Notices by Faculty Boards, etc.

Engineering and Manufacuring Engineering Triposes: Notice for courses intending to borrow papers from Parts IIa and IIb of the Triposes
Engineering Tripos, Parts IIa and IIb, 2016–17: Modules and sets
Manufacturing Engineering Tripos, Part IIa, 2016–17
Historical Tripos, 2017
Natural Sciences Tripos, Part II (History and Philosophy of Science), 2016–17
Natural Sciences Tripos, Part III (Interdisciplinary papers), 2016–17
Examination in Advanced Computer Science for the M.Phil. Degree, 2016–17

Engineering and Manufacuring Engineering Triposes: Notice for courses intending to borrow papers from Parts IIa and IIb of the Triposes

The Faculty Board of Engineering requests that it be given notice of any course that intends to borrow a paper from the Engineering Tripos or the Manufacturing Engineering Tripos. This notice should be given by the end of the full Easter Term in the academical year before the course is run.

Notice should be sent to the Secretary of the Faculty Board of Engineering (email: faculty-board-office@eng.cam.ac.uk), who will forward the request to the relevant Subject Group within the Department of Engineering. To satisfy timetabling, resourcing, or other constraints, the Subject Groups or the Faculty Board may impose a cap on the numbers of students from any particular course who may take a particular paper.

Engineering Tripos, Parts IIa and IIb, 2016–17: Modules and sets

Part IIa: Modules

The Faculty Board of Engineering gives notice that the modules prescribed for the examinations to be held in 2017, and the mode of examination for each module, will be as follows:

Key:

Sets:	M = Michaelmas Term	L = Lent Term
Assessment:	p = examination only

Unit	Title	Set	Mode	Notes
Group A: Energy, fluid mechanics, and turbomachinery
3A1	Fluid mechanics I	IIAM8 / L7	p	Double module
3A3	Fluid mechanics II	IIAM1 / L1	p	Double module
3A5	Thermodynamics and power generation	IIAM7	p
3A6	Heat and mass transfer	IIAL3	p
Group B: Electrical engineering
3B1	Radio frequency electronics	IIAM3	p
3B2	Integrated digital electronics	IIAL3	p
3B3	Switch-mode electronics	IIAM2	p
3B4	Electric drive systems	IIAL2	p
3B5	Semiconductor engineering	IIAM11	p
3B6	Photonic technology	IIAL7	p
Group C: Mechanics, materials, and design
3C1	Materials processing and design (engineering)	IIAM5	p	Also runs as MET 3P1
3C5	Dynamics	IIAM6	p
3C6	Vibration	IIAL6	p
3C7	Mechanics of solids	IIAM4	p
3C8	Machine design	IIAM3	p
3C9	Fracture mechanics of materials and structures	IIAL5	p
Group D: Civil, structural, and environmental engineering
3D1	Geotechnical engineering I	IIAM1	p
3D2	Geotechnical engineering II	IIAL1	p
3D3	Structural materials and design	IIAM2	p
3D4	Structural analysis and stability	IIAL2	p
3D5	Water engineering	IIAM11	p
3D7	Finite element methods	IIAL4	p
3D8	Building physics and environmental geotechnics	IIAM3	p
Group E: Management and manufacturing
3E1	Business economics	IIAL9	p
3E2	Marketing	IIAM10	p
3E3	Modelling risk	IIAM9	p
3E5	Human resource management	IIAM10	p
3E6	Organizational behaviour	IIAL10	p
3E10	Operations management for engineers	IIAL9	p
Group F: Information engineering
3F1	Signals and systems	IIAM4	p
3F2	Systems and control	IIAL5	p
3F3	Statistical signal processing	IIAM1	p	Moves from LT to MT
3F4	Data transmission	IIAL6	p
3F7	Information theory and coding	IIAM5	p
3F8	Inference	IIAL4	p
Group G: Bioengineering
3G1	Introduction to molecular bioengineering	IIAM7	p
3G2	Mathematical physiology	IIAL3	p
3G3	Introduction to neuroscience	IIAL2	p
3G4	Medical imaging and 3D computer graphics	IIAL11	p
3G5	Biomaterials	IIAM9	p
Group M: Multidisciplinary modules
3M1	Mathematical methods	IIAL10	p
Group S: Modules shared with Part IIb
4C4	Design methods	IIAM11	p	Shared module
4D16	Construction management	IIAM8 / IIBM9	p	Shared module; alternates with 4D8
4M12	Partial differential equations and variational methods	IIAL11	p	Shared module
4M16	Nuclear power engineering	IIAL11	p	Shared module

