaching materials will include reading passages from a wide variety
of sources as well as topical and relevant audio and video material.
Students are required to give short presentations, conduct brief
interviews and write dialogues, reports and letters in Italian.
Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom
work.
ESML0186: Japanese 1A (beginners) (3 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Topic: Japanese
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0187
Aims & Learning Objectives: An introduction to everyday
Japanese, in order to enable the student to cope at a basic level
in a Japanese speaking environment, concentrating on oral/aural
communication and the reading and writing of the 2 phonetic Japanese
scripts and selected kanji (Chinese characters)
Content: Initial emphasis will be placed on speaking, listening
and reading. As vocabulary is acquired more attention will be
given to grammar. Writing tasks of a relevant and appropriate
nature will be incorporated. Course material will be drawn from
a variety of sources and will include audio-visual resources.
Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom
work
Flexible provision dependent on demand, but selection criteria
based on past examination performance and a needs analysis may
be imposed and/or prioritisation according to Programme requirements.
Usually some evidence of competence in another foreign language
is required.
ESML0187: Japanese 1B (3 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Topic: Japanese
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0186
Aims & Learning Objectives: A continuation of Japanese
Stage 1A
Content: A continuation of Japanese Stage 1A
ESML0192: Spanish stage 1A (beginners) (3 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0193
Aims & Learning Objectives: An introduction to everyday
Spanish, in order to enable the student to cope at a basic level
in a Spanish speaking environment, concentrating on oral/aural
communication and reading.
Content: Initial emphasis will be placed on speaking, listening
and reading. As vocabulary is acquired more attention will be
given to grammar. Writing tasks of a relevant and appropriate
nature will be incorporated.
Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom
work
Flexible provision dependent on demand, but selection criteria
based on past examination performance and a needs analysis may
be imposed and/or prioritisation according to Programme requirements.
Usually some evidence of competence in another foreign language
is required.
ESML0193: Spanish stage 1B (3 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0192
Aims & Learning Objectives: A continuation of Spanish
Stage 1A
Content: A continuation of Spanish Stage 1A
ESML0198: Spanish stage 4A (intermediate) (3 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0199
Aims & Learning Objectives: A course to consolidate
existing knowledge of Spanish, to develop listening, reading,
writing
and speaking, and to reinforce grammar, in order to enable students
to operate in a Spanish-speaking environment.
Content: This unit contains a variety of listening, reading,
speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures,
vocabulary and pronunciation relating to a selection of topics.
Remedial work is carried out where necessary.
Teaching materials will include reading passages from a variety
of sources as well as topical and relevant audio and video material.
Students are required to give short presentations, conduct brief
interviews and write dialogues, reports and letters in Spanish.
Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom
work.
Flexible provision dependent on demand, but selection criteria
based on past examination performance and a needs analysis may
be imposed and/or prioritisation according to Programme requirements.
GCSE Grade C in Spanish or equivalent required.
ESML0199: Spanish stage 4B (3 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0198
Aims & Learning Objectives: A continuation of Spanish
Stage 4A
Content: A continuation of Spanish Stage 4A
ESML0200: Spanish stage 5A (post intermediate) (3 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: This course builds on the
Spanish covered in Spanish Stage 4A and 4B in order to enhance
the student's abilities in the four skill areas.
Content: This unit contains a variety of listening, reading,
speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures,
vocabulary and pronunciation.
Teaching materials cover a wide range of cultural, political and
social topics relating to Spain and may include short works of
literature.
There will be discussion in the target language of topics derived
from teaching materials, leading to small-scale research projects
based on the same range of topics and incorporating the use of
press reports and articles as well as audio and visual material.
Students are encouraged to devote time and energy to developing
linguistic proficiency outside the timetabled classes, for instance
by additional reading and/or participating in informally arranged
conversation groups and in events at which Spanish is spoken.
Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom
work.
MANG0069: Introduction to accounting & finance (service
unit)
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX50 CW50
Requisites:
Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide students undertaking
any type of degree study with an introductory knowledge of accounting
and finance
Content: The role of the accountant, corporate treasurer
and financial controller
Sources and uses of capital funds
Understanding the construction and nature of the balance sheet
and profit and loss account
Principles underlying the requirements for the publication of
company accounts
Interpretation of accounts - published and internal, including
financial ratio analysis
Planning for profits, cash flow. Liquidity, capital expenditure
and capital finance
Developing the business plan and annual budgeting
Estimating the cost of products, services and activities and their
relationship to price.
