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XX10044: Human physiology |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Certificate |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: EX100 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: The aim of this unit is to provide an overview of human physiology, with particular emphasis on how the major systems of the body are integrated and controlled. After taking this unit, the student should be able to (a) demonstrate an understanding of the structure and function of the major physiological systems of the human body, and (b) demonstrate knowledge of how the function of major organs and systems is integrated and regulated. Content: Cell membranes as controllable permeability barriers within and between cells and the external medium; neuronal conduction, synapses and the neuromuscular junction, cholinergic neurones; Muscle types, activation and contraction; the autonomic nervous system; the central nervous system; the endocrine system; physiology of the cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal and renal systems to understand how the major systems of the body are integrated and controlled. |
XX10045: Human physiology (Physiology, pathology & pharmacology 1) |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Certificate |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: EX100 |
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| In taking this unit you cannot take XX10044 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: The aim of this unit is to provide an overview of human physiology, with particular emphasis on how the major systems of the body are integrated and controlled. After taking this unit, the student should be able to (a) demonstrate an understanding of the structure and function of the major physiological systems of the human body, and (b) demonstrate knowledge of how the function of major organs and systems is integrated and regulated. Content: Cell membranes as controllable permeability barriers within and between cells and the external medium; neuronal conduction, synapses and the neuromuscular junction, cholinergic neurones; Muscle types, activation and contraction; the autonomic nervous system; the central nervous system; the endocrine system; physiology of the cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal and renal systems to understand how the major systems of the body are integrated and controlled. |
XX10046: Human physiology (Physiology, pathology & pharmacology 1) |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Certificate |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: EX100 |
| Requisites: |
| In taking this unit you cannot take XX10044 or take XX10045 |
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This unit is not available to students registered on Pharmacy & Pharmacology Programmes.
Aims & Learning Objectives: The aim of this unit is to provide an overview of human physiology, with particular emphasis on how the major systems of the body are integrated and controlled. After taking this unit, the student should be able to (a) demonstrate an understanding of the structure and function of the major physiological systems of the human body, and (b) demonstrate knowledge of how the function of major organs and systems is integrated and regulated. Content: Cell membranes as controllable permeability barriers within and between cells and the external medium; neuronal conduction, synapses and the neuromuscular junction, cholinergic neurones; Muscle types, activation and contraction; the autonomic nervous system; the central nervous system; the endocrine system; physiology of the cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal and renal systems to understand how the major systems of the body are integrated and controlled. |
XX10052: Mathematics & computing 2 |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Certificate |
| Semester: 2 |
| Assessment: EX75CW25 |
| Requisites: |
| Before taking this unit you must take ME10196 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To extend the students previous knowledge of mathematics and provide the basic core of mathematical tools required throughout the engineering course. To introduce the student to statistical techniques used for data analysis. To give the student a sound basic knowledge of computer programming in C++ upon which they can subsequently build. After taking this unit the student should be able to: Employ elementary numerical methods for the solution of algebraic equations and integration. Set up and solve differential equations of typical engineering problems by analytical and numerical methods . Apply rules of partial differentiation to small increment and change of variable problems for functions of several variables. Solve simultaneous linear equations. Find eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices. Interpret experimental data, carry out elementary statistical analysis and calculate best least-squares fit to data. Write well structured simple programs in C++. The lecture programme will be common with XX10118. Content: First and second order differential equations with step and sinusoidal input, including simultaneous differential equations. Linear algebra; vectors, matrices and determinants, Gaussian elimination, eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Newton-Raphson method, numerical integration, elementary nonlinear equations. Statistical analysis: normal distribution, probability, linear interpolation, curve fitting using least squares. C++: main variable types, input, output. Procedures, control stuctures. |
XX10101: Further mathematical techniques & engineering drawing |
| Credits: 5 |
| Level: Certificate |
| Semester: 2 |
| Assessment: EX45CW15OT40 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide students with a basic introduction in the mathematical skills necessary to tackle process engineering design and applications. To introduce the concept of random variation, and to show how to describe and model it. To teach students how to prepare outline engineering drawings and how to interpret drawings that they may encounter whilst working as a chemical or a bio-process engineer. After successfully completing this unit the student should be able to: * deal with a number of relevant applications in data analysis * describe equipment using standard drawing conventions (e.g. pumping circuit) * prepare outline engineering drawings and sketches of process flow-sheets and process units, * interpret mechanical drawings which they may encounter whilst working as chemical or biochemical engineers. Content: * Linear algebra: Determinants, Matrix algebra, Inverse, Partitioning, Systems of linear algebraic equations; Numerical methods, Solution of linear algebraic equation, Solution of non-linear equations by iterative methods * Complex numbers: Argand diagram: Cartesian, polar and exponential forms, nth roots, Elementary functions of a complex variable. * Statistics: Descriptive statistics, diagrams; mean, mode, median and standard deviation * Elementary probability: including binomial, Poisson and normal distributions, Tests of significance, Linear regression * Introduction to course, standards, orthographic projection, organisation of design office. * Sectional drawings of process units and isometric views. * Examples of process units e.g. storage tank, heat exchanger, distillation column. * Examples of interpreting drawings of mechanical plant e.g. pumps, valves. * Chemical engineering flow line diagram symbols; piping, instrumentation and control diagrams. * Plan drawings of process plant showing equipment layout on the site. |
XX10112: Instrumentation & control |
| Credits: 5 |
| Level: Certificate |
| Semester: 2 |
| Assessment: EX70CW30 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide an introduction to essential measurement techniques and transducers, chemical analysis, control equipment and basic concepts of control theory to enable students to construct successful process control strategies. To introduce standard procedures and symbols used in process definitions. Content: After taking this module the student should be able to: Identify and define the typical building blocks of a contolled loop. Select transducers for applications. Specify range and sensitivity. Calculate pump requirements. Select valves for applications. Size valves. Select instuments for chemical analysis. Propose control strategies and solutions. Construct P&ID. Reference British Standards. Implement safety features in control loop design. Syllabus: Requirements of a typical process control loop. Temperature measurement. Principles of temperature sensors and transducers. The Wheatstone bridge. Thermocouples, Platinum Resistance Thermometers, Thermistors, On/Off devices. Flow measurement. Use of Bernoulli's equation. Pitot tube. Orifice meter, nozzle, Venturi meter. Rotameters. Weirs as flow measuring devices (rectangular and triangular). Turbine, Moving Vane, Magnetic and Ultrasonic flow meters. Measurement of the flow rate of solids. Position measurement. Linear and rotary position sensors. DC and AC devices. Pressure measurement. Stress and strain. The Strain Gauge. Types of gauges. Using the strain gauge. Diaphragms. Bourdon tubes. Absolute pressure, gauge pressure, pressure head, static pressure, dynamic pressure.. Piezo-electric effect. Level measurement. On/Off devices. Light operated and ultrasonic discrete level Detection. Thermal sensing. Hydrostatic level sensing. Continuous level sensors. Resistive and capacitive transducers. Ultrasonic systems. Analytical chemical analysis. Qualitative and quantitative methods. Separation and determination. Single and multistage solvent extraction. Chromatography: liquid - solid, liquid - liquid, paper, thin layer. HPLC: gas - liquid, gas - solid. Electrophoresis. Ion exchange methods. Titrimetry; acid - base, redox, complexometric titrations. Electrodes and Bio-sensors. Optical (spectroscopic) methods: atomic (emission and absorption), molecular (infra-red and ultra-violet) spectra. Measuring instruments: pH, gas sensors. Final control elements. Globe valves, gate valves, diaphragm valves, butterfly valves and needle valves. Selection of valves. Valve sizing. Pneumatically and electrically operated control valve actuators. Pumping equipment. Centrifugal pumps - construction, operation, characteristic curves, pump selection, work performed, specific speed, cavitation, NPSH.. Positive displacement, Piston and diaphragm, Gear, Peristaltic, Mono, Air lift and Jet pumps. Safety. Piping & Instrumentation Drawings. Codes. British Standard Symbols. |
XX10118: Mathematics & computing 2 |
| Credits: 5 |
| Level: Certificate |
| Semester: 2 |
| Assessment: EX75CW25 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To extend the students previous knowledge of mathematics and provide the basic core of mathematical tools required throughout the engineering course. To introduce the student to statistical techniques used for data analysis. To give the student a sound basic knowledge of computer programming in C++ upon which they can subsequently build. After taking this unit the student should be able to: Employ elementary numerical methods for the solution of algebraic equations and integration. Set up and solve differential equations of typical engineering problems by analytical and numerical methods. Apply rules of partial differentiation to small increment and change of variable problems for functions of several variables. Solve simultaneous linear equations. Find eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices. Interpret experimental data, carry out elementary statistical analysis and calculate best least-squares fit to data. Write well structured simple programs in C++. Content: First and second order differential equations with step and sinusoidal input, including simultaneous differential equations. Linear algebra; vectors, matrices and determinants, Gaussian elimination, eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Newton-Raphson method, numerical integration, elementary nonlinear equations. Statistical analysis: normal distribution, probability, linear interpolation, curve fitting using least squares. C++: main variable types, input, output. Procedures, control stuctures. |