Part IIa: Sets

Candidates must offer ten modules for examination. Candidates may offer only one module from any one of the sets. Students may not take more than two management modules.

Set	Unit	Title	Mode	Notes
Michaelmas Term
IIAM1	3A3	Fluid mechanics II	p	Double module
	3D1	Geotechnical engineering I	p
	3F3	Statistical signal processing	p

IIAM2	3B3	Switch-mode electronics	p
	3D3	Structural materials and design	p

IIAM3	3B1	Radio frequency electronics	p
	3C8	Machine design	p
	3D8	Building physics and environmental geotechnics	p

IIAM4	3C7	Mechanics of solids	p
	3F1	Signals and systems	p

IIAM5	3C1	Materials processing and design	p
	3F7	Information theory and coding	p

IIAM6	3C5	Dynamics	p

IIAM7	3A5	Thermodynamics and power generation	p
	3G1	Introduction to molecular bioengineering	p

IIAM8	3A1	Fluid mechanics I	p	Double module
	4D16	Construction management	p	Shared module; alternates with 4D8

IIAM9	3E3	Modelling risk	p
	3G5	Biomaterials	p

IIAM10	3E2	Marketing	p
	3E5	Human resource management	p

IIAM11	4C4	Design methods	p	Shared module
	3B5	Semiconductor engineering	p
	3D5	Water engineering	p
Lent Term
IIAL1	3A3	Fluid mechanics II	p	Double module
	3D2	Geotechnical engineering II	p

IIAL2	3B4	Electric drive systems	p
	3D4	Structural analysis and stability	p
	3G3	Introduction to neuroscience	p

IIAL3	3A6	Heat and mass transfer	p
	3B2	Integrated digital electronics	p
	3G2	Mathematical physiology	p

IIAL4	3D7	Finite element methods	p
	3F8	Inference	p

IIAL5	3C9	Fracture mechanics of materials and structures	p
	3F2	Systems and control	p

IIAL6	3C6	Vibration	p
	3F4	Data transmission	p

IIAL7	3A1	Fluid mechanics I	p	Double module
	3B6	Photonic technology	p

IIAL9	3E1	Business economics	p
	3E10	Operations management for engineers	p

IIAL10	3E6	Organizational behaviour	p
	3M1	Mathematical methods	p

IIAL11	4M12	Partial differential equations and variational methods	p	Shared module
	4M16	Nuclear power engineering	p	Shared module
	3G4	Medical imaging and 3D computer graphics	p

Part IIb: Modules

The Faculty Board of Engineering gives notice that the modules prescribed for the examinations to be held in 2017, and the mode of examination for each module, will be as follows:

Notes:

