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School of Engineering Undergraduate course guide: 2014/15 BEng (Honours) Courses in:

Electrical & Electronic Engineering (EEE) Electrical & Electronic Engineering with endorsement in Systems for

Environmental Services (EEE SES) Telecommunications & Computer Network Engineering (TeCNE) Computer Systems & Networks (CSN)

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Welcome to the School of Engineering, BEng courses in the School of Engineering have been specifically developed to reflect the needs of employers in industry, commerce as well as academia. We hope that the course that you have chosen will live up to your expectations, and help you on the road to a professional career. The School of Engineering has a reputation among students as a friendly place where staff and students support each other. It is also a large school, so we hope you will find your interests well supported, no matter how widely they range. We also hope you will enjoy your studies at LSBU. Our undergraduate courses are very challenging. They will absorb a lot of your time and energy during the years you are here. But what you put in, you get out with interest. Work steadily and consistently and you will succeed, and make many friends along the way. Introduction This Guide is your basic reference for the Undergraduate Study Course that you have chosen. It covers the study patterns and all modes of study. It should enable you to figure out how your programme of study works, and what to do in various circumstances. If it doesn't, do please let us know so that we can improve it for next time. The guide is intended as a working handbook, so bits of it may be re-issued sometimes, for example when facts get out of date. It tells you about the aims and philosophy of the Course, about how the various patterns of study are organised and about the rules. It also contains lots of other facts about the School and the University that you may need at some point or other. So it is really important that you read it and refer back to it from time to time. We will assume that you have, especially in relation to any problems about rules. Work productively, and Good Luck Undergraduate Courses Team School of Engineering

Table of Contents

PART 1 INFORMATION FOR ALL BENG COURSES .......................................................................................... 5

1.1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................... 5 THE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING .......................................................................................................... 5 1.2. THE COURSES ...................................................................................................................... 5

Generic EEE and Telecommunications courses ........................................................................ 5 Computer Networks courses ...................................................................................................... 6 European studies ........................................................................................................................ 7

1.3. THE SCHOOL ENGINEERING PROGRAMME.............................................................................. 7 Course Directors ......................................................................................................................... 7 Course Administrator .................................................................................................................. 7

1.4. GENERAL AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE DEGREES ................................................. 7 1.5. STRUCTURE AND OPERATION ................................................................................................ 8 1.6. FULL TIME COURSES ............................................................................................................. 9

Sandwich Training ...................................................................................................................... 9 European Studies Endorsement ................................................................................................. 9

1.7. PART TIME COURSES ............................................................................................................ 9 Part Time lecture days ................................................................................................................ 9

1.8. MANAGEMENT OF THE COURSES ......................................................................................... 10 Subject area leader (SAL)......................................................................................................... 10 Course Directors ....................................................................................................................... 10 Course Boards and Examination Boards .................................................................................. 10 Personal Tutor .......................................................................................................................... 10 Project and Industrial Liaison Tutors ........................................................................................ 10 Course Administrator ................................................................................................................ 10 Module Co-ordinators ............................................................................................................... 11 Student Representatives........................................................................................................... 11 External examiners ................................................................................................................... 11

1.9. PROGRESSION AND ASSESSMENT ....................................................................................... 11 Assessment of individual modules ............................................................................................ 11 Examination Boards .................................................................................................................. 11 Progression, referral and repeat. .............................................................................................. 12 First attempts at assessment and deferrals. ............................................................................. 12 Extenuating Circumstances. ..................................................................................................... 12 Final Awards ............................................................................................................................. 13

PART 2 STRUCTURE OF INDIVIDUAL COURSES .................................................................... 14

2.1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................... 14 2.2. BENG ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING (EEE) ...................................................... 19 2.3. SYSTEMS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES ENDORSEMENT (SES) ........................................ 20 2.4. TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS ENGINEERING (TECNE) ....................... 21 2.5. COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS (CSN) ..................................................................... 22 2.6. BENG (HONS) DEGREES WITH EUROPEAN STUDIES ENDORSEMENT (EURS). ........................ 23

PART 3 MODULE SUMMARIES ................................................................................................... 24

3.1 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................... 24 3.2 LEVEL 4 MODULES .............................................................................................................. 24

Engineering Mathematics and Modelling A .............................................................................. 25 Engineering Mathematics and Modelling B .............................................................................. 28 Design and Practice .................................................................................................................. 32 Engineering Principles .............................................................................................................. 37 Introduction to Electrical and Electronic Engineering .............................................................. 38 Principles of Computer Engineering ......................................................................................... 42 Introduction to computer programming and internetworking .................................................... 45

PART 4 GENERAL INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS ............................................................ 48

4.1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................... 48

4.2. THE SCHOOL OFFICE, & STUDENT INFORMATION CENTRE, T313 .......................................... 48 • Timetables ........................................................................................................................ 48 • Address and Telephone Number ..................................................................................... 49 • Handing in coursework ..................................................................................................... 49 • Letters and Transcripts. ................................................................................................... 49 • Council Tax Certificates ................................................................................................... 49 Contacting Lecturers ................................................................................................................. 49 Telephoning or Faxing in from Outside the University .............................................................. 50

4.3. THE UNIVERSITY STUDENT ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENTS ................................................. 50 4.4. EXAMS AND OTHER ASSESSMENTS, SOME RULES AND PROCEDURES. .................................... 50

Examination Regulations .......................................................................................................... 51 4.5. CHEATING AND PLAGIARISM ................................................................................................. 51

Plagiarism ................................................................................................................................. 51 4.6. EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES .......................................................................................... 52

Appeals ..................................................................................................................................... 52 Re-sit Examinations, and other Referred Work ........................................................................ 52

4.7. OTHER RELEVANT UNIVERSITY RULES AND PROCEDURES .................................................... 52 Attendance ................................................................................................................................ 52 Punctuality ................................................................................................................................ 53 Withdrawal ................................................................................................................................ 53 Interrupting your studies ........................................................................................................... 53 Transferring to other courses .................................................................................................... 54 Fees .......................................................................................................................................... 54 Equal Opportunities and Diversity ............................................................................................ 54 Individual Complaints and Discipline ........................................................................................ 54 Health and Safety ..................................................................................................................... 54

4.8. STUDENT SUPPORT ............................................................................................................ 55 Student Accommodation Office. ............................................................................................... 55 The Students’ Union Advice Bureau ......................................................................................... 55 Academic Support. .................................................................................................................... 56 Subject Lecturers/Tutors ........................................................................................................... 56 Course Directors ....................................................................................................................... 56 Project Co-ordinator .................................................................................................................. 56 Industrial Liaison Tutor .............................................................................................................. 56 What to do if... ........................................................................................................................... 56

4.9. SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY FACILITIES .................................................................................. 58 University Opening Times ......................................................................................................... 58 Queries or Problems Concerning Tower Block Laboratories ................................................... 58 Mechanical Workshop ............................................................................................................... 58 Electronic Stores (T135) ........................................................................................................... 58 Tower block Software Laboratories, T806, T807 ...................................................................... 58 Other Laboratories .................................................................................................................... 59 Computing Resources .............................................................................................................. 59 The Virtual Learning Environment (Moodle) ............................................................................. 59 Computer Services ................................................................................................................... 59 The Learning Resources Centre (LRC) .................................................................................... 59 The Institution of Engineering & Technology, IET (formerly IEE), ............................................ 62 Summary of Important Information Websites. .......................................................................... 62

APPENDIX A PEOPLE, PLACES, TIMES 2014/15 ......................................................................... 63 Other roles ................................................................................................................................ 63

APPENDIX B EEE SA STAFF 2013/14 UPDATED AT 02/09/14.................................................... 64 UNIVERSITY MAP ............................................................................................................................. 65

Undergraduate Course Guide for BEng (Hons) EEE/SES/TeCNE/CSN 2014/15

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PA R T 1 IN F O R M A T I O N F O R A LL B EN G C O U R S E S 1.1. General Introduction This guide is based on the official public documents (called Programme Specifications) upon which University approval for each course is based. Your Course Administrator has a copy of these, to which you may refer at any reasonable time and there is also a copy on the VLE UG course website. (https://VLE.lsbu.ac.uk). As standard university policy on quality assurance, all the courses offered in this subject area undergo periodic reviews. These are mid-cycle reviews and end of cycle reviews where the full cycle is taken to be 4 years. The undergraduate courses in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) subject area have been through a formal end-of-cycle review in May 2012. This guide is organised as follows:

Part 1 of this guide describes the things that are common to all courses on the BEng scheme.

Part 2 gives details of each course.

Part 3 summarises the first year modules (summaries of year two and three modules are available on the programme specification documents mentioned above).

Part 4 is effectively a student handbook containing general information that is not course specific and applies to all students on the courses. The School of Engineering In August 2014, the new School of Engineering was created by integrating all engineering courses and their resources that were previously in the Faculty of Science, Engineering and the Built Environment (FESBE). In this manner the Faculty structure was replaced by a School structure offering more focus on individual disciplines. Consequently all engineering provision at LSBU is now under the umbrella of the School of Engineering. The courses in this guide focus only on undergraduate programs in Electrical, Electronics, Telecommunications and Network related fields. The School has over 100 staff - academic lecturers and researchers, technical staff, and administrators. Besides your BEng course, the School has a wide range of other academic activities, including HND/C courses, Foundation Degrees, MSc courses, students doing PhDs, as well as lots of people doing research. The School also has Research Groups, some of whose work you will have had a chance to see at induction. These groups provide many of our student projects; so do try to find out about them. As a BEng student you are just as much a part of this academic community as anyone else. Don't be afraid to find out what is going on, the more you do, the more will rub off on you, and the better will be the end result of your study. Check the notice boards for interesting lectures/seminars, for example. An important link with the rest of the School will be your Personal Tutor, allocated to you when you first join us. See Part 4 of this guide for more about your tutor. 1.2. The Courses The courses in this guide fall into two groups, one focusing on electrical/electronic engineering and one on computer/networks engineering. Within each group, the courses differ mainly in what you do in the second and final years. You can study any one of them full time, part time or with a sandwich placement, except for the European Studies Endorsement, which is only available in sandwich mode. The degrees are listed below, along with the shorthand acronyms we use for them. Generic EEE and Telecommunications courses EEE BEng (Hons) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (the generic degree)

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Endorsement of the generic EEE BEng above: EEE SES BEng (Hons) in EEE with Systems for Environmental Services TeCNE BEng (Hons) in Telecommunications and Computer Network Engineering All these degrees are for students whose main interest in engineering is about technology. They start with a core of common study and then develop much deeper technical knowledge and current techniques in a particular specialisation. The generic degree allows students to maintain a wider range of subjects to honours level for a broader career platform. They are for students who like to describe, predict and develop engineering techniques, tools and designs to solve new problems. Computer Networks courses These degrees are for students, whose main interest is in the foundations of modern computer engineering and the technical aspects of its application to a range of problems, especially concerning networks and the Internet. They also start with a core of common study and then develop further techniques as appropriate to the course. They are for students who like to keep up to date with the latest ideas in computer/software engineering and use the latest tools of the trade to solve problems in real applications.



CSN BEng (Hons) in Computer Systems & Networks European studies Eurs All of the four degrees listed above can be studied with a year in Europe (see Part 2 for details), which adds the words "with European Studies" to the title of any of the four degrees. Typically, graduates from all the courses are likely to work in development or research teams in the specification, design, implementation and maintenance of products and systems. Many will move into technical management and other roles such as those providing a technical interface for customers and users. This is why it is so important that the courses teach transferable personal skills to prepare for career development and change. 1.3. The School Engineering Programme For a number of years the School has been concerned with providing a learning environment that would allow engineering courses across departments to share common modules. During 2010/11 academic year, the School restructured the modules across BEng programmes so that common modules in other years could also be shared. The result is that most of the BEng courses in the School share modules across all three years of study. Most of these courses have three (out of four) modules in year one in common, and subsequently a number of modules in years two and three. Within the courses covered in this guide, the BEng in EEE and BEng in TECNE courses share the three out of four first year modules with other BEng courses in the School. The CSN course remains relatively separate, although there is some sharing of modules in the area of design (half of the modules are shared), managing the engineering process and innovation and enterprise. Course Directors A Course Director looks after each individual course. You will find the Course Directors for the current session listed in Appendix A. Course Administrator Mr Riccardo Pierini, email: [email protected], room T318 Tel: 020 7815 7566 See part 4 of this guide for a brief description of how administrative support is organised in the School. 1.4. General Aims and Learning Outcomes of the Degrees The following italicised section is an extract, which appears in the Programme Specification of all the courses. It should give you an idea of the most important steps along your development to become a professional engineer. More specific learning outcomes for each of the courses are given in Part 2 of this guide. The courses share the following primary aims. These are three-fold: 1. To produce graduates who are intellectually independent, critical and creative, who will be able to keep technically up to date and continue to further their own knowledge and skills after graduation. So to produce graduates who are well motivated, and who will be able to develop and enjoy a professional engineering career in the rapidly technically evolving world of the 21

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century. 2. To produce engineers for industry, commerce and public service who will be able to apply engineering knowledge, an understanding of engineering principles and skills and a commitment to quality and standards, to the practice of this engineering field. 3. To produce graduates who will be able to organise and manage technologically advanced development and production and interact effectively in a global market. More specifically, the programme aims to produce graduates who:

