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UNIV0001: Environmental studies: The earth as an ecosystem B Semester 2 Credits: 6 Contact: Level: Level 3 Assessment: EX75 CW25 Requisites: Co ENGR0002 Aims & Learning Objectives: To develop an understanding of the global impact of human agricultural and industrial activity and of the relationship between the technical and some social and economic aspects of the topic. Content: Global human impact: population and consumption levels Early mankind and the domestication of other species. The agricultural and industrial revolutions. Improvements in healthcare and education. Demographic trends. Sustainable economic development. Equitable distribution of resources. Policies and institutions Atmospheric and ground level pollution Structure and dynamics of the atmosphere. Photochemical cycles involving O, N and Cl species. Factors affecting ozone concentrations. The Greenhouse effect. Photochemical smog and acid rain considered via case studies. Speciation of anionic and cationic water pollutants. Biomagnification and heavy metals. Radioactivity and nuclear reactors; reprocessing and waste storage. Seminar programme Seminars combined with a student exercise such as a case study or essay are intended to encourage students to integrate the syllabus content and to relate it to a wider social and economic context. |
UNIV0002: French comparative employee relations Semester 1 Credits: 6 Contact: Level: Level 2 Assessment: EX100 Requisites: Pre MANG0079 Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce students to comparative frameworks for analysing employment relations in Western European countries: to give students a basic understanding of employment relations in Western European countries, with particular emphasis on France and Britain. After successfully completing this course, students should be able to apply theories of employment relations to specific cases, understand and explain differences between national employment relations systems. Content: The course will include lectures on managing the employment relationship, trade unions, industrial conflict, the State and the law, theories of employment relations, comparative frameworks; and explaining 'societal' difference. |
UNIV0003: German comparative employee relations Semester 1 Credits: 6 Contact: Level: Level 2 Assessment: EX50 ES50 Requisites: Pre MANG0079 Aims & Learning Objectives: a) To describe and analyse the changing features of employee relations in the UK. This introduction to the subject provides the basis for comparative work later in the course. b) To introduce students to the specific legal, institutional and cultural dimensions of industrial relations in Germany. Comparisons with the UK will serve to highlight the main characteristics of the German situation and to sensitise students to the reasons behind the complex pattern of relations existing between the "social partners" as represented by state, unions, employers and employees. Content: Employee relations: an introduction; Trade Unions; Employers and Managers; Industrial Conflict; State and the Law. |
UNIV0004: European business environment 2: Financial & national perspective of France Semester 2 Credits: 5 Contact: Level: Level 2 Assessment: CW50 Requisites: Pre MANG0082 Aims & Learning Objectives: Building on European Business Environment - European Integration and Legal Structure - to understand selected national perspectives of the Member States with respect to their business interests and be aware of comparative financial issues Content: The content will cover: European Monetary Union; the "Franc fort"; the French banking system; the importance of cross-border trade; Accounting in Europe; global harmonisation of financial reporting; foreign exchange; practical issues in convergence and a common currency; capital markets and universal banking. |
UNIV0005: French comparative employee relations B Semester 2 Credits: 6 Contact: Level: Level 2 Assessment: ES Requisites: Aims & Learning Objectives: To develop knowledge of the legislative and contractual framework for employment relations in these countries; to familiarise students with key concepts in employment relations and key vocabulary in French; to use authentic French-language document produced by public agencies, employers and trade unions. After successfully completing the course, students should be able to write in French on an aspect of employment relations in France and to discuss in French contemporary issues of employment relations. Content: Trade unions, employers' associations in France;' the role of the State; representative institutions in the workplace; trends in collective bargaining; training, qualifications and work organization. |
UNIV0006: European business environment 2: Financial & national perspective of Germany Semester 2 Credits: 5 Contact: Level: Level 2 Assessment: CW50 Requisites: Pre MANG0082 Aims & Learning Objectives: Building on European Business Environment - European Integration and Legal Structure - to understand selected national perspectives of the Member States with respect to their business interests and be aware of comparative financial issues Content: The content will cover: European Monetary Union; Federalism in Germany: a model for Europe; new perspectives from German integration; the single currency and the D.Mark; the importance of cross-border trade; Accounting in Europe; global harmonisation of financial reporting; foreign exchange; practical issues in convergence and a common currency; capital markets and universal banking |
