This module provides the student with a range of basic concepts of information technology. It also provides an introduction to the technical issues which affect the performance of computer systems in the real world.

This module introduces the concepts underlying computer systems (hardware), to support the concepts and skills developed in the ICT Certificate and provide a foundation for succeeding computer technology studies.

The module introduces the students to personal development planning, student centered learning and reflective practice. The students will deliberately reflect on their learning to date and on their aspirations and forthcoming demands, in order to determine a plan for their future in both the short and the long term. The module will also include practice in some core skills that underpin effective learning in higher education and in the workplace.

This module will focus on providing the student with an introduction to the principles and practice of software development including structured programme design, data structures, data coding and tesiting using a high level structured programming language.

The module provides a grounding in a range of mathematical topics including algebraic manipulation, logarithmic and exponential functions, trigonometry, matrices, vectors, complex numbers, differential and integral calculus, elementary differential equations, as well as an introduction to basic statistical techniques. Applications of the mathematics are considered whenever appropriate.

Engineering Applications

The aim of this module is to develop an understanding of the role of the professional engineer at work by the study of products over their whole life.

The aim of this module is to develop in the student an understanding of the basic concepts and principles of electronic and electrical engineering and apply these principles to solve engineering problems required for initial design activities. It provides the student with the basic knowledge of ac and dc circuit analysis, electric and magnetic field theory and an introduction to analogue and digital electronics.

This module provides the student with an in depth understanding of the structured design and implementation of software for the engineering environment. It also develops the student's understanding of computer architecture in the context of program development and system performance.

This course will provide the student with an awareness of the scope of digital electronics and the components, methods and strategies used in the design and application of digital circuits.

This module provides the student with experience of programming using a visual programming environment. At the end of this module the student should be able to use the structural features of a visual programming language and to work as part of a project team to develop an application from initial concept to final product.

The aim of this module is to provide the student with the knowledge and skills required to understand the operation of modern communication systems and to perform practical tasks on such systems.

This module develops the students' understanding of microcomputer systems, building on introductory work from level 1. On completion, the student will have an expanded grasp of the microcomputer as a component in an integrated design, a more in-depth understanding of microprocessor architecture its instruction set, and increased skills to undertake basic software applications, to manipulate stored data and handle basic input/output, for a number of application areas such as telecomms and mechatronics, etc.

This Professional development planning module is designed to build on previous personal and academic experience, and learning, to enable the student to plan for their future. It seeks to support learners in developing into effective reflective practitioners. The module encourages examination of the students’ wider environment and includes practice in the application of personal skills.

This Professional development planning module is designed to build on previous personal and academic experience, and learning, to enable the student to plan for their future. It seeks to support learners in developing into effective reflective practitioners. The module encourages examination of the students’ wider environment and includes practice in the application of personal skills.

This module provides the student with an in depth understanding of the software and underlying hardware which underpin the applications of the microprocessor in the engineering environment, including low-level concepts of instruction set architecture, high-level concepts of languages and operating systems, and of current developments in the field. It also further develops the student's understanding of computer architecture from the fundamental level to show the integrative nature of hardware design, program development and system performance in the design and development of an embedded system.

The aim of this module is to provide the student with an understanding of the operation of multimedia subsystems and the manner in which the performance of these subsystems affects the operation of the system as a whole.

The aim of this module is to provide the student with an understanding of the processes of authoring media for uses within the World Wide Web/Internet structure.

The aim of this module is to provide the student with an understanding of communications networks and their component elements, their performance, integration and the principles which underpin them. Particular emphasis will be placed on the technologies which underpin the internet.

This module develops and integrates the technical and managerial skills gained from other units. The project consists of elements of planning, resource management, design, analysis, specification, implementation, validation (testing), group working and communication.

The aim of this module is to understand the design, planning, operation and control of operating systems and appropriate measures of economic performance; to develop an understanding of maintenance and reliability.

This module will focus on the transport of multimedia traffic over a variety of communication networks. It will concentrate on the relationships between different types of multimedia traffic, network infrastructures and network protocols in regard to achieving the required Quality-of-Service parameters for multimedia applications. Emphasis will be given to modern high speed communication networks designed to carry high volumes of heterogeneous traffic.

LAN/MAN/WAN models with various protocols and different multimedia traffic will be developed and simulated over the semester to investigate the behaviour and limitations of such networks.

Issues of network security and privacy will be introduced, with an emphasis on understanding methods and techniques of providing security and privacy of information transported across networks.

The module introduces the students to a range of advanced life skills, personal development planning and career planning. The students will deliberately reflect on their skills acquisition to date and determine a plan for future development in both the short and the long term. The use of reflective practice will be encouraged to determine such skills and the student will study current thinking in the development of skills for life related to ethics and ethicalness, entrepreneurship and capability, leadership, skills deriving from emotional intelligence, communication, team, collaborative skills and research. Knowledge creation and knowledge transfer in the modern organization is developed related to the role of explicit and tacit knowledge.

This module follows the development of a new product from the feasibility study to pre-production. Although it is a self-standing module, it may take the output of the module 'Integrated Studies 3' as its starting point.

The aim of this module is to develop the understanding of the strategies, policies and competencies necessary to design evaluate and improve quality management systems.