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- are capable of dealing with systems of diverse elements, particularly with the notion that system considerations and behaviour will often be more important than those of the constituent parts. - can apply knowledge, and skills in a systematic way to the analysis of realistic engineering problems, to analyse and create specifications, to synthesise, design and test appropriate solutions. - can integrate hardware and software in design solutions. - can judge technical and organisational decisions in the light of constraints imposed by physical, human and financial resources and by environmental and safety considerations. - understand the role of, and have skills in, Engineering Applications, as defined by the Engineering Council and the IET, setting their educational experience in the context of work, the working of industry; the creation and lifecycle of products. - have learnt to develop a professional motivation and attitude to the practice of engineering and the use of professional standards in planning, executing, and presenting work. Graduates will also know about development of a professional career (all students are encouraged to join the IET as student members). - Have acquired and used a set of high and low level skills appropriate to professional engineering, as listed under the QAA benchmark headings. Notice that learning how to learn, and organising yourself to do it comes first in the list above. This is because you will have to carry on learning new engineering throughout your career, which will be likely to change direction more than once. The way you are taught is also about learning to learn, about reading and getting confidence in figuring things out. In all the course modules you study, there is at least as much time for guided self-study as for timetabled classes. Of course, acquiring up to date engineering knowledge and practical engineering skills is very important, and will take up most of your time. But it needs hard work, and is a lot easier if you are also tackling the learning issues above! 1.5. Structure and Operation How do the courses generally work? The University operates a semester based academic calendar. Each year consists of two semesters containing the taught course material and the assessments/examinations. Some modules last for one semester only and these are valued at 15 Credits. They may run in either semester 1 or semester 2. Other modules last two semesters and these are valued at 30 credits. In the first year all modules are 30 Credits while other years have a mix of 15 credit and 30 credit modules. Semesters are 15 weeks long (not including holidays) and teaching is normally carried out during the first 12 weeks, with the other 3 weeks taken up with revision, examinations and other forms of assessment. A detailed calendar is kept up to date and available on the web. The courses are module based. Eight of the modules are valued at 15 credits contributing a total of 120 credits at levels 5 and 6. Rest of the modules (eight of these) are valued at 30 credits. 120 credits at level 4 and a further 120 credits in modules across levels 5 and 6. Each 15 credit module is delivered in one semester and it is designed for 150 hours of study time. A maximum of 72 hours (but normally around 50) are taken up with timetabled lectures, tutorials or laboratory classes. The rest is for directed private study, and coursework of various kinds. Each module of study is complete in its own right and normally is taught by 3-4 hours per week of contact time. At degree study modules have a level: 4, 5, and 6 corresponding to the academic standard expected in years one, two, or three respectively, of a Full Time Honours degree Each 30 credit module is delivered over two semesters and the structure per semester is similar as that described for the 15 credit modules above. You will be given a module guide for each module which sets out the content and sequence of study, up to date details of assessments, reading lists and other useful information. For some



modules there may also be study guides covering parts of the academic material for the module. Modules also have web sites (via VLE or simply on a network node). How each module runs is the responsibly of a Module Co-ordinator, listed in the Module Guide and normally the lecturer on the module. You should direct any specific queries about a module to her/him. The course modules are the same whether you are a Part Time or a Full Time student. Full Time and Part Time students study many of the modules together, for the benefit of both. This sometimes happens in the evening, especially in the final year. Students have generally found these mixed evening classes very productive. 1.6. Full time Courses Full Time and Sandwich BEng’s consist of 16 modules, 8 of these are valued 15 credits and 8 at 30 credits. Modules studied at each level add up to a total of 120 credits for the academic year over two semesters. Thus for example, you study four 30-credit modules over two semesters at level 4 in year one. In year two you will do level 5 modules. Some of these modules are 15 credits and others are 30 credits, however the total number of credits at every level is 120 credits. The project counts as a 30 credit module that runs across two semesters in the final year. Final Honours degrees are classified (1st, Upper 2nd, Lower 2nd, 3rd class Honours) and depend on your results in level 5 and level 6 modules. Sandwich Training Full-time students are strongly encouraged to try for an industrial Sandwich Placement in year 3. Students who do a placement and come back to study their final year are much more mature, and can improve their degree classification as a result. Also, having an early industrial contact gives students the chance of relevant vacation work, and a possible job on graduation. Placements are not easy to find these days, but it is by no means impossible. Students who really try usually succeed; the trick is to start very early. See Appendix A for the Industrial Liaison Tutor. European Studies Endorsement This is possible for any of the degrees in this Course Guide. Candidates for the endorsement in European Studies must in addition have satisfactorily completed the Industrial Placement in Bremen. Students must have passed the test in German set by Hochschule Bremen. Such students may already have knowledge of German, or may have studied language modules at the University on an additional voluntary basis. 1.7. Part time courses Part –time BEng's follow the same curriculum, and use the same modules as the Full Time BEng's except that they do fewer modules per academic year. Part time students do modules that constitute a total of 90 credits per year over 4 years. (Note that FT students do 120 credits every year over 3 years). The Part Time timetable is one day and the same evening each week. Part Time lecture days For the different years, the pattern is: Year 1 Monday and Monday evening Year 2 Tuesday and Tuesday evening. Year 3 Thursday and Thursday evening Year 4 Friday and Friday evening What is different about the Part Time mode? Apart from the structural differences mentioned above the differences are mainly to do with course delivery and management. A few part time module timetables may be slightly less than 4 hours to allow for some breaks during a long day. Modules on the different courses. The tables shown in Part 2 of this guide show how the modules are programmed into the semester structure for FT and PT students. FT and PT students share some, though not all, classes.



Note that there can be variations to actual timetabling details which come into effect after the publication of this guide - the School timetables web site can be accessed via the VLE below: http://vle.lsbu.ac.uk/ New students starting in September will be able to login to VLE and the Library systems the day after they have completed their online enrolment form. This form will be emailed to new students for completion. 1.8. Management of the Courses You need to know something about this to make sense of how the various rules and regulations are implemented and more importantly who to consult about what and how to make an input to what’s happening. Appendix A tells you who currently holds the various roles. Subject area leader (SAL) The Subject Area Leader is responsible for scheduling of modules within the BEng and other undergraduate schemes, Course Boards, production of this Course Guide and overall management, coordination and monitoring across the undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the relevant subject area. All of the courses in this guide belong to the SA of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and the leader for this Subject Area is Dr. Goran Bezanov. Course Directors A Course Director is responsible for monitoring the academic progress of students on their course, and for involving the students in the group's activities. The Course Director will be your first port of call if you have academic problems to do with the course. In any case, you should get to know him/her. Course Directors for each course are listed in Part 2 of this guide and also in appendix A. Course Boards and Examination Boards Formally, London South Bank University Courses are governed by Course Boards and Examination Boards, acting within policies set out by the University Academic Board. The Course Board consists of senior members of the School, the Course Director, all the staff involved in teaching, timetabling, projects and examinations, and student representatives. Course Boards meet once a semester. They deal with all aspects of the programmes, except issues relating to individual students (for this refer to the section on Student Support, in Part 4), and pay particular attention to quality assurance. In this respect, each Course Board contributes to an annual report (called a Programme Monitoring Report) for approval by the School Academic Standards Committee (FASC). Examination Boards meet at the end of the year to decide on the results of your assessments (examinations and various kinds of coursework) in the modules you have studied and also to decide about your progression to the next stage of your course. Examination boards involve External Examiners (see below) as well as all your teachers and are chaired by a senior staff member appointed by the University's Vice Chancellor. Personal Tutor Your personal tutor is the person that you would see about any problems, not just academic ones (most academic problems will probably be dealt with by module teachers or Course Directors). There is more about your personal tutor in Part 4 of this guide. Do please make sure you have established contact with her/him ASAP, if for some reason you have not done this at during the enrolment and orientation process. Project and Industrial Liaison Tutors These members of staff (see Appendix A) have particular responsibilities for projects and placements. At the appropriate point in your studies, you will need to find out who they are, and make contact. Course Administrator All record keeping aspects of course management (your personal details, assessment results, and transcript of progress) are dealt with centrally by a Course Administrator, who is a member of the University registry, but based in the School Office (T318). All your day-to-day non-academic queries about the course should go to him/her in the first place, so you clearly need to make acquaintance.

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Module Co-ordinators Each module on the course is run by a Module Co-ordinator, who normally teaches the module and is responsible for selection of the syllabus material, production of the Module Guide, the assessment and examination material, and the submission of the final marks to the Course Administrator. Sometimes more than one member of staff will teach a module, but there will always be a main one who is responsible for the module. Therefore general queries about the module (rather than about specific pieces of work), should go to this person. Student Representatives Student input is one of the most important aspects of a Course Board's work. The Board is the main way for you to get issues formally considered and recorded, although it will not consider the cases of individual students. So it is important to choose a conscientious student representative and to prepare material for Course Boards in good time. There is normally one representative for each year and mode of a programme, although for small programmes there could be combined representation. Your Course Director will assist in organising an election, which should be done each year, reasonably early. If you are elected as a representative, you should keep a logbook, to record the problems and discussions taking place in your group. This will provide you with reliable briefing material at Course Boards and is invaluable when it comes to the review meetings with the Course Director. External examiners There are External Examiners for all the School’s degrees. These are eminent engineers who check that your course and especially the exam papers and other assessments are up to the standards expected of future Chartered Engineers before you take the exams. Later, at the Examination Boards, they check the standards of the awards we make. 1.9. Progression and Assessment Progression means moving on from one year to the next, during your studies. It is important that you understand how progression works and what the rules are. You can't start thinking about this after you have got your examination results - by then it will usually be too late to do anything. The rules about progression and what happens if you fail modules are carefully set out (along with all the other University rules) in your Student Handbook. So please read this part of the Student Handbook particularly carefully. The paragraphs below help to explain some of the main points, but are not a substitute for the legal statement of the rules in your Student Handbook. Following University policy, the Course is modularised, overall assessment being based on the assessment of the individual modules in a programme. Assessment of individual modules Each module has a number of assessment components, usually, but not always, two. These can consist of assignments, mini tests, essays, laboratory reports and logbooks and examinations of various kinds. The assessment components for each module are specifically defined and kept up to date in the current Module Guides. Note that a component is not necessarily a single piece of work - several pieces of coursework (often referred to as a portfolio) may constitute a single component of the module assessment. To pass a module, you must obtain an overall module mark of no less than 40% and also a minimum threshold mark of 30% in each component. So clearly you can't pass a module by getting just 30% in each component! In fact you mustn't even think in terms of 'passing' components - you only pass or fail modules as a whole. The weighting of each component in calculating the overall module mark is given in the Module Guide, and your module coordinator will often cover the details in this at the beginning of the module. Examination Boards Decisions about progression, referrals and awards are made by Examination Boards meeting at the end of Semester 2 (in June/July) and again before the beginning of Semester 1 (September). External examiners are present at the July boards and if you are being considered for a final award, you may be required to attend on the day concerned to meet the externals. You should



not book holidays at these times - the July boards are held in term time, when you can be expected to attend. After the semester 1 assessments (where appropriate), the results are monitored and feedback given to students. However, formal decisions about semester 1 results are taken by the full exam board meeting in June/July. Students normally progress automatically from semester 1 to semester 2. Progression, referral and repeat. The rules about these are defined by the University’s Academic Regulations for Taught Programmes (current version for 2013/14). They are also described in your Student Handbook, which you should read carefully. The following explains some of the more important terms, for your guidance. The rules for progression are detailed in your Handbook. If you have failed a module or modules, the Examination Board may allow you a referral or a repeat, although you must remember that this is not an automatic right and that there is a limit to the number of referrals allowed (details in your Student Handbook). Referral normally involves resit exams in late August/early September and/or referred coursework, to be completed by the same time. Referral might be: a) In the whole module, in which case you may have to repeat the assessment of all the components (or sometimes a substitute for these), or b) In one or more of the components (e.g. you might be referred in an examination component only, having achieved a good mark in a coursework component). Resit examinations are held well before enrolment for the next academic year, normally at the beginning of September. If you have to do resit exams, you must be prepared to attend at this time and rearrange holidays etc if necessary. Any repeated or updated assignments also have to be submitted at this time – the exact deadline for these will be given in your results letter. Repeat means that you will have to re-enrol for the failed module/s in the next academic year. Unless your results letter specifically says otherwise, you will be required to study, attend and do the assessed work for all components of the module, even if you may have got more than the minimum threshold mark in a component in previous year/s. Repeat is a form of referral, so unless there are extenuating circumstances (see below) you will again be awarded a pass mark only for the repeated module. First attempts at assessment and deferrals. Once you have enrolled on a module, you are expected to attend examinations and submit work for assessments as required. You are automatically assumed to have made a first attempt at the assessment when it was due, unless your Course Director has agreed to an extension of time or a deferral of the assessment. This means that if you don't do the assessment as required you will get a mark of 0% for it, and if you then pass it later as part of a referral, will only be awarded the pass mark of 40%. It is therefore very important that if you are unable to complete a module properly, you should consult your Course Director and /or your Personal Tutor. There are things that can be done, including formally interrupting your studies, in such situations. Extenuating Circumstances. These are things which might have affected your ability to study properly and for which the University can make allowance. They have to be serious things such as your being severely ill (with a Doctor's certificate as proof) or a death in your immediate family (again documented). There is a system of forms and deadlines for you to notify the University about extenuating circumstances. Please see School Administrator (Tower Block Level 3) for your course if you require these forms. A School Committee who may reject or support them considers the forms. Please also note that there is deadline by which you are able to submit these forms and the School office will be able to give you details of these.



Where extenuating circumstances are supported, an Examination Board may defer your assessment in the modules concerned. This means giving you the opportunity to complete the assessment at some later point (in September or during the next academic session) and have it considered as a first attempt, so that you get the actual mark. There are more details about extenuating circumstances in Part 4 of this guide and in your Student Handbook. Final Awards Final BEng awards and normal guidelines for classification are according to standard University regulations. Your degree award is made by a final Award and Progression Examination Board held at the end of semester 2 of your final year. You will not be told the decisions of the Board if you have any outstanding obligations to the University, such as outstanding fees or un-returned library books. The following notes are to help you understand the working of a final examination board. You should be aware that decisions are not made mechanically; the Board always uses its academic judgement to make just awards which comply with the University’s rules for assessment, progression and award. Your degree classification is determined by a weighted average of module marks at Levels 5 and 6, which is a standard university arrangement for all its Bachelors degree with Honours. The BEng (Hons) courses covered in this guide are all accredited by the Institution of Engineering Technology (IET). For these degree courses the following rules apply in calculating the honours classification. All undergraduate honours degrees accredited by the IET should have the honours classification determined by taking the average mark for the best 80 credits at level 6 (including the 30-credit project) and giving them a weighting of 80%. The average mark for the remaining 40 credits at level 6 and the 120 credits at level 5 will be given a weighting of 20%. The classification of the award will be based on the weighted average of these two marks. Classification guidelines: Final Mark Awarded Class 70%-100% 1 60% - 69% 2.1 50% - 59% 2.2 40% - 49% 3 Note 1: *For a Sandwich award, the candidate must have satisfactorily completed an approved industrial placement (minimum 40 weeks), and submitted a satisfactory report. Note 2: ** The rules about failure and referral at the final Honours level are described in detail in the current Student Handbook issued to all students. With fewer than the 360 credits, you may be considered for a non-Honours award.



PA R T 2 ST R U C T U R E O F IN D I V I D U A L CO U R S E S 2.1. Introduction The following tables show the module structure of the scheme for each course in BOTH the Full Time mode (top) and Part-Time mode (bottom of each table). The columns show two semesters for every year of study. Full time courses have an optional year 3 as the sandwich placement year and this is left blank in the tables provided. Shaded cells in tables indicate that the module is 30 credits and that it is delivered over two semesters. Where a module is 15 credits, it is delivered in one semester. Next to each module is the credit value (either15 or 30). After the tables there follows a brief description of each course including details of the course director.