UNIV0007: The internationalisation of business 2 - French Semester 2 Credits: 5 Contact: Level: Level 3 Assessment: EX70 PR15 OT15 Requisites: Pre MANG0085, Ex MANG0060 Aims & Learning Objectives: The course will build on the ideas introduced in unit 1 (MANG0085) concerning foreign direct investment (FDI) and the multinational enterprise. It will discuss these in the European and, particularly French, context. Through case studies and simulation, the course will demonstrate and analyse examples of international business. It will analyse inward and outward FDI as it affect France. Content: Geographic and industry studies illustrating theories of international business, the motivations and different forms of multinational operation and the risks involved. Foreign direct investment in the European Union and countries potentially included in enlargement - intra-EU and from outside the region. Assessments, motivations and the options available. France and international business; internationalisation of French companies; FDI in France; French FDI abroad; French international business in the wider Europe. International business simulation - an all day role play seminar concerning decisions and developments in a European industry. b) foreign direct investment in the European Union - intra-EU and from outside the region. Assessments, motivations and the options available. France and International Business; Internationalisation of French companies; FDI in France; French FDI abroad; French international business in the wider Europe International Business simulation - an all day role play seminar concerning decisions and developments in a European industry. |
UNIV0008: The internationalisation of business 2 - German Semester 2 Credits: 5 Contact: Level: Level 3 Assessment: EX70 PR15 OT15 Requisites: Pre MANG0085, Ex MANG0060 Aims & Learning Objectives: The course will build on the ideas introduced in unit 1 (MANG0085) concerning foreign direct investment and the multinational enterprise. It will discuss these in the European and, particularly German, context. It will analyse inward and outward foreign direct investment as it affects Germany. Through case studies and simulation, the course will demonstrate and analyse examples of international business. Content: Geographic and industry studies illustrating theories of international business, the motivations and different forms of multinational operation and the risks involved. Foreign direct investment in the European Union and countries potentially included - intra-EU and from outside the region. Assessments, motivations and the options available. Germany and international business; internationalisation of German companies; FDI in German; German FDI abroad; the evolution of German business within Central and Eastern Europe. International business simulation - an all day role play seminar concerning decisions and developments in a European industry. b) foreign direct investment in the European Union - intra-EU and from outside the region. Assessments, motivations and the options available. Germany and the internationalisation of business; Internationalisation of German companies FDI in Germany; German FDI abroad; The evolution of German business with/in Central and Eastern Europe International Business simulation - an all day role play seminar concerning decisions and developments in a European industry. |
UNIV0009: Year abroad in France - work placement Academic Year Credits: 60 Contact: Level: Level 2 Assessment: ES100 Requisites: Pre UNIV0004 Aims & Learning Objectives: * to promote the development of high-level language skills in French * to acquire in-depth personal experience of the French culture * to gain professional experience Content: Working in a role in an approved organization which will involve a challenging range of tasks, giving an opportunity to put management studies into practice, while also developing language skills to near fluency. |
UNIV0010: Year abroad in Germany - work placement Academic Year Credits: 60 Contact: Level: Level 2 Assessment: ES100 Requisites: Pre UNIV0006 Aims & Learning Objectives: * to promote the development of high-level language skills in German * to acquire in-depth personal experience of the German culture * to gain professional experience Content: Working in a role in an approved organization which will involve a challenging range of tasks, giving an opportunity to put management studies into practice, while also developing language skills to near fluency. |
UNIV0011: Year abroad in France - academic exchange Academic Year Credits: 60 Contact: Level: Level 2 Assessment: Requisites: Pre UNIV0004 Aims & Learning Objectives: * to promote the development of high-level language skills in French * to acquire in-depth personal experience of the French culture * to gain academic experience in a French/Quebecois business school Content: To carry out an agreed programme of work at a French/Quebecois business school. The nature, scope and assessment of this work is to be agreed by the institutions involved in the exchange arrangements. |
UNIV0012: Year abroad in Germany - academic exchange Academic Year Credits: 60 Contact: Level: Level 2 Assessment: Requisites: Pre UNIV0006 Aims & Learning Objectives: * to promote the development of high-level language skills in German * to acquire in-depth personal experience of the German culture * to gain academic experience in a German business school Content: To carry out an agreed programme of work at a German business school. The nature, scope and assessment of this work is to be agreed by the institutions involved in the exchange arrangements. |
UNIV0013: Year abroad in France - academic exchange & work placement Academic Year Credits: 60 Contact: Level: Level 2 Assessment: Requisites: Pre UNIV0004 Aims & Learning Objectives: * to promote the development of high-level language skills in France * to acquire in-depth personal experience of the French culture * to gain professional experience Content: To carry out an agreed programme of work at a French business school. The nature, scope and assessment of this work is to be agreed by the institutions involved in the exchange arrangements. |
