HNC Instrumentation and Control Engineering modules
Instrumentation and Control Principles
Core modules
- Analytical Methods for Engineers
- Engineering Science
- Instrumentation and Control Principles
- Project Engineering
plus twelve specialist modules
- Advanced Mathematics for Engineers
- Business Improvement Techniques
- Business Management Techniques
- Combinational and Sequential Logic
- Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis
- Control Systems and Automation
- Digital and Analogue Devices and Circuits
- Distributed Control Systems
- Electronics
- Engineering Design
- Fluid Mechanics
- Heavy Current Applications
- Measurement and Testing
- Microprocessor Systems
- Operational Amplifiers
- Optical Fibre Communications
- Plant and Process Principles
- Programmable Logic Controllers
- Project Management
Modules offered may vary.
This module establishes the principles of instrumentation and control. It follows in detail the generation of a signal from the process variable via a range of possible transducers, its subsequent conditioning and transmission, and final presentation to an output actuator or valve. The module also analyses control systems and the techniques used in process loop tuning.
Students will be provided with a learning pack where core subjects are presented in sequenced lessons that include self assessment questions with solutions to aid developmental learning. Module assessment comprises a formative element and a summative element. The formative assessment is a series of self assessment questions and answers at the end of each lesson. Feedback is also given to the students through email or by telephone. The summative assessment involves a single in course assessment comprising several elements