The Degree Committee for the Faculty of Business and Management give notice that in the academical year 2006-07 the subjects for examination in Technology Policy for the M.Phil. Degree will be as listed below. The method of examination is shown for each subject. The Technology Policy degree corresponds to fifteen equally weighted modules including three core modules, the research project which is weighted four times, MOT&I which is weighted two times, and six electives (two of which must be chosen from the outer core).
| Module code |
Module title |
Assessment
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| TPE5 /4I3 | Distribution networks | 4,000-word essay (80%) plus half-hour seminar presentation (20%)
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| TPE6/4I1 | Strategic valuation - uncertainty and real options in systems design | 1,500-word essay (50%) plus modelling exercise over four weeks (50%)
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| TPE7 | Political economy of technology policy | 3,000-word essay (80%), 20-minute presentation (20%)
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| TPE8 | System dynamics for policy and management | 3,000-word project (30%), three 1,000-word essays (20% each), plus 20-minute presentation (10%)
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| TPE9 | Advanced intellectual property law | 2,000-word report
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| TPE10/5CMI4 | Advanced technology policy | Two 500-word essays (10%), 3,500-word essay (60%), plus one-hour seminar presentation (30%)
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| TPE11/4E4 | Management of technology | 3,000-word assignment |
| Module code | Module title | Assessment
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| MF1 | Introduction to financial reporting | Two-hour written exam
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| MF2 | Principles of finance | Two-hour written exam
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| MM1 | Quantitative techniques for management |
Two-hour class test
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| MM10 | Globalization and big business | 4,000-word essay
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| MM20 | Environment and sustainability | 3,000-word essay plus one-hour seminar presentation
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| MM3 | Business economics | Two 2,000-word essays (50% each)
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| MM4 | Strategic management | 2,000-word essay plus one-hour seminar presentation
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| 4A1 | Nuclear power engineering | 1.5-hour exam
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| 4A3 | Turbo machinery 1 | 1.5-hour exam (75%), report (25%)
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| 4A4 | Aircraft stability and control | Report (100%)
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| 4A7 | Aerodynamics | Two reports
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| 4A8 | Environmental fluid mechanics | 1.5-hour exam
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| 4A13 | Introduction to combustion | Report (100%)
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| 4B5 | Nanotechnology | 1.5-hour exam (75%), simulation study (25%)
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| 4B6 | Solid state devices and chemical/biological sensors |
1.5-hour exam
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| 4B7 | VLSI design, technology, and CAD | 1.5-hour exam (75%), course-work (25%)
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| 4B13 | Electronic sensors and instrumentation | 1.5-hour exam (75%), course-work (25%)
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| 4B14 | Solar electronic power: generation and distribution |
1.5-hour exam (75%), course-work (25%)
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| 4B15 | Advanced telecommunications networks |
1.5-hour exam (75%), course-work (25%)
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| 4C1 | Design against failure | 1.5-hour exam (75%), course-work (25%)
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| 4C2 | Designing with composites | 1.5-hour exam (75%), course-work (25%)
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| 4C3 | Electrical and nano materials | 1.5-hour exam
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| 4C4 | Design methods | 1.5-hour exam (75%), course-work (25%)
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| 4C14 | Engineering principles of the cell | 1.5-hour exam
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| 4C15 | MEMS: design | 1.5-hour exam (75%), course-work (25%)
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| 4D2 | Lightweight structure | Two reports
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| 4D4 | Ground engineering | Three reports
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| 4D6 | Dynamics in civil engineering | 1.5-hour exam (75%), course-work (25%)
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| 4D11 | Building physics | 1.5-hour exam (75%), course-work (25%)
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| 4D14 | Contaminated land and waste containment |
1.5-hour exam (75%), course-work (25%)
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| 4D15 | Sustainable water engineering | Course-work (100%)
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| 4E1 | Technological innovation: research and practice |
Course-work (100%)
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| 4E3 | Information systems | 3,000-word essay (80%), presentation (20%)
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| 4E5 | International business economics | Course-work (100%)
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| 4E6 | Accounting and finance | 1.5-hour exam
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| 4E11 | Strategic management | Course-work (100%)
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| 4E12/5CMI5 | Project management | Project (40%), report (60%)
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| 4F1 | Control system design | 1.5-hour exam (75%), course-work (25%)
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| 4F6 | Signal detection and estimation | 1.5-hour exam
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| 4F9 | Medical imaging and 3-D computer graphics |
1.5-hour exam
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| 4F11 | Speech processing | 1.5-hour exam
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| 4F12 | Computer vision and robotics | 1.5-hour exam
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| 4G1 | Computational and systems biology | 1.5-hour exam
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| 4G2 | Biosensors | Course-work (100%)
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| 4M14 | Sustainable development | Course-work (100%)
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| 4M15 | Sustainable energy | 1.5-hour exam (75%), course-work (25%)
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| ESD2 | Changing organizations towards sustainability |
Course-work (100%)
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| ESD3 | Sustainable development in engineering practice | Course-work (100%)
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| 5CMI1 | Electricity and the environment | Course-work (100%)
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| 5CMI2 | Telecommunications: technologies and policies in the networked digital world |
Course-work (100%) |
