MEng (Hons) Instrumentation and Control Engineering modules
Electrical and Electronic Principles (20 credits)
Year 1 core modules
- Digital Electronics and Microprocessors
- Electrical and Electronic Principles
- Engineering Design and CAD
- Engineering Mathematics
- Group Design Project (Electronics and Control)
- Physics and Instrumentation
- Professional Skills
- Properties of Materials
Year 2 core modules
- Electrical Machines
- Electronics and Networks
- Engineering Management and Leadership Skills
- Instrumentation and Control Design and Embedded systems
- Linear Systems and Control
- Mathematics for Electrical and Instrumentation Engineers
- Measurement Systems
Year 3 core modules
- Analytical Measurement
- Control System Design and Implementation
- Employment Skills
- Individual Project (MEng Part I)
and the equivalent of one optional module
- Control
- Machine Control
- Programmable Logic Controllers and Distributed Control Systems +
- Smart Sensors +
and one optional module
- Engineering Project Management
- Mechatronics
- Product Design Management
- Product Quality and Reliability
Final-year core modules
and two optional modules
- Electronic Signal Conditioning
- Identification and Model Predictive Control
- Industrial Communications
- Robust Control Systems
and one optional module
Non-credit bearing optional modules
- A foreign language: German, French, Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin)
- In-sessional Academic English (for international students)
- Professional Mentoring
You may select one or more of these modules.
+ Half modules
Modules offered may vary.
This module gives you a basic understanding of the physical fundamentals used in electrical engineering, together with specific techniques you need to determine the behaviour of electric circuits.
We cover the fundamentals of electrical circuit theory, analysis of electrical circuits, give you an understanding of simple analogue and digital circuits and an appreciation of their application to engineering problems.
We look at voltage, current, power, energy, resistance and impedance. Also magnetic fields and inductance, electric fields and capacitance, Kirchhoff’s Laws. We examine time varying voltages and currents, effects on inductors and capacitors, sinusoidal voltage and current use of symbolic notation.
You also study power, reactive power and apparent power, circuit analysis techniques, mesh and nodal analysis, transistors and properties of amplifiers.
Our primary method of teaching is lectures supported by laboratory sessions, tutorials, problem solving and directed learning.
You learn how to:
- understand and use key elements of electrical and electronic theory
- apply given tools in the solution of well defined electrical and electronic engineering problems
- apply numerical skills to simple electrical and electronic engineering problems
- use basic IT tools and specialist software to solve simple electrical and electronic engineering problems.