XX20001: Environmental studies: A crisis in material resources? A |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Intermediate |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: EX85CW15 |
| Requisites: |
| While taking this unit you must take EG20027 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: Through a study of the science and technology of some renewable energy sources, students are encouraged to consider the broad questions as to whether there is an environmental 'crisis', whether there are limits to growth, and whether there can be sustainable development, and to start to develop defensible positions on these issues. Content: Energy The thermodynamics of power generation - 2nd Law of Thermodynamics considerations. Combustion of fossil fuels - effects on the environment: greenhouse effect, acid rain. The need to conserve fossil fuels: nuclear and alternative forms of energy. The possible future contribution and cost of some of the following energy alternatives. (i) Solar energy: various forms of solar collector, power generation from the concentration of solar energy; direct generation of energy. (ii) Wind energy: types of generator, horizontal and vertical axis, survey of existing machines and their performance, future developments. (iii) Wave energy: survey types of wave machine including those under development; methods of converting motion of wave machines into electricity;; the current funding situation; effects on the environment. (iv) Tidal energy: review of schemes, existing (e.g. La Rance) and proposed (e.g. Severn and Mersey): technical and environmental problems. (v) Geothermal energy: power generation from hyper-thermal fields, exploration, geological conditions necessary; review of current production (e.g. New Zealand, Japan), problems associated with high mineral content. Lower temperature sources: district heating schemes. Hot dry rock schemes: current state of the art, future possibilities. (vi) Biomass: current contributions, particularly in Third World countries; conversion of sugar into alcohol as petrol replacement (Brazil). Seminar programme combined with a student exercise such as a case study to encourage students to integrate the syllabus content and to relate the science and technology of environmental relevance to a wider social and economic context. Students must have Chemistry A-level or undertaken CH10056 & CH10057. |
XX20003: Process design |
| Credits: 5 |
| Level: Intermediate |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: CW90PR10 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: The aims are: * to deal with the philosophy and methods of process development and design * to give the student a practical grounding in the mechanical design of plant and in particular of pressure vessels according to BS5500 * to provide a background from which to appreciate the role of electrical and electronic technology in chemical engineering. After successfully completing this unit the student should be able to produce a a solution to a design problem : * taking into account the problem specification, the raw material requirements, energy requirements, electrical power and control requirements and simple energy integration for the design * performing a capital costing based on factored estimates and an approximate manufacturing cost based on energy, utilities and raw material cost including a snesitivity analysis * performing an outline mechanical design of a pressure vessel and know, in principle, how to use a commercial software package for this purpose * writing a specification and communicatin with the specialist who would do the detailed design. The student should also be able to: * perform a literature search on a specialist topic using modern computer-aided methods * prepare a review of the literature in a critical manner. Content: Process Development and Design * synthesis of problems and analysis of alternative solutions * Introduction to the optimisation of systems * Accounting for uncertainty in data * Designing for future developments * Codes of practice and British Standards for Design Electrical and electronic technology * Ohm's law, Kirchoff's laws, Faraday's law * Passive and active components * Impedance * DC and AC circuit theory * Single and three phase power systems * AC/DC conversion techniques * Transformers and simple AC and DC machines * Semi-conductors and semi-conductor devices * Amplifiers, gates and memories * Simple analogue and digital cicuits * A to D and D to A converters * Transducers * Instrumentation, computers and applications * Interfacing real time data acquisitions and data ransmission * Safety in hazardous environments: Zener barriers, intrinsic safety, area classification and codes Mechanical design of plant * Introduction, stress and strain, temperature and pressure effects * Selection of material, corrosion allowances and wall thickness * Safety factors, cracks, plastic region * Flanges and gaskets, types of welds * Stress concentration, openings and branches * Bending and supports, thin wall theory * Vessel ends * Weight loads, wind loads, vessel supports * How to use a commercial software mechanical design package |
XX20007: Design & innovation 1 |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Intermediate |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: CW100 |
| Requisites: |
| Before taking this unit you must take EG10071 and take EG10074 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To create and develop designs relating to sports applications made up of manufactured and/or standard components. To demonstrate the importance of optimisation within an iterative design process in terms of functionality, geometry and material selection. To show how a successful design can be achieved by integrating analytical skills from the engineering sciences. After taking this unit the student should be able to: Design sports equipment and/or products in detail using correctly selected components and design ancillary items to meet a requirement. Recognise the importance of completing comprehensive design analysis, component drawings and sub-assembly drawings in order to achieve a successful solution. Content: Embodiment design: To include shafts, couplings, keyway, fixings, bearings, pulleys, gear analysis. combined loadings, design factors and optimisation techniques. |
XX20008: Design & innovation 2 |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Intermediate |
| Semester: 2 |
| Assessment: CW100 |
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| Before taking this unit you must take XX20007 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce the student to the techniques and constraints of professional design practice, with an emphasis on concurrent design practice. To make the student aware of standard design methods, key aspects of a specification and systematic methods for problem solving. To make the student aware of the special features of design embodiment; including the stages in developing a product after the design stage; problems and benefits of working in a team; ergonomics and aesthetics issues. After taking this unit the student should be able to: Produce a detailed design specification. Apply standard design methods and value engineering techniques. Incorporate and specify new materials and finishing methods. Cost and specify development and quality requirements. Produce a complete product design. Work in a small design team to design sports equipment, product or system for the market place. Produce technical sales literature. Content: ASPECTS OF CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: Specifications, design methods and value engineering. Design for; safety, ergonomics, life cycle design, reliability. REFINEMENT PROCESSES: Material selection and applications and finishes. Costing, quality assurance and design development. |
XX20047: Year abroad in Spain - work placement |
| Credits: 60 |
| Level: Intermediate |
| Academic Year |
| Assessment: ES100 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: * to promote the development of high-level language skills in Spanish * to acquire in-depth personal experience of the Spanish culture * to gain professional experience. Content: Working in a role in an approved organization which will involve a challenging range of tasks, giving an opportunity to put management studies into practice, while also developing language skills to near fluency. |
XX20048: Year abroad in Spain - academic exchange |
| Credits: 60 |
| Level: Intermediate |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: * to promote the development of high-level language skills in Spanish * to acquire in-depth personal experience of the Spanish culture * to gain academic experience in a Spanish/Latin-American business school. Content: To carry out an agreed programme of work at a Spanish/Latin American business school. The nature, scope and assessment of this work is to be agreed by the institutions involved in the exchange arrangements. |
XX20049: Year abroad in Spain - academic exchange & work placement |
| Credits: 60 |
| Level: Intermediate |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: * to promote the development of high-level language skills in Spain * to acquire in-depth personal experience of the Spanish culture * to gain professional experience. Content: To carry out an agreed programme of work at a Spanish/Latin-American business school. The nature, scope and assessment of this work is to be agreed by the institutions involved in the exchange arrangements. |
XX20086: French comparative employee relations |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Intermediate |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: EX100 |
| Requisites: |
| Before taking this unit you must take MN10079 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce students to comparative frameworks for analysing employment relations in Western European countries: to give students a basic understanding of employment relations in Western European countries, with particular emphasis on France and Britain. After successfully completing this course, students should be able to apply theories of employment relations to specific cases, understand and explain differences between national employment relations systems. Content: The course will include lectures on managing the employment relationship, trade unions, industrial conflict, the State and the law, theories of employment relations, comparative frameworks; and explaining 'societal' difference. |
XX20087: German comparative employee relations |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Intermediate |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: EX50ES50 |
| Requisites: |
| Before taking this unit you must take MN10079 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: a) To describe and analyse the changing features of employee relations in the UK. This introduction to the subject provides the basis for comparative work later in the course. b) To introduce students to the specific legal, institutional and cultural dimensions of industrial relations in Germany. Comparisons with the UK will serve to highlight the main characteristics of the German situation and to sensitise students to the reasons behind the complex pattern of relations existing between the "social partners" as represented by state, unions, employers and employees. Content: Employee relations: an introduction; Trade Unions; Employers and Managers; Industrial Conflict; State and the Law. |
