This module provides the students with the opportunity to gain experience in different health, social or community care settings which can be in the UK or abroad - in accordance with prevailing University and Foreign-Commonwealth Office travel guidance. The module will normally take the format of 8 week placement in one or more healthcare or suitable alternative settings. The timing will vary for different student groups and the teaching staff will vary for different practices and student groups. As is the nature of the elective, the exact learning experiences of each student will be variable. However, all students should receive the same broad opportunities sufficient to achieve the learning outcomes of the module and it is expected that students will take responsibility for making the most of the opportunities provided. Students should be pro-active in securing experiences in areas in which they feel they are weak and/or in which they would like to gain more experience. Alternatively students may wish to explore a specialist interest or experience a non-NHS healthcare setting, including charitable organisations, care agencies or research. Further details will be provided on Blackboard.
It is difficult to imagine what the world would be like without electricity: homes without electric light, without television or radio, without motors to drive the washing machine, the refrigerator and the vacuum cleaner; offices without computers, word processors, telephones and photocopiers. It is almost impossible to think of a railway system without electric signalling and control or a factory production line without electric drives. Wherever we turn we see electricity at work distributing energy, transmitting information, and controlling every conceivable process. While it is certainly possible to build a mechanical system (mechanisms or machines) with mechanical components only (e.g. early steam engines, boats and aeroplanes), it is more common to see mechanical systems comprising a mix of mechanical and electrical components or mechatronic systems. Modern cars, boats, aeroplanes, robots and digital cameras are good examples. Learning the subject of electricity is therefore vital to all engineering disciplines including mechanical engineering, aeronautics and astronautics engineering, acoustic engineering and ship science. Not only that a mechanical/aero/astro/acoustic/ship Engineer need to be able to communicate with other electrical and electronic engineers in a multidisciplinary project he/she will often find themselves having to actually design or operate the electrical or electronic subsystems. The aim of this module is to introduce the subject of electricity and electrical systems focusing on the fundamentals of the subject in the context of applications in the areas of mechanical, aero, acoustic and ship engineering. These application areas are primarily in the areas of measurement and control. The fundamentals introduced in this module will be built on by other subjects such as advanced modules on electrical and electronic systems, measurement and instrumentation modules, avionics and control system modules. Additionally, some of the mathematical techniques applied to circuit analysis are also applicable to the analysis of heat transfer problems, mechanical system dynamics, fluid flow in pipes and others
This module equips students with a comprehensive understanding of how mechanical systems move and deform when subjected to external forces. We then progress to advanced topics including buckling and deformation of mechanical structures such as beams and cantilevers. The second part of the module covers materials response to applied electric and magnetic fields, e.g. polarisation and conduction in dielectrics, magnetisation and ferromagnetism. Materials for novel and emerging applications are considered as well, e.g. high-voltage cable insulations, electret materials, triboelectric series, piezo-electricity, ferro-electricity, pyroelectricity. The module includes one laboratory analysis covering dielectric material characterisation and one laboratory experiments on deformation of beams. Students will be supported by examples and tutorial questions with many real-life practical examples.
The module aims to provide a detailed understanding of all aspects of the selection, sizing and operation of modern electrical machines and drive systems. Through the module, students will be able to learn to design electromechanical devices, identify different types of electrical machines and their suitability for different applications. The derivation of equations describing operation of machines, formulate relevant equivalent circuits and analyse simple problems related to operation of electrical machines and drives will be studied.
This module offers an introduction to the scientific principles and methods of electricity and electronics.
The major concepts covered are: - The abstraction from forces to fields using the examples of the electric and magnetic fields, with some applications - The connection between conservative forces and potential energy - How charges move through electric circuits - The close connection between electricity and magnetism, leading to the discovery of electromagnetic waves. - the integral form of Maxwell's Equations
Electroacoustic transducers, such as microphones and loudspeakers, are commonplace in the fields of acoustics and audio and it is important that acoustical engineers have an understanding of the theory and mechanisms of electroacoustic transduction. This module provides the knowledge to understand and predict the behaviour of a wide range of electroacoustic devices, and to relate this to real-world transducer technology.
Electromagnetism is one of the brilliant successes of nineteenth century physics and the equations formulated by Maxwell are believed to account exactly for all classical electromagnetic phenomena. The aim of this course is to present the laws of electromagnetism, their experimental justification, and their application to physical phenomena.
This module provides a comprehensive understanding of how modern computer systems are built, starting from fundamental transistor-level design and extending to full operating systems. Students will first learn the fundamentals of electronic circuits, including logic gates, memory elements (DRAM, SRAM), and amplifiers. They will then examine how these components integrate into larger digital systems, such as microprocessors and memory hierarchies. The course covers the inner workings of a computer at various levels, from transistors to processors, peripherals, compilers, and operating systems.