UNIV0014: Year abroad in Germany - academic exchange & work placement Academic Year Credits: 60 Contact: Level: Level 2 Assessment: Requisites: Pre UNIV0006 Aims & Learning Objectives: * to promote the development of high-level language skills in Germany * to acquire in-depth personal experience of the German culture * to gain professional experience Content: To carry out an agreed programme of work at a German business school. The nature, scope and assessment of this work is to be agreed by the institutions involved in the exchange arrangements. |
UNIV0016: Thermodynamics & organic chemistry Semester 1 Credits: 5 Contact: Level: Level 1 Assessment: EX100 Requisites: Aims & Learning Objectives: * To provide a good background to the type and structure of organic compounds used and produced on the process industries. * To provide students with a basic understanding of chemical and engineering thermodynamics. After successfully completing this unit, the student should be able to: * draw and interpret the structures of organic compounds and understand the important points of nomenclature, * Understand the basic ideas of electronic structure and steric effects and be able to relate them to the reactivity of the common organic functional groups, * Appreciate how important organic chemicals are produced industrially from simple, naturally occurring substances. * define the First and Second Laws of thermodynamics * appreciate the limitations and capabilities of systems that exchange heat and do work, * calculate the composition of systems in chemical equilibrium, * interpret thermodynamic diagrams and extract data from thermodynamic tables, and * solve elementary problems relating to the performance of steam power cycles. Content: * Bonding and structure: atomic and molecular orbitals, hybridisation, shapes of molecules, functional groups. * Alkanes: general properties, nomenclature, isomerism, natural sources, cycloalkanes, conformation, reactions - chlorination of methane, cracking. * Alkenes: general properties, cis/ trans isomerism, addition reactions, Markovnikov vs. anti-Markovnikov addition, industrial uses of ethylene. * Alkynes: basic properties. * Stereochemistry: enantiomers, absolute configuration, R and S notation, diastereomers. * Alcohols: nomenclature, industrially important alcohols. * Aldehydes and ketones: basic properties, keto-enol tautomerism, reactions with nucleophiles and electrophiles, acetals / ketals, carbohydrates (briefly). * Carboxylic acids and their derivatives: lipids, detergents. * Introduction to benzene: Kekule's problem, molecular orbital theory of benzene, resonance stabilisation energy of benzene. * Aromatic vs. alkene reactions, mechanism of electrophilic aromatic substitution, electrophilic substitution with monosubstitued benzene rings. * Industrial preparation and uses of benzene, focus on phenol (industrial preparation), aromatic compounds and cancer. * Polymer Chemistry: types of polymer, addition polymers and condensation polymers, formation of an addition polymer (polystyrene), formation of condensation polymers, nylon and bakelite. * First Law for closed and open systems and its applications * Internal energy, enthalpy, and heat capacities * Spontaneous change and conditions of equilibrium for physical and chemical systems * Thermodynamic functions including chemical potential * Chemical equilibrium constant and relationship with Gibb's free energy * Phase equilibria charts for P-v, T-s, and H-s * Thermodynamic tables * Vapour pressure, Clausius-Clapeyron equation * Heat and work; reversibility * Carnot's principle and second law of thermodynamics * Carnot and Rankine cycles, without re-heat |
UNIV0017: Further mathematical techniques & engineering drawing Semester 2 Credits: 5 Contact: Level: Level 1 Assessment: EX45 CW15 OT40 Requisites: Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide students with a basic introduction in the mathematical skills necessary to tackle process engineering design and applications. To introduce the concept of random variation, and to show how to describe and model it. To teach students how to prepare outline engineering drawings and how to interpret drawings that they may encounter whilst working as a chemical or a bio-process engineer. After successfully completing this unit the student should be able to: * deal with a number of relevant applications in data analysis * describe equipment using standard drawing conventions (e.g. pumping circuit) * prepare outline engineering drawings and sketches of process flow-sheets and process units, * interpret mechanical drawings which they may encounter whilst working as chemical or biochemical engineers. Content: * Linear algebra: Determinants, Matrix algebra, Inverse, Partitioning, Systems of linear algebraic equations; Numerical methods, Solution of linear algebraic equation, Solution of non-linear equations by iterative methods * Complex numbers: Argand diagram: Cartesian, polar and exponential forms, nth roots, Elementary functions of a complex variable. * Statistics: Descriptive statistics, diagrams; mean, mode, median and standard deviation * Elementary probability: including binomial, Poisson and normal distributions, Tests of significance, Linear regression * Introduction to course, standards, orthographic projection, organisation of design office. * Sectional drawings of process units and isometric views. * Examples of process units e.g. storage tank, heat exchanger, distillation column. * Examples of interpreting drawings of mechanical plant e.g. pumps, valves. * Chemical engineering flow line diagram symbols; piping, instrumentation and control diagrams. * Plan drawings of process plant showing equipment layout on the site. |
UNIV0024: Project (semester 1) Semester 1 Credits: 6 Contact: Level: Level 3 Assessment: CW100 Requisites: Co UNIV0025 Aims & Learning Objectives: To obtain substantial experience of project work within the disciplines involved Content: This will depend on the disciplines involved. Often it will involve laboratory and or field work. Usually a literature search will be involved. |