XX20093: Year abroad in France - work placement |
| Credits: 60 |
| Level: Intermediate |
| Academic Year |
| Assessment: ES100 |
| Requisites: |
| Before taking this unit you must take XX20088 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: * to promote the development of high-level language skills in French * to acquire in-depth personal experience of the French culture * to gain professional experience Content: Working in a role in an approved organization which will involve a challenging range of tasks, giving an opportunity to put management studies into practice, while also developing language skills to near fluency. |
XX20094: Year abroad in Germany - work placement |
| Credits: 60 |
| Level: Intermediate |
| Academic Year |
| Assessment: ES100 |
| Requisites: |
| Before taking this unit you must take XX20090 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: * to promote the development of high-level language skills in German * to acquire in-depth personal experience of the German culture * to gain professional experience Content: Working in a role in an approved organization which will involve a challenging range of tasks, giving an opportunity to put management studies into practice, while also developing language skills to near fluency. |
XX20095: Year abroad in France - academic exchange |
| Credits: 60 |
| Level: Intermediate |
| Academic Year |
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| Requisites: |
| Before taking this unit you must take XX20088 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: * to promote the development of high-level language skills in French * to acquire in-depth personal experience of the French culture * to gain academic experience in a French/Quebecois business school Content: To carry out an agreed programme of work at a French/Quebecois business school. The nature, scope and assessment of this work is to be agreed by the institutions involved in the exchange arrangements. |
XX20096: Year abroad in Germany - academic exchange |
| Credits: 60 |
| Level: Intermediate |
| Academic Year |
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| Requisites: |
| Before taking this unit you must take XX20090 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: * to promote the development of high-level language skills in German * to acquire in-depth personal experience of the German culture * to gain academic experience in a German business school Content: To carry out an agreed programme of work at a German business school. The nature, scope and assessment of this work is to be agreed by the institutions involved in the exchange arrangements. |
XX20097: Year abroad in France - academic exchange & work placement |
| Credits: 60 |
| Level: Intermediate |
| Academic Year |
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| Before taking this unit you must take XX20088 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: * to promote the development of high-level language skills in France * to acquire in-depth personal experience of the French culture * to gain professional experience Content: To carry out an agreed programme of work at a French business school. The nature, scope and assessment of this work is to be agreed by the institutions involved in the exchange arrangements. |
XX20098: Year abroad in Germany - academic exchange & work placement |
| Credits: 60 |
| Level: Intermediate |
| Academic Year |
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| Before taking this unit you must take XX20090 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: * to promote the development of high-level language skills in Germany * to acquire in-depth personal experience of the German culture * to gain professional experience Content: To carry out an agreed programme of work at a German business school. The nature, scope and assessment of this work is to be agreed by the institutions involved in the exchange arrangements. |
XX20109: Industrial placement/ training |
| Credits: 60 |
| Level: Intermediate |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Biological Sciences, Materials Science, or Management Content: To obtain substantial experience of working at an intellectual level appropriate to a student who has completed the second year of a degree course. |
XX20113: Process dynamics & control 2 |
| Credits: 5 |
| Level: Intermediate |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: EX90PR10 |
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| Before taking this unit you must take CE10001 and take CE10004 and take MA10116 and take XX10112 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To give students a basic understanding of process dynamics and simple control systems and their modelling by analytical methods. After successfully completing this unit the student should be able to: * use Laplace Transform techniques to solve initial value problems * describe the dynamic behaviour of first and second order systems to step, impulse and sine disturbances * derive transfer functions for open-loop processes from transient mass or energy balances * derive the transfer function for a PID controller * derive transfer functions for closed-loop processes from the transfer functions of their individual units * calculate the control parameters necessary to meet performance specifications on a closed-loop process from its transfer function. Content: * Introduction to process dynamics and control. * Laplace transforms to solve initial value problems * Step and impulse functions * Transfer functions and frequency response * State space representation . * Transfer functions, linearisation, open-loop response * First order and time-delay processes * Block diagrams * Controllers, final control elements, Control loop configuration * Closed loop control * Overall transfer function and transient response for servo and regular operation. |
XX20114: Mathematical modelling 2 |
| Credits: 5 |
| Level: Intermediate |
| Semester: 2 |
| Assessment: EX70CW30 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce mathematical modelling techniques. To introduce numerical techniques for the solution of models arising in Chemical Engineering. After successfully completing the unit students should be able to: * develop and solve realistic mathematical models of unit operations using a numerical package such as MATLAB and a commercial flowsheeting package such as ASPEN, * describe and formulate the numerical methods employed in solving the equations of models and choose the most suitable method for a given application, * analyse the results from modelling activities. Content: Mathematical modelling techniques: * introduction to formulation of models; mass, energy and momentum balances * application to reactor and distillation modelling Numerical Methods: * introduction to initial value problems * numerical linear algebra * stability * boundary value problems |
XX20116: Study year abroad |
| Credits: 60 |
| Level: Intermediate |
| Academic Year |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To assist the student to 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 may occur in working in a culture different from the UKs, 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 an appreciation of the history and culture of the country concerned. For students attending classes in a language other than English, to develop the ability to operate at a high scientific level in the language of the country concerned, including oral communication and comprehension as well as reading and writing. For students attending Universities in countries whose language is not English, oral and written fluency in the host language. 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. In addition to scientific study, it might be appropriate to include Management, work in Language, and in areas related to the culture of the country in which the student was working. |
XX20120: Statistics for economists |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Intermediate |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: EX80CW20 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: The aim of the Unit is to provide students with the knowledge of the main parts of statistics that are relevant to undergraduate economics and to prepare them for taking further economics and econometrics courses. The learning objectives are that students should be able to: (i) understand statistical concepts; (ii) solve statistical problems; (iii) apply statistics to economic problems. Content: Topics will include: Probability theory; Bayes theorem; Discrete and continuous distributions; Binomial and normal distributions; Sampling theory; Point estimation; standard errors and confidence intervals; Hypothesis testing; Type I and Type II errors; skewness and kurtosis; the F distribution; analysis of variance; Fan forecasts. Key texts: Anderson, Sweeney and Williams,'Statistics for Business and Economics'. P. Newbold,'Statistics for Business and Economics'. |
XX30004: Design project 3 |
| Credits: 15 |
| Level: Honours |
| Semester: 2 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce legislation governing the environment and the use of genetically modified organisms and how this affects engineers in managerial, operational and design roles. To provide information on the properties and uses of materials. To prepare a preliminary group report for the design project. To enable students to demonstrate that: * they are capable of developing an integral systems approach to chemical engineering and of applying the principles of chemical and/or biochemical engineering to the design of a process, * they have creative and critical skills, and are able to make choices and decisions in areas of uncertainty, * they can work together in a team, and also alone, * they can communicate effectively the results of their work in the form of written reports that include drawings. Content: introduction to environmental legislation and factors that have an influence * control of liquid discharges and air emissions * integrated pollution control (IPC) * environmental assessments and statements * introduction to regulations governing the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) * biosafety and containment of GMOs * introduction to Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) with respect to bioprocess plant * materials of construction for chemical and bioprocess plant * preparation of a preliminary technical and economic appraisal of a process where safety and * environmental issues form an integral part of process screening * preparation of an outline process flowsheet * Market survey, Review of alternatives * Physical and chemical property data * Creation and synthesis of flowsheet * Safety and operability * Environmental issues * Capital and operating costs * Unit specification sheets, Flowsheets, Engineering drawings and sketches * Executive summary * Demonstration of viability * Individual unit design * Application of rigorous methods * Mechanical design * Outline of control and P & I diagrams |
XX30024: Project (semester 1) |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Honours |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: CW100 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To obtain substantial experience of project work within the disciplines involved Content: This will depend on the disciplines involved. Often it will involve laboratory and or field work. Usually a literature search will be involved. |
