The following classes are available to exchange students studying in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering:
Guide to choosing classesElectronic & Electrical Engineering
SEMESTER 1
Semester 1 will run from September - December (including exams). See Key Dates for details.
- Class code: EE106
- Level: 1
- Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December). The class runs over two semesters, but UNITEN students take the first half Students cannot take both EE106 and EE273
- Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
Class descriptor
This class will teach elementary computer programming for the absolute beginner. We begin with an introduction of how a computer process instructions, then move on to the basic of programming. Foundation level programming constructs are addressed early in the class and include decision-making (conditional flow control) and iteration (loops). The class focuses largely on procedural programming in the first semester and leaves details of functionalisation and object-oriented programming to the second semester. Throughout the class, the emphasis is strongly on problem-solving such that the skills developed can be cross transferred to other languages. The teaching language used will be Python - a language that permits the programmer to concentrate on the problem-solving aspects of programming rather than being distracted by the syntax of the language.
- Class code: EE108
- Level: 1
- Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
- Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
- Additional Information: Cannot take both EE108 and EE269
Class descriptor
This class aims to provide you with a foundational understanding of the analysis and design of both analogue and digital electronic circuits.
- Class code: 56110
- Level: 1
- Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
- Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
Class descriptor
This class aims to provide an overview of industry and give you some understanding of the industry environment that you would enter as well as the types of roles you would/could undertake and to explain the role and responsibility of the engineering profession and individual engineer. The class is delivered to first-year undergraduate students in the specific context of electronic and electrical engineering together with relationship to mechanical engineering and computer systems.
- Class code: MM113
- Level: 1
- Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
- Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
Class descriptor
This class aims to give a basic understanding of the concepts and applications of mathematical functions, differentiation, integration and complex numbers. The class also provides an introductory experience of using mathematical tools to apply these concepts to practical engineering examples.
- Class code: 56213
- Level: 2
- Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
- Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
Class descriptor
This class aims to introduce you to concepts and methodology required to undertake effective design and development of engineering systems. The product development process will be introduced and through practice, a working knowledge of appropriate engineering design processes, tools and techniques will be gained.
- Class code: EE269
- Level: 2
- Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
- Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
- Additional Information: The class runs over 2 semesters but UNITEN students take the first half. Students cannot take both EE106 and EE273.
Class descriptor
This class aims to introduce you to the analysis and design of analogue circuits and systems as used in electronics, energy and power systems, communications, control and analogue signal processing applications.
- Class code: EE270
- Level: 2
- Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
- Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
- Additional Information: The class runs over 2 semesters but UNITEN students take the first half.
Class descriptor
This class aims to introduce you to the use of digital electronics and the rudiments of digital signal processing systems.
- Class code: EE273
- Level: 2
- Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
- Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
- Additional Information: The class runs over 2 semesters but UNITEN students take the first half. Students cannot take both EE106 and EE273.
Class descriptor
This class aims to give students an understanding of programming concepts and object orientation. Students will gain familiarity with the syntax and facilities available in C++. Lastly, students will gain an ability to write working programs for use in engineering applications.
- Class code: EE311
- Level: 3
- Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
- Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
- Additional Information: The class runs over 2 semesters but UNITEN students take the first half.
Class descriptor
This class promotes detailed understanding of the electrical and electromagnetic principles and their deployment in a range of engineering applications. These are associated with electromagnetic waves propagation in bounded and unbounded media. They are also in: electronic power generation (both conventional and renewable), power distribution and energy utilisation, electric transportation systems, the propagation of electromagnetic waves in free space, in insulating and conducting lossless and lossy media, optical fibre. You'll gain an appreciation of the fundamental principles, engineering solutions, and social and economic implications of such applications.
- Class code: EE312
- Level: 3
- Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
- Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
- Additional Information: The class runs over 2 semesters but UNITEN students take the first half.
Class descriptor
This class aims to help students develop techniques for system modelling based on block diagrams and transfer functions and to use such techniques in the context of analysis and design. You will be introduced to instrumentation and measurement as an interdisciplinary engineering activity and the basic principles of feedback and control systems. This class also aims to enable an understanding of the dependence of measurement and control on a wide variety of scientific and engineering disciplines and to provide appreciation of the universal application of measurement and control within the same range of disciplines. This class also aims to demonstrate engineering design as applied to instrumentation systems and control engineering; in particular, to explain the important contribution of electrical, mechanical and software engineering to this process. This class will also allow you to gain practical design, implementation and test experience of the techniques required to create combined hardware/software systems with an emphasis on measurement.
- Class code: EE313
- Level: 3
- Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
- Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
- Additional Information: The class runs over 2 semesters but UNITEN students take the first half.