Analysis of costs and cost behaviour
MATH0099: Mathematics for electrical engineers 1
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX80 PR20
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: This is the first of two
1st-year units intended to lead to confident and error free manipulation
and use of standard mathematical functions and relationships in
the context of engineering mathematics. Proofs, where introduced,
are to be of a constructive kind, i.e. they are examples of useful
and standard methods of wide applicability in the technical problems
of communication, control, electronics and power systems. The
unit will consolidate and extend topics met at A-level so that
students may improve their fluency and understanding of applicable
mathematics. Tutorial sessions will be conducted to enable students
to develop problem solving skills.
Content: Calculus: revision - 'by parts' and substitution
methods of integration; integral as a sum; derivative and integral
as functions.
Algebra: exponential/log functions, time constants; partial fractions;
inverse circular functions (sin-1 and tan-1); mean and rms as
an integral; curve sketching, sinusoids.
Complex numbers: rotation vector approach; geometrical interpretation;
Argand diagram; Cartesian and polar forms ejq
= cosq + jsinq
; powers and roots (de Moivre's theorem).
Differential equations: first and second order constant coefficient;
variables separable; transient and steady state methods.
Laplace transforms: notation, operational form; unit impulse and
unit step functions; transforms; initial condition criteria; decay
and shift theorems; initial and final value theorems; impulse
and step response.
Determinants and Matrices: revision of determinants; Cramer's
rule.
MATH0100: Mathematics for electrical engineers 2
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: This is the second of two
1st year units intended to develop the confident use of engineering
mathematics. It is intended to introduce students of electronic
& electrical engineering to the use of mathematical modelling
and analysis in the solution of problems in electronic and electrical
engineering. On completion of the unit students should be able
to: understand the principles of matrix inversion; use Fourier
series for the harmonic representation of periodic and non-periodic
waveforms; apply statistics to deal with uncertainty in engineering
problems.
Content: Determinants and matrices (cont.): matrices to
include transpose and inverse.
Vectors: revision; scalar vector product with applications. Triple
products.
Series: AP, GP and Binomial series, summation of elementary series.
The method of differences. Taylor series, with discussion of errors
due to truncation etc. Limits. L'hôpital's rule. Standard
series (tables of formulae). Elementary convergence tests.
Fourier series: derivation of coefficients; odd and even functions,
odd harmonics; line spectra, reciprocal format (so-called D.F.T.);
half-range series for harmonic representation of non-periodic
functions.
Statistics: mean, variance, probability and probability distributions
(Binomial, Poisson, normal, Rayleigh); standard error; reliability.
MATH0101: Mathematics for electrical engineers 3
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: This is the first of two
second year units. It introduces important applicable transform
methods. The principle objectives of this study are to provide
physical insights into these important transforms and to provide
students with the facility to apply the methods in engineering
situations. The mathematical derivation of Maxwell's equations
is introduced and again a physical insight into these equations
is sought through the solution of the wave equation.
Content: Z-transforms, definitions, theorems, sequences.
Discrete systems. Sampled-data system and interface theorem. Inter-sample
(output) behaviour. Fourier transforms; discrete to continuous
frequency distributions; amplitude and phase spectra; Laplace
transform relationships (left- and right-hand half s-plane poles);
theorems; convolution; unit impulse and unit step functions; 'comb'
of impulses; signum function; frequency axis poles; sampling theorems
(both time and frequency domain); energy theorems; auto- and cross-correlation;
spectral density and relations. Vector algebra: vector and scalar
integrals; gradient, divergence and curl; Maxwell's equations;
derivation of the wave equation.
MATH0102: Mathematics for electrical engineers 4
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To introduce students to
methods for problems with more than one variable. To enable students
to apply numerical methods in the solution of typical engineering
problems.
Content: Partial differentiation: Taylor series in 2 variables;
max/min problems with least-squares as an example; constrained
max/min problems. Change of variables (and co-ordinates). Numerical
methods: predictor-corrector and Runge-Kutta methods of solution
of differential equations; isoclines; finite differences; Chebychev
polynomials - errors and approximations; numerical convolution;
series solution of differential equations. Partial differential
equations: variables separable with Fourier half-range series
solutions; change of variable with Bessel equation as an example.
Bessel functions; J0(x), Jn(x) (integer
n only); BFs and Fourier series - FM as an example.
SOCS0152: The human factor
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives: To introduce engineering
students to the role of the human factor in industry, in particular
to impart an awareness of classic theories of motivation, social
control and communication in relation to work organisation in
design and manufacturing processes.
Content: Concepts and evidence of the changing role of
motivation, skills, organisational control and technology, the
nature and significance of groupwork.
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