| Academic Year: | 2025/26 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering |
| Credits: | 30 [equivalent to 60 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 600 |
| Level: | Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
| Period: |
- Academic Year
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| Assessment Summary: | CWPF 100% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Design portfolio (CWPF 100%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
After successfully completing this unit you will be able to:
- Manage your development, both individually and through collaboration in teams
- Implement aspects of product design, manufacture and testing
- Recognise the entrepreneurial, business, social and environmental context in which engineering occurs
- Identify and implement a sustainable approach within design
- Apply scientific methods to an engineering question or challenge
- Communicate technical information effectively
- Select & critically evaluate technical literature related to digital design and interfacing, identifying security and other risks
The unit contributes to the following AHEP 4th edition learning outcomes: C5,C7,C8,C10,C11,C14,C15,C16,C17,C18.
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| Synopsis: | Further experience teamwork and develop your engineering design, commercial awareness and professional skills through design, manufacture and test projects. You'll advance your digital skills and cover topics including object orientated programming, machine learning and PCB manufacture. There is also the opportunity to get involved with our student-led competition teams, vertically integrated projects with other year groups, or work on group or individual projects.
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| Content: | Professional skills (teamwork, communication, time and project management, ethics and research integrity, risk assessment, standards, regulations and quality management, information gathering & reflection)
Student led design, simulation, manufacture & test projects (Design project according to specialism includes selection and evaluation of technical literature)
Application of core knowledge (such as control, power electronics, circuit design)
Advanced programming and software engineering with Python (including structured and modular programming, introduction to object orientated programming and machine learning/iterative problem solving, memory usage, code optimisation)
Design, simulation and implementation of digital systems using reconfigurable logic (counters, state machines, microprocessors, arithmetic)
PCB design & manufacture, advanced soldering
EMC, EM and thermal considerations
Opportunity for Competition, vertically integrated (VIP), individual or group project work
Provides vertical themes of diversity, inclusion and sustainability (such as 'Responsible consumption and production', 'Decent work and economic growth', 'Industry and Infrastructure' and 'Reduced inequality')
Sensors, interfaces and interface management
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| Course availability: |
EE22005 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:
Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
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- UEEE-AKB22 : BEng(Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering with professional placement (Year 2)
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- UEEE-AKB23 : BEng(Hons) Electronic Engineering with Space Science and Technology with professional placement (Year 2)
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- UEEE-AKM20 : MEng(Hons) Computer Systems Engineering with professional placement (Year 2)
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- UEEE-AKM24 : MEng(Hons) Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering with professional placement (Year 2)
- UEEE-AFM25 : MEng(Hons) Robotics Engineering (Year 2)
- UEEE-AKM25 : MEng(Hons) Robotics Engineering with professional placement (Year 2)
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