c = coursework

p = examination only

p+c = examination and coursework

Unit	Name	Set	Mode	Notes
Group A: Energy, fluid mechanics, and turbomachinery
4A2	Computational fluid dynamics	IIBM1	c
4A3	Turbomachinery I	IIBM7	p+c
4A4	Aircraft stability and control	IIBM10	c	Coursework in Christmas vacation, and further lecture in LT; max. 30 so may ballot
4A7	Aerodynamics	IIBM3	c
4A9	Molecular thermodynamics	IIBM6	p
4A10	Flow instability	IIBL6	p
4A12	Turbulence and vortex dynamics	IIBL3	p
4A13	Combustion and IC engines	IIBL5	p
4A15	Aeroacoustics	IIBM9	p
Group B: Electrical engineering
4B2	Power microelectronics	IIBM9	p
4B5	Nanotechnology	IIBM10	p+c
4B6	Solid state devices and chemical / biological sensors	IIBL3	p
4B7	VLSI design, technology, and CAD	IIBL1	p+c
4B11	Photonic systems	IIBM8	p
4B14	Solar-electronic power: generation and distribution	IIBM4	p+c
4B19	Renewable electrical power	IIBM2	p
4B20	Display technology	IIBL6	p
4B21	Analogue integrated circuits	IIBM3	p
4B22	Flexible electronics	IIBL5	p
Group C: Mechanics, materials, and design
4C2	Designing with composites	IIBM5	p+c
4C3	Electrical and nano materials	IIBM6	p
4C4	Design methods	IIBM2	p	Shared with Part IIa
4C5	Design case studies	IIBL4	c
4C6	Advanced linear vibrations	IIBM4	p+c
4C7	Random and non-linear vibrations	IIBM8	p+c
4C8	Vehicle dynamics	IIBL1	p+c
4C9	Continuum mechanics	IIBM7	p
4C15	MEMS: design	IIBL7	p+c
4C16	Advanced machine design	IIBL9	p+c
Group D: Civil, structural, and environmental engineering
4D4	Construction engineering	IIBL1	c
4D5	Foundation engineering	IIBL5	p
4D6	Dynamics in civil engineering	IIBL2	p+c
4D7	Concrete structures	IIBL10	p+c
4D10	Structural steelwork	IIBM5	p+c
4D13	Architectural engineering	IIBM12	c
4D16	Construction management	IIBM9	p	Shared with IIa; alternates with 4D8
4D17	Plate and shell structures	IIBM3	c
Group E: Management and manufacturing
4E3	Information systems	IIBM15	c
4E4	Management of technology	IIBM17	c
4E5	International business	IIBL12	c
4E6	Accounting and finance	IIBM16	c
4E11	Strategic management	IIBL13	c
4E12	Project management	IIBL14	c	Part IIb Engineering students only
Group F: Information engineering
4F1	Control system design	IIBM6	p+c
4F2	Robust and nonlinear systems and control	IIBL9	p
4F3	Optimal and predictive control	IIBL2	p
4F5	Advanced communications and coding	IIBM7	p
4F7	Digital filters and spectrum estimation	IIBM8	p
4F8	Image processing and image coding	IIBL3	p
4F10	Statistical pattern processing	IIBM9	p
4F12	Computer vision	IIBM2	p
4F13	Probabilistic machine learning	IIBM11	c
Group G: Bioengineering
4G1	Mathematical biology of the cell	IIBL6	c
4G2	Biosensors	IIBL2	c
4G3	Computational neuroscience	IIBL4	c
4G4	Biomimetics	IIBL7	c
Group M: Multidisciplinary modules
4M1	French	IIBL15	c
4M2	German	IIBL15	c
4M3	Spanish	IIBM11	c
4M4	Japanese	IIBL15	c
4M9	Surveying field course	LV1	c	Long Vacation module taken in previous summer; cap: 16
4M12	Partial differential equations and variational methods	IIBL11	p	Shared with Part IIa
4M14	Sustainable development	IIBM13	c
4M15	Sustainable energy	IIBL8	p+c
4M16	Nuclear power engineering	IIBL11	p	Shared with Part IIa
4M17	Practical optimization	IIBM19	c
4M18	Present and future energy systems	IIBM5	p
4M19	Advanced building physics	IIBM14	c
4M20	Robotics	IIBM12	c
4M21	Software engineering and design	IIBL9	p	Cannot be taken in 2016–17 if 3F6 was taken in 2015–16
Group I: Imported modules
4I1	Strategic valuation (TPE6)	IIBM18	c	Christmas vacation module; cap: 10; borrowed from M.Phil. in Technology Policy
4I7	Electricity and environment (TPE7)	IIBL7	c	Borrowed from M.Phil. in Technology Policy
4I8	Medical physics	IIBL10	p	Borrowed from Physics
4I10	Nuclear reactor engineering	IIBM13	p	Borrowed from M.Phil. in Nuclear Energy
4I11	Advanced fission and fusion systems	IIBL10	p	Borrowed from M.Phil. in Nuclear Energy
4I12	Social and technological network data analytics	IIBL17	c	Numbers will be capped; borrowed from M.Phil. in Advanced Computer Science

Part IIb: Restrictions on module combinations

Candidates must offer eight modules for examination. Candidates may offer only one module from any chosen set as listed below. In addition, students may take not more than three from the following: any of the 4E papers; 4I1 and 4I7; 4M1–4, and (when available) 4D16.

