To introduce basic concepts governing optical waveguides, fibres, lasers and optical amplification
To foster a physical and quantitative understanding of key photonic devices
To foster an understanding of the use of photonics in sensing and communications applications.
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:
Laser and amplifier fundamentals
- Absorption and emission of radiation
- Einstein relations
- Population inversion and threshold conditions
- Gain saturation
- Lineshape function and line broadening mechanisms
- Laser modes and pulsed lasers.
Semiconductor sources
- DH, DFB, DBR
- Single frequency operation
- Intensity and Phase noise
Optical detectors
- Photodiodes
- Receiver circuits
- Responsivity, bandwidth, noise
Optical amplifiers
- Properties - bandwidth, gain, polarisation effects
- Semiconductor amplifiers
- Rare-earth doped fibre amplifiers
- Noise contributions
Optical devices
- The electro-optic effect
- Modulators
- Fibre polarisers
- Fibre couplers
- Polarisation scramblers
- Fibre Bragg gratings
Optical fibre sensors
- Discrete sensors
- Signal processing schemes
- Distributed sensors
Optical waveguides
- The planar dielectric waveguide
- Waveguide fabrication
- Waveguide phase and amplitude modulators
Optical fibres
- Step index fibre theory
- Gradient index fibre theory
- Optical fibre fabrication
- Optical fibre attenuation
- Optical fibre dispersion
| Activity | Description | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Lecture | 36 |
| Method | Hours | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Exam | 2.5 hours | 100% |
Referral Method: By examination
The module provides an overview of relevant topics in mechanical power transmission and methodology of vibration analysis for such mechanical assemblies.
The main objective of the module is to learn methods of analysis and design of machines and their components, which are relevant to most industrial applications, including Automotive, Marine and Power Engineering transmissions.
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:
| Activity | Description | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Lecture | 3 lectures per week | 36 |
| Demonstration or Examples Session | 1 tutorial per week | 10 |
| Specialist Lab | in-class tests, summative assessment elements, mean to provide additional feedback before exams. | 2 |
| Method | Hours | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|---|
| formative assessment element on matching power supply to the demand and on linkage mechanisms | - | 10% |
| Exam | 2 hours | 90% |
Referral Method: By examination, with the original coursework mark being carried forward
This course introduces the principles and techniques needed to design a wireless transceiver. We will cover the process needed to take the main principles of digital communications such as digital modulation and detection in noise. Through lectures and coursework, we cover the engineering trade-offs needed to design a transceiver starting from a detailed performance specification.
When completing this module, you will be expected to be able to:
Noise and Noise figure
Link budgets
The superhet
Transceiver Design
Synchronisation
Review of Passive Filters
| Activity | Description | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Lecture | 20 | |
| Tutorial | 6 | |
| Specialist Lab | Software defined radio lab using USRP and LabVIEW. | 3 |
Laboratory sessions are scheduled in the labs on level 2 of the Zepler building
Length of each session: 3 hours
Number of sessions completed by each student: 1
Max number of students per session: 12 (constrained by number of USRPs)
Demonstrator:student ratio: 1:12
Preferred teaching weeks: 8 to 11
| Method | Hours | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Software defined radio exercise: modulation, demodulation and bit timing recovery of DBPSK | - | 5% |
| Matlab simulation: effect of SNR, channel impulse response on BER, issues in simulation, bit timing sync, frequency offset | - | 15% |
| Transceiver System Design (group exercise): System and major component-level (filter, amplifier, mixer) design from a requirement specification of a 2.4GHz superhet transceiver, including Matlab code for modulation, demodulation, bit timing recovery and carrier synchronisation. | - | 50% |
| Exam | 1 hour | 30% |
Referral Method: By examination
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:
Fundamentals of data visualisation and storytelling
Lectures, tutorials, invited talks, group presentations. Assessment via technical report and group projects.
| Activity | Description | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Lecture | Lectures and demonstrations of material, invited talks | 18 |
| Tutorial | Presentations of visualisation tools and technologies, feedback and advice on group projects and assessed coursework | 18 |
| Method | Hours | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Critiquing good and bad designs (report) | - | 30% |
| Group project: tell your data story (with D3) | - | 70%% |
Referral Method: By set coursework assignment(s)
70% is the final mark is a group project, hence the module cannot be repeated externally.