FULL-TIME BEng (Hons) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Sem 1, Year 1 Sem 2, Year 1 Sem 1, Year 2 Sem 2, Year 2 SANDWICH YEAR Sem 1, Year 3 Sem 2, Year 3

Advanced

Engineering

Mathematics and

Modelling L5 (15)

Principles of

Control L5 (15)

Innovation &

Enterprise L6 (15)

Control Engineering

L6 (15)

Circuits, Signals &

Systems L5 (15)

Managing the

Engineering

Process L5 (15)

Instrumentation &

Control using

Labview L5 (15)

Electrical Machines

& Power

Electronics L5 (15)

PART-TIME

Sem 1, Year 1 Sem 2, Year 1 Sem 1, Year 2 Sem 2, Year 2 Sem 1, Year 3 Sem 2, Year 3 Sem 1, Year 4 Sem 2, Year 4

Advanced

Engineering

Mathematics and

Modelling L5 (15)

Principles of

Control L5 (15)

Innovation &

Enterprise L6 (15)

Control Engineering

L6 (15)

Circuits, Signals &

Systems L5 (15)

Managing the

Engineering

Process L5 (15)

Instrumentation &

Control using

Labview L5 (15)

Electrical Machines

& Power

Electronics L5 (15)

RF Systems L6 (30)

Project L6 (30)

Analogue, Digital & Mixed Signal

Design L5 (30)

Advanced Analogue & Digital

Techniques L6 (30)

RF Systems L6 (30)

Project L6 (30)

Advanced Analogue & Digital

Techniques L6 (30)

Engineering Modelling L4 (30)

Engineering Principles L4 (30)

Introduction to Electrical and Electronic

Engineering L4 (30)

Analogue, Digital & Mixed Signal

Design L5 (30)Design and Practice L4 (30)

Engineering Modelling L4 (30)


Engineering L4 (30)


Design and Practice L4 (30)



FULL-TIME BEng (Hons) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering with specialisation in Systems for Environmental Services


Advanced

Engineering

Mathematics and

Modelling L5 (15)

Principles of

Control L5 (15)

Innovation &

Enterprise L6 (15)

Control Engineering

L6 (15)

Circuits, Signals &

Systems L5 (15)

Managing the

Engineering

Process L5 (15)

Instrumentation &

Control using

Labview L5 (15)

Electrical Machines

& Power

Electronics L5 (15)

PART-TIME


Advanced

Engineering

Mathematics and

Modelling L5 (15)

Principles of

Control L5 (15)

Innovation &

Enterprise L6 (15)

Control Engineering

L6 (15)

Circuits, Signals &

Systems L5 (15)

Managing the

Engineering

Process L5 (15)

Instrumentation &

Control using

Labview L5 (15)

Electrical Machines

& Power

Electronics L5 (15)

Engineering Principles L4 (30) Design and Practice L4 (30)Electrical Services and Lighting for

Buildings L5 (30)

Electrical Services and Lighting for

Buildings L5 (30)

Power Systems, Energy Converters and

Drives L6 (30)

Systems for Environmental Services and

Lighting L6 (30)

Project L6 (30)

Power Systems, Energy Converters and

Drives L6 (30)

Systems for Environmental Services and

Lighting L6 (30)

Project L6 (30)

Engineering Mathematics and Modelling

L4 (30)

Design and Practice L4 (30)



Principles L4 (30)


L4 (30)


Principles L4 (30)



FULL-TIME BEng (Hons) in Telecommunications and Computer Networks Engineering


Advanced

Engineering

Mathematics and

Modelling L5 (15)

Managing the

Engineering

Process (15)

Innovation &

Enterprise (15)

DSP for

Communication

Engineering Level

6 (15)

Introduction to

Communication

Systems &

Networks Level 5

(15)

(CSN+TECNE)

Engineering

Software C++

Level 5 (15)

(CSN+TECNE)

Network

Technologies and

Design level 6 (15)

Optical &

Microwave

Communications

and EMC level 6

(15) (EEE+TECNE

PART)

PART-TIME


Advanced

Engineering

Mathematics and

Modelling L5 (15)

Managing the

Engineering

Process (15)

Innovation &

Enterprise (15)

DSP for

Communication

Engineering Level

6 (15)

Network

Technologies and

Design level 6 (15)

Optical &

Microwave

Communications

and EMC level 6

(15) (EEE+TECNE

PART)

Introduction to

Communication

Systems &

Networks Level 5

(15)

Engineering

Software C++

Level 5 (15)

(CSN+TECNE)

Analogue, Digital and Wireless

Communications level 6 (30)

Project L6 (30)

Fundamentals of Communication

Theory & Transmission Channels Level

5 (30)

Analogue, Digital and mixed signal

circuit design L5 (30) EEE+TECNE

Analogue, Digital and Wireless

Communications level 6 (30)

Engineering Modelling (30)

Introduction to Electrical and

Electronic Engineering L4 (30)

Engineering Principles (30) Design and Practice (30) Project L6 (30)

Engineering Modelling (30)

Design and Practice (30)

Engineering Principles (30)

Introduction to Electrical and

Electronic Engineering L4 (30)

Fundamentals of Communication

Theory & Transmission Channels Level

5 (30)

Analogue, Digital and mixed signal

circuit design L5 (30) EEE+TECNE



FULL TIME BEng (Hons) in Computer Systems and Networks


Object-oriented

Software for

Engineers Level 5

(15)

Managing the

Engineering

Process (15)

Innovation &

Enterprise (15)

Advanced

computer

engineering Level

6 (15)

Introduction to

Communication

Systems &

Networks Level 5

(15)

(CSN+TECNE)

Engineering

Software C++

Level 5 (15)

(CSN+TECNE)

Network

Technologies and

Design level 6 (15)

Software

engineering Level

6 (15)

PART TIME


Object-oriented

Software for

Engineers Level 5

(15)

Managing the

Engineering

Process (15)

Innovation &

Enterprise (15)

Advanced

computer

engineering Level

6 (15)

Network

Technologies and

Design level 6 (15)

Software

engineering Level

6 (15)

Introduction to

Communication

Systems &

Networks Level 5

(15)

(CSN+TECNE)

Engineering

Software C++

Level 5 (15)

(CSN+TECNE)

Distributed and Embedded Real-Time

Systems Level 6 (30)


(IEng) level 4 (30)

Project L6 (30)

Distributed and Embedded Real-Time

Systems Level 6 (30)

Project L6 (30)

Introduction to computer programming

and internetworking Level 4 (30)

Principles of Computer Engineering level

4 (30)Design and Practice Level 4 (30)

Operating SYSTEMS and multimedia

engineering Level 5 (30)

Computer Networks Level 5 (30)


(IEng) level 4 (30)

Design and Practice Level 4 (30)

Principles of Computer Engineering level

4 (30)

Introduction to computer programming

and internetworking Level 4 (30)

Computer Networks Level 5 (30)

Operating SYSTEMS and multimedia

engineering Level 5 (30)

Undergraduate Programmes Course Guides BEng (Hons) EEE/SES/CSN/TECNE 2013-14


2.2. BEng Electrical & Electronic Engineering (EEE) (The Generic EEE Degree) Course Director: Dr. Steve Alty Room T801 E-mail [email protected] Introduction For the Generic Degree, the general aims and learning outcomes are simply those described in Part 1 of this guide, for specific learning outcomes see below. The Generic degree is based on very sound technical foundations and, for many students; it offers a spread of general topics, which is the best foundation for changing career. The generic EEE course shares its first year with the Telecommunications and Computer Networks Engineering degree (TeCNE), so you can still make a choice between these two degrees towards the end of the first year. Three of the first year modules are also shared with Chemical and Mechanical Engineering students, as part of the School Curriculum Modernisation Project. Course Modules and Curriculum See relevant Table above for Full-time curriculum/module schedule (top) and Part-time curriculum/module schedule (bottom). Specific Learning outcomes The course aims to produce graduates who have acquired and can use a broad base of active knowledge in Electrical and Electronic engineering, and the skills necessary to update, extend and deepen it for career development or further study. This includes:

Appropriate mathematics and circuit theory.

Digital, analogue and particularly hybrid electronic systems, at all levels.

Computer hardware and software, particularly in embedded systems, at all levels.

Present trends in communications/network engineering.

The theory and applications of control engineering.

Professional engineering studies.



2.3. Systems for Environmental Services Endorsement (SES) Course Director: Mr. Manoj Ponugubati Room T601 E-mail ponugubm @lsbu.ac.uk Introduction There is an ongoing demand, from full time as well as part time students, for these unique, accredited studies in the application of electrical, electronic and information systems engineering to Environmental Services. This is particularly true, as the complexity of the technology that goes into modern buildings has resulted in the need for many engineers in this industry to re-train and seek further academic qualifications. This reflects the demand from companies now leading this industry for academically qualified, chartered, electrical engineers who also possess background knowledge of this field, to which their particular skills will be, applied both on a national and international level. These companies recruit young engineers to meet their current workloads but also to cope with the anticipated resurgence in this industry, which is now imminent. Many companies encourage and sponsor their staff in this re-training process. The first year of this course is shared with the generic EEE degree and it is only in the second year of the course that the SES stream of the course can be selected. Course Modules and Curriculum See relevant Table above for Full-time curriculum/module schedule (top) and Part-time curriculum/module schedule (bottom). Specific Learning outcomes The EEE SES endorsement has the learning outcomes of the EEE course above plus additionally:

The dynamic life cycle of a building and its services particularly those, which concern the electrical engineer.

General and specialist professional skills required by building services engineers such as general management, project planning and management, budgeting/cost control, quality assurance and contracts.

The special rules and standards which apply in EBS, for QA and the cost and legal implications of their electrical designs.

The range of modern techniques used in the built environment for monitoring, control and management of services.

Designs for electrical services that are not only technically sound but also safe, reliable, cost effective and environmentally friendly and where possible, sustainable.



2.4. Telecommunications and Computer Networks Engineering (TeCNE) Course Director: Prof. Mohammad Ghavami Room T704 E-mail [email protected] Introduction Recent years have seen an explosion in the technical diversity of the communications industry, as a number of advances have matured at the same time - optical fibre technology, cellular networks, satellite coverage, inter-networking, the merging of telecoms and computer communications. These are taking place against the background of moves towards total digitisation and future ISDN concepts. As a result, huge global information markets have emerged, to provide high volume and high-speed information flows for an ever more information conscious society. It is no longer possible to teach all this within a generic Electrical & Electronic Engineering degree, which also has to cover a wider range of topics. Hence this more specialised degree. The TECNE course shares its first year with the generic Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) course, so you can still make a choice between these two degrees towards the end of the first year. Three of the first year modules are also shared with Chemical and Mechanical Engineering students, as part of the School Curriculum Modernisation Project. Course Modules and Curriculum See relevant Table above for Full-time curriculum/module schedule (top) and Part-time curriculum/module schedule (bottom). Specific Learning outcomes On successful completion of the TeCNE course students will:

Demonstrate a knowledge of the key principles behind the new communication technologies - DSP, coding, transformations and other properties of digital information, use of very high frequencies, use of new regions of the E/M spectrum, infra red and microwave principles, Electro-Optic transduction.

Be able to assess system performance according to appropriate performance criteria, and evaluate ways of optimising it, in respect of bandwidth, power requirements, sensitivity and signal loss, error ratios, impairment factors including losses, dispersion and noise.

Be able to make tests and measurements on a range of laboratory prototypes, and select appropriate tools.

Know the international standards and protocols relating to information interfacing and networking.

Appreciate the impact of new communications technology in industrial and economic terms.



2.5. Computer Systems and Networks (CSN) Course Director: Dr. Shuwo Chen Room T410 E-mail [email protected] Introduction The Computer Systems and networks degree was developed from an earlier course (Computer & Information Engineering, CIE). It incorporates computer-networking aspects that the CIE degree did not. It is distinctive from year 1, so that there is time for a full set of appropriate modules over three years. The CSN course inherits the main philosophy of CIE - that of combining a proper understanding of the engineering fundamentals of the appropriate hardware with proper engineering skills to evaluate, design and implement software - in a more up to date context. Thus, the course remains an engineering course, distinguishable from those, which concentrate on the application of existing software and commercial tools, rather than the engineering base. This course shares two modules with other engineering courses in the School. However the mathematics module that this course uses is focusing on the mathematics required for computer network engineers which is less rigorous than the mathematics done in the EEE and TECNE courses. Course Modules and Curriculum See relevant Table above for Full-time curriculum/module schedule (top) and Part-time curriculum/module schedule (bottom). Specific Learning outcomes On successful completion of the CSN course students will:

Demonstrate an enhanced knowledge of both the electronic hardware and the software engineering considerations, which affect the design of modern computer systems and networks, and in particular how one affects, the other.

Be able (the project requirement for CSN) to design and implement a significant hardware/software system.

Know how to specify, configure and maintain modern computer networks with diverse technologies.

Possess a diversity of engineering skills to apply problem solving software and hardware systems and have the ability to contribute in the design of modern computer systems that often encapsulate a variety of engineering disciplines.

Appreciate the impact of operating systems on computer hardware and possess skills that will enable them to use multi-tasking operating systems and extend this concept across a network.

Demonstrate an enhanced knowledge of hardware architecture and software engineering considerations, which affect the design of modern computer systems and in particular, how one affects the other.

Manifest software engineering, design and programming skills that will enable them to design a variety of computer based systems to include, safety-critical and real-time systems, off-line simulation and systems modelling tools, CASE and CAD tools, communication protocol implementation, remote communication and data acquisition systems.

Appreciate the impact of technological advancement on project lifecycle management from conception through to commissioning and beyond, and so to evaluate different proposed solutions to problems and critically appraise the trade-offs between cost, performance, functionality, and legacy issues.



2.6. BEng (Hons) Degrees with European Studies Endorsement (EurS). Tutor: Dr. Paul Klimo Room T708 E-mail [email protected] Introduction The School has had collaboration for more than 14 years with Hochschule Bremen, Germany, involving student and staff exchanges; joint short courses and project interchange as well as special degree courses. For London South Bank students, the European programme of study is based on a European sandwich placement leading to special endorsement of BEng awards. Any of the four degrees in this guide (Electrical & Electronic Engineering; Telecommunications & Computer Networks Engineering; Computer Systems & Networks; Internet & Multimedia Engineering) can have this endorsement. For students whose German may be good enough to enable them to tackle Dipl Ing examinations in German, there is also the possibility of a dual BEng/DiplIng award (see the Tutor for details). For students from Hochschule Bremen there is a special version of the German Dipl. Ing., European Electrotechnical Studies (EES), in which students from Bremen complete their final studies at London South Bank, for a dual award of BEng (Honours) and Dipl. Ing. Students on the EES Course do exactly the same final year as London South Bank students, and are awarded a BEng as a result. BEng (Honours) Degrees with European Studies Endorsement (EurS). These are Sandwich degrees, with the technical element as an industrial placement in Bremen. Under the agreement with Hochschule Bremen, industrial placements are arranged by the Hochschule, though not guaranteed. This course of study is still the main route for London South Bank students who wish to take up the European challenge. This challenge is additional to that of a conventional Sandwich degree. By providing a significant element of language study, and technical work in a new and unfamiliar environment, it provides students with an opportunity to demonstrate the motivation and maturity of approach needed to resolve unfamiliar problems, and to produce graduates who will be able to work effectively as engineers in Germany or on UK/German projects, from the start of their careers. To be selected for this course, students will normally have to have successfully completed German language study at London South Bank in Years 1 and 2. This is normally followed by an intensive summer vacation course in spoken German, which London South Bank students share with other non-German students at Hochschule Bremen. This course is used to confirm students' suitability to complete the year in Germany. Following this short course, students undertake a term of full-time technical/language study at Hochschule Bremen in preparation for an industrial placement in Bremen. The objectives of the technical/language term is to enable students to speak and understand everyday German, to understand written German at a adequate level, and to understand and use a set of technical terms appropriate to the industrial placement to follow. This module is assessed according to normal practice for initial language study at Hochschule Bremen. The industrial placement is selected and supervised under the normal arrangements for the Dipl. Ing. Prakticum Semester. The industrial placement is assessed according to the normal South Bank practice. This includes a logbook, a technical and industrial report written by the student, as well as a report on the student's progress and performance by the industrial tutor from Hochschule Bremen and by the visiting supervisor from London South Bank. On returning to London South Bank, students will complete a normal final year of study for the award of a Sandwich degree, endorsed with European Studies.



PA R T 3 MO D U LE SU M M A R I E S 3.1 Introduction The summaries below are intended to give you a good idea of the aims and outcomes of the modules, how they are assessed and what reading is involved. If you need more detail, please consult the Module Guide for a particular module. Only the first year (level 4) modules are included in this guide. Summaries for level 5 and 6 modules are available on the ECCE Undergraduate Programmes Course site in VLE. Please Note: All modules on the first year of our BEng courses are valued 30 credits and are delivered over two semesters. Additionally approximately 75% of these will be shared between the different BEng courses in the School. The following module descriptors are included here as a guideline and you will be given more up-to-date module guides when the courses begin.. Nevertheless, the information provided can be used to obtain the general idea of these modules and how they are structured. 3.2 Level 4 modules The following table shows all the level 4 modules that are used on the BEng programme in the department. The BEng courses in the School share some of these (approximately 75%) and these are indicated in the table as common with ALL. In general it is intended that 25% of level 4 modules are course specific.