XX30025: Project (semester 2) |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Honours |
| Semester: 2 |
| Assessment: CW100 |
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| While taking this unit you must take XX30108 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To obtain substantial experience of project work within the disciplines involved Content: This will depend on the disciplines involved. Often it will involve laboratory and or field work. Usually the writing of a dissertation reporting the work done will be involved |
XX30050: The internationalisation of business 2 (Spanish) |
| Credits: 5 |
| Level: Honours |
| Semester: 2 |
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| Before taking this unit you must take MN30085 |
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XX30051: Spanish international marketing communications A |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Honours |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: EX100 |
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| Before taking this unit you must take MN20081 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To develop students' understanding of the principles of marketing from their Second Year and to ally it to their own experience on placement, passing on to the international context, placing the marketing function within social and organisational networks of communication. On completion of the Unit students shall be more aware of the interrelation between marketing and communication in relation to advertising and cultural contexts in particular. Content: The unit is in two parts. The first (in English over six weeks) provides an introduction to the general principles of international marketing (structural, legal etc). The second (in Spanish) examines marketing as part of the communications process. i. The International Marketing Environment: Economic, social, political and legal constraints Regional markets Globalisation versus internationalisation ii. Marketing Communications: The communications process; persuasion and propaganda Cultural influences, universals and their effects. |
XX30085: Environmental studies: The earth as an ecosystem B |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Honours |
| Semester: 2 |
| Assessment: EX75CW25 |
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| While taking this unit you must take XX30002 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To develop an understanding of the global impact of human agricultural and industrial activity and of the relationship between the technical and some social and economic aspects of the topic. Content: Global human impact: population and consumption levels Early mankind and the domestication of other species. The agricultural and industrial revolutions. Improvements in healthcare and education. Demographic trends. Sustainable economic development. Equitable distribution of resources. Policies and institutions Atmospheric and ground level pollution Structure and dynamics of the atmosphere. Photochemical cycles involving O, N and Cl species. Factors affecting ozone concentrations. The Greenhouse effect. Photochemical smog and acid rain considered via case studies. Speciation of anionic and cationic water pollutants. Biomagnification and heavy metals. Radioactivity and nuclear reactors; reprocessing and waste storage. Seminar programme Seminars combined with a student exercise such as a case study or essay are intended to encourage students to integrate the syllabus content and to relate it to a wider social and economic context. |
XX30091: The internationalisation of business 2 - French |
| Credits: 5 |
| Level: Honours |
| Semester: 2 |
| Assessment: EX70PR15OT15 |
| Requisites: |
| Before taking this unit you must take MN30085 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: The course will build on the ideas introduced in unit 1 (MN30085) concerning foreign direct investment (FDI) and the multinational enterprise. It will discuss these in the European and, particularly French, context. Through case studies and simulation, the course will demonstrate and analyse examples of international business. It will analyse inward and outward FDI as it affect France. Content: Geographic and industry studies illustrating theories of international business, the motivations and different forms of multinational operation and the risks involved. Foreign direct investment in the European Union and countries potentially included in enlargement - intra-EU and from outside the region. Assessments, motivations and the options available. France and international business; internationalisation of French companies; FDI in France; French FDI abroad; French international business in the wider Europe. International business simulation - an all day role play seminar concerning decisions and developments in a European industry. b) foreign direct investment in the European Union - intra-EU and from outside the region. Assessments, motivations and the options available. France and International Business; Internationalisation of French companies; FDI in France; French FDI abroad; French international business in the wider Europe International Business simulation - an all day role play seminar concerning decisions and developments in a European industry. |
XX30092: The internationalisation of business 2 - German |
| Credits: 5 |
| Level: Honours |
| Semester: 2 |
| Assessment: EX70PR15OT15 |
| Requisites: |
| Before taking this unit you must take MN30085 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: The course will build on the ideas introduced in unit 1 (MN30085) concerning foreign direct investment and the multinational enterprise. It will discuss these in the European and, particularly German, context. It will analyse inward and outward foreign direct investment as it affects Germany. Through case studies and simulation, the course will demonstrate and analyse examples of international business. Content: Geographic and industry studies illustrating theories of international business, the motivations and different forms of multinational operation and the risks involved. Foreign direct investment in the European Union and countries potentially included - intra-EU and from outside the region. Assessments, motivations and the options available. Germany and international business; internationalisation of German companies; FDI in German; German FDI abroad; the evolution of German business within Central and Eastern Europe. International business simulation - an all day role play seminar concerning decisions and developments in a European industry. b) foreign direct investment in the European Union - intra-EU and from outside the region. Assessments, motivations and the options available. Germany and the internationalisation of business; Internationalisation of German companies FDI in Germany; German FDI abroad; The evolution of German business with/in Central and Eastern Europe International Business simulation - an all day role play seminar concerning decisions and developments in a European industry. |
XX30110: German international marketing communications A |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Honours |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: EX100 |
| Requisites: |
| Before taking this unit you must take XX20094 and take XX20096 and take XX20098 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To develop students' understanding of the principles of marketing from their Second Year and to ally it to their own experience on placement, passing on to the international context. It also aims to place the marketing function within social and organisational networks of communication. Content: The unit is in two parts. The first (in English over six weeks) provides an introduction to the general principles of international marketing (structural, legal etc.). The second (in German) examines marketing as part of the communications process. i. The International Marketing Environment: Economic, social, political and legal constraints Regional markets Globalisation versus internationalisation ii. Marketing Communications: The communications process; persuasion and propaganda Cultural influences, universals and their effects. |
XX30111: French international marketing communications A |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Honours |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: EX100 |
| Requisites: |
| Before taking this unit you must take XX20093 and take XX20095 and take XX20097 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To develop students' understanding of the applications of the principles of marketing from their Second Year and ally it to their own experience on placement, passing on to the international context. It also aims to place the marketing function within social and organisational networks of communication. Content: The unit is in two parts. The first (in English over six weeks) provides for an introduction to the general principles of international marketing (structural, legal etc). The second (in French) examines marketing as part of the communications process. i. The International Marketing Environment: Economic, social, political and legal constraints Regional markets Globalisation versus internationalisation ii. Marketing Communications: The communications process; persuasion and propaganda Cultural influences, universals and their effects. |
XX30115: Mathematical modelling 3 |
| Credits: 5 |
| Level: Honours |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: OT80CW20 |
| Requisites: |
| Before taking this unit you must take XX20114 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide students with an ability to formulate mathematical models of dynamic systems typical of chemical engineering as systems of differential equations and to solve these models numerically. After successfully completing this unit the student should: * be able to choose numerical methods suitable for the solution of non-linear second order elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations with given initial and boundary values and systems of non-linear first order ordinary differential equations with suitable initial conditions. * be able to formulate mathematical models which describe dynamic chemical processes in the time domain and assign boundary and initial conditions. * be able to solve the problems formulated using MATLAB. Content: Mathematics of p.d.e.s and numerical solutions * Mathematics of linear p.d.e.s, the p.d.e., b.c. and i.c. as a system, classification of system into elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic. * solution by finite difference methods, method of characteristics, stability. * Non-linear problems and their solution by the above methods. * The concept of finite elements for the heat conduction problem. * Examples: solution of a heterogeneous catalysis problem in slab or cylinder geometry with non-linear kinetics, adsorption waves in a column with non-linear isotherm. Modelling with o.d.e.s, simulation of non-linear problem sets * Equation formulation, use of constraints. Selection of initial and boundary conditions. * Conversion of equations into MATLAB programmes. Methods of debugging. * Examples from reaction engineering and separation: simultaneous reactions in a bath reactor - bioreaction metabolic engineering problem, catalysis in a tubular reactor, adsorption in a column. |
XX30141: Signal processing 2 |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Honours |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: EX100 |
| Requisites: |
| Before taking this unit you must take EE20083 |
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or equivalent.