No candidate who offered any module for Part IIa may again offer the same module for Part IIb.

There will be no Group R (research) modules available to Part IIb students in 2016–17.

Set	Unit	Title	Mode	Notes
Michaelmas Term
IIBM1	4A2	Computational fluid dynamics	c
IIBM1	4D14	Contaminated land and waste containment	p+c

IIBM2	4B19	Renewable electrical power	p
	4C4	Design methods	p	Shared with Part IIa
	4F12	Computer vision	p

IIBM3	4A7	Aerodynamics	c
	4B21	Analogue integrated circuits	p
	4D17	Plate and shell structures	c

IIBM4	4B14	Solar-electronic power: generation and distribution	p+c
IIBM4	4C6	Advanced linear vibrations	p+c

IIBM5	4C2	Designing with composites	p+c
	4D10	Structural steelwork	p+c
	4M18	Present and future energy systems	p

IIBM6	4C3	Electrical and nano materials	p
	4F1	Control system design	p+c
	4A9	Molecular thermodynamics	p

IIBM7	4A3	Turbomachinery I	p+c
	4C9	Continuum mechanics	p
	4F5	Advanced communications and coding	p

IIBM8	4B11	Photonic systems	p
	4C7	Random and non-linear vibrations	p+c
	4F7	Digital filters and spectrum estimation	p

IIBM9	4A15	Aeroacoustics	p
	4B2	Power microelectronics	p
	4F10	Statistical pattern processing	p
	4D16	Construction management	p	Shared with Part IIa

IIBM10	4A4	Aircraft stability and control	c
IIBM10	4B5	Nanotechnology	p+c

IIBM11	4F13	Probabilistic machine learning	c
IIBM11	4M3	Spanish	c

IIBM12	4D13	Architectural engineering	c
IIBM12	4M20	Robotics	c

IIBM13	4I10	Nuclear reactor engineering	p
IIBM13	4M14	Sustainable development	c

IIBM14	4M19	Advanced building physics	c

IIBM15	4E3	Information systems	c

IIBM16	4E6	Accounting and finance	c

IIBM17	4E4	Management of technology	c

IIBM18	4I1	Strategic valuation (TPE6)	c	Christmas vacation module; cap: 10

IIBM19	4M17	Practical optimization	c
Lent Term
IIBL1	4B7	VLSI design, technology, and CAD	p+c
	4C8	Applications of dynamics	p+c
	4D4	Construction engineering	c

IIBL2	4D6	Dynamics in civil engineering	p+c
	4F3	Optimal and predictive control	p
	4G2	Biosensors	p

IIBL3	4A12	Turbulence and vortex dynamics	p
	4B6	Solid state devices and chemical / biological sensors	p
	4F8	Image processing and image coding	p

IIBL4	4C5	Design case studies	c
	4D15	Sustainable water engineering	c
	4G3	Computational neuroscience	c

IIBL5	4A13	Combustion and IC engines	p
	4D5	Foundation engineering	p	Coursework element removed
	4B22	Flexible electronics	p

IIBL6	4A10	Flow instability	p
	4B20	Display technology	p
	4G1	Mathematical biology of the cell	c

IIBL7*	4G4	Biomimetics	c
	4I7	Electricity and environment	c
	4C15	MEMS: design	p+c

IIBL8	4M15	Sustainable energy	p+c

IIBL9	4C16	Advanced machine design	p+c
	4F2	Robust and nonlinear systems and control	p
	4M21	Software engineering and design	p	Cannot be taken in 2016–17 if 3F6 was taken in 2015–16