Please note that in the list below there are two separate descriptors for Engineering Mathematics and modelling, one designated B is for Chartered Engineer status (CEng) and the other designated A for Incorporated Engineer (IEng status). All BEng courses except BEng CSN take the CEng mathematics module. The CSN course takes the IEng mathematics which is somewhat less analytical. Also note that BEng CSN course does not share the Engineering Principles module with other BEng courses and instead has a specifically designed module to cover this material. The following modules descriptors are included in this guide:

Module Ref Description Module Leader

EEC_4_001 Engineering Mathematics and Modelling A George Georgiou

EEC_4_002 Engineering Mathematics and Modelling B George Georgiou

EUC_4_005 Design and Practice Urban Engineering Staff

EAC_4_003 Engineering Principles Applied Science Staff

EEC_4_416 Introduction to Electrical and Electronic Engineering Steve Alty

EEC_4_402 Principles of Computer Engineering Zhanfang Zhao

EEC_4_403 Introduction to Computer Programming and InternetworkingStavros Dimitriou

Year Common with Unit Title Credits Level Sem

1 ALL Engineering Mathematics and Modelling L4 (30) 30 4 1&2

1 ALL Design and Practice L4 (30) 30 4 1&2

1 ALL Engineering Principles L4 (30) 30 4 1&2

1 EEE Introduction to Electrical and Electronic Principles L4 (30) 30 4 1&2

1 CSN Principles of Computer Engineering level 4 (30) 30 4 1&2

1 CSN Introduction to computer programming and internetworking Level 4 (30) 30 4 1&2



Short Form Module Details

Module Title Engineering Mathematics and Modelling A

Level 4

Reference No. (showing level)

EEC_4_001

Credit Value

30 CAT points

Student Study Hours

Total learning hours: 300 hours Contact hours up to 100 hours Student managed learning hours: 200 hours or more

Pre-requisite learning

None

Co-requisites None

Excluded combinations

None

Module co-ordinator

To be advised

School/Department

Engineering, Science and the Built Environment

Short Description

THIS MODULE CONSOLIDATES THE MATHEMATICAL SKILLS THAT UNDERPIN THE IENG ENGINEERING DEGREES. IT IS SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO CATER FOR THE WIDE DIFFERENCES IN MATHEMATICAL BACKGROUND OF FIRST YEAR LONDON SOUTH BANK ENGINEERING STUDENTS.

Aims

This module's aims are as follows

To consolidate the student’s knowledge and understanding of mathematics necessary to support application of key engineering principles.

To provide the knowledge and skills that enables the student to use computer software and programming as a support for his/her engineering studies.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding On successful completion of the module, students will:

be able to understand and perform a range of algebraic operations including operations on complex numbers in various forms;

be able to differentiate and integrate functions of one real variable using a variety of techniques;

understand how calculus is used to model changes in engineering systems;

be able to sketch the elementary functions;

be able to apply quantitative methods and computer software relevant to engineering.

Understand relationships between mathematics and design. Intellectual Skills On successful completion of the module, students will:

understand the real number line and the complex plane;

be able to structure and decompose mathematical problems by means of a computer program;

engage in technical discussion in a multi-cultural environment;

gain experience in communicating mathematics clearly and succinctly; Practical Skills



On successful completion of the module, students will be able to

solve engineering problems using vector and matrix algebra;

apply statistics and calculus in engineering problems;

use mathematical and engineering software such as MATLAB and MATHCAD to plot functions and solve equations

debug faulty program designs. Transferable Skills On successful completion of the module, students will be able to

use a logbook as an effective learning aid;

understand the need to “learn by doing” and to schedule their time accordingly;

recognise familiar patterns in unfamiliar pictures;

write computer programmes that reduce the time and tedium of manual calculation;

use sketches, diagrams and software as an aid to understanding complex problems;

Employability

Teaching and learning pattern

Indicative content

Overview of the Main Content Revision of elementary algebra The module will provide for some revision of elementary algebra, for example indices rules, logarithms, transposition of formulae, factorisation, surds, solving simultaneous equations. Differential and Integral Calculus and Applications

Differentiation of elementary functions.

Differentiation of products and composite functions

Maximum and minimum: optimisation

Sketching the elementary functions

Definite and indefinite integrals:

Integration of elementary functions

Application of integrals in design, architecture and building engineering

Maclaurin series Complex Numbers:

Graphical representation: Cartesian, polar and exponential form.

Elementary operations: Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division. Introduction to Linear Algebra

Scalars and vectors

Vectors addition, subtraction

Dot product

Matrix addition and multiplication

Inverse and determinant of a matrix (2-D) Trigonometry and Geometry

Solving triangles (cosine and sine rule), 2-D and 3-D



Coordinate systems; Euclidean, polar and spherical

Regular polygons,

Tessellations Handling Data:

Statistics:

Data averages and data variation

Elementary probability Computer software

Introduction to analytical software packages to handle engineering problems.

Solving equations using software

Plotting functions, plotting data, statistics and applications

Symbolic algebra.

Arrays and Strings, Data Types, Script files. Conditional Loops. Program Design

Using and modifying computer programs

Problem solving using structured design and structured programming.

Use of flow charts within consistent software design methodology.

Assessment Elements & weightings

This module shall be assessed as follows:

50% end of year examination.

50% continual assessment. This could include a phase test, online test, and /or assignment.

Indicative Sources (Reading lists)




Module Title Engineering Mathematics and Modelling B

Level 4


EEC_4_002

Credit Value

30 CAT points

Student Study Hours



None

Co-requisites None


None

Module co-ordinator

To be advised

School/Department


Short Description

THIS MODULE CONSOLIDATES THE MATHEMATICAL SKILLS THAT UNDERPIN THE BENG ENGINEERING DEGREES. IT IS SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO CATER FOR THE WIDE DIFFERENCES IN MATHEMATICAL BACKGROUND OF FIRST YEAR LONDON SOUTH BANK ENGINEERING STUDENTS.

Aims

This module's aims are as follows

To consolidate the student's knowledge and understanding of a broad range of mathematical techniques appropriate for engineering courses.

To provide the knowledge and skills that enables the student to use computer software and programming as a support for his/her engineering studies.

To provide the student with the core skills that enables him/her to apply mathematical methods, tools and notations proficiently in the analysis and solution of engineering problems.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding On successful completion of the module, students will:

be able to understand and perform a range of algebraic operations including operations on complex numbers in various forms;

be able to differentiate and integrate functions of one real variable using a variety of techniques;

understand how calculus is used to model changes in engineering systems;

be able to sketch the elementary functions;

be able to apply quantitative methods and computer software relevant to engineering. ADVANCED ONLY

be able to sketch piecewise functions and rational functions;

understand how calculus is used to model changes in engineering systems including applications involving partial derivatives.



Intellectual Skills On successful completion of the module, students will:

understand the real number line and the complex plane;

be able to structure and decompose mathematical problems by means of a computer program;

engage in technical discussion in a multi-cultural environment;

gain experience in communicating mathematics clearly and succinctly; ADVANCED ONLY

be able to sketch functions using analysis. Practical Skills On successful completion of the module, students will be able to

solve engineering problems using vector and matrix algebra;

apply statistics and calculus in engineering problems;

use mathematical software such as MATLAB and MATHCAD to plot functions and solve equations

debug faulty program designs. ADVANCED ONLY

use software to model and analyse engineering problems. Transferable Skills On successful completion of the module, students will be able to

use a logbook as an effective learning aid;

understand the need to “learn by doing” and to schedule their time accordingly;

recognise familiar patterns in unfamiliar pictures;

write computer programmes that reduce the time and tedium of manual calculation;

use sketches, diagrams and software as an aid to understanding complex problems; ADVANCED ONLY

classify problems and choose an appropriate solution method;

transfer ideas and methods from one situation to a different situation.

Employability


Indicative content

Overview of the Main Content Revision of elementary algebra The module will provide for some revision of elementary algebra, for example indices rules, logarithms, transposition of formulae, factorisation, surds, solving simultaneous equations.



Differential and Integral Calculus and Applications

Differentiation of elementary functions.

Differentiation of products and composite functions

Sketching the elementary functions

Definite and indefinite integrals:

Integration of elementary functions

Application to areas, means, variances and various engineering problems

Maclaurin series ADVANCED ONLY:

Limits, continuity, and piecewise functions.

Differentiation of implicit and parametric functions.

Partial differentiation

Further sketching of functions using properties of transformations and using calculus (rational functions and piecewise functions).

Modulus, odd and even functions, inverse function

Taylor series

Integration by change of variable, partial fractions, by parts and by substitution

Solution of first order differential equations by separation of variables Complex Numbers:

Graphical representation: Cartesian, polar and exponential form.

Elementary operations: Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division. ADVANCED ONLY:

De'Moivre's theorem.

Power, roots and logarithms

Applications of complex numbers: Loci Introduction to Linear Algebra

Scalars and vectors

Vectors addition, subtraction

Dot product

Matrix addition and multiplication

Inverse and determinant of a matrix (2-D) ADVANCED ONLY:

Vector cross product

Inverse and determinant of a matrix (3-D) Handling Data:

Statistics:

Data averages and data variation

Elementary probability ADVANCED ONLY:

Probability density function and distributions.



Computer software

Introduction to analytical software packages to handle engineering problems.

Solving equations using software

Plotting functions, plotting data, statistics and applications

Symbolic algebra.

Arrays and Strings. Data Types, script files. Conditional Loops. Program Design

Problem solving using structured design and structured programming.

Top-down design, functional decomposition, modular programming.

Use of flow charts within consistent software design methodology.


This module shall be assessed as follows:

50% end of year examination.

50% continual assessment. This could include a phase test, online test, and /or assignment.




Module Title Design and Practice

Level 4


EUC_4_005

Credit Value

30 CAT points

Student Study Hours



None

Co-requisites None


None

Module co-ordinator

To be advised

School/Department


Short Description

The module is all undergraduate year one engineering students, it covers practical work, design activities, sustainable development principles, project management, health and safety and risk management, and transferable skills.

Aims

The overall aim of the module is for students to begin their engagement with engineering design and to undertake practical engineering work. Part A (120-150 hours of student learning depending on discipline) Practical work To provide skills designing and undertaking investigatory practical work in the students’ discipline Part B (120-150 hours of student learning depending on discipline) Design and drawing To provide skills in design and drawing Part C (30 hours of student learning) Transferable skills To provide skills in communication, management and health and safety and sustainable design methodologies

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding: To know and understand practical engineering skills and design processes To know and understand the principles of sustainable development To know and understand the legal, precautionary and management systems requirements needed for industrial safety Intellectual Skills: To be able to think critically in the context of problems and arguments in the discipline To be able to handle open ended problems and turn those into questions that a design proposal can answer in area relevant to discipline To be able to prosecute a conceptual design through to the stage of provision of adequate calculations and drawings, or prototypes as relevant to the discipline Practical Skills: To know and understand practical safety-related legal obligations in laboratory, workshop, field trip, fire drill and other university activities To be able to undertake investigatory practical work in subject areas relevant to discipline To be able to analyse results derived from real world data, including the estimation of errors and confidence limits Transferable Skills: To be able to research information using appropriate academic and technical



abstracting engines and databases To be able to write technical English, using appropriate computer based tools To be able to prepare accurate and efficient calculations using spreadsheets To be able to communicate ideas through visual means including by hand and computer aided drawing

Employability Employers require skills in critical thinking and technical written English, as well as skills in design and the ability to observe and obtain data from the real world. The ability to design in the context of sustainable development principles and deliver through appropriate project management are also important. This module provides skills in these areas.


The anticipated teaching and learning will be achieved through the following number of hours of activity: Part A Workshops and practical sessions: 40-50 Part B Design studios and drawing: 40-50 Part C Transferable skills classes and tutorials: 10 Total Contact hours: 100 Part A Work linked to practical sessions: 80-100 Part B Worked linked to design and drawing: 80-100 Part C Work linked to transferable skills: 20 Student managed learning hours: 200 Total learning time: 300

Indicative content

Generic Specification of content Part A (120-150 hours of student learning) Practical work Undertaking practical work. Including designing appropriate practical experimentation, undertaking investigatory work, deriving results from such work, appropriately analysing them, discussing the results and then drawing conclusions. Prototyping and model building. Including either the development of manufacturing or other types of prototype or engineering models relevant to the students’ discipline. Health and Safety. Safety induction for students. Health and Safety at Work Act. COSHH regulations. Railway safety. HSE. Prohibition and enforcement notices. Powers of Inspectors. Records. CITB certificate. Causes of accidents. Statistics. Hazard identification and risk management. Accident prevention. PPE. Implications for CDM Regulations. Criminal penalties. Site safety management Project management and group work. Including group role descriptions and introduction to functions of leaders and managers and basic project management, including and understanding of project information and specifications and deliverables Part B (120-150 hours of student learning) Design methods and constraints. Including the processes of briefing, specification, sourcing and evaluating technical literature, materials selection, defining input parameters, form options choosing and sustainable development principles. Also including ways of evaluating design outputs. Creative thinking and problem solving techniques. Including introduction to techniques including brainstorming, mind-mapping and mental block busting. Also including processes of conceptual design, synthesis and an appreciation of aesthetics. Hand drawing. Including material selection, approaches to sizing and proportion and techniques. Subject matter will vary depending on students’ discipline and may include fieldwork sketching buildings or large scale engineering artefacts, or studio based work for smaller products). Computer Aided Drawing. Using packages and conventions appropriate to the students’ discipline. Part C (30 hours of student learning) Presentations. Including guidance through software capabilities and require



students to prepare and deliver a computer based presentation including use of appropriate combinations of words, tables and images to convey real meaning. Technical written English. Including accurate spelling, and correct and appropriate structure at sentence, paragraph and document level, and which displays an ability to communicate succinctly and use punctuation appropriately, and which has been prepared taking advantage of features in word processing packages. Referencing. Information and literature search leading to including both the means of including material from other sources in the text, and the means of generating the list of bibliographic details, including use of proprietary software as appropriate to the discipline. Understanding of plagiarism. Personal Development Planning, including the processes of reflective practice, SWOT analysis, evaluation of prior experience and personal goal setting for the future, including progression through the professional body Elements specifically for the following disciplines: (NB Module guides written by each department will more closely define the content) Civil Engineering Part A Tensile tests in laboratory on reinforcement bar and other civil engineering materials Concrete casting and testing in the laboratory Land surveying fieldwork Part B Systems design methodology Computer aided drawing Construction materials recycling issues Part C Construction project management techniques and software tools Construction management and law, an introduction to legislation and practices in the industry Construction health and safety practices and risk assessment preparation Building Services Engineering Part A Thermofluids laboratories Flow rates laboratories Electric circuits laboratories Part B Systems design methodology Computer aided drawing Construction materials recycling issues Part C Construction project management techniques and software tools Construction management and law, an introduction to legislation and practices in the industry Construction health and safety practices and risk assessment preparation Mechanical Engineering Part A Thermofluids laboratories Materials laboratories Applied mechanics Computer programming Part B Design case studies Design for Manufacture Design for assembly Materials selection processes



Computer aided drawing Part C No further additions Electrical Engineering Part A Electronics workshops Digital workshops Electrical workshops Telecommunications workshops Part B Systems design methodology MATLAB/SIMULINK Materials recycling Part C No further additions Petroleum Engineering Awaiting advice and to follow the same structure as above Chemical Engineering Awaiting advice and to follow the same structure as above


Part A A series of practical assignments specific to the discipline 45% Part A sub-total (120-150 hours learning time) 45% Part B A series of design projects involving designing and making, project planning, drawing, budgeting, and testing 45% Part B sub-total (120-150 hours learning time) 45% Part C Portfolio of assignments based on development of written English skills: 10% Part C sub-total (30 hours) 10% Total: 100%


