Notices by Faculty Boards, or other bodies concerned, of changes to the form and conduct of certain examinations to be held in 2007-08, by comparison with those examinations in 2007, are published below. Complete details of the form and conduct of all examinations are available from the Faculties or Departments concerned.
The Faculty Board of Engineering give notice that the form of the examinations to be taken in the Easter Term 2008 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 modules, the total duration for written papers of which amounts to 15 hours. All papers of one and a half hours' duration will carry equal weight, whether assessed by written paper only or by 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. Papers 3A1 and 3A3 will be of three hours' duration and will carry weight equal to two modules. Each candidate will be required to submit course-work, in addition to any course-work assessed as part of a module, which will carry weight equal to four modules.
All candidates will be provided with a complete set of standard data books in bound form for all examinations. The students will be informed during lectures if there are any special data sheets associated with an individual paper. A copy of any such data sheet will be issued to students by the lecturer, and will be made available in the examination.
In the working of all questions and in the evaluation of numerical quantities, candidates should show a sufficient number of steps to allow the Examiners to make a proper assessment of their answers.
Candidates should refer to the Faculty Board's Notice, published in July 2007, on the use of calculators in examinations.
Module title | Written paper (p); course-work (c) | Number of questions on the paper | Number of questions to be attempted | |
3A1 | Fluid mechanics I (double module) | p | 8 | 5
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3A3 | Fluid mechanics II (double module) | p | 8 | 5
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3A5 | Thermodynamics and power generation | p | 4 | 3
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3A6 | Heat and mass transfer | p | 4 | 3
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3B1 | Radio frequency electronics | p | 4 | 3
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3B2 | Integrated digital electronics | p | 4 | 3
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3B3 | Switch-mode electronics | p | 4 | 3
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3B4 | Electric drive systems | p | 4 | 3
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3B5 | Semiconductor engineering | p | 4 | 3
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3B6 | Photonic technology | p | 4 | 3
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3C1 | Materials processing and design | p | 4 | 3
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3C2 | Materials process modelling and failure analysis | p | 4 | 3
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3C5 | Dynamics | p | 5 | 3
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3C6 | Vibration | p | 4 | 3
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3C7 | Mechanics of solids | p | 4 | 3
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3C8 | Machine design | p | 4 | 3
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3D1 | Geotechnical engineering I | p | 4 | 3
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3D2 | Geotechnical engineering II | p | 4 | 3
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3D3 | Structural materials and design | p | 4 | 3
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3D4 | Structural analysis and stability | p | 4 | 3
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3D5 | Water engineering | p | 4 | 3
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3D6 | Environmental geotechnics | p | 4 | 3
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3D7 | Finite element methods | p | 4 | 3
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3E1 | Business economics | p | 4 | 2
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3E2 | Marketing | p | 4 | 2
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3E3 | Modelling risk | p | 4 | 2
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3E5 | Human resource management | p | 4 | 2
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3E6 | Organizational behaviour and change | p | 4 | 2
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3E10 | Operations management for engineers | p | 4 | 2
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3F1 | Signals and systems | p | 4 | 3
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3F2 | Systems and control | p | 4 | 3
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3F3 | Signal and pattern processing | p | 4 | 3
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3F4 | Data transmission | p | 4 | 3
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3F5 | Computer and network systems | p | 4 | 3
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3F6 | Software engineering and design | p | 4 | 3
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3G1 | Introduction to bioscience | p | Section A: 1 | 1
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Section B: 4 | 2
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3G2 | Physiological systems | p | 4 | 3
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3G3 | Intoduction to neuroscience | p | 4 | 3
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3G4 | Medical imaging and 3-D computer graphics | p | Section A: 2 | 1
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Section B: 2 | 1
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Section C: 2 | 1
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3G5 | Biomaterials | p | 4 | 3
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3I1 | Data structures and algorithms (CST) | p | Section A: 1 | 1