IIBL10*	4D7	Concrete structures	p+c
	4I8	Medical physics	p
	4I11	Advanced fission and fusion systems	p

IIBL11	4M12	Partial differential equations and variational methods	p	Shared with Part IIa
IIBL11	4M16	Nuclear power engineering	p	Shared with Part IIa

IIBL12	4E5	International business economics	c

IIBL13	4E11	Strategic management	c

IIBL14	4E12	Project management	c	Part IIb Engineering students only

IIBL15	4M1	French	c
	4M2	German	c
	4M4	Japanese	c

IIBL17*	4I12	Social and technological network data analytics	c	May clash with other sets
Long Vacation
LV1	4M9	Surveying field course	c	Cap: 16

* Please note that as the Faculty Board of Engineering does not have exclusive control over all sets it cannot guarantee that those marked with a star will not clash with any other set.

Manufacturing Engineering Tripos, Part IIa, 2016–17

The Faculty Board of Engineering gives notice that the modules prescribed for the examinations to be held in 2017 will be as follows:

3P1.	Materials into products
3P2.	Operation and control of production machines and systems
3P3.	Product design
3P4.	Operations management
3P5.	Industrial engineering
3P6.	Organizational behaviour
3P7.	Managing business and people
3P8.	Financial and management accounting
3P9.	Industrial economics, strategy, and governance
3P10.	Contemporary issues in manufacturing

All modules will be assessed by examination only, with the exception of module 3P3, which will be assessed by coursework only.

Historical Tripos, 2017

The Faculty Board of History gives notice that it has amended its announcement of special and specified subjects for Part II of the Historical Tripos, 2017, as published on 15 July 2015 (Reporter, 6394, 2014–15, p. 758), as follows:

By withdrawing the following from the list of Special Subjects (Section B) for Papers 2 and 3:

From World War to Cold War: America, Britain, Russia, and the division of Europe, 1944–1950	(L)
Liberalism and constitutional crisis in the United States, c. 1930 – c. 1965	(M)
Missionary science, ethnic formation, and the religious encounter in Belgian Congo, 1908–1960	(O)

By adding the following to the list of Special Subjects for Papers 2 and 3:

The Black Death	(E)
Masculinities and political culture in Britain, 1832–1901	(J)
The transformation of everyday life in Britain, 1945–1990	(L)
Sources of East Asian modernity, c. 1895–1927	(P)

By withdrawing the following from the list of Specified Subjects (Section D):

8	The near east in the age of Justinian and Muhammad, ad 527–700
13	Man, nature, and the supernatural, c. 1000 – c. 1600
24	The politics of gender in Britain, 1790–1990
25	Middle Eastern modernities, from c. 1800 to the present day

By adding the following to the list of Specified Subjects:

9	Writing history in the classical world [Paper C3 of Part II of the Classical Tripos]
16	Overseas expansion and British identities, 1585–1714
21	Borderlands: Life on the Habsburg-Ottoman Frontier, 1521–1881

Candidates for Part II in 2017, who have previously taken Part I of the Historical Tripos and who did not offer in that Part a paper falling mainly in the period before 1750, may meet the requirement to take a pre-1750 paper in Part II by offering one of the Special Subjects A, C, D, E, F, and H or by offering one of the Papers 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 21 or a dissertation, provided that its subject falls mainly in the period before 1750.

Candidates for Part II in 2017, who have previously taken Part I of the Historical Tripos and who did not offer in that Part a paper in European History, may meet the requirement to take a European History paper in Part II by offering one of the following papers: 7, 14, 21, 22, and 23.

The Faculty Board is satisfied that no candidate’s preparation for examination in 2017 will be adversely affected by these amendments.

Natural Sciences Tripos, Part II (History and Philosophy of Science), 2016–17

The Board of History and Philosophy of Science gives notice that the prescribed sources for the essay component of the Part II course in 2016–17 are now available on the Departmental website at http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/studying/undergraduate/partii.html#primary_sources.