UNIV0025: Project (semester 2) Semester 2 Credits: 6 Contact: Level: Level 3 Assessment: CW100 Requisites: Co UNIV0024 Aims & Learning Objectives: To obtain substantial experience of project work within the disciplines involved Content: This will depend on the disciplines involved. Often it will involve laboratory and or field work. Usually the writing of a dissertation reporting the work done will be involved |
UNIV0026: Industrial placement/ training Academic Year Credits: 60 Contact: Level: Level 2 Assessment: Requisites: Aims & Learning Objectives: Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Biological Sciences, Materials Science, or Management Content: To obtain substantial experience of working at an intellectual level appropriate to a student who has completed the second year of a degree course. |
UNIV0027: German international marketing communications A Semester 1 Credits: 6 Contact: Level: Level 3 Assessment: EX100 Requisites: Pre UNIV0010, Pre UNIV0012, Pre UNIV0014 Aims & Learning Objectives: To develop students' understanding of the principles of marketing from their Second Year and to ally it to their own experience on placement, passing on to the international context. It also aims to place the marketing function within social and organisational networks of communication. Content: The unit is in two parts. The first (in English over six weeks) provides an introduction to the general principles of international marketing (structural, legal etc.). The second (in German) examines marketing as part of the communications process. i. The International Marketing Environment: Economic, social, political and legal constraints Regional markets Globalisation versus internationalisation ii. Marketing Communications: The communications process; persuasion and propaganda Cultural influences, universals and their effects. |
UNIV0028: French international marketing communications A Semester 1 Credits: 6 Contact: Level: Level 3 Assessment: EX100 Requisites: Pre UNIV0009, Pre UNIV0011, Pre UNIV0013 Aims & Learning Objectives: To develop students' understanding of the applications of the principles of marketing from their Second Year and ally it to their own experience on placement, passing on to the international context. It also aims to place the marketing function within social and organisational networks of communication. Content: The unit is in two parts. The first (in English over six weeks) provides for an introduction to the general principles of international marketing (structural, legal etc). The second (in French) examines marketing as part of the communications process. i. The International Marketing Environment: Economic, social, political and legal constraints Regional markets Globalisation versus internationalisation ii. Marketing Communications: The communications process; persuasion and propaganda Cultural influences, universals and their effects. |
UNIV0029: Instrumentation & control Semester 2 Credits: 5 Contact: Level: Level 1 Assessment: EX70 CW30 Requisites: Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide an introduction to essential measurement techniques and transducers, chemical analysis, control equipment and basic concepts of control theory to enable students to construct successful process control strategies. To introduce standard procedures and symbols used in process definitions. Content: After taking this module the student should be able to: Identify and define the typical building blocks of a contolled loop. Select transducers for applications. Specify range and sensitivity. Calculate pump requirements. Select valves for applications. Size valves. Select instuments for chemical analysis. Propose control strategies and solutions. Construct P&ID. Reference British Standards. Implement safety features in control loop design. Syllabus: Requirements of a typical process control loop. Temperature measurement. Principles of temperature sensors and transducers. The Wheatstone bridge. Thermocouples, Platinum Resistance Thermometers, Thermistors, On/Off devices. Flow measurement. Use of Bernoulli's equation. Pitot tube. Orifice meter, nozzle, Venturi meter. Rotameters. Weirs as flow measuring devices (rectangular and triangular). Turbine, Moving Vane, Magnetic and Ultrasonic flow meters. Measurement of the flow rate of solids. Position measurement. Linear and rotary position sensors. DC and AC devices. Pressure measurement. Stress and strain. The Strain Gauge. Types of gauges. Using the strain gauge. Diaphragms. Bourdon tubes. Absolute pressure, gauge pressure, pressure head, static pressure, dynamic pressure.. Piezo-electric effect. Level measurement. On/Off devices. Light operated and ultrasonic discrete level Detection. Thermal sensing. Hydrostatic level sensing. Continuous level sensors. Resistive and capacitive transducers. Ultrasonic systems. Analytical chemical analysis. Qualitative and quantitative methods. Separation and determination. Single and multistage solvent extraction. Chromatography: liquid - solid, liquid - liquid, paper, thin layer. HPLC: gas - liquid, gas - solid. Electrophoresis. Ion exchange methods. Titrimetry; acid - base, redox, complexometric titrations. Electrodes and Bio-sensors. Optical (spectroscopic) methods: atomic (emission and absorption), molecular (infra-red and ultra-violet) spectra. Measuring instruments: pH, gas sensors. Final control elements. Globe valves, gate valves, diaphragm valves, butterfly valves and needle valves. Selection of valves. Valve sizing. Pneumatically and electrically operated control valve actuators. Pumping equipment. Centrifugal pumps - construction, operation, characteristic curves, pump selection, work performed, specific speed, cavitation, NPSH.. Positive displacement, Piston and diaphragm, Gear, Peristaltic, Mono, Air lift and Jet pumps. Safety. Piping & Instrumentation Drawings. Codes. British Standard Symbols. |