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Section B: 3 | 2
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4A1 | Nuclear power engineering | p | 4 | 3
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4C4 | Design methods | p & c | 4 | 3
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4D8 | Pre-stressed concrete | p & c | Section A: 2 | 1
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Section B: 3 | 2
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4M12 | Partial differential equations and variational methods | p | 4 | 3
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4M13 | Complex analysis and optimization | p |
4 Section A Complex analysis Section B Optimization | 3 |
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 module 4C7 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, published in July 2007, 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
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4A3 | Turbomachinery I (p & c) | 3 | 2
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4A8 | Environmental fluid mechanics (p) | 4 | 3
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4A9 | Molecular thermodynamics (p) | 4 | 3
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4A10 | Flow instability (p) | 4 | 3
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4A11 | Turbomachinery II (p & c) | 3 | 2
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4A12 | Turbulence (p) | 4 | 3
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4A14 | Silent aircraft initiative (p) | 4 | 3
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4B5 | Nanotechnology (p & c) | 5 | 3
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4B6 | Solid state devices and chemical/biological sensors (p) | 4 | 3
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4B7 | VLSI design, technology, and CAD (p & c) | 5 | 3
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4B8 | Electronic system design (p & c) | 5 | 3
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4B11 | Photonic systems (p) | 4 | 3
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4B13 | Electronic sensors and instrumentation (p) | 5 | 3
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4B14 | Solar-electronic power: generation and distribution (p & c) | 4 | 3
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4B15 | Advanced telecommunications networks (p & c) | 3 | 2
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4B17 | Photonics of molecular materials (p) | 5 | 3
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4B19 | Renewable electrical power (p) | 4 | 3
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4C2 | Designing with composites (p & c) | 4 | 3
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4C3 | Electrical and nano materials (p) | 5 | 3
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4C4 | Design methods (p & c) | 4 | 3
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4C6 | Advanced linear vibrations (p & c) | 4 | 3
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4C7 | Random and non-linear vibrations (p & c) | 4 | 3
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4C8 | Applications of dynamics (p & c) | 4 | 3
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4C9 | Continuum mechanics (p & c) | 3 | 2
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4C15 | MEMS: design (p & c) | 4 | 3
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4D5 | Foundation engineering (p & c) | 4 | 3
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4D6 | Dynamics in civil engineering (p & c) | 4 | 3
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4D7 | Concrete and masonry structures (p & c) | 5 | 3
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4D8 | Pre-stressed concrete (p & c) | 5 (2 in Section A, 3 in Section B) | 3 (1 in Section A, 2 in Section B)
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4D9 | Plate and shells: theory and computation (p & c) | 4 | 3
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4D10 | Structural steelwork (p & c) | 4 | 3
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4F1 | Control system design (p & c) | 3 | 2
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4F2 | Robust multivariable control (p & c) | 3 | 2
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4F3 | Nonlinear and predictive control (p) | 4 | 3
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4F6 | Signal detection and estimation (p) | 4 | 3
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4F7 | Digital filters and spectrum estimation (p) | 4 | 3
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4F8 | Image processing and image coding (p) | 4 | 3
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4F10 | Statistical pattern processing (p) | 5 | 3
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4F11 | Speech and language processing (p) | 4 | 3
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4F12 | Computer vision and robotics (p) | 5 | 3
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4F13 | Machine learning (p & c) | 6 | 5
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4G1 | Computational and systems biology (p) | 3 | 3
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4G2 | Biosensors (p & c) | 4 | 3
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4M6 | Materials and processes for microsystems (MEMS) (p&c) | 4 | 3
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4M12 | Partial differential equations and variational methods (p) | 4 | 3
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4M13 | Complex analysis and optimization (p) | 4 |
3
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4M15 | Sustainable energy (p & c) | 3 | 2 |
The written paper for Modules 4D8 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. | |
4M13 | Section A Complex analysis |
Section B Optimization |