Games design and development is an increasingly important and sophisticated topic, that draws together many of the core aspects of Computer Science and Software Engineering. This course introduces students to the fundamentals of game design, gives them practical experience in developing games within an industry-leading contemporary games framework, and encourages students to consider the wider possibilities of digital entertainment through non-linear narratives and innovative gaming forms.
The course is designed around three game development sprints. Each sprint is three weeks long and is focused around a particular aspect of games design (game mechanics, non-linear narratives, and innovative games) and is supported by lectures and workshops. In each sprint students will work in rotating pairs to produce a prototype of a game that they then present in a games expo in the third week. Each student with thus produce three game demos (with three other students) that will be submitted for assessment.
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:
Game Design Fundamentals
Level Design
Construction of Choice and Obstacles
Game Challenge Theory and Design
Difficulty vs Punishment and Accessibility vs Contest
Flow (Both Immersive and Adaptive Difficulty)
Systems, Dynamics, and Mechanisms
The Mechanics, Dynamics, Aesthetics (MDA) model
Core Game Dynamics
Objectives and Motivation
Game Elements and Atoms
Rule Design
Game Complexity and Difficulty
Game Narrative
Basic principles of non-linear narratives
Interactive narrative and the narrative paradox
Common forms of game narrative and the Heros Journey
Narrative structures for games
Research and Digital Entertainment
Innovative forms of interaction and control
Location aware narrative
Adaptive games
Type: Lecture
Hours per semester: 12
Group Size:
Description: 2 hours per week in Weeks 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 & 10.
Type: Workshops in computer room
Hours per semester: 12
Group Size:
Description: Two-hour workshops in Weeks 2, 3, 6, 7, 10 & 11, to support students in the development sprints and share knowledge.
Type: Assessment exhibition
Hours per semester: 6
Group Size:
Description: 3 two-hour exhibitions where the students present the output of their 3-week sprint to their peers and the module team.
| Activity | Description | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Lecture | 2 hours per week in Weeks 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 & 10. | 12 |
| Computer Lab | Two-hour workshops in Weeks 2, 3, 6, 7, 10 & 11, to support students in the development sprints and share knowledge. | 12 |
| Computer Lab | 3 two-hour exhibitions where the students present the output of their 3-week sprint to their peers and the module team, in Weeks 4, 8 & 12. | 6 |
Assessment will be through demonstration of games at an exposition, where the examiners will ask pre-determined questions to assess whether they have met the learning outcomes of that development sprint.
| Method | Hours | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Game sprint 1 - Fundamentals of Game Design Students will be put into pairs and over 3 weeks will develop a small game prototype or tech demo to demonstrate the principles covered in the lectures. The focus of game sprint 1 is to develop a simple set of systems and design a level to effectively introduce and tutorial these. Game will be handed in digitally, and demonstrated to examiners and other students at the exposition. | - | 33% |
| Game sprint 2 - Storytelling in Games Students will be put into pairs and over 3 weeks will develop a small game prototype or tech demo to demonstrate the principles covered in the lectures. The focus of game sprint 2 is to create a short interactive narrative. Game will be handed in digitally, and demonstrated to examiners and other students at the exposition. | - | 33% |
| Game sprint 3 - Digital Entertainment Research Students will be put into pairs and over 3 weeks will develop a small game prototype or tech demo to demonstrate the principles covered in the lectures. The focus of game sprint 3 is to take a novel technology developed in research and implement it in a short game. Game will be handed in digitally, and demonstrated to examiners and other students at the exposition. | - | 33% |
Referral Method: By set coursework assignment(s)
Students are not required to have taken ELEC2213 before taking ELEC3214, but it is strongly recommended.