Core London South Bank University Core Skills Module, Study Skills Survival Guide, LSBU 2002 Matthews, C., Case Studies in Engineering Design, Arnold, 1998. Morton R, Construction UK: Introduction to the Industry, Blackwell, London 2002 Background Applegarth, M., and Posner, K. The Project Management Pocketbook, Management Pocketbooks, 1998. Beer D, McMurray D, A Guide to Writing as an Engineer, Wiley, London 2004 Finney and Fowler, Foundation Course (CDT) Collins 1986 Hawkes B, Succeeding with Autocad, McGraw-Hill, London, 1995 London South Bank University, CAD skills. LSBU 2000 Northedge A, The Good Study Guide, Open University 1990 Wright, I., Design Methods in Engineering and Product Design, McGraw-Hill, 1998. Young, T., The Handbook of Project Management, Kogan Page, 1998. Optional Norman, D.A. (1998) The Design of Everyday things, The MIT Press, London, 1998, ISBN 0-262-64037-6 Timings, R.L. (1993) Manufacturing Technology, Volume 1, Second Edition, Longman Scientific & Technical ISBN 0-582-09194-2 Timing, R.L. and Wilkinson, S.P. (2000) Manufacturing Technology, Volume 2, Second Edition, Longman, 2000, ISBN 0-582-357977 Matthews, C. (1998) Case Studies in Engineering Design, Arnold, 1998, ISBN 0470 32363-9 Kalpakjian, S. and Schmid, S.R., Manufacturing Engineering and Technology,



4th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2001, ISBN 0-201-36131-0 Poli, C. (2001) Design for Manufacturing – A Structured Approach, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001, ISBN 0-7506-7341-9



Module Title Engineering Principles

Level 4

Reference No. EAC_4_003

Value 30 CAT points

Student Study Hours

Contact hours: 78 Student managed learning hours: 222

Pre-requisites None

Co-requisites None


None

School/Department

ESBE

Module Co-ordinator

TBC

Short Description This module develops the students’ understanding of essential scientific principles for the study of engineering to degree level. It is designed to be accessible to students with a wide range of prior science specialisation. The module comprises four modules of study: three are common to all engineering disciplines and introduce the principles of measurement systems and modules, thermal physics, mechanical and electrical principles, and engineering materials and their properties. The fourth module is selected from three modules each of which covers material appropriate to one or more discipline routes.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to understand the fundamental principles of, and perform a range of appropriate calculations relevant to:

Systems of modules and their interconversion

Thermal physics including: phase transitions and gas laws; different modes of heat transfer

Basic concepts in optics, electricity, and electromagnetism

Mechanics of solids and fluids

The structure of the main classes of materials and how it relates to properties and engineering performance.

How the properties of materials can be used in design for engineering applications & devices.

More advanced aspects of one of: thermodynamics and fluid mechanical; electrical and electronic systems; fluid mechanics and structural engineering

Teaching Style The module will be taught through a combination of lectures (2 hours/week) and problem-setting tutorials (1 hour/week). The course material will be supplemented by additional readings and practice problems posted on VLE and links to useful internet sources. Applications across the various engineering disciplines will be introduced in lectures and developed via problem-solving tutorial exercises.

Summary Indicative Content

Systems of measurement and modules; module conversions Basic structure and states of mater Thermal physics; heat transfer Mechanical and electrical principles Engineering materials and their properties One theme-specific module selected from: thermofluids principles; fundamentals of electrical engineering; fluids and structures

Assessment Elements & weighting

In-class Phase Test in Week 8 (20%) In-class Phase Test in Week 20 (20%) Examination at end of Module (60%)



Module Title

Introduction to Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Level 4


EEC_4_416

Credit Value

30

Student Study Hours

Contact hours: 94 total : 48 Lect, 22 Lab, 24 Tut Student-managed learning hours: 206


Co-requisites


Module co-ordinator

Steve Alty

School/Department

ESBE/EED

Short Description

This material in this module is divided into four blocks Digital, Analogue, Electrical and Communications. EEE & SES students will study Digital, Analogue and Electrical. TECNE students will study Digital, Analogue and Communications. Digital part covers the introduction to digital circuits using combinational and sequential logic building blocks to create simple digital system designs. Analogue part covers an introduction to active devices and their role in creating standard analogue circuit building blocks. These simple building blocks will then be used to create simple analogue system designs Electrical part covers dc & ac circuit theory and circuit analysis techniques. Communications part gives a broad overview of communications and networking systems and basic concepts for transmitting information, and techniques for representing and analysing communications signals, communications traffic and computer networking. .

Aims

To develop knowledge, and the ability to analyse and understand the operation of a digital circuit To develop knowledge, and the ability to analyse and understand how active analogue circuits work and how they can be used to create complete electronic systems with known i/o characteristics To develop knowledge, and the ability to analyse and understand the operation of a dc circuit To develop knowledge, and the ability to analyse and understand the operation of an ac circuit To develop practical skills to enable students to have confidence in building and testing circuitry



To provide familiarity to communication systems, modulation, coding and multiplexing To provide introductions to the communications layer system and protocols To develop knowledge and skill in using standard workshop instruments.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to: Use standard workstation instruments Keep a technical logbook of all work done Build circuits on breadboard Fault-find using logic probes and test instruments Draw schematics and interpret them Digital Understand the underlying principles and practices of simple digital circuits Simplify simple combinational logic to one gate type only Use Boolean algebra and minimisation techniques to design and analyse digital circuits Analogue Understand the underlying principles and practices of simple dc circuits Analyse and predict parameters of bjt amplifiers using circuit modelling techniques. Analyse and predict parameters of operational amplifiers circuits using idealized op-amp model techniques. have some ability to design a system using block diagrams and ‘black box’ circuits. Electrical Understand the underlying principles and practices of simple ac and dc circuits Apply reference directions to voltage and currents in a circuit and use the Passive sign convention to work out the correct polarities.

Apply the techniques of phasor analysis and j notation to circuits Understand the action, properties and use of transformers in electrical circuits and perform calculations using the simplified equivalent circuit Communications Understand fundamentals of communication systems Understand modulation, multiplexing, noise, disturbance, time and frequency domains and bandwidth Have familiarity with communication networks and protocols


Teaching is by 24 weekly two hour lectures with 24 weekly one hour tutorials and 11 fortnightly two hour laboratory/workshop sessions. The teaching sequence will be: Digital 7 weeks Analogue 7 weeks Electrical ( EEE/SES) – 10 weeks Communications (TECNE) – 10 weeks The taught material will be covered by lectures supported by notes and demonstrations. Lecture notes and tutorial exercises are provided on VLE. A laboratory manual will be provided for each student containing details of laboratory organisation and procedures and the instructions for the individual exercises/mini projects. The practical workshop includes use of standard workstation instruments and circuit prototyping boards for circuit building. Workshop activity will be carried out in the electrical power / power electronics laboratory in T120, the first year electronics lab T622 and the communications lab T 718b.

Indicative Digital



content Number systems, digital coding standards, switching logic truth tables Combinational Logic: logic gates, Boolean algebra, K-maps, DeMorgans law, multiplexers/demultiplexers, encoders/decoders, Sequential logic: flip-flops (JK, D, SR, ), registers, counters, astable oscillators synchronous/asynchronous circuitry, intro to PLDs, MPUs and MCUs. Analogue Ideal operational amplifiers, Opamp circuits linear, Opamp circuits non-linear circuit Diodes Transistor (bjt) operation, Transistor amplifiers, small/large signal analysis, Transistor switching circuits Electrical DC V, I, P transfer, node voltage analysis, mesh current analysis AC RC, RL, RLC circuits Resonance phasor analysis

complex power flow in single and 3-phase transformers. Communication part An overview of communication systems- examples of past and present Communication systems. The evolution of technology. Communication signals- representation of information in the form of a communication signal. Examples of typical communication signals. Time and frequency domains, bandwidth and spectrum. Time averages. Noise as a signal, signal to noise ratio. Analogue and digital transmission- modulation and demodulation. Frequency division multiplexing. Analogue-to-digital conversion, binary digital data, bit-rate. Time division multiplexing. Digital modulation schemes and modems. Communication channel- physical media. Channel characteristics, channel bandwidth. Baseband, passband and digital channels. Networks part Introduction to networking. What is a network? Benefits of networking. Basic network components (hub, switch, router and gateway), Clients and servers on a network. Introduction to network protocol and layer system Introduction to network classification and topologies. LAN (Ethernet) and WAN (Internet) Applications of networks: email, ftp, world-wide web, VOIP.


Theory 60%: Phase test (15%) Mid-sessional online test (15%) End of module test (30%) Coursework 40%: Workshop log book (20%) Report (20%)

Indicative Sources

Electrical Core



(Reading lists)

James W. Nilsson and Susan A. Riedel, Electric Circuits, Prentice Hall 6th

Edition, 2000 Smith, R J & Dorf, R C., Circuits, Devices and Systems. (5

th ed); Wiley, 1995.

T.P. Sattar, R.R. Pettitt, Lecture Notes, Tutorial Drill Problems: 2003 Background Edminster, J A. Electric Circuits. (3

rd Ed) McGraw-Hill, 1996.

J.D. Irwin & C.H. Wu, Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis, Prentice Hall 6th

Edition, 1998 Analogue Core Colin Lunn, The Essence of Analogue Electronics. Pub. Prentice-Hall 1998 Background Horowitz and Hill .Art of Electronics Pub. Cambridge Press 1998 3rd Edition Malvino, Electronic Principles, pub. McGraw-Hill Digital Core Tocci and Widmer, Digital Systems. Pub. by Prentice Hall, 8th Edition 2001 Background Horowitz and Hill, Art of Electronics, . Pub. Cambridge Press 1998 3rd Edition Tockheim. Digital Electronics, Pub by McGraw-Hill 3rd Edition Communications & Networks Core B. P. Lathi, Modern Digital and Analogue Communications Systems, 3

rd

Edition, Oxford University Press, 1998 J. F. Kurose and K. W. Ross Computer Networking, A top-down approach: International version”, 5

th edition, 2010, Pearson Higher Education




Module Title Principles of Computer Engineering

Level 4


EEC_4_402

Credit Value 30

Student Study Hours



None

Co-requisites None


None

Module co-ordinator

To be advised

School/Department


Short Description

This module consists of two separate parts. In the first part (Part 1) the essential principles of analogue and digital electrical and electronic circuits. This part is further organised in two sections. Section A is the analogue and Section B the digital part. The module will also cover underlying magnetic and electrical properties, with a look at power supplies, power requirements and power generation, from solar cells and automobile alternators, to the national grid. Much of the work will be workshop-based with demonstrations and CAD tools for further illustration of certain concepts. The work will be illustrated throughout by typical applications in industry In this module students will use standard digital integrated circuits (i.c.s) to implement basic operations. Building and testing simple digital circuits using basic 'off the shelf' components, simple i/o devices, prototype boards and standard workstation instrumentation. Work will also involve computer simulation exercises, faultfinding, and documentation of results. Most of the work will be based around the 74 series-compatible CMOS chips although students will be introduced to programmable logic array chips and PIC microcontrollers. The theory focuses on the basic design techniques used in coding, logic, and K-mapping, leading to completed design work where students will be shown how an idea can be converted into a circuit by applying these techniques. The second part of this module deals with computer databases. The indicative content is as follows: Current state: Database technology and modern networks, limitations and trends. An introductory overview of current state of the technology. Database design: Review of database terminology, database design, design rules Learning Microsoft Access: creating a database, querying a database, using forms Database design: Case studies

Aims

The aim of this module is to provide students of Computer Systems and Networks (CSN) sound foundations in engineering



principles that apply to their subject area. This includes the following: Analogue electronic principles Digital electronic principles Computer databases for networks

Learning Outcomes

Section 1: Part A: Analogue Students will know how to : Connect and analyse the behaviour and characteristics of basic Circuits/components/signals: I, V, Q, P, R, C, L, dc, ac. Connect and analyse simple Networks: parallel/series, voltage/current dividers, bridges. Understand the principles of electromagnetism: Faraday’s & Lenz’s laws, solenoids, motors, generators. Understand the principles of operation of electrochemical: batteries, electrolysis, ions, and sensors. Part B: Students will know how to: Understand how a single chip can be programmed to create multifunction logic (PLDs) Confidently use LEDs and switches to create inputs to and outputs from, digital circuits. Search for electronic data Document their work Design a complete simple digital system Use standard instrumentation and a breadboard for building and testing Simulate circuits using a CAD package Section 2 On successful completion of this module, students will be expected to;

Know the principles of how software applications run on networked computers

Know the current technological issues relating to databases.

Know and be able to apply the principles of database design.

Know how to design and develop database applications in Microsoft Access


25 two-hour lectures/tutorials will cover the theory 25 two-hour workshops/tutorials will cover the practical investigation of the theory. Most of the material will be available on the web

Indicative content

Part A: Analogue Connect and analyse characteristics under a.c/d.c excitation of circuits/components/signals: I, V, Q, P, R, C, L. Underlying Laws/Theorems for circuits: Ohm’s law and signal attenuation Connection of components into circuit networks: parallel/series, voltage/current dividers, bridges. Electromagnetism: Faraday’s & Lenz’s laws, solenoids, motors, generators. Electrochemical: batteries, electrolysis, ions, sensors. Part B: Digital



Theory: Schematics, functional blocks, number systems, digital coding standards, truth tables, and flow charts. ICs to be covered: The main 74 series-compatible CMOS chips :Logic gates, encoder, decoder, data selector/multiplexer, demultiplexer, flip-flops (JK, D, SR), counter, shift register, ALU. Simple digital i/o devices DIL switches, pull-up resistors and LEDs CAD: Schematic capture/Simulation Demonstration of assembly language programming of a PIC.


In-class Phase Test in Week 7 (20%) In-class Phase Test in Week 14 (20%) In-class Phase Test in Week 21 (20%) Coursework (40%)


Section 1 : Part A :

Digital Systems by Tocci and Widmer. Pub. by Prentice Hall, 8th Edition 2001

Digital Electronics by Tockheim. Pub by McGraw-Hill 3rd Edition·

Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill . Pub. Cambridge Press 1998 3rd Edition Part B :

The Essence of Analogue Electronics by Colin Lunn. Pub. Prentice-Hall 1998, 2nd reprint ISBN-13: 978-0133602234-

Electronics Fundamentals: Circuits, Devices and Applications (6th edition) by Thomas L. Floyd, Pub. by Prentice Hall 2003, ISBN: 0131228846 - Electronics: A Systems Approach by Neil Storey. Pub. by Prentice Hall 2006. Section 2 : Database fundamentals, by Goran Bezanov, published by MIG Consulting Ltd, London 2008. 978-0-9558153-3-1




Module Title Introduction to computer programming and internetworking

Level 4

Reference No. EEC_4_403

Credit Value 30

Student Study Hours Total learning hours: 300 hours Contact hours up to 100 hours. Student managed learning hours: 200 hours or more


Co-requisites


Module co-ordinator Dr. Deb Mukherjee/ Stavros Dimitriou

School/Department

Short Description This module is designed to give students an initial foundation of computer systems and understanding of how computers are used in a networked environment. This includes software programming as well as computer structure and the internetworked environment. The approach concentrates on the fundamental principles, from an engineering point of view, on which students can build more substantial computing studies throughout their course and afterwards. The module introduces both the hardware architecture/operation and the different types of software typical in a modern computer and it is split into two parts. Part 1: Computer structures and internetworking This part of the module lays the foundations of the computer networking engineering course. It familiarises the students with computers and computer systems, which form the basis of the internetworked computer infrastructure as well as with the applications and terminology used in an internetworked environment. Part 2: Computer programming This part teaches students to appreciate the role and importance of software and computers in Engineering, and so provide students with the impetus to quickly become competent in their use. It enables students to articulate specifications for requirements, which they understand, to gain experience in decomposing problems, and to design and realise programmes in C++ or Java on a standard PC system and use standard methods in doing so. It encourages them to use a logbook, work systematically and make good use of their time, so helping to develop good engineering habits and the skills for self-learning.