Aims & Learning Objectives: Aims: To introduce students to algorithms and techniques for processing random signals, together with the hardware for their practical realisation. Objectives: At the end of this unit students should be able to: (i) explain the concepts of ensemble average, statistical stationarity, wide-sense stationarity and ergodicity, (ii) interpret autocorrelation and cross-correlation functions and utilise these to explain the operation of linear systems excited by wide-sense stationary random signals, (iii) use auto and cross power spectral densities in typical instrumentation applications, (iv) use the averaged periodogram spectrum estimation techniques, (v) design the coefficients of a minimum mean squared error based linear predictor, (vi) derive the Wiener filter, (vii) develop the LMS algorithm from the method of steepest descent, (viii) apply adaptive signal processing in noise cancellation, equalisation and acoustic echo cancellation for handsfree communications, (viii) describe the key issues involved in the selection of a DSP configuration. Content: Random signals: amplitude properties, cdf, pdf, variance and general moments, stationarity, ergodicity and independence. Auto and cross correlation functions, effect of linear systems, auto and cross power spectral densities, role in system identification. Spectral estimation: bias-variance trade-off, periodogram, averaged periodogram estimators, application to spectrum analyser. Adaptive signal processing: Wiener filtering, method of steepest descent, LMS algorithm, properties, applications, RLS family. DSP architectures: DSP devices, precision, structures and performance. |
XX50005: Case studies in environmental impact assessment & lifecycle analysis |
| Credits: 12 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 2 |
| Assessment: CW100 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To develop an understanding of the key issues in the application of LCA and EIA through short, intensive case-study based sessions involving a high degree of study-fellow involvement, interaction and independently-researched project work. Content: Various and variable case studies, including, for example: materials and the environment, thermal regeneration of activated carbon; sustainable communities. |
XX50019: Public policy, business & civil society: the challenge of globalisation |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: CW100 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide students with a critical understanding of the institutional and policy environment within which governments, business and other actors are shaping the global system; To enable students to analyse the policy choices and conflicts with which these actors are presenting each other and the issues of public and private responsibility which these raise Content: Policies and strategies of global actors; interactions, mutual implications and conflicts International institutional frameworks and modes of negotiation International standard-setting and regulation. |
XX50020: Intensive course in international policy analysis |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 2 |
| Assessment: RT100 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: * To provide students with a critical understanding of the institutional and policy environment within which governments, business and other actors are shaping the global system, with specific reference to sustainable communities; * To enable students to analyse the policy choices and conflicts with which these actors are presenting each other and the issues of public and private responsibility which these raise in relation to sustainable communities. Content: Session 1 1. Different perspectives on Sustainable Communities (Malcolm McIntosh) 2. Understandings of sustainability (Andrew Grant) Session 2 1. Globalisation: the global & the local (Malcolm McIntosh) 2. Urban footprints 3. Community, inclusivity & stakeholding 4. Stakeholder mapping for social & environmental risk assessment Session 3 1. Case studies (Andrew Grant) 2. Integrating sustainability into planning (Malcolm McIntosh) 3. Project work: work in progress Project Reports (involving additional individual research) The project work will be in the area of globalisation and urban sustainability. |
XX50021: International policy analysis placement |
| Credits: 12 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 2 |
| Assessment: RT100 |
| Requisites: |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide students with a critical understanding of the institutional and policy environment within which governments, business and other actors are shaping the global system; To enable students to analyse the policy choices and conflicts with which these actors are presenting each other and the issues of public and public responsibility which these raise. Content: The student will undertake a project within the placement organisation. |
XX50023: Dissertation in International Policy Analysis |
| Credits: 30 |
| Level: Masters |
| Dissertation period |
| Assessment: DS100 |
| Requisites: |
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Aims & learning objectives:
* to demonstrate a critical understanding of the institutional and policy environment within which governments, business and other actors are shaping the global system; * to analyse the policy choices and conflicts with which these actors are presenting each other and the issues of public and private responsibility which these raise; * to undertake practical skills of policy analysis and evaluation, applied to a specific area of public policy taken from a comparative and international context. Content: Research field to be chosen by the student. |
XX50024: MRes European social policy internship |
| Credits: 12 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 2 |
| Assessment: RT100 |
| Requisites: |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: Students will in a European context: * understand the role of research in the policy-making process; * be familiar with the political dimensions of social policy research; * develop skills in applying and using research to inform professional knowledge and practice in social policy; * develop skill in informing policy debates and policy formation in social policy. Content: The student will undertake a research project within the placement organisation. |
XX50026: MIPA study abroad |
| Credits: 30 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 2 |
| Assessment: |
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XX50053: Project dissertation |
| Credits: 30 |
| Level: Masters |
| Dissertation period |
| Assessment: DS100 |
| Requisites: |
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Aims & learning objectives:
To develop skills of individual project effort in a computer based practical undertaking with original development content related to one or more of the lecture modules previously studied.
On completion of the Unit students should be able to survey the literature related to a broadly specified area of technology and present an orderly written survey which places an individual project undertaking in context. They should be able to identify the tasks to be completed, plan a scheme of work, and complete the project to the standard expected of a young professional in the undertaking chosen. They should be able to assemble and create the necessary software tools, carry out the development of the solution of a technical problem in multimedia, and evaluate the effectiveness of their solution against common standards of quality. They should be able to demonstrate the successful completion of these tasks in a well structured and coherently written dissertation.