UNIV0030: Process dynamics & control 2 Semester 1 Credits: 5 Contact: Level: Level 2 Assessment: EX95 PR5 Requisites: Pre CHEL0001, Pre MATH0116, Pre CHEL0004 Aims & Learning Objectives: To give students a basic understanding of process dynamics and simple control systems and their modelling by analytical methods. After successfully completing this unit the student should be able to: * use Laplace Transform techniques to solve initial value problems * describe the dynamic behaviour of first and second order systems to step, impulse and sine disturbances * derive transfer functions for open-loop processes from transient mass or energy balances * derive the transfer function for a PID controller * derive transfer functions for closed-loop processes from the transfer functions of their individual units * calculate the control parameters necessary to meet performance specifications on a closed-loop process from its transfer function. Content: * Introduction to process dynamics and control. * Laplace transforms to solve initial value problems * Step and impulse functions * Transfer functions and frequency response * State space representation . * Transfer functions, linearisation, open-loop response * First order and time-delay processes * Block diagrams * Controllers, final control elements, Control loop configuration * Closed loop control * Overall transfer function and transient response for servo and regular operation. |
UNIV0031: Mathematical modelling 2 Semester 2 Credits: 5 Contact: Level: Level 2 Assessment: EX70 CW30 Requisites: Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce mathematical modelling techniques. To introduce numerical techniques for the solution of models arising in Chemical Engineering. After successfully completing the unit students should be able to: * develop and solve realistic mathematical models of unit operations using a numerical package such as MATLAB and a commercial flowsheeting package such as ASPEN, * describe and formulate the numerical methods employed in solving the equations of models and choose the most suitable method for a given application, * analyse the results from modelling activities. Content: Mathematical modelling techniques: * introduction to formulation of models; mass, energy and momentum balances * application to reactor and distillation modelling Numerical Methods: * introduction to initial value problems * numerical linear algebra * stability * boundary value problems |
UNIV0032: Mathematical modelling 3 Semester 1 Credits: 5 Contact: Level: Level 3 Assessment: OT80 CW20 Requisites: Pre UNIV0031 Aims & Learning Objectives: To provide students with an ability to formulate mathematical models of dynamic systems typical of chemical engineering as systems of differential equations and to solve these models numerically. After successfully completing this unit the student should: * be able to choose numerical methods suitable for the solution of non-linear second order elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations with given initial and boundary values and systems of non-linear first order ordinary differential equations with suitable initial conditions. * be able to formulate mathematical models which describe dynamic chemical processes in the time domain and assign boundary and initial conditions. * be able to solve the problems formulated using MATLAB. Content: Mathematics of p.d.e.s and numerical solutions * Mathematics of linear p.d.e.s, the p.d.e., b.c. and i.c. as a system, classification of system into elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic. * solution by finite difference methods, method of characteristics, stability. * Non-linear problems and their solution by the above methods. * The concept of finite elements for the heat conduction problem. * Examples: solution of a heterogeneous catalysis problem in slab or cylinder geometry with non-linear kinetics, adsorption waves in a column with non-linear isotherm. Modelling with o.d.e.s, simulation of non-linear problem sets * Equation formulation, use of constraints. Selection of initial and boundary conditions. * Conversion of equations into MATLAB programmes. Methods of debugging. * Examples from reaction engineering and separation: simultaneous reactions in a bath reactor - bioreaction metabolic engineering problem, catalysis in a tubular reactor, adsorption in a column. |
UNIV0033: Study year abroad Academic Year Credits: 60 Contact: Level: Level 2 Assessment: Requisites: Aims & Learning Objectives: To assist the student to develop personal and interpersonal communication skills and to develop the ability to work and interact effectively in a group environment in which cultural norms and ways of operating may be very different from those previously familiar. To develop an understanding of the stresses that may occur in working in a culture different from the UKs, and to learn to cope with those stresses and work efficiently. To develop the self-confidence and maturity to operate effectively with people from a different cultural background. To develop an appreciation of the history and culture of the country concerned. For students attending classes in a language other than English, to develop the ability to operate at a high scientific level in the language of the country concerned, including oral communication and comprehension as well as reading and writing. For students attending Universities in countries whose language is not English, oral and written fluency in the host language. Content: It is assumed that the student abroad will accomplish work equivalent to 60 色中色 credits (10 units). Details of these are necessarily left to negotiation with individual University, students and the Bath Director of Studies. In addition to scientific study, it might be appropriate to include Management, work in Language, and in areas related to the culture of the country in which the student was working. |