Aims

To provide students with background knowledge in computer systems and networking as well as computer programming skills to enable them to build on these in order to become competent computer network engineers.

Learning Outcomes On successful completion of the module, students will be expected to: Part 1:

Be able to identify the parts of a modern PC, with the cover off and know how the functions of each part are related.

Understand a simple register model of a typical CPU, how memory is structured and how I/O works, including external devices and in particular those, which relate to Internet communication, e.g. processor, memory, modem.

Understand a simple model of computer networks and the functional model of an operating system. Appreciate the role of the software which enables the internet communication, e.g. the operating system, network management, communication control



Understand how software maps from a high level language to a machine code implementation.

Be able to boot up a PC, find out about its basic configuration and re-configure simple aspects.

Be able to install and de-install applications software.

Understand and modify very simple examples of assembler programs.

Be familiar with the basic structure and components, which make up the Internet, e.g. the public communication links, ISDN and data rates, node provider technology, local and wide area networks involved.

Recognise the role and workings of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Be familiar with the functions and operation of application software used with the internet e.g. web browsers, Telnet, Email, chat, FTP Clients

Understand the structure of the web, site, page and link generation, the role of HTML etc.

Recognise the importance of management of access to the Internet, security, passwords etc.

Be familiar with the protocols used in the network communication and their relation to the seven layer OSI model, handshaking and error control

Appreciate the importance of security for industrial and commercial Internet transactions, SET etc.

Recognise the importance of encryption techniques and know the principles behind those commonly employed

Recognise the requirements for languages used in producing software for internet applications Part 2: Be able to design, implement, test and document modular programs of moderate size, from given specifications.

Be able to translate informal or formal software designs into C or Java programs, using all the control structures, the primitive data structures of the language, and strings and arrays.

Use an IBM PC or clone under Ms Dos and Windows, for all aspects of file handling, and using C++ or Java JDK 1.3 toolkits to develop programs.

Create programs of moderate complexity, essentially with a procedural/imperative approach, in either C++ or Java


Two one-hour lecture/tutorial each week will cover the necessary theory and principles. One two-hour workshop each week will provide the hands on experience needed to bring the theory to life. All classes will be timetabled into multipurpose computer workshops which allow lecture and workshop activity to be interleaved as and when necessary. Most of the material will be available on the web.

Indicative content Part 1: The smallest essential model of a computer and components of a real PC. CPU basic operation - registers, addresses, instructions, busses. Simple memory organisation and operation, caches. Simple I/O operation, the concept of devices and device controllers. Operating systems: what they are for, how they work. Network operating systems. • What is the Internet? The difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web. The distributed nature of the Internet. Internet



History, JANET. • Connecting to the Internet, Service Providers, Dial-up, leased lines, ISDN. • The basics of page authoring, the role of page authoring tools (HTML etc.) • Operational principles of the Internet applications, such as web browsers, Telnet, Email, chat, FTP etc. • Protocols and standards, their philosophy and the importance in the development and support of the Internet. • An overview of network topology and communication on LAN, WAN and Public networks • Error control principles • Accessing data, browsers and search methods • Security - encryption/decryption principles and firewall techniques • The future of the Internet and next generation of computer networking Part 2: Basics of C/Java language programming concepts- simple programs showing examples of sequences, loops, alternatives. Statements and expressions; Primitive variables; Strings and arrays; sequence, selection, iteration. • Sub-programs (i.e. functions or methods), make and build utilities • Composite Types. • Implementing and testing of sub-programs, using and making libraries, classes/libraries for handling external devices


Theory 60%:

Phase test (15%)

Mid-sessional online test (15%)

End of module test (30%) Coursework 40%:

Workshop log book (20%)

Report (20%)


Computer Systems Architecture, by Rob Williams, Addison-Wesley 2001. Data Communications, Computer Networks and Open Systems, William Stallings, 6th Ed., Prentice Hall, 2000 Computer Networks and Internets with Internet Applications, Douglas E. Comer, 3rd Ed. Prentice Hall, 2001 The Essence of Programming using C++, by Douglas Bell, Prentice Hall, 1997. H.M. Deitel, P.J. Deitel, Java How to Program, Publisher: Pearson Education; 8 edition (15 Feb 2009)

Please note that these modules are designed in such a way that parts of a module can be shared as well as a complete module.



PA R T 4 GE N E R A L I N F O R M A T I O N F O R S T U D E N T S 4.1. Introduction This part of the guide contains important information for students about how things work in the Department and in the School, as well as more general things about the University. Some of it (e.g. about LEA support for undergraduates) applies more to a particular group of students. A lot of the information applies only to our Department/School, so you won't find it anywhere else. Some of it is about the University as a whole and for these aspects you will find more detail in your Student Handbook. 4.2. The School Office, & Student Information Centre, T313 Your course belongs to the Department of Engineering and Design, which is part of the School of Engineering, Science & the Built Environment (FESBE). The School Office, in T313, handles student administration for all courses in the School. This office is your main contact with the University administration. It is also the place where you hand in your coursework for marking. It is well worth taking time to get to know the administrators since they can give you a good deal of helpful information and advice throughout your time in the University. There are plasma screens installed to display information on a constant basis, such as room changes etc. Students should make all enquiries to the office via the counters in T313. The office is open to students from each day during term, although the hours are subject to change when necessary. Please see the opening times on the third floor notice board. T313 deals with general queries from students about day-to-day course matters, enrolment and registration, student records, examinations etc., as well as receiving your assignments. The office is usually very busy, so please try to sort out queries by other means (for example by reading this course Guide!) before going to the administrators. When you do go to ask something, be patient if you have to wait, and polite to the staff. 'Old hands' among our students will tell you that being well mannered towards the office staff is the only way to ensure any long-term service! Another 'must' - always have your ID card ready! Among the staff you will get to know are the following: Course Administrators, Mr. Riccardo Pierrini (Undergraduate Courses) Mr. Isaac Oshikoya (Postgraduate Courses) Administrators based in the School Office look after the courses. Your course has its own administrator (Riccardo), whom you should identify and get to know. They help the Course Directors with the organization of the courses and maintain all the course and student records. They are the vital links between the students, academics and the Central Registry. They will help with any problems or questions about your course that do not need the attention of your Course Director, such as academic questions. If the School Administrators cannot help directly, they will very likely be able to put you in contact with someone who can. If you treat your School Administrators in the correct manner, they will become valuable contacts for the duration of your course. Points to Remember about the School Office System • Notice boards Look at the notice boards in and outside T313. Many students have queued for advice in the office only to discover that the answer to their routine question was waiting for them on the notice boards! Indeed, the University can accept no responsibility for any problems that may arise as a result of a student failing to look at the notice boards. • Timetables These change from time to time, especially at the start of a semester, so always keep a check on the latest version – on the web via VLE at: http://VLE.lsbu.ac.uk

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• Address and Telephone Number Keep T313 informed in writing of any changes of address/phone number. Otherwise you run the risk of not receiving important communications. Many important things, such as exam results, referral details, meeting dates, prizes etc. are sent by post. The University accepts no responsibility for problems caused by a failure to give a correct address or telephone number. Please note that you must Always Use your Student Number in dealings with the School office. All official information about you is linked to your ID number (the seven figure number on your Identity Card) so make sure you know your number and quote it together with your name on all coursework and other documentation. Please get into the habit of writing your family name (surname) in capitals and underlining it - that way we can distinguish Wilson JAMES from James WILSON. Marks have been misplaced because of this kind of confusion. In fact this is more than just a good habit. It is a good example of using a standard i.e. an agreed way of doing something that improves quality. Using standards is an extremely important part of your engineering course. • Handing in coursework To hand in work, you should complete the Coursework Submission Form (available from the School Office). Opening times are displayed near the door. All work must be handed in through the receipt system in T313 not to a lecturer and each item of work must have a completed Coursework Submission Form attached to the front of it. If this form is not completed fully the office staff will not accept the work. Assignment sheets given to you by lecturers will have the name of the assignment and the other details you need to fill in the form. The Coursework Submission Form has four pages to it and is carbonated so please ensure that an imprint is made on all copies. All copies will be date stamped by the School Office staff and a copy will be given back to you to act as proof of receipt, the other copies will be attached to the work and one of them will be filed in the office after marking. The work is then put into a collection box for the lecturer concerned. Do not lose your stamped receipt, as it may be necessary for you to prove at some point that you have handed your coursework in. This is not the responsibility of the School Office. The University rules about the submission of coursework are detailed in your Student Handbook. You are strongly advised to read these carefully before you hand in any coursework. They place emphasis on submitting work within the published deadlines and there are fixed penalties for unauthorized late submissions. There are also arrangements allowing students to request an extension to a coursework deadline - these are to be used strictly under exceptional circumstances. Again, forms are available in the School office. You can only get an extension to a coursework deadline in advance, so don't turn up late with the work and expect to get an extension after the deadline has already passed. • Letters and Transcripts. The School office can prepare letters confirming your enrolment details, help with LEA forms etc. To request a letter fill in the request form which is available in the office. Please allow two working days for your request to be dealt with. The office has to ask for five working days notice for the preparation of examination transcripts. Letters can only be prepared for serious things to do with your academic status, e.g. Home Office matters, sponsorship matters. Once you have enrolled, you already have documentation proving your status as a student, so please don’t ask T313 for letters to your new landlord or employer to say that you are indeed a student at London South Bank. • Council Tax Certificates These are prepared in Central Registry and then delivered to School Offices, usually several weeks after the beginning of the academic year. All first year students should collect a certificate from the office. Take care of your certificate since the university issues only one to each student for the duration of the course. Contacting Lecturers Use Email wherever possible; most of your tutors prefer this as a first line of communication. A list of these e-mail addresses can be found at Appendix B of this Course Guide. You will be given your own Email address automatically, soon after enrolment.



Staff room numbers and other contact details are in the staff photograph cabinets outside T313. It is not normally possible to book appointments through the office (T313). You can use either email or telephone to make appointments with academic staff. You can still visit staff at their offices without an appointment for brief enquiries etc. but remember that they will not always have time to see you in this case. Sometimes, lecturers may be working at home. If you think you really need to make urgent contact, check with the Administrators in T313. They may, at their discretion, phone a lecturer for you. You won't be given the number yourself. Telephoning or Faxing in from Outside the University You can do this to report absence, illness, or other serious course related matters. The numbers are 020 7815 7612/7654/7377/7166. Fax (020 7815 6134). Please only use the Fax if all else fails, e.g. if you can only make contact out of office hours. You must not use the Fax for anything other than the above, except with special permission from a member of staff. Please avoid telephoning in for information such as lecture timetables or examination details which are advertised on the notice boards or the web, since the office can easily become inundated with calls of this kind. Your family can use the numbers above to contact you in an emergency, but not otherwise. Please make sure that your family knows exactly what course and year you are on in case of emergency. Someone who rings to contact 'John Smith, I think he's doing engineering' may cause a considerable delay while we figure out who he is and where he might be. Better still; make sure your family knows your Student Number - that way we can speedily look you up. 4.3. The University Student Administration departments As well as T313, there is a central administrative operation. Should you need to consult a student administration department and are uncertain about whom to contact, the School Office staff will be pleased to give advice. The student administration departments you are most likely to have to visit are based in Technopark. – Please enquire at the reception on the ground floor of Technopark for further information. Note that the main entrance to the Technopark is in London road. These departments are concerned with:

Access funds, Fee remission, and charitable funds

Enquiries about fees - although actual payments are made at the Finance Office

Student Loans

Replacement Council Tax certificates

Academic appeals

Discipline, complaints

Anything to do with the award of your final graduation certificate

Graduation ceremonies Visit their website at: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/student.administration/ For more details and downloadable forms for: change of course/address, MC claims, interruption etc 4.4. Exams and other assessments, some rules and procedures. These are in no particular order, but all are important. The general principle is one of equal opportunity; exams and assessments must be just and fair. On a more mundane note, the University is sometimes short of exam rooms, so there can be quite late changes to the venues. Be early for exams, and get into the habit of checking the Exam Timetable early on the day of the exam, in case of any changes. Also, to enter an examination, you will need your student ID card as proof of enrolment. Your ID number has to be written on your answer scripts, so do make sure you have your card at all times and know your ID number (keep a second copy somewhere).

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Examination Regulations The University lists these in the Registrar’s Standing Memorandum RSM/95/2. The most important points are summarized in your Student Handbook. It is assumed that you will have read these, before your first exam. For example, a late train will not entitle you to any special consideration, if you can’t get to an exam on time! The Module Co-ordinator concerned before the examination will give any special rules about calculators to you. Otherwise you may use your normal calculator, but not to store text or formulae. 4.5. Cheating and plagiarism Cheating - gaining unfair advantage in assessments by not following the regulations - and plagiarism - presenting the work of others as your own - is taken very seriously by the University. For your information the following quotation from the University Standing Memoranda is included: “Where there are suspected cases of cheating, plagiarism or other forms of unfair advantage the details of the incident will be brought to the attention of the Assistant Registrar (Assessments and Awards). The student will be required to make a representation (oral and/or written) to the Assistant Registrar who will report the incident, along with the student’s representation, to the Board of Examiners. It is then for the Board of Examiners to decide on the appropriate course of action. This may include: • Taking no further action; • Awarding a mark of zero for the particular module or piece of assessment concerned (with the possible proviso that the student be required to retake the assessment); • Awarding a mark of zero for all forms of assessment (with the possible proviso that the student be required to retake the assessments); • Suspending the student from the course for a period of time; and • Requiring the student to withdraw from the course.” At LSBU instances of plagiarism are dealt with as part of the Academic Misconduct section of the Academic Regulations for Taught Courses. These can be found in full on the Students Information Gateway (SIG) on the university website at: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/current.student/ AT this website you can also download a range of forms that you may require at some point. The above should not inhibit you from working with your fellow students in preparation for an assessment. Group study is one of the best ways of cracking problems, and is encouraged. Indeed, some assignments are specifically set as group work, and will be assessed with this in mind. Where you have an individual piece of work to do, there is no reason why you shouldn't figure it out by working with other students, unless your teacher specifies that you do it alone (which may happen if the objective of the work is specific to you). However if you do finally figure something out in this way, then by the principles above, you must acknowledge anything that came from someone or somewhere else, and what you present must reflect your own final understanding and command of the work. You should always produce the final deliverables yourself, and on your own, using no written material except your own (this implies that you keep your own notes/ log book during any joint study sessions). By doing this, you will get maximum benefit from doing coursework, and will not run into any problems about cheating or plagiarism. Help Sheet no 30 – Referencing Using the Harvard System: Frequently Asked Questions, Help Sheet no 31 – Referencing Electronic Sources and Help Sheet no 28 – How to do your Referencing (5): Numeric Style are available in the library and from their website: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/library/ Plagiarism Understanding about this is particularly important, because it's so easy to find useful things on the Internet. You should be particularly careful to give an exact reference to anything that you have copied or summarised from the Internet or from any other public source. You should only include direct verbatim quotes in your reports if there is an essential academic point to be made by doing so, e.g. if you are making very detailed criticisms of, or analysis of, the author’s