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:
| Activity | Description | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Lecture | 36 hours of lecturing which includes around 50 numerical examples to illustrate theory. | 36 |
N/A
| Method | Hours | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Exam | 2h hours | 100% |
Referral Method: By examination
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:
| Activity | Description | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Lecture | 18h | |
| Project supervision | Coursework using power systems software ERACS to study stability in power systems. | 18h |
N/A
| Method | Hours | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Stability studies using ERACS | - | 50% |
| Exam | 2h hours | 50% |
Referral Method: By examination
This module aims
To provide students with an introduction to high voltage engineering, phenomena and technology.
To understand high voltage generation, measurement and testing.
To understand transient overvoltages and the protection of high voltage apparatus.
Students are not required to have taken ELEC2206 before taking ELEC3211, but it is strongly recommended.
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:
| Activity | Description | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Lecture | 36 | |
| Tutorial | 6 |
| Method | Hours | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Exam | 2 hours | 100% |
Referral Method: By examination
This module is the lab programme for all first-year students enrolled on an ELEC degree programme. It aims to give students the opportunity to apply the theory that they learn in their other modules, and to provide them with transferrable and subject-based skills that they will need for their degree and career.
The module is structured into a series of lectures (‘L’ sessions), skills labs (‘X’ sessions) and assignments (‘A’ sessions). All students enrolled on this module will be expected to attempt all of these sessions.
For clarity to students, the lab programme is designed to encapsulate all lab-based work in the first-year in a single location, timetable etc. Therefore, this also includes technical labs (‘T’, ‘C’, ‘P,’ and ‘M’ sessions) and design exercises (‘D’ sessions). A student will not undertake every technical session listed; this will depend on the degree programme and hence other modules that they are enrolled on (for example, Electronic Engineering students do not do ‘M’ sessions, while Electrical Engineering students do not do ‘P’ sessions).
This syllabus covers only the ‘skills’ lab material (i.e. all L, X, A sessions). The ‘technical’ labs (i.e. all T, C, P, M sessions) and ‘design exercises’ (i.e. D sessions) are incorporated into the relevant module syllabus.
There are no pre-requisites.
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to:
Introduction to Part 1 Labs
Designing and Building Electronic Circuits
Designing and Conducting Effective Experiments
Effective Communications
Professional Conduct and your Future Career
Physical Lectures: traditional delivery in a lecture theatre, delivered to the entire cohort during single lecture slots.
Lab Sessions: teaching is delivered through specially constructed lab notes designed to make students observe particular phenomena, and through directed self-study in the lab preparation. Lab sessions typically last 3 hours; the number of sessions depends on the degree programme that the student is enrolled on.
This module is a zero credit module. Marks from the lab programme are distributed to other modules. Typically, one of these modules may have a contribution from ‘technical labs’, ‘skills labs’ and ‘design exercises’ (specified on their module syllabus).
Technical Labs: Every technical lab (T, C, P, M sessions) is associated with a particular module. The mark from the lab goes to the relevant module.
Design Exercises: Every design exercise (D session) is associated with a particular module. The mark from the design exercise goes to the relevant module. Where a design exercise is associated with more than one module, the mark is shared between them.
Skills Labs: This incorporates both skills labs (X sessions) and assignments (A sessions). At the end of each semester, marks for these are summed, and then spread across the relevant modules.
Referral is not required, as marks from assessments go towards other modules (which have their own referal policies)
| Method | Hours | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Labs (X, T, C, P, M) | - | % |
| Design Exercises (D) | - | % |
| Assignments (A) | - | % |
Referral Method: See notes below
This is an opportunity to meet with your personal tutor once a week, to discuss any matters relating to your studies.
| Activity | Description | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Tutorial | 12 |
You are expected to attend all scheduled meetings with your tutor.
| Method | Hours | Percentage contribution |
|---|
Referral Method: See notes below