Content: Students will choose a project from a list of topics offered by the Departments, or propose their own. The project will be implemented in software but could also involve the use of low level hardware. The students will be expected to follow through the accepted problem solving route, beginning with the identification and specification of the problem and searching of the relevant literature. They should then proceed to proposals for solution, analysis of alternatives, implementation of the chosen solution and final evaluation and testing. A written dissertation will be submitted at the completion of the project. |
XX50054: Dissertation, business & community |
| Credits: 30 |
| Level: Masters |
| Dissertation period |
| Assessment: DS100 |
| Requisites: |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide an opportunity to apply skills and knowledge students have learned from units in the Business & Community programme to a specific problem involving social dimensions of business activity. Students should demonstrate competence to apply a plan for original research, select and use appropriate methods, and write an analysis of relevant data. Content: Any topic related to the social dimensions of business activity to which the student contributes an original analysis. |
XX50122: Advanced statistics for use in health contexts 2 |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 2 |
| Assessment: CW100 |
| Requisites: |
| Before taking this unit you must take PS50065 and take PS50066 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To equip students with the skills to use and interpret advanced multivariate statistics using STATA and provide an appreciation of the applications of multivariate analysis in health. Content: Introduction to STATA, power & sample size, multidimensional scaling, logistic regression, meta-analysis, structural equation modelling. |
XX50123: Environmental biology & geology |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: EX50CW25ES25 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce the basic concepts of biology and geology necessary to the analysis of key environmental problems and to the understanding of the contribution of these disciplines to environmental management and policy design. Content: Geology: interpreting environmental change from the geological record;geological and landscape conservation; the human impact on the landscape. Biology: basic physiological processes; plant diversity; ecology and evolution; the ecology of the tropical rainforest. |
XX50124: Environmental science & technology |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: CW100 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce some key concepts of acoustics, inorganic chemistry, and chemical process engineering necessary to the analysis of environmental problems and to the design of environmental policies and management. Content: Noise as an environmental problem; atmosphere chemistry; nuclear power and reprocessing; techniques and legislation for emissions control from the process industries. |
XX50125: Methodology & explanation |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: ES80OR20 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To give the students an introductory understanding of research methods in human-computer interaction and communication research. To raise students awareness of the scientific and engineering methods used in the context of human-human and human computer interaction. Students will be able to apply appropriate techniques for the interpretation of material, including observational and ethnographic material, and for a critical understanding of assumptions that underpin the development and application of models. They will be able to understand and apply methods of analysis, experimentation and model building. The students should be able to distinguish between descriptive, predictive and prescriptive models, design and carry out empirical studies including experimental and observational approaches, apply analytical techniques to the analysis of human-human and human-computer interactions, and construct descriptive, qualitative, quantitative and explanatory accounts of human-human and human computer interaction. Content: Methods of analysing and interpreting, issues in ethnographic and experimental approaches. Constructing explanatory v. descriptive models. Critical and meta issues. Questions about dialogue between 'tools' and 'persons' and issues in model-building. Core Reading: D.A. Norman The Psychology of Everyday Things, Addison Wesley 1996 L Perelman School's Out; hyperlearning Avon Books 1992 G Salomon (ed) Distributed Cognitions; psychological and educational considerations Cambridge 1996 D Watts Small Worlds; the dynamics of networks between order and randomness, Princeton 1999 |
XX50126: Dialogue between system & theory |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 2 |
| Assessment: EX50ES50 |
| Requisites: |
| Before taking this unit you must take CM50147 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To understand the relationships between systems and theories. Students will be able to appreciate the tensions between human processes and systems. Content: The unit will explore the inherent tensions between theories of human processes and the design of effective systems. It will look at the effect of systems on human processes. The historical dimensions will be explored, issues in the evolution of ideas and design, task artefact cycle, and reflections on ways of avoiding re-inventing the wheel through an inadequate appreciation of the history of technology and design. The unit will also explore tensions between evolutionary and predictive design. Core Reading: G Basalla The Evolution of Technology, Cambridge 1988 P Denning and R Metcalfe (eds) Beyond Calculation; the next fifty years of computing, Copernicus 1998 A Dix et al Human Computer Interaction, Prentice Hall 1997 D Gelernter The Muse in the Machine Free Press 1994 D Norman Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine, Voyager CD-Rom 1999 S Turkle Life on the Screen; identity in the age of the Internet, Simon & Schuster 1995 D Watts Small Worlds; the dynamics of networks between order and randomness, Princeton 1999 |
XX50127: Communication, interaction & tasks |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 2 |
| Assessment: ES80OR20 |
| Requisites: |
| Before taking this unit you must take CM50147 and take CM50148 and take PS50067 and take XX50125 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To enable students to assess and understand the human social causes and consequences of communication technologies, and their developments. To enable students to contribute to the design, development and application of communication technologies to improve human-human communication. Students will be able to analyse human-human communication in terms of the social, communication, task, and cognitive aspects. To critically and creatively apply communication technologies to support human-human communication. To understand and apply theories of cognition, collaboration, interaction, communication and tasks. To consider resource loads. Content: The unit will look at interaction systems and the implication of systems for the design of tasks. It will explore the relationship between communication systems and the social context, particularly the social origins and factors in communication, and the social consequences of such developments. How far can we design organisations and cultures? What are the implications of this ability? The unit will also explore 'agent-agent' interaction, and models of communication implied by these developments. Core Reading: J B Carroll (ed) Scenario Based Design Wiley 1995 W Hall et al (eds) Hypermedia and Multimedia Systems, Addison Wesley 1999 B A Nardi (ed) Context and Consciousness; activity theory and human-computer interaction M I T Press 1996 B A Nardi & V L O'Day Information Ecologies; using technology with heart, M I T Press 1999 D A Norman Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine, Voyager CD-Rom 1999 |
XX50128: Project 1 |
| Credits: 12 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 2 |
| Assessment: CW100 |
| Requisites: |
| Before taking this unit you must take CM50147 and take CM50148 and take PS50067 and take XX50125 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To acquire the skills of planning independent research. Students will be able to complete a literature review and write a research proposal. Content: Students will undertake an original piece of work, which would normally bridge the disciplines involved in the programme. The first stage of the Project will comprise a literature/conceptual review and research proposal which may comprise theoretical, empirical or design components. Students completing the Diploma will be assessed on this report. Students progressing to the masters degree will be assessed and will use this work as the basis for the study that forms the second stage of the Project. |
XX50129: Project 2 |
| Credits: 30 |
| Level: Masters |
| Academic Year |
| Assessment: DS80OR20 |
| Requisites: |
| Before taking this unit you must take XX50128 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To acquire the skills of executing and reporting an original piece of research. Students will demonstrate their ability to design, execute and report an original piece of research. Content: Students will undertake an original project which may comprise theoretical, empirical or design components, and would normally bridge the disciplines involved in the programme. This will normally form the second stage of the Project, of which the first stage (UNIV0045) comprises the literature review and research proposal. Project 2 will involve the conduct of the planned research, its analysis and reporting in a dissertation of up to 15,000 words, which will account for 80% of the assessment, and an oral presentation which accounts for 20% of the assessment. |
XX50132: Bibliographic & IT skills & resources |
| Credits: 1 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: CW100 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: Aims: The unit aims to equip students with the basic IT and Bibliographic Skills they will require in order to pursue the programme; and to introduce them to the range of such resources available at the University. Objectives: By the end of this induction unit, students will have begun to develop a variety of skills which they can then consolidate and develop further in other units: * basic computing skills including word processing, spreadsheets and database management; * data gathering through the Internet; * bibliographic skills, enabling them to identify and use library and other bibliographic resources and maintain a personal research bibliography; * writing, presentation and dissemination skills, including Internet-based tools. Content: The unit will consist of tours of the relevant facilities, talks and IT laboratory sessions. |