UNIV0034: Mathematics & computing 1 Semester 1 Credits: 5 Contact: Level: Level 1 Assessment: EX75 CW25 Requisites: MECH0002 re-instated as a MECH unit 7-Sep-97 |
UNIV0035: Mathematics & computing 2 Semester 2 Credits: 5 Contact: Level: Level 1 Assessment: EX75 CW25 Requisites: Aims & Learning Objectives: To extend the students previous knowledge of mathematics and provide the basic core of mathematical tools required throughout the engineering course. To introduce the student to statistical techniques used for data analysis. To give the student a sound basic knowledge of computer programming in C++ upon which they can subsequently build. After taking this unit the student should be able to: Employ elementary numerical methods for the solution of algebraic equations and integration. Set up and solve differential equations of typical engineering problems by analytical and numerical methods. Apply rules of partial differentiation to small increment and change of variable problems for functions of several variables. Solve simultaneous linear equations. Find eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices. Interpret experimental data, carry out elementary statistical analysis and calculate best least-squares fit to data. Write well structured simple programs in C++. Content: First and second order differential equations with step and sinusoidal input, including simultaneous differential equations. Linear algebra; vectors, matrices and determinants, Gaussian elimination, eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Newton-Raphson method, numerical integration, elementary nonlinear equations. Statistical analysis: normal distribution, probability, linear interpolation, curve fitting using least squares. C++: main variable types, input, output. Procedures, control stuctures. |
UNIV0036: Core skills for economists: mathematics Semester 2 Credits: 6 Contact: Level: Level 1 Assessment: EX80 CW20 Requisites: Pre ECOI0005 or A-level Mathematics Aims & Learning Objectives: The aim of this Unit is to provide students with the knowledge of the main parts of mathematics that are relevant to undergraduate economics and to prepare them for taking further economics and econometrics courses. The learning objective is that students should be able to: (i) understand mathematical concepts; (ii) solve mathematical problems; (iii) apply mathematics to economic problems. Content: Topics will include: functions of more than one variable; partial differentiation; maxima and minima of multivariate functions; constrained optimisation; solution of sets of linear equations; manipulation of vectors and matrices; differential and difference equations. Key texts: Ian Jacques,'Mathematics for Economics and Business'. T. Bradley and P. Patton,'Essential Mathematics for Economics and Business'. Chris Birchenhall and Paul Grout,'Mathematics for Modern Economics'. |
UNIV0037: Statistics for economists Semester 1 Credits: 6 Contact: Level: Level 2 Assessment: EX80 CW20 Requisites: Aims & Learning Objectives: The aim of the Unit is to provide students with the knowledge of the main parts of statistics that are relevant to undergraduate economics and to prepare them for taking further economics and econometrics courses. The learning objectives are that students should be able to: (i) understand statistical concepts; (ii) solve statistical problems; (iii) apply statistics to economic problems. Content: Topics will include: Probability theory; Bayes theorem; Discrete and continuous distributions; Binomial and normal distributions; Sampling theory; Point estimation; standard errors and confidence intervals; Hypothesis testing; Type I and Type II errors; skewness and kurtosis; the F distribution; analysis of variance; Fan forecasts. Key texts: Anderson, Sweeney and Williams,'Statistics for Business and Economics'. P. Newbold,'Statistics for Business and Economics'. |
UNIV0039: Advanced statistics for use in health contexts 2 Semester 2 Credits: 6 Contact: Level: Postgraduate Assessment: CW100 Requisites: Pre PSYC0065, Pre PSYC0066 Aims & Learning Objectives: To equip students with the skills to use and interpret advanced multivariate statistics using STATA and provide an appreciation of the applications of multivariate analysis in health. Content: Introduction to STATA, power & sample size, multidimensional scaling, logistic regression, meta-analysis, structural equation modelling. |
UNIV0040: Environmental biology & geology Semester 1 Credits: 6 Contact: Level: Postgraduate Assessment: EX50 CW25 ES25 Requisites: Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce the basic concepts of biology and geology necessary to the analysis of key environmental problems and to the understanding of the contribution of these disciplines to environmental management and policy design. Content: Geology: interpreting environmental change from the geological record;geological and landscape conservation; the human impact on the landscape. Biology: basic physiological processes; plant diversity; ecology and evolution; the ecology of the tropical rainforest. |
UNIV0041: Environmental science & technology Semester 1 Credits: 6 Contact: Level: Postgraduate Assessment: CW100 Requisites: Aims & Learning Objectives: To introduce some key concepts of acoustics, inorganic chemistry, and chemical process engineering necessary to the analysis of environmental problems and to the design of environmental policies and management. Content: Noise as an environmental problem; atmosphere chemistry; nuclear power and reprocessing; techniques and legislation for emissions control from the process industries. |
