The Faculty Board of Engineering give notice that the form of the examinations to be taken in the Easter Term 2006 shall be as follows. Arrangements for reading time before the examination starts, and for papers not mentioned below, are as for last year.
Each candidate will be required to offer eight modules in total and undertake a project. All modules will carry equal weight, whether assessed by written paper or course-work, or by a combination of written paper and course-work. Where a module is assessed by written paper and course-work, the course-work will carry weight equal to one quarter of a module. In the exceptional case of a dissertation being submitted in place of a module, the dissertation will carry weight equal to one module. The project will carry marks equal to six modules.
For modules 4C7, 4C9, and 4M12 only, candidates may bring into the examination room notes on the module they have written personally by hand, and any notes authorized for use in the examination room by the module leader. This includes lecture notes issued by the module lecturers.
Candidates should refer to the Faculty Board's Notice, dated September 2005, on the use of calculators in examinations.
Form of written papers
| Number/Title/Method of assessment (written paper (p), course-work (c)) | Number of questions on the paper | Number of questions to be attempted | |
| 4A1 | Nuclear power engineering (p) | 4 | 3 |
| 4A3 | Turbomachinery I (p and c) | 3 | 2 |
| 4A8 | Environmental fluid mechanics (p) | 4 | 3 |
| 4A9 | Molecular Thermodynamics (p) | 4 | 3 |
| 4A10 | Flow instability (p) | 4 | 3 |
| 4A11 | Turbomachinery II (p and c) | 3 | 2 |
| 4A12 | Turbulence (p) | 4 | 3 |
| 4A14 | Silent aircraft initiative (p) | 4 | 3 |
| 4B2 | Power electronics and applications (p) | 5 | 3 |
| 4B5 | Nanotechnology (p and c) | 5 | 3 |
| 4B6 | Solid state devices and chemical/biological sensors (p) | 5 | 3 |
| 4B7 | VLSI design, technology, and CAD (p and c) | 5 | 3 |
| 4B8 | Electronic system design (p and c) | 5 | 3 |
| 4B11 | Photonic systems (p) | 4 | 3 |
| 4B13 | Electronic sensors and instrumentation (p) | 5 | 3 |
| 4B14 | Solar-electronic power: generation and distribution (p and c) | 4 | 3 |
| 4B15 | Advanced telecommunications networks (p and c) | 3 | 2 |
| 4B17 | Photonics of molecular materials (p) | 5 | 3 |
| 4B18 | Advanced electronic devices (p) | 5 | 3 |
| 4C1 | Design against failure (p and c) | 4 | 3 |
| 4C2 | Designing with composites (p and c) | 4 | 3 |
| 4C3 | Electrical materials and nano materials (p) | 5 | 3 |
| 4C4 | Design methods (p and c) | 4 | 3 |
| 4C6 | Advanced linear vibration (p and c) | 4 | 3 |
| 4C7 | Random and non-linear vibration (p and c) | 4 | 3 |
| 4C8 | Applications of dynamics (p and c) | 4 | 3 |
| 4C9 | Continuum mechanics (p and c) | 3 | 2 |
| 4C14 | Mechanics of biological systems (p) | 4 | 3 |
| 4C15 | MEMS: design (p and c) | 4 | 3 |
| 4D5 | Foundation engineering (p and c) | 4 | 3 |
| 4D6 | Dynamics in civil engineering (p and c) | 4 | 3 |
| 4D7 | Concrete and masonry structures (p and c) | 5 | 3 |
| 4D8 | Pre-stressed concrete (p and c) † | 5 (2 in Section A, 3 in Section B) | 3 (1 from Section A, 2 from Section B) |
| 4D10 | Structural steelwork (p and c) | 4 | 3 |
| 4D13 | Architectural engineering (p and c) | 4 | 3 |
| 4D14 | Contaminated land and waste containment (p and c) | 4 | 3 |
| 4E6 | Accounting and finance (p) | 3 | 2 |
| 4F1 | Control system design (p and c) | 3 | 2 |
| 4F2 | Robust multivariable control (p and c) | 3 | 2 |
| 4F3 | Nonlinear and predictive control (p) | 4 | 3 |
| 4F6 | Signal detection and estimation (p) | 4 | 3 |
| 4F7 | Digital filters and spectrum estimation (p) | 4 | 3 |
| 4F8 | Image processing and image coding (p) | 4 | 2 |
| 4F9 | Medical imaging and 3-D computer graphics (p) † | 6 (2 in Section A, 2 in Section B, 2 in Section C) | 3 (1 from each Section) |
| 4F10 | Statistical pattern processing (p) | 5 | 3 |
| 4F11 | Speech processing (p) | 5 | 3 |
| 4F12 | Computer vision and robotics (p) | 5 | 3 |
| 4M6 | Materials and processes for microsystems (MEMS) (p and c) | 4 | 3 |
| 4M8 | Bioinformatics (p) | 3 | 2 |
| 4M12 | Partial differential equations and variational methods (p) | 4 | 3 |
| 4M13 | Complex analysis and optimization (p) † | 4 | 3 |
† The written paper for these modules will be divided into sections. Further information is shown below.
The written paper for Modules 4D8, 4F9, and 4M13 will be divided into sections as follows:
| 4D8 | Section A questions have weighting of 50% | |
| Section B questions have weighting of 25% | ||
| Both sections may contain questions on any relevant topic | ||
| 4F9 | Section A | Medical image acquisition |
| Section B | Curves, surfaces, and interpolation | |
| Section C | 3D graphical rendering | |
| 4M13 | Section A | Complex analysis |
| Section B | Optimization | |