XX50133: Small research apprenticeship project (MRes) |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: CW100 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: Aims: To support students, within an active research community, in identifying and investigating their own original research questions on a modest scale. Objectives: By the end of the unit, the students should be able: Knowledge and Understanding * to understand the basic principles of research design and appreciate alternative approaches to research; * to understand the significance of alternative epistemological positions that provide the context for theory construction, research design and the selection of appropriate analytical techniquesIntellectual skills * to define researchable problems and formulate questions and hypotheses; * understand the relationships between, and the rationale for, particular qualitative and quantitative research methods and be able to select appropriate strategies for research and/or evaluation; * understand and apply concepts of generalisability, validity, reliability and replicability; They should also have developed, applied, tested and honed some of the other skills taught in the research methods units of the programme, depending on the particular nature of their Research Apprenticeship Project Professional practice skills By the end of the unit, students should have developed, applied, tested and honed some of the professional practice skills taught in the research methods units of the programme, depending on the particular nature of their Research Apprenticeship Project, including some of: * bibliographic skills, enabling them to identify and use library and other bibliographic resources and maintain a personal research bibliography; * basic computing skills including word processing, spreadsheets and database management; * understanding issues posed by social research in relation to ethics, confidentiality and legality; * skills needed in order to respect, consider and attend to the rights of other researchers and research participants; * understanding the role of data from large scale surveys in public and commercial life; * language skills where appropriate. Transferable/Key Skills: By the end of the unit, students should have developed, applied, tested and honed some of the transferable/key skills taught in the research methods units of the programme, depending on the particular nature of their Research Apprenticeship Project, including: * writing, presentation and dissemination skills, including Internet-based tools; * competency in the presentation of research findings to practitioners and lay audiences; * research management skills, including time and resource planning and monitoring, archiving of data. Content: The Short Research Apprenticeship Project builds on the tradition established by the MSc Social Research, focussed on practical learning within a community of scholars. The student is attached to a supervisor from whose own research programme a project for the student can be derived: and over a period of a semester the student learns-by-doing, from the initial definition of a problem to the design and conduct of the research and the production of a research report which can be presented for judgement by the student's peers. |
XX50134: Quantitative methods 1: introduction to quantitative methods |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: EX100 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: Aims: This is a foundation course in quantitative methods for postgraduate students. It aims to provide a critical overview of quantitative methods and then provides training in statistical analysis both in the classroom and in the computer lab, applying SPSS. By the end of the unit, students will be equipped with the design and statistical skills to contribute to research projects. Objectives: By the end of the course the students should: Knowledge and understanding: * Be aware of the main quantitative methods used, focusing on large-scale surveys, secondary analysis of data and large-scale experimental design * Distinguish between different levels of data * Distinguish between descriptive and inferential statistics * Understand sampling error and the assumptions that underlie different statistical techniques. Intellectual skills: * Understand the relationships between, and the rationale for, qualitative and quantitative research methods * Appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of different quantitative methods * Appreciate cross-cultural issues in quantitative research * Be able to define a researchable problem and formulate research questions and hypotheses * Be able to design a short questionnaire * Be able to debate the appropriateness of different fieldwork methods * Understand the role of sampling and the concepts of generalisability, validity and reliability * Be able to carry out simple descriptive analysis including measures of central tendency and variability * Describe the stages of hypothesis testing * Select an appropriate statistical test * Interpret cross-tabulations and correlations * Interpet the results from chi square tests * Be able to generate basic descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS Professional practice skills * Understand ethical issues in relation to quantitative research * Acquire computing skills. Content: The course will take a critical look at quantitative methods in general including survey methods, experimental design and official statistics. The potential links between quantitative and qualitative methods will be explored. It will discuss issues of generalisability, sampling, fieldwork methods, data collection, validity and reliability. Students will also gain a grounding in descriptive and inferential statistics and they will also be introduced to SPSS for Windows. Guest speakers from different disciplinary backgrounds will provide their own perspectives on quantitative methods. |
XX50135: Quantitative methods 2 |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 2 |
| Assessment: CW100 |
| Requisites: |
| Before taking this unit you must take XX50134 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: Aims: This is an intermediate/advanced course on statistical analysis for postgraduate students following on from Quantitative Methods 1. The aim of the course is to provide students with a critical understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of statistical analysis alongside a detailed knowledge of particular statistical techniques. By the end, the unit will equip students with the skills to contribute to research projects. Objectives: By the end of the course the students should be able to: Knowledge and understanding: * Understand the basic principles of statistical analysisIntellectual skills * Appreciate the strengths and weakness of statistical inquiry * Interpet the results from chi square tests, t-tests and ANOVAs * Be able to use, model and interpret correlation, simple linear regression and multiple regression analyses * Be able to use one or more of a range of advanced statistical techniques including: regression analyses, time series, path analysis, cluster analysis, factor analysis * Be able to use SPSS to carry out statistical analysis. Professional practice skills: * Acquire computing skills. Content: The course will provide a critical appreciation of statistical analysis as well as covering issues of intermediate and advanced statistical techniques of data analysis. Students will have instruction in both a classroom and a computer lab to build on their prior knowledge of descriptive and inferential statistics. They will use SPSS for windows to apply the techniques they learn in the classroom to analyse data. |
XX50136: Qualitative methods 1 |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: CW40PR60 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To equip students with an understanding of the rationale for and appropriate use of qualitative methods in social research, and the skills to conduct qualitative research. After completing the unit students will: Knowledge and Understanding: * Appreciate the relationship between qualitative and quantitative methods and the rationale for when to use qualitative methods * understand the epistemological assumptions that underpin qualitative methodology. Intellectual Skills: * be able to define researchable problems using qualitative methods * be able to select appropriate qualitative methods for research questions * understand how issues of measurement, validity, reliability and replicability are addressed within qualitative methods * be able to conduct research using qualitative methods, including the use of recording techniques * know how to approach the analysis of qualitative data * recognise how tools for research are developed in response to a particular research question * recognise the cultural context of the design, conduct, analysis and interpretation of qualitative material and the implications of this for formulating research designs. Content: The unit will comprise: 1. core lecture on issues in qualitative research, such as the epistemological underpinnings of qualitative approaches, hermeneutic and semiotic questions, and key questions of context and culture. 2. Workshops providing practical experience of methods of qualitative research: interviewing, observation, life histories, case studies, action research, ethnography, focus groups 3. Workshops introducing methods of analysing qualitative data; content analysis, discourse analysis, grounded theory. |
XX50137: Large research apprenticeship project (MRes) |
| Credits: 15 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 2 |
| Assessment: CW100 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: Aims: To support students, within an active research community, in identifying and investigating their own original research questions on a fairly substantial scale. Objectives: By the end of the unit, the students should be able: Knowledge and Understanding: * to understand the basic principles of research design and appreciate alternative approaches to research; * to understand the significance of alternative epistemological positions that provide the context for theory construction, research design and the selection of appropriate analytical techniques. Intellectual skills: * to define researchable problems and formulate questions and hypotheses; * understand the relationships between, and the rationale for, particular qualitative and quantitative research methods and be able to select appropriate strategies for research and/or evaluation; * understand and apply concepts of generalisability, validity, reliability and replicability; They should also have developed, applied, tested and honed some of the other skills taught in the research methods units of the programme, depending on the particular nature of their Research Apprenticeship Project. Professional practice skills: By the end of the unit, students should have developed, applied, tested and honed some of the professional practice skills taught in the research methods units of the programme, depending on the particular nature of their Research Apprenticeship Project, including some of: * bibliographic skills, enabling them to identify and use library and other bibliographic resources and maintain a personal research bibliography; * basic computing skills including word processing, spreadsheets and database management; * understanding issues posed by social research in relation to ethics, confidentiality and legality; * skills needed in order to respect, consider and attend to the rights of other researchers and research participants; * understanding the role of data from large scale surveys in public and commercial life; * language skills where appropriate. Transferable/Key Skills: By the end of the unit, students should have developed, applied, tested and honed some of the transferable/key skills taught in the research methods units of the programme, depending on the particular nature of their Research Apprenticeship Project, including: * writing, presentation and dissemination skills, including Internet-based tools; * competency in the presentation of research findings to practitioners and lay audiences; * research management skills, including time and resource planning and monitoring, archiving of data. Content: The Long Research Apprenticeship Project builds on the tradition established by the MSc Social Research, focused on practical learning within a community of scholars. The student is attached to a supervisor from whose own research programme a project for the student can be derived: and over a period of a semester the student learns-by-doing, from the initial definition of a problem to the design and conduct of the research and the production of a research report which can be presented for judgment by the student's peers. |
