S5

Definition
Understanding of the need for a high level of professional and ethical conduct in engineering.

Sub skills
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Assessment
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Benchmarks
CORE

Introduction to Electronic Hardware

Understand reasons for professional laboratory working practices (safety, use of logbooks, experimental record keeping and measurement techniques). Be able to plan and provide technical information for a formal report associated with the laboratory sessions, written to the IET Professional Engineering specification.

Maths and Programming Demonstrate the ability to design and implement simple programs. Test software solutions to practical problems against target specifications.

Laboratory Elements for:


 * Analogue Electronics
 * Signals & Systems
 * High Speed Electronics
 * Further Digital Electronics

Conduct in laboratories and of experimental work. Preparation of written work (log books and reports).

NON-CORE

People in Technology-based Organisations

Analyse a technical company. Select the quality system appropriate to a new product. Design the specification for a technical person. Design an advertisement for a vacancy. Produce a marketing plan for a new product. Select the production system for a new product. Describe and analyse an organisation’s competitive environment.

Management and Marketing of Technology

Understand the place of technology management in the modern world. Understand the change implications of a technological innovation on an organisation.

Relevant Higher Order Skills
Electrical Engineering