P6

Definition
Awareness of appropriate codes of practice and industry standards.

Sub skills
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Assessment
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Benchmarks
 CORE 

Design & Construction

To understand the problems associated with environmental issues relating to product designs including low power design and design for the environment (recycling, WEEE, etc).

NON-CORE

Nano fabrication

Understand the implications of using nanotechnology in various fields, e.g. food, agriculture, home appliances and in industry.

Management and Marketing of Technology

Analyse and critique a past technological innovation. Understand the change implications of a technological innovation on an organisation. Produce a marketing plan for a new technology based product or service.

Mobile Communications Systems

Understand and appraise the specifications of the air interface of a cellular radio system, and comment on the effects of the values chosen. Understand the design decisions behind the GSM, WCDMA, Wi-Fi, 3GPP-LTE and Bluetooth standards. Describe, define and account for the quality of service requirements of different communications applications.

Distributed Computer Systems

Explain the need for security and indicate appropriate countermeasures.

DSP Architectures

Appreciate strengths and limitations of the debugging of digital circuits and integrate test logic in a design using a JTAG interface.

Relevant Higher Order Skills
Electrical Engineering