Module ENGI4123: COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING 4H

Department: ENGINEERING

ENGI4123: COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING 4H

Prerequisites

• Three 40 credit modules Engineering 3A (ENGI3102) AND Engineering Applications 3A (ENGI3022) OR M.Eng. Overseas year 3.

Corequisites

• M.Eng Research and Development Project (ENGI4093).

Excluded Combination of Modules

• Eng. 4A,4B,4C,4D,4E,4F,4G (ENGI4013, ENGI4023, ENGI4033, ENGI4043, ENGI4053, ENGI4063, ENGI4073).

Aims

• To provide the taught element for the final year M Eng stream in Communications Engineering.
• The module will provide graduates with advanced knowledge and understanding in the field of Radio and Digital Communications, Communications Networks and Digital Signal Processing together with the ability to design, integrate and analyse communications systems.
• This module is complemented by the 60 credit M Eng research and development project module, where the final year M Eng student has the opportunity to apply the material taught in this module in a large scale project.

Content

• CORE (3 Units): Radio and Digital Communications, Communications Networks, Digital Signal Processing.
• OPTIONS (3 units from): Computer Architecture, Digital Electronics III, Software Engineering II, Integrated Circuit Design, NanoElectronics and Photonics, Control II, Management of Production Networks and Logistics, Strategic and Change Management.

Learning Outcomes

• By the end of the module students will have gained: An awareness of current technology and analysis methods in the complex and specialised areas studied, along with the ability to apply these methods in novel situations.
• a knowledge of current techniques and practice used in Radio and Digital Communications, Communications Networks and Digital Signal Processing along with additional optional areas of study.

• to use computational tools and packages

• capacity for self-learning in familar and unfamiliar situations
• numerical skills appropriate to an engineer

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• Teaching by lectures, seminars and tutorials, with written timed examinations are appropriate because of the wide range of in-depth material covered in this module, the majority of which is oriented to problem solving in the areas covered.
• Also, this module is complemented by an equally weighted research and development project which is examined by continuous assessment, final report and oral examination.
• The 6 2-hour examinations are appropriate for this module as it involves 6 lecture courses at level 4. This allows 2 in-depth 1-hour questions per lecture course.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University