Natural Sciences Tripos, Part III (Interdisciplinary papers), 2016–17

The Committee of Management for the Natural Sciences Tripos gives notice of the following additional interdisciplinary papers, which shall be included in the examination requirements of one or more subjects.

Title of paper	Mode of assessment	May be offered in
IDP1: Atmospheric chemistry and global change	One and a half hour written examination	Chemistry; Physics
IDP3: Materials, electronics, and renewable energy	One and a half hour written examination	Chemistry; Physics

Notwithstanding the examination requirements set out in Regulation 36 of the Natural Sciences Tripos, the following amendments shall apply to candidates offering interdisciplinary papers:

Part III Chemistry

Candidates may offer one or two of the interdisciplinary papers listed above, without restriction.

Candidates shall have less time to complete their other scheduled examination papers, such that, for each interdisciplinary paper offered:

•thirty minutes shall be taken away from the duration of Paper 1, and candidates for this paper will be required to answer one question fewer;

•forty-five minutes shall be taken away from the duration of Paper 3, and candidates will be required to answer one question fewer.

Part III Physics

Candidates may offer one or two of the interdisciplinary papers listed above in place of the equivalent number of Minor Topics.

Examination in Advanced Computer Science for the M.Phil. Degree, 2016–17

The Degree Committee for the Faculty of Computer Science and Technology gives notice that the modules available for study for the M.Phil. Degree in Advanced Computer Science (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 478) in the academical year 2016–17, and the form of the examination of each module, will be as follows:

Number	Title and mode of assessment (coursework (c), written test (t)) (Imported module) [Borrowed by other courses]
Michaelmas Term 2016
L41	Advanced operating systems (c)
L11	Algebraic path problems, with applications to internet routing (c)
L18	Automated reasoning (c and t)
L108	Category theory and logic (c and t)
R05	Chip multiprocessors (c and t)
R209	Computer security: Principles and foundations (c)
E4F12	Computer vision (t) (Imported module)
R216	Discourse processing (c)
L95	Introduction to natural language syntax and parsing (c)
L101	Machine learning for language processing (c)
L25	Modern compiler design (c)
R204	Multicore semantics and programming (c)
R02	Network architectures (c)
P50	Network measurements (c)
L90	Overview of natural language processing (c)
L120	Principles of data science (c)
E4F13	Probabilistic machine learning (c) (Imported module)
S500	Special topic MT (c)
Lent Term 2017
L28	Advanced functional programming (c)
R01	Advanced topics in computer systems (c)
R222	Advanced topics in natural language processing (c)
L44	Affective computing (c)
R214	Biomedical information processing (c) [open to Sensor CDT]
R210	Computer security: Current applications and research (c)
P51	High performance networking (c)
E4F8	Image processing and image coding (t) (Imported module)
L21	Interactive formal verification (c)
L42	Machine learning and algorithms for data mining (c)
L30	A mathematical theory of distributed games and strategies (c)
L109	Social and technological network data analytics (c) [open to Part IIb in Engineering]
P35	System on chip design and modelling (c)
S501	Special topic LT (c)
Easter Term 2017
	No modules offered currently in Easter Term 2017

Further details can be found by following the appropriate links from http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/current/acs.html and http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/masters/.

The Degree Committee for the Faculty of Computer Science and Technology gives notice of the form of the evaluation of the Research Skills programme for 2016–17. Students must accumulate a minimum of twelve credits from core and optional units. The mode of delivery and work required for each unit will vary. Students will be required to submit a portfolio of their coursework in the third week of June, and a Research Skills logbook which records the units attended and provides evidence of the work completed for each unit.

The Degree Committee for the Faculty of Computer Science and Technology reserves the right to withdraw any module should fewer than five students enrolled on the M.Phil. Degree in Advanced Computer Science elect to study them. To satisfy timetabling, resourcing, or other constraints, the Faculty Board may impose a cap on the numbers of students from any particular course who may take a particular module. Candidates may not offer more than one Special topic for examination.

J. W. NICHOLLS, Registrary

END OF THE OFFICIAL PART OF THE ‘REPORTER’

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