Engineering and Computing Undergraduate CertificateLeading to degrees in subjects including:
Academic StructureCore modulesAcademic English Skills 1
Develop your ability to read academic texts, write extended texts, write subjective notes, listen effectively and participate in classroom discourse. Academic English Skills 2Improve all your abilities developed in AES1 with greater accuracy, speed, coherence, organisation and presentation. Study Skills in the British EnvironmentUse your study time more effectively, improve your use of, and range of, information sources and develop your research skills in preparation for producing an extended, referenced, academic essay. Project StudyComplete a self-study project on a topic that you will take, in consultation with your tutor, from the academic discipline that you will subsequently study at degree level. This will also include computer (word processing) skills. Pure Mathematics 1Understand and interpret straight lines and linear equations, set theory and probability, statistics, linear programming, indices and logarithms and experimental laws. Route modulesPure Mathematics 2
Learn further algebra, co-ordinate geometry, trigonometry, differentiation, integration, numerical methods and vectors. Applied Mathematics 1Learn about vectors, forces and equilibrium, relative motion, Newton’s Laws of Motion, friction and work, energy and power. Applied Mathematics 2Study advanced vectors, forces as fixed vectors, centres of gravity/centres of mass and particle dynamics. Physics 1: Properties of Matter and WavesLearn about sound, reflection, refraction, interference, diffraction, electromagnetic waves, strengths of solids, fluids, heat and gases and the structure of the atom. Physics 2: Electricity, Electronics and FieldsStudy electrical current and charge, potential difference, resistance, capacitance, transistors and amplifiers, electrical fields, gravitational fields, magnetic fields and electromagnetic fields. Elective modulesThe computing electives are offered to students interested in a Computing or IT degree and may be substituted for two of the Mathematics modules.Computing 1Study HTML and website design, and learn how the use of Javascript promotes website interactivity. You will also be introduced to the programming language Java 1.5. Computing 2Continue your study of Java 1.5, developing an understanding of the principles of programming and of the steps involved in running a program written in a high-level language. You will also further develop an understanding of the principles of usability and good design, applied to program and Web interfaces, and yourself apply these principles in practical situations. |
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