XX50138: Qualitative methods 2 |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 2 |
| Assessment: CW100 |
| Requisites: |
| Before taking this unit you must take XX50136 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: To equip students with a critical appreciation of appropriate use of qualitative methods in social research, and the skills to conduct analyse and interpret qualitative research. After completing the unit students will: Knowledge and Understanding: * Appreciate the relationship between qualitative and quantitative methods and the rationale for when to use qualitative methods with particular relation to their discipline field * understand the epistemological assumptions that underpin qualitative methodology in their discipline * be aware of ethical issues in qualitative research Intellectual Skills: * be able to generate researchable problems using qualitative methods * be able to select appropriate qualitative methods for research questions in relation to their own discipline * be able to conduct research using qualitative methods, including the use of recording techniques * be familiar with methods for the analysis of qualitative data, including computer-based techniques * recognise how tools for research are developed in response to a particular research question * recognise the cultural context of the design, conduct, analysis and interpretation of qualitative material and the implications of this for formulating research designs. Content: The unit builds on Qualitative Methods 1 through more advanced methods of data analysis, and more discipline-specific developments of appropriate techniques. The unit will comprise 1. lectures and classes exploring critical issues in the rationale and conduct of qualitative research, including ethical and cultural issues 2. workshops on selected qualitative methods eg analysis of text and visual material, social networks, participant observation, diary studies, Q methodology, participatory research, evaluation 3. In depth critical classwork on discipline-related research questions 4. Workshops on the use of software-based methods of data analysis. |
XX50139: Generic / key skills |
| Credits: 3 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 2 |
| Assessment: CW90OT10 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: Aims: The unit aims to provide generic skills required for postgraduate research in the humanities and social sciences and for subsequent employment as researchers in a wide range of sectors. Objectives: By the end of the unit students will have learned: Professional Practical Skills: * to evaluate research, including undertaking refereeing and book reviews; * to understand issues posed by social research in relation to ethics, confidentiality and legality (including IPR); * to respect, consider and attend to the rights of other researchers and research participants; Transferable/Generic Skills: * skills in writing, presentation and dissemination, including using Internet-based tools; * competency in the presentation of research findings to practitioners and lay audiences; * an understanding of how the media communicates specialist material to lay audiences, and the skills required to engage with the media, such as writing press releases and being interviewed; * how to develop research proposals for external funding and complete end-of-award reports to sponsors; * career management skills, including skills in using new technologies for obtaining information about new career opportunities, evaluation of personal and career development needs, self-promotion and marketing. Content: The unit offers stand-alone sessions on each of the topics highlighted in the learning objectives, having regards also to the opportunities afforded to the students to develop and apply those same skills in other units of the programme. Students are also required to attend Departmental research seminars. |
XX50140: MRes dissertation |
| Credits: 30 |
| Level: Masters |
| Dissertation period |
| Assessment: DS100 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: Aims: To support students, within an active research community, in identifying and investigating their own original research questions. Objectives: By the end of the unit, the students should be able: Knowledge and Understanding: * to understand the basic principles of research design and appreciate alternative approaches to research; * to understand the significance of alternative epistemological positions that provide the context for theory construction, research design and the selection of appropriate analytical techniques. Intellectual skills: * to define researchable problems and formulate questions and hypotheses; * to understand the relationships between, and the rationale for, particular qualitative and quantitative research methods and be able to select appropriate strategies for research and/or evaluation; * to understand and apply concepts of generalisability, validity, reliability and replicability; * to appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of data from primary and secondary sources; Professional practice skills: By the end of the unit, students should have developed, applied, tested and honed some of the professional practice skills taught in the research methods units of the programme, depending on the particular nature of their dissertation, including some of: * bibliographic skills, enabling them to identify and use library and other bibliographic resources and maintain a personal research bibliography; * basic computing skills including word processing, spreadsheets and database management; * understanding issues posed by social research in relation to ethics, confidentiality and legality; * skills needed in order to respect, consider and attend to the rights of other researchers and research participants; * understanding the role of data from large scale surveys in public and commercial life; * language skills where appropriate. Transferable/Key Skills: By the end of the unit, students should have developed, applied, tested and honed some of the transferable/key skills taught in the research methods units of the programme, depending on the particular nature of their dissertation, including: * writing, presentation and dissemination skills, including Internet-based tools; * competency in the presentation of research findings to practitioners and lay audiences; * research management skills, including time and resource planning and monitoring, archiving of data. Content: The dissertation involves practical learning within a community of scholars. The student engages in supervised learning-by-doing, from the initial definition of a problem to the design and conduct of the research and the production of a research dissertation which can be presented for judgment by the student's peers. |
XX50142: Signal processing 2 |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: CW20EX80 |
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XX50143: MRes dissertation with placement |
| Credits: 30 |
| Level: Masters |
| Dissertation period |
| Assessment: DS100 |
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Aims & Learning Objectives: Aims: To support students, within an active research community, in identifying and investigating their own original research questions. Objectives: By the end of the unit, the students should be able: Knowledge and Understanding: * to understand the basic principles of research design and appreciate alternative approaches to research; * to understand the significance of alternative epistemological positions that provide the context for theory construction, research design and the selection of appropriate analytical techniques. Intellectual skills: * to define researchable problems and formulate questions and hypotheses; * to understand the relationships between, and the rationale for, particular qualitative and quantitative research methods and be able to select appropriate strategies for research and/or evaluation; * to understand and apply concepts of generalisability, validity, reliability and replicability; * to appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of data from primary and secondary sources; Professional practice skills: By the end of the unit, students should have developed, applied, tested and honed some of the professional practice skills taught in the research methods units of the programme, depending on the particular nature of their dissertation, including some of: * bibliographic skills, enabling them to identify and use library and other bibliographic resources and maintain a personal research bibliography; * basic computing skills including word processing, spreadsheets and database management; * understanding issues posed by social research in relation to ethics, confidentiality and legality; * skills needed in order to respect, consider and attend to the rights of other researchers and research participants; * understanding the role of data from large scale surveys in public and commercial life; * language skills where appropriate. Transferable/Key Skills: By the end of the unit, students should have developed, applied, tested and honed some of the transferable/key skills taught in the research methods units of the programme, depending on the particular nature of their dissertation, including: * writing, presentation and dissemination skills, including Internet-based tools; * competency in the presentation of research findings to practitioners and lay audiences; * research management skills, including time and resource planning and monitoring, archiving of data. Content: The dissertation involves practical learning within a community of scholars. The student engages in supervised learning-by-doing, from the initial definition of a problem to the design and conduct of the research and the production of a research dissertation which can be presented for judgment by the student's peers. |
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