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original text. Such extracts should not be extensive and must be visible as direct quotes – they must be inside quotation marks and they could also be indented and/or be in a different font from the main text. Otherwise, you must not simply transfer any factual or descriptive text from a source (especially the Internet) into your own work. Making such transfers (cut and paste) will lead to a plagiarism case against you. 4.6. Extenuating Circumstances (e.g. Illness before or during exams) Extenuating circumstances are things, which may have affected your work, such as your being severely ill, having a death in the family or being affected by a serious social problem (crime, accident etc.). Unfortunately, shortage of money affects most students and is something you have to come terms with - it will not count as an extenuating circumstance. There is a special form for all the details of any extenuating circumstances you wish to have considered. You must fill in this form before the published deadlines; otherwise the exam board will not consider your case. Also, keep copies of any official papers that support your case (doctor's letters etc.), as these will be needed. If you find on the day of an examination that you cannot attend, then please arrange for the School Office to be informed as early as possible. This is one occasion when you may send in a Fax message. Appeals You may use The University's Appeals procedure if you feel that the decision of an Examiners Board was made without taking into account all the details of your case. The first step is to approach your Course Director to see if your problem can be resolved locally. If it cannot, then you may appeal officially to the Registrars Department within two weeks of the decision of the Board being published. Your Programme Director cannot deal with official appeals. It is a common mistake to believe that the Registrar's appeals system makes new academic decisions about you. It does not. If an appeal is successful, the original exam board is normally asked to re-consider and perhaps make a new decision. Copies of the Appeals Procedure are available from the Registrar. Re-sit Examinations, and other Referred Work Re-sits take place under the same rules as normal exams. They normally occur shortly before the beginning of the new academic year, in late August/early September. They are an additional facility traditionally given to allow students to make up deficits. You must make yourself available at these times; failure to attend for a resit examination counts as a failure. Very soon after the exam board has met, you will be posted a transcript of your results, which will detail all the resits, or other referred work you have to do. It needs careful reading. You should immediately check the resit timetable and once again just before the resits begin, for final details of rooms and times for your exams. It is up to you to make sure we have a correct address at all times, and that letters will get to you during the summer if you are away. Students have failed resits and other referred work because of going away on the day after their last exam and not bothering to find out if any referred work or revision still needs to be done. Resits must take precedence over previously booked holidays for example. And there are no resits of resits! Other kinds of referred work have to be handed in before you will be allowed to take the resit. The dates will be on your results letter. All the results are considered by a referred exam board, which meets as soon as possible to decide about your progression to the next stage. Your re-enrolment will not be completed until this decision has been made. 4.7. Other Relevant University Rules and Procedures There is a Student handbook, which all students are given at enrolment time. Make sure you have a copy; if not, you can get one in the School Office. It gives all the general rules about personal and academic conduct and about many other things. Below are summarized some of the more important things, which may affect you. Attendance Higher Education is about taking charge of your own learning. Organizing your time is one of the key things you must learn to do. You should try to attend all your classes, since these constitute



the framework around which you build your study. Remember that there are at most 13 teaching weeks in each module, so that a missed one is about 8% of the whole. If you do miss work, it is up to you to fill in the gap, usually by arranging beforehand for fellow students to collect material and lend you missing notes. Lecturers are not obliged to provide missed material, unless previously notified of illness. In particular, you should know that it is very difficult to make up for lost time in laboratory classes, since these are not repeated. Often, a piece of coursework can only be done during laboratory sessions and so you may have great difficulty in making up for missed sessions. You should do this as soon as possible - it can often be impossible to redo after the module is finished. Attendance records are kept. We have an increasing obligation to report to the relevant authorities or sponsors who exercise their right to ask for attendance and progress information. Exam boards may also ask if a student has been putting the required time and effort into study, in order to arrive at just decisions. Grant/loan authorities will withdraw support and perhaps demand repayment if you are not actively studying. Also note that all students, and not just Part Time students, may be expected to attend evening sessions if necessary. This is common in specialized modules where FT and PT groups are combined. You should also be aware that your course might require things of you at any point in term time. Even if you have finished exams, you may be asked for a Viva, or to see the Course Director for some reason. Unfortunately, it is not an excuse to have booked up a sunny beach in Bermuda, a plum job in Harrods, or a ticket to hear Stockhausen or JLS. Punctuality Engineers are expected to follow proper working standards. The School standard is that lectures start no more than 5 minutes after the hour and finish 5 minutes before the hour. These times allow students to transfer between classes. Students arriving more than 5 minutes after the start of a class will normally be excluded from the session. You can't be a well-organized engineer if you can't organize yourself! Everybody will recognize the protest from late student A, who lives 20 minutes walk away "the train was late Sir, because of the snow", while sitting beside student B, from Portsmouth, who listened to the weather forecast the night before, got up extra early, dug herself out of a six foot snowdrift, caught an early train, got to college on time, had breakfast, fixed up a date, did some reading, and arrived 5 minutes early for the class. Guess which student got the job, when they went for that interview. Lecturers try to ensure that classes timetabled to finish on the hour will normally finish 5 minutes earlier to allow time to get to the next activity. Withdrawal See Academic Regulations 9.12-9.19. Never do this without first talking to your Course Director and Personal Tutor. Situations are rarely as bad as you think, and you will be surprised how many other possibilities there can be, including the deferral of your studies. Remember that we have a vast amount of experience to draw on. If you do withdraw, you must fill an official dated form, available from the School Office. You should collect a form from the School Office and take it to the Fees Office in Technopark. Failure to do this can lead to serious problems about fees. You or your local authority will be invoiced for fees if you have not formally withdrawn. Sponsors and local authorities are automatically informed if you withdraw. Interrupting your studies This means stopping your studies for all of the modules of a semester taking a year or semester out of your studies (maybe for medical or family reasons) and then continuing later, sees Academic Regulations 9.12-9.19. The key is to talk to your Personal Tutor and/or Course Director as soon as possible about it. If you do it very late, you won’t be able to get back any fees, for example. Again there are official forms for you to fill in, once you have agreed it with your Course Director. If you do have to take time out, or repeat modules, there is a limit to the total time you can be registered, except in the case of illness. This is the normal length of the course +



two years. There are time limits on when you cannot interrupt, for example in the two weeks before an examination period, see Regulation 9.14. There are additional restrictions if you interrupt your final year project – and you will usually have to re-start with a different project and supervisor. Transferring to other courses This is possible, but is a serious matter to discuss well in advance with your Course Director. Here are some relevant points: • Full Time to Part Time transfers within the department is usually easier than the reverse. • Transfers into our courses from courses in other institutions, and vice versa, are strictly controlled. There have to be good academic grounds for the transfer and agreement by both institutions. So you can't simply change courses just because things aren't going too well. Fees One or two things if you are paying your own:

There are deadlines for paying fees. Make sure you know what these are, since your Course Director is automatically asked to exclude you from classes if fees are not paid in time.

Always keep your receipts, so that you prove payment to the School Office

You can negotiate to pay by instalments - check with the Finance Office. A comprehensive leaflet about paying fees is available from them.

You won't get your final degree, or even know the result of any exams, if you haven't paid!. (The same is true for Library and Hall of Residence debts).

You can't enrol for the next year of a programme if fees are outstanding from the previous one. Equal Opportunities and Diversity The University's policy statement is reproduced in the Student Handbook. Just remember the principle, which is one of respect for others. It is one of the great strengths of the University that we all go about our business without regard to any differences in the personal make up, circumstances, or beliefs of our fellows. We are much the richer for this. This principle is very strongly held. Individual Complaints and Discipline As in any institution, there are formal procedures for you to lodge complaints about other students or staff, or for them to do the same about you. They are the "Student Complaints Procedure" and the "Student Discipline Procedure", copies of which you can get from the Assistant Registrar. They are very rarely used. You should first take your problem to your Personal Tutor who will treat it in confidence. It may be that it can be resolved by her/him or perhaps by referring upwards, with your consent. If the problem can’t be resolved within the School, then you can use the University procedures referred to above. These are very strictly set out, as with any legal process, and once started always run their proper course. Health and Safety Emergency procedures are described inside the front cover of this guide. The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 applies to the University's students, as well as staff, so you should know something about it. The principle behind the law is a simple one of personal responsibility. If there is something potentially dangerous to yourself or others, ask yourself what you should be doing; never leave it for somebody else to worry about. For engineering students, it is particularly important, and often forms part of the curriculum. All the more reason to take it seriously on a day-to-day basis. Under the act, staff and students have a legal responsibility to do things in a safe and responsible manner, and to report accidents, hazards or potential hazards to one of the School's Safety Officer. The 1974 act also states “No person shall intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interest of health, safety or welfare in pursuance of any of the relevant statutory provisions"



In other words, don't mess about with the fire alarms, extinguishers, safety notices, first aid boxes, machine guards etc. It is a criminal offence to do so. There are a more details about safety rules for students in your Student Handbook. You are strongly advised to read these. You will receive details of the School Health & Safety policies in your induction pack. 4.8. Student Support Details and links to both personal and academic support services and many others are available from a single web site the Students Information Gateway at: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/current.student/ London Nightline 020 7631 0101, 6:00pm to 8:00am If you need to talk to somebody out of hours, when you can't contact the people below, phone Nightline, a registered charity run by students, for students. Your Personal Tutor. For individual pastoral support, you are given a Personal Tutor who lasts throughout your stay at London South Bank. Don't think of your Personal Tutor just as someone to see at problem times. Every student grows and changes during a course (otherwise something is wrong), and can really benefit by getting to know someone who is further along the road than them. There are all kinds of benefit on both sides, even at the mundane level of getting meaningful job references when you leave. But staff have many tutees and although they will put out invitations for you to see them, they won't chase you up. So it is really down to you to see your tutor, book appointments via the staff door notice system, and get to know her/him. Tutors will also be able to offer advice on personal development and how you can begin to maintain your personal record of achievement and monitor and reflect on your learning. Of course many students do face personal problems as well as academic ones, perhaps housing or financial difficulties, stress raised by combining academic work with family responsibilities, Home Office problems, and many others. Your Personal Tutor is the one to talk to in the first instance about these kinds of problems. Your Course Director cannot cope with the individual problems of all students; your Personal Tutor will advise if you need to see him or her. The basic rule is that what is talked about is confidential, so that you can be open with your Personal Tutor, who will be non-judgmental. She or he will listen and may be able to offer helpful advice, especially where the problem is connected with study. But remember that academic staff are not qualified counsellors, so they will sometimes refer you to the Learning Development Centre (in Caxton House) for more specialized advice. Your tutor will keep notes about your meetings (so that she/he can do you justice), but won't release any of the information without getting your permission. Your Personal Tutor is also a good person to talk to about possible disciplinary problems or appeals. Student Accommodation Office. Room G5, ground floor behind the main entrance, Borough Road, open 9:00 to 17:00 each day. Halls of residence, tenancies, lists of landlords, advice. The Students’ Union Advice Bureau If you feel that staff can't help, the Union Advice Workers might be able to. They are independent of the University, and have lots of experience in dealing with problems from a student's viewpoint. They are members of FIAC (Federation of Independent Advice Centres), and so you can think of them as a sort of 'Citizens Advice Bureau' for students. They deal with housing





problems, Social Security tribunals, legal problems, as well as advising you if you make academic appeals against exam board decisions, or get involved with disciplinary issues. Academic Support. If you are having general difficulties organizing and concentrating on your studies, see your Personal Tutor. Otherwise, for more specific things, various members of the course team below may be able to help and the staff in T318 should also be on your list of places to visit. Additionally, there are centrally provided learning support services in the Learning Resources Centre (LRC), the Language Centre (Computer Assisted Language Learning) and in the Core Skills Module in Caxton House (help with study skills, literacy, numeracy, and especially with dyslexia). There is also a web based learning and language skills package called “Academic Assistant” at: http://www.blc.lsbu.ac.uk/aa/aa/ Subject Lecturers/Tutors These are your first port of call for individual academic queries. Be polite and patient; staff will try to give you some time to sort out problems, but not usually instantly, so be prepared to make an appointment via email or to wait. Also, don't expect a lot of help if you haven't done your bit first - if you just come along with a vague ''I don't understand op' amps'', for example. This means you should have made sure you have all the relevant notes (if need be copied from classmates), tried to figure out the problem for yourself or in a study group, read things up in the textbook, made some notes about what you think the problem is, what you do and don't understand. All this is necessary if staff are to make good use of their time with you. Course Directors Their job is to look after all the students on a course and get to know the student reps. They are your first port of call for any general problems about the academic organization of your course. Please remember that Course Directors are primarily concerned with academic and organisational matters; for personal problems, your personal tutor remains the key contact. Project Co-ordinator Dr. Sandra Dudley-McEvoy Tel: 020 7815 7124 Email: [email protected] She liaises with the academic staff and research groups who originate and supervise your projects. Industrial Liaison Tutor Dr. Sandra Dudley-McEvoy Tel: 020 7815 7124 Email: [email protected] If you are trying to fix up an Industrial Placement, she will provide the backup you need and help out with suggestions. When on a placement, she will visit you and keep the records of your progress. An open meeting is organised by Dr Dudley-McEvoy in term one for students in their second year who are considering taking up placements where you can find out more and meet previous placement students. What to do if... Lots of odd things can and do happen. We try to keep you informed by using the web or notice boards. It's your responsibility if you are left in the dark because you don't check these. • There is a fire alarm You will not know if it is a practice, or for real, so take all fire alarms seriously! Make sure you have read the emergency bit inside the front cover of this guide. • You are absent due to illness First of all be sure that you really can't make it to a class, especially a practical class that can't be re-run. Better to do the work feeling a bit below par than miss it altogether! If you are ill for a short time (up to a day or two), get a classmate to collect all the notes and other paperwork, and simply work hard to catch up later. Don't expect teachers to carry spare copies just in case you happen to ask for one in the corridor. And do all the work, don't just leave it! All the teaching is based on the expectation that you will attempt all the work, except in

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the case of more serious illness. See your teachers to arrange to catch up on any missed practical sessions. If you are ill for a longer period, you must let your Course Director know the details as soon as you can, and provide a medical certificate when you return. Your Course Director will then figure out the best way to minimize the effects of your having been away. • You need to be away for some other reason Generally speaking there aren't any other reasons and you won't be given any special consideration for being away! But occasionally there are good reasons why students can't attend college (e.g. deaths in the family). You should see your Course Director well in advance to see if anything can be done. Retrospective approaches will generally get you nowhere. • You feel ill while at the University Make sure that you keep another person with you, and get somebody to seek out one of the University's First Aiders (see the inside front cover of this guide). This is one of the few occasions when you can use the internal telephones, if one is to hand. Also, depending on how serious things are, don't hesitate to knock on staff doors, enter, and ask for them to ring for help, even if they look busy. • There are transport problems Generally you are expected to get up earlier and make alternative arrangements to get to college, as are the staff! The University registrar will advise us all of any special arrangements. This is an example where you would be encouraged to telephone in to find out. • A lecturer doesn't appear in the expected room or at the expected time. A timetabling bug can sometimes occur and cause this to happen. If a lecturer is ill then another member of staff or an administrator should appear to explain the alternative arrangements, but may be late. In any case, the class should send a messenger to T318, and remain in the room, rather than assume that the class is postponed. Advice will arrive. • You find or lose something Make a note of the time and place, and take it to the reception desk at the main Borough Road entrance. Check with them if you have lost something.