UNIV0042: Methodology & explanation Semester 1 Credits: 6 Contact: Level: Postgraduate Assessment: ES80 OR20 Requisites: Aims & Learning Objectives: To give the students an introductory understanding of research methods in human-computer interaction and communication research. To raise students awareness of the scientific and engineering methods used in the context of human-human and human computer interaction. Students will be able to apply appropriate techniques for the interpretation of material, including observational and ethnographic material, and for a critical understanding of assumptions that underpin the development and application of models. They will be able to understand and apply methods of analysis, experimentation and model building. The students should be able to distinguish between descriptive, predictive and prescriptive models, design and carry out empirical studies including experimental and observational approaches, apply analytical techniques to the analysis of human-human and human-computer interactions, and construct descriptive, qualitative, quantitative and explanatory accounts of human-human and human computer interaction. Content: Methods of analysing and interpreting, issues in ethnographic and experimental approaches. Constructing explanatory v. descriptive models. Critical and meta issues. Questions about dialogue between 'tools' and 'persons' and issues in model-building. Core Reading: D.A. Norman The Psychology of Everyday Things, Addison Wesley 1996 L Perelman School's Out; hyperlearning Avon Books 1992 G Salomon (ed) Distributed Cognitions; psychological and educational considerations Cambridge 1996 D Watts Small Worlds; the dynamics of networks between order and randomness, Princeton 1999 |
UNIV0043: Dialogue between system & theory Semester 2 Credits: 6 Contact: Level: Postgraduate Assessment: EX50 ES50 Requisites: Pre MATH0147 Aims & Learning Objectives: To understand the relationships between systems and theories. Students will be able to appreciate the tensions between human processes and systems. Content: The unit will explore the inherent tensions between theories of human processes and the design of effective systems. It will look at the effect of systems on human processes. The historical dimensions will be explored, issues in the evolution of ideas and design, task artefact cycle, and reflections on ways of avoiding re-inventing the wheel through an inadequate appreciation of the history of technology and design. The unit will also explore tensions between evolutionary and predictive design. Core Reading: G Basalla The Evolution of Technology, Cambridge 1988 P Denning and R Metcalfe (eds) Beyond Calculation; the next fifty years of computing, Copernicus 1998 A Dix et al Human Computer Interaction, Prentice Hall 1997 D Gelernter The Muse in the Machine Free Press 1994 D Norman Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine, Voyager CD-Rom 1999 S Turkle Life on the Screen; identity in the age of the Internet, Simon & Schuster 1995 D Watts Small Worlds; the dynamics of networks between order and randomness, Princeton 1999 |
UNIV0044: Communication, interaction & tasks Semester 2 Credits: 6 Contact: Level: Postgraduate Assessment: ES80 OR20 Requisites: Pre MATH0147, Pre MATH0148, Pre PSYC0067, Pre UNIV0042 Aims & Learning Objectives: To enable students to assess and understand the human social causes and consequences of communication technologies, and their developments. To enable students to contribute to the design, development and application of communication technologies to improve human-human communication. Students will be able to analyse human-human communication in terms of the social, communication, task, and cognitive aspects. To critically and creatively apply communication technologies to support human-human communication. To understand and apply theories of cognition, collaboration, interaction, communication and tasks. To consider resource loads. Content: The unit will look at interaction systems and the implication of systems for the design of tasks. It will explore the relationship between communication systems and the social context, particularly the social origins and factors in communication, and the social consequences of such developments. How far can we design organisations and cultures? What are the implications of this ability? The unit will also explore 'agent-agent' interaction, and models of communication implied by these developments. Core Reading: J B Carroll (ed) Scenario Based Design Wiley 1995 W Hall et al (eds) Hypermedia and Multimedia Systems, Addison Wesley 1999 B A Nardi (ed) Context and Consciousness; activity theory and human-computer interaction M I T Press 1996 B A Nardi & V L O'Day Information Ecologies; using technology with heart, M I T Press 1999 D A Norman Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine, Voyager CD-Rom 1999 |
UNIV0045: Project 1 Semester 2 Credits: 12 Contact: Level: Postgraduate Assessment: CW100 Requisites: Pre MATH0147, Pre MATH0148, Pre PSYC0067, Pre UNIV0042 Aims & Learning Objectives: To acquire the skills of planning independent research. Students will be able to complete a literature review and write a research proposal. Content: Students will undertake an original piece of work, which would normally bridge the disciplines involved in the programme. The first stage of the Project will comprise a literature/conceptual review and research proposal which may comprise theoretical, empirical or design components. Students completing the Diploma will be assessed on this report. Students progressing to the masters degree will be assessed and will use this work as the basis for the study that forms the second stage of the Project. |
UNIV0047: Year abroad in Spain - work placement Academic Year Credits: 60 Contact: Level: Level 2 Assessment: ES100 Requisites: Aims & Learning Objectives: * to promote the development of high-level language skills in Spanish * to acquire in-depth personal experience of the Spanish culture * to gain professional experience. Content: Working in a role in an approved organization which will involve a challenging range of tasks, giving an opportunity to put management studies into practice, while also developing language skills to near fluency. |