Semiconductor device technology has evolved beyond computation applications and is now increasingly being used in quantum electronics, data centres, lighting, lasers, high speed communications, photovoltaic energy harvesters, smart electronics for the Internet of Things, and sensing for healthcare and the environment. Semiconductor devices are not solely confined to silicon technology but include Group III-V compounds, such as gallium arsenide and indium gallium arsenide as well as other materials such silicon-germanium alloys, zinc oxide, molybdenum selenide and graphene. The next generation of semiconductor technologies will demand the knowledge and understanding to explore device platforms for new integrated circuit concepts and fabrication methods. This module covers the physical principles and applications of a range of important semiconductor electronic and optoelectronic (photonic) devices including field effect and bipolar junction transistors (MOSFET, BJTs, IGBTs), solar cells, photodetectors, lasers and light emitting diodes (LEDs). Throughout the course, students are encouraged to read beyond the lecture materials provided and the core text books.
To introduce the physical and electronic properties of materials that underpin semiconductors and semiconductor devices that underpin modern electronic technology. To develop and understanding of electronic devices in circuits, to provide a range of circuit theory techniques for the analysis of resistive and active circuits and to introduce the analysis and design of active electronic circuits.
Digital electronics under-pins all current computation and networked systems. This module introduces some of the fundamental analogue electronic principles and ideas that digital logic is built on, then moves on to digital abstractions for designing circuits. This includes aspects of digital performance, styles of circuit, functional and non-functional correctness, and includes hands-one experience in the design and deployment of digital circuits in FPGAs.
Modern mechanical and acoustic systems contain numerous electronic and control components. For example, an electric vehicle may have speed, traction and active noise control systems. Practicing Mechanical and Acoustical Engineers therefore require a working knowledge of electronics and control systems. This module provides students with the necessary understanding of the design and analysis of these systems in the time and frequency domain. The skills and mathematical techniques developed in this module are applicable across a wide range of engineering domains including mechatronics, automotive, system dynamics and biomedical engineering.
This module will be first offered in the 2020/21 academic year. This module looks at the specific and somewhat unique requirements for electronics on spacecraft such as, radiation effects, other environmental hazards, e.g. space debris, atomic oxygen, low energy and high energy plasma (spacecraft charging and arcing). It will also address some of the key issues involved in using electronic parts in space including the design for the thermal environment (e.g. no convection), mass and volume constraints and the use of COTS. Future developments like miniaturisation (cubesats, microsats) and the use of MEMS in the space environment will be presented as well. The overall objective will be to introduce the students to the peculiarities of using electronics in space and how these drive the designs and influence the choice of the components selected.
In this module you will further develop your understanding of the key elements of graphic communication practice. A critical engagement with core skills across design, type, motion and illustration will reinforce the emphasis on interdisciplinarity within the Graphic Communication programme. You will continue to develop your craft skills through an engagement with traditional production processes and specialist technical skills. The essential theories, practices and principles of graphic communication that were explored in semester one will be integrated and applied alongside these key elements to further develop your relationship with interdisciplinary design practice.
This module provides an introduction to linguistic approaches to sound, structure and meaning in the branches of linguistics known as phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics.
The aim of this module is to provide a foundation for the more advanced modules in the programme. The first part of the module will provide a revision of the basic elements of statistics that will be relevant to the programme, such as expectation and variance, as well as the theory of estimation and hypothesis testing. The second part of the module will introduce a range of data science concepts such as crossvalidation and the bootstrap. It will discuss the specific issues of dealing with unstructured data and provide a contrast between the data modelling and the algorithmic modelling approaches to inference. The module will close with a closer look to the data sources widely used in official statistics, with special focus on administrative data.
With rapid popularity and advancements in technologies like the internet-of-things (IoT) and network-on-chip (NoC), the ability to connect and network embedded devices is becoming ever more commonplace, and a feature of most electronic devices. This module is concerned with how electronic and computing devices can network with one-another. The module is not deeply concerned with physical layer communications, e.g. modulating signals onto carriers, as students already have a solid background in this from modules in previous years. The module explores the structure and purpose of layers in protocol stacks, through to example protocols and security implications of networking approaches and appropriate countermeasures. A key part of the module is the coursework, in which students design and implement their own network protocol(s).
This module gives a broad introduction to application-specific processor system design and illustrates the use of such processors in the broader context of complex digital systems. A significant portion of the module assessment is coursework where students will design a complete, practical processor system and demonstrate it on an FPGA platform. An introduction to modern embedded architectures such as ARM Cortex, OpenRISC, Altera NIOS and Xilinx picoBlaze will be given. The module will use the hardware description language SystemVerilog (and also SystemC), introduced in ELEC6236 Digital System Design.
Through this module you will experience embedding the fundamentals of research, analysis and reflective practices in the creation of your own critically informed garments. By examining garments as cultural artifacts within broader socio-historical contexts, you will be equipped with a critical lens through which to understand the significance of design choices and the narratives embedded within clothing. You will participate in lectures, design workshops and independent research aimed at applying theoretical concepts and material studies to the creation of your own original garment.