4.9. School and University Facilities University Opening Times The University is open to students between 8:30 am and 21:00 during term time. In vacations, students normally have to leave by 17:30. Queries or Problems Concerning Tower Block Laboratories Any queries or problems regarding the electrical laboratories, within the Tower Block, should in the first instance be addressed to the technician in charge of the area. If the problem is not resolved then contact Mr. Ayman Wahab, the senior technician, whose office T802, is on the 8

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floor of the Tower Block. Mechanical Workshop Students are not allowed in this workshop unless invited in by a member of the technical staff. Please ask at the Electronic Stores counter if you require the services of the mechanical workshop staff. Electronic Stores (T135) To get there, you take the 2nd floor Tower Block corridor, which runs away directly opposite the back entrance to the student centre. Go through the double doors and again , immediately to your left is a through another double door is a staircase that you need to take one floor down. To your right is a set of double doors that will take you to the stores on the right. The stores keeps a stock of commonly used electronic components. Each laboratory has a copy of the stores catalogue, which lists all of the components, held by the stores. The catalogue is also available in Microsoft word format although you must provide your own floppy disk. Please ask the storekeeper if you require a copy. Project students can obtain components and services from the stores but must first be registered. To register with the stores please obtain the relevant forms, from the stores, and fill in your details. The forms must then be signed by your supervisor who will also fill in details on the safety form and tell you which laboratory you will work in. The technician in charge of the laboratory, where you will work, must also sign the pink form. The completed forms are then returned to the stores. If they have been completed correctly you will be issued with a stores number, which you can use to obtain components, order components and have work done in the mechanical workshop. Please note that there are deadlines for the various services provided by our stores - you can't expect to rush in the day before your project is due and demand that a circuit board be made! Opening times: These times are subject to change. Full details of opening times will be posted on the stores door. The stores are open during the holidays for limited periods. Opening times will be posted on the door. Tower block Software Laboratories, T806, T807 These are kept open as much as possible (given the need for a technician to be around) to encourage you to use software tools as a normal part of engineering work. There are various CAD and word processing tools available. All computer labs are networked and connected to the Web. Keeping these labs open and functioning well depends on your being responsible about things, so you must observe the rules below as well as any ones posted in the labs. 1. The copying of any software from the School's machines is forbidden. We must observe Copyright law and licensing agreements. 2. You must not run any CD disc or memory stick based software of your own on School machines, except with permission from teacher concerned. We need to keep viruses off the machines and this rule is a better safeguard than anything. 3. Report any faults via the proper channel, usually a notice board provided for the purpose. Just moving to another machine to let others find the problem is just selfish and will hit you one day! 4. If the room is timetabled for a class you will usually be asked to leave but sometimes you can remain if the lecturer in charge gives you permission and you do not disturb the class activity.



Other Laboratories You will mainly use these in timetabled classes, or while doing a final project. However, you are here to learn as much about your subject as possible, and to explore your interests. There is no reason why you shouldn't use labs if they are available and if there is time to look after you. Technicians look after laboratories. You will have to convince the technician responsible that you are responsible and serious enough to use the lab. The first step is getting an introduction from a member of staff who knows you and supports the idea of your working in the lab. Then it's up to you. However, you will not be able to work in a laboratory that is unattended. Computing Resources The University has an extensive range of computing facilities. They are divided into specific areas to ensure that you get the maximum support with your IT needs. The following section gives a brief outline of these areas however a more detailed and up-to-date information, current offers and advice can be found at the ‘Student Gateway’ the internet address is http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/current.student/ The Virtual Learning Environment (Moodle) At London South Bank University we recognise that the internet is a powerful source of information and we have adopted the Moodle VLE as our support mechanism for teaching and learning. It is Intuitive and easy-to-use system that allows each module to have its own specialist mini-website that can be accessed 24 hours a day. Your tutor will give you specific instructions on activating your account and level of student participation, communication, and collaboration available for each individual module site. You can access Moodle at the following URL: http://vle.lsbu.ac.uk Computer Services This facility is located on the ground floor of the Borough Road site. The IT Helpdesk Staff provide technical support for students on a broad range of issues including creation of email accounts, programming advice, and assistance with virus protection. The website address is http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/helpdesk/ The Learning Resources Centre (LRC) The LRC is a purpose-built IT and electronic information centre, designed specifically to give students the means to research and produce excellent work for their courses. It houses nearly 450 workstations and associated peripherals and provides access to a broad range of IT packages from Microsoft Office to specialist educational packages relevant to a broad range of undergraduate and postgraduate studies. Access to the Internet is also provided along with the email facilities. In addition to these facilities there is a dedicated CAD and Multimedia suite in room 3-North, this small facility caters more specifically for the needs of engineering students using CAD/CAE related software. The website address is http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/lrc/ My LSBU Portal The LSBU Student Portal is your online hub for information and services related to all aspects of your life as a current student at London South Bank University. It will give you single point of access to all of your LSBU internet based resources. Once you have set up your username and password you can access the portal at: https://my.lsbu.ac.uk/ Your Personal Tutor. For individual pastoral support, you are given a Personal Tutor who lasts throughout your stay at London South Bank. Don't think of your Personal Tutor just as someone to see at problem times. Every student grows and changes during a course (otherwise something is wrong), and can really benefit by getting to know someone who is further along the road than themselves. There are all kinds of benefit on


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both sides, even at the mundane level of getting meaningful job references when you leave. But staff have many tutees and although they will put out invitations for you to see them, they won't chase you up. So it is really down to you to see your tutor, make appointments via the staff door system, and get to know her/him. Of course many students do face personal problems as well as academic ones, perhaps housing or financial difficulties, stress raised by combining academic work with family responsibilities, Home Office problems, and many others. Your Personal Tutor is the one to talk to in the first instance about these kinds of problems. Your Course Director cannot cope with the individual problems of all students; your Personal Tutor will advise if you need to see him or her. The basic rule is that what is talked about is confidential, so that you can be open with your Personal Tutor, who will be non-judgmental. She or he will listen and may be able to offer helpful advice, especially where the problem is connected with study. But remember that academic staff are not qualified counsellors, so they will sometimes refer you to the Learning Development Centre (in Caxton House) for more specialized advice. Your tutor will keep notes about your meetings (so that sh/e can do you justice), but won't release any of the information without getting your permission. Your Personal Tutor is also a good person to talk to about possible disciplinary problems or appeals. Student Accommodation Office. The process to apply for accommodation at London South Bank University (LSBU) begins once we have offered you a place on one of our academic courses. Then you should apply as soon as possible using our Online Accommodation Application Service. http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/student-life/accommodation/applying Learning and IT The University's two campuses, Southwark and LSBU at Havering each provide a comprehensive range of learning resources and services to support your programme of study and personal learning development. The Student services centre brings together a range of student services including: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/student-life/student-services Skills for Learning Disability & Dyslexia Support Student Advice Employability & Careers Library Services IT Support Student Mental Health & Wellbeing Disability & Dyslexia Support (DDS) DDS staff co-ordinate the support offered to students and provide advice and information about disabilities. They offer a range of services and facilities that can be tailored to meet individual needs of students and that enable them to get the most out of your time at London South Bank University. DDS is a part of Student Services http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/faculties-and-departments/professional-departments/student-services Careers Information on over 1000 UK employers, career planning, interview techniques, doing your CV and much more. Pay an early visit, even if you are just starting your course - planning is always best done early! Tel: 020 7815 6710/6431 http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/student-life/student-services

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Chaplaincy LSBU has a dedicated Chaplaincy Service, which has been set up to care for students or staff of all faiths or of none. It is led by a full time multi-faith chaplain who is linked to representatives from differing churches and faith groups. Contact: co-ordinating multi-faith contact: Tel: 020 7815 6454 Info: https://my.lsbu.ac.uk/page/multi-faith E-mail: [email protected] Multi-faith Chaplaincy exists to; Offer Multi-faith advice, Encourage spirituality in the university, Build community Be a place for confidential support. The chaplaincy team seeks to initiate and support activities within the University for those who want opportunities to pray, worship, study and discuss issues relevant to faith or to explore wider questions of spiritual significance. Tower block Software Laboratories (8

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These are kept open as much as possible (given the need for a technician to be around) to encourage you to use software tools as a normal part of engineering work. There are various CAD and word processing tools available. All computer labs are networked and connected to the Web. Keeping these labs open and functioning well depends on your being responsible about things, so you must observe the rules below as well as any ones posted in the labs. 1. The copying of any software from the School's machines is forbidden. We must observe Copyright law and Licensing agreements. 2. You must not run any floppy disc or memory stick based software of your own on School machines, except with permission from teacher concerned. We need to keep viruses off the machines and this rule is a better safeguard than anything. 3. Report any faults via the proper channel, usually a notice board provided for the purpose. Just moving to another machine to let others find the problem is just selfish and will hit you one day! Queries or Problems Concerning Tower Block Laboratories Any queries or problems regarding the electrical laboratories, within the Tower Block, should in the first instance be addressed to the technician in charge of the area. If the problem is not resolved then contact your laboratory supervisor (academic staff in charge of your lab work), or your project supervisor. Other Laboratories You will mainly use these in timetabled classes, or while doing a final project. However, you are here to learn as much about your subject as possible, and to explore your interests. There is no reason why you shouldn't use labs if they are available and if there is time to look after you. Laboratories are looked after by technicians. You will have to convince the technician responsible that you are responsible and serious enough to use the lab. The first step is getting an introduction from a member of staff who knows you and supports the idea of your working in the lab. Then it's up to you. However, you will not be able to work in a laboratory that is unattended. Perry Library You should have been introduced to the library at the beginning of your studies. If you haven't, then something is wrong! Make sure you have an up to date copy of the Library guide. The University Computer Centre On the ground floor of the Borough Road building, along the corridor which runs away to the left if you are in reception with your back to the revolving doors. Most facilities provided in the past

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by the Computer Centre are now be available in the Learning Resources Centre, but the Computer Centre will continue to provide a mainframe computing service for staff and students. All students will get a Username and a Password to use email facilities. Photocopiers The nearest copier for your is on the 2nd floor of the Tower block, by the rear entrance to the refectory. Other ones for students are in the Perry Library, the LRC and on the 2nd floor West Bridge between the Main building and the Extension block. International Office In the Technopark building, for all things relating to Socrates and other exchange and overseas students. A special guide is published. The Institution of Engineering & Technology, IET (formerly IEE), Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL Tel 020 7240 1871 20 minutes walk away, over Waterloo Bridge, on the North West side. School Contact: Dr Goran Bezanov T403, [email protected] Local Police Station 323, Borough High Street 020 7378 1212 London SE1 Nightline [email protected] 020 7631 0101 Summary of Important Information Websites. Current Student Gateway: https://my.lsbu.ac.uk/ Academic Regulations: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/current.student/assessmentExaminations.html Accommodation Office: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/housing/ Administration Records (links to academic calendars; withdrawal forms; changing names; references; transcripts etc): http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/current.student/administrationRecords.html Fees: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/fees/howToPay.html Students' Union: http://dev.lsbsu.org/ Useful Forms and Publications (including Student Handbook): http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/current.student/formsPublications.html IT Services: Set up your IT account: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/selfservice/ Blackboard: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/bb/ Email: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/email/ IT Resources: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/current.student/ITResources.html Centre for Learning, Support & Development: Library Services: http://www.lisa.lsbu.ac.uk/ Exam Paper Finder: http://www.lisa.lsbu.ac.uk/008_dbresources/exams(wam).htm Module Guide Finder: http://www.lisa.lsbu.ac.uk/008_dbresources/uguides(wam).htm Student Advice and Guidance: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/careers/ Disability Dyslexia Support: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/caxton/lsu/index.html Skills for Learning: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/caxton/studyskills/index.html Student Advice & Guidance: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/caxton/pdau/index.html

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Appendix A People, Places, Times 2014/15 Updated at 02/09/14

The School Address: School of Engineering, London South Bank University, 103 Borough Road, London SE1 0AA. School Office & Student Dean of School Prof David Mba TBA Head of Department Prof. Marouan Nazha T705 Information Centre: See opening times outside T313 Coursework submission office (for opening times see wall notice) T313 Course Admin Telephone 020 7815 7377 T318 Safety Report anything unsafe, and all accidents to: Technician Co-ordinator Mr Ayman Wahab T802 Ext 8360 The Undergraduate Courses Team for the EEE SA EEE Undergraduate Course Administrator Mr Riccardo Pierini T318 BEng (Hons) Course Directors: BEng EEE Electrical and Electronic Engineering Dr. Steve Alty T801 Endorsement of the Generic EEE BEng above for Electrical Building Services specialisation: BEng EEE (SES) Systems for Environmental Services Mr. Manoj Ponugubati T610 BEng TeCNE Telecommunications and Computer Network Eng’ Prof. Mohamm ad Ghavami T704 BEng CSN Computer Systems & Networks Dr Shuwo Chen T410 EurS European Studies Endorsement. Dr Paul Klimo T708 BSc & BSc (Hons) EEE/TeCNE/CSN Programmes Course Director: BSc EEE Dr. Nigel Webster T709 BSc TeCNE Dr. Vincent Siyau T710 BSc CSN Dr Zhanfang Zhao T409 Foundation Degree in Power Distribution Course Director: FDEng PD Mr Manoj Ponugubati T610 HND/C EEE Programmes Course Director: HND/C EEE Mr Alan Howson T407 Other roles Postgraduate MSc Project co-ordinator Dr. Deb Mukherjee T713 Undergraduate BEng Project co-ordinator Dr Sandra Dudley-McEvoy T610 Industrial Studies Tutor Dr Sandra Dudley-McEvoy T610 Senior Admissions Officer Dr Steve Alty T801 Senior Personal Tutor Dr Sandra Dudley-McEvoy T610 Technical Services Technician Co-ordinator Mr Ayman Wahab T802 Electronic stores Mr Chris Merridan T125 EEE SA cluster Project Workshop Suite T125


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Appendix B EEE SA Staff 2013/14 Updated at 02/09/14 1. Full-time Academic Staff

Title First name Surname Room Tel ext Email

Dr. Steve Alty T801 7162 [email protected]

Mr. Ya Bao T701 7588 [email protected]

Dr. Goran Bezanov T403 7532 [email protected]

Dr. Shuwo Chen T410 7554 [email protected]

Mr. Stavros Dimitriou T610 7580 [email protected]

Dr. Sandra Dudley-McEvoy T711 7124 [email protected]

Prof. Mohammad Ghavami T704 7196 [email protected]

Mr. Alan Howson T407 7510 [email protected]

Dr. Paul Klimo T708 7515 [email protected]

Mr. Juquan Mao T816 7610 [email protected]

Dr. Deb Mukherjee T713 7542 [email protected]

Mr. Gabor Nyerges T401 7535 [email protected]

Mr Manoj Ponugubati T610 7523 [email protected]

Prof. Hari Reehal T221 7513 [email protected]

Dr. Tariq Sattar T604 7518 [email protected]

Dr. Maz Shirkoohi T408 7562 [email protected]

Dr Vincent Siyau T710 7507 [email protected]

Ms. Kate Viscardi T402 7505 [email protected]

Dr. Nigel Webster T709 7527 [email protected]

Dr. Perry Xiao T215 7569 [email protected]

Dr. Jian Guo Zhang T702 7576 [email protected]

Dr. Zhangfang Zhao T409 6340 [email protected]

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Mr Ayman Wahab T802 8360 [email protected]

Mr Mick Potter T120 7508 [email protected]

Mr Kevin Bellingham B05 7558 [email protected]

Mr Chris Merridan T125 7581 [email protected]

Dr Ronnie Swan T622 7506 [email protected]

Mr Medhi Zahir T411 7530 [email protected]

Mr Godfrey Holder T720 7565 [email protected]

Mr Alan Nigrin T714

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