UNIV0048: Year abroad in Spain - academic exchange Academic Year Credits: 60 Contact: Level: Level 2 Assessment: Requisites: Aims & Learning Objectives: * to promote the development of high-level language skills in Spanish * to acquire in-depth personal experience of the Spanish culture * to gain academic experience in a Spanish/Latin-American business school. Content: To carry out an agreed programme of work at a Spanish/Latin American business school. The nature, scope and assessment of this work is to be agreed by the institutions involved in the exchange arrangements. |
UNIV0049: Year abroad in Spain - academic exchange & work placement Academic Year Credits: 60 Contact: Level: Level 2 Assessment: Requisites: Aims & Learning Objectives: * to promote the development of high-level language skills in Spain * to acquire in-depth personal experience of the Spanish culture * to gain professional experience. Content: To carry out an agreed programme of work at a Spanish/Latin-American business school. The nature, scope and assessment of this work is to be agreed by the institutions involved in the exchange arrangements. |
UNIV0050: The internationalisation of business 2 (Spanish) Semester 2 Credits: 5 Contact: Level: Level 3 Assessment: Requisites: Pre MANG0085 |
UNIV0051: Spanish international marketing communications A Semester 1 Credits: 6 Contact: Level: Level 3 Assessment: EX100 Requisites: Pre MANG0081 Aims & Learning Objectives: To develop students' understanding of the principles of marketing from their Second Year and to ally it to their own experience on placement, passing on to the international context, placing the marketing function within social and organisational networks of communication. On completion of the Unit students shall be more aware of the interrelation between marketing and communication in relation to advertising and cultural contexts in particular. Content: The unit is in two parts. The first (in English over six weeks) provides an introduction to the general principles of international marketing (structural, legal etc). The second (in Spanish) examines marketing as part of the communications process. i. The International Marketing Environment: Economic, social, political and legal constraints Regional markets Globalisation versus internationalisation ii. Marketing Communications: The communications process; persuasion and propaganda Cultural influences, universals and their effects. |
UNIV0052: Mathematics & computing 2 Semester 2 Credits: 6 Contact: Level: Level 1 Assessment: EX75 CW25 Requisites: Pre MECH0196 Aims & Learning Objectives: To extend the students previous knowledge of mathematics and provide the basic core of mathematical tools required throughout the engineering course. To introduce the student to statistical techniques used for data analysis. To give the student a sound basic knowledge of computer programming in C++ upon which they can subsequently build. After taking this unit the student should be able to: Employ elementary numerical methods for the solution of algebraic equations and integration. Set up and solve differential equations of typical engineering problems by analytical and numerical methods . Apply rules of partial differentiation to small increment and change of variable problems for functions of several variables. Solve simultaneous linear equations. Find eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices. Interpret experimental data, carry out elementary statistical analysis and calculate best least-squares fit to data. Write well structured simple programs in C++. The lecture programme will be common with UNIV0035 Content: First and second order differential equations with step and sinusoidal input, including simultaneous differential equations. Linear algebra; vectors, matrices and determinants, Gaussian elimination, eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Newton-Raphson method, numerical integration, elementary nonlinear equations. Statistical analysis: normal distribution, probability, linear interpolation, curve fitting using least squares. C++: main variable types, input, output. Procedures, control stuctures. |
UNIV0053: Project dissertation Dissertation period Credits: 30 Contact: Level: Postgraduate Assessment: DS100 Requisites: Aims & learning objectives: To develop skills of individual project effort in a computer based practical undertaking with original development content related to one or more of the lecture modules previously studied. On completion of the Unit students should be able to survey the literature related to a broadly specified area of technology and present an orderly written survey which places an individual project undertaking in context. They should be able to identify the tasks to be completed, plan a scheme of work, and complete the project to the standard expected of a young professional in the undertaking chosen. They should be able to assemble and create the necessary software tools, carry out the development of the solution of a technical problem in multimedia, and evaluate the effectiveness of their solution against common standards of quality. They should be able to demonstrate the successful completion of these tasks in a well structured and coherently written dissertation. Content: Students will choose a project from a list of topics offered by the Departments, or propose their own. The project will be implemented in software but could also involve the use of low level hardware. The students will be expected to follow through the accepted problem solving route, beginning with the identification and specification of the problem and searching of the relevant literature. They should then proceed to proposals for solution, analysis of alternatives, implementation of the chosen solution and final evaluation and testing. A written dissertation will be submitted at the completion of the project. |