Class descriptor
The aim of this class is to further develop your skills and abilities in advanced mathematical concepts in the field of engineering. This will be achieved through contextualised problem solving using applicable mathematical and statistical techniques and tools on problems of moderate complexity. It is important for you to see mathematics and statistics in the context of the computational problems they will be exposed to in their discipline.
- Class code: EE315
- Level: 3
- Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
- Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
- Additional Information: The class runs over 2 semesters but UNITEN students take the first half.
Class descriptor
This class will help you to expand your knowledge in the fundamental electrical and electronic engineering areas of analogue and digital design.
- Class code: EE317
- Level: 3
- Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
- Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
- Additional Information: The class runs over 2 semesters but UNITEN students take the first half.
Class descriptor
This class aims to introduce you to a range of renewable energy technologies, specifically the renewable energy resource, the design and application of the technology and systems, and site assessment. Additionally you'll be introduced to generator/converter systems used with renewable energy sources and appreciate how the grid connection and control of these distributed sources effect power system operation. Wider issues of economic, environmental and social impacts of these technologies will be discussed.
- Class code: EE320
- Level: 3
- Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
- Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
- Additional Information: The class runs over 2 semesters but UNITEN students take the first half.
Class descriptor
The aim of this class is to introduce you to the fundamentals of continuous and discrete signals and linear systems for baseband applications and further describe how these principles are applied in modern communications and bandpass systems.
SEMESTER 2
Semester 2 runs from January - May including exams. Please see key dates for further details.
- Class code: MM113
- Level: 1
- Semester (including exams): 2 (January - May)
- Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
Class descriptor
This class aims to give a basic understanding of the concepts and applications of mathematical functions, differentiation, integration and complex numbers. The class also provides an introductory experience of using mathematical tools to apply these concepts to practical engineering examples.
- Class code: PH167
- Level: 1
- Semester (including exams): 2 (January - May)
- Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
Class descriptor
By the end of this class you'll be able to: Calculate the linear or rotational motion of objects under simple forces or torques; Apply a basic understanding of atomic and solid state physics to explain conduction in semiconductors and semiconductor devices; Calculate the motion of charges in simple electric and magnetic fields; Calculate the electric and magnetic fields around static charge or current configurations using the laws of Coulomb, Gauss and Ampere; Calculate properties of electromagnetic devices such as motors and dynamos.
- Class code: PH260
- Level: 2
- Semester (including exams): 1 (September - December)
- Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: PH167 - Physical Sciences
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
Class descriptor
Following completing of this class you'll be able to demonstrate knowledge of the following topics: Basic Quantum Theory, Early experiments (e/m, photo-electric effect), Structure of the atom, Wave-particle duality, Schrodinger equation and application in simple systems, Basic Semiconductor Physics, Crystal structure electron mobility band theory, Doping of semiconductors, Physics of p-n junctions, Basic device physics, Diode operation, LED and laser diodes.
- Class code: 19207
- Level: 2
- Semester (including exams): 2 (January - May)
- Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
Class descriptor
You'll gain an understanding of the application of electromagnetic effects in practical devices and develop the mathematical skills necessary to analyse these effects in simple geometries.
- Class code: 19222
- Level: 2
- Semester (including exams): 2 (January - May)
- Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
Class descriptor
Upon completing this module, students should be able to analyse single-phase AC circuits and explain the reason for power factor correction and know how to carry out the necessary calculations. Students should also be able to understand the rationalise behind 3 phase power systems and be able to analyse simple 3 phase networks involving star and delta-connected loads. This class also aims to understand the phenomena associated with electromagnetism and carry out calculations involving simple magnetic circuits, forces on conductors and induced voltages.
- Class code: EE269
- Level: 2
- Semester (including exams): 2 (January - May)
- Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
- Additional Information: The class runs over 2 semesters but UNITEN students take the first half. Students cannot take both EE106 and EE273.
Class descriptor
This class aims to introduce you to the analysis and design of analogue circuits and systems as used in electronics, energy and power systems, communications, control and analogue signal processing applications.
- Class code: EE270
- Level: 2
- Semester (including exams): 2 (January - May)
- Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
- Additional Information: The class runs over 2 semesters but UNITEN students take the first half.
Class descriptor
This class aims to introduce you to the use of digital electronics and the rudiments of digital signal processing systems.
- Class code: EM310
- Level: 3
- Semester (including exams): 2 (January - May)
- Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
Class descriptor
The aim of this class is to introduce you to the fundamentals of continuous and discrete signals and linear systems for baseband applications and further describe how these principles are applied in modern communications and bandpass systems.
- Class code: EE313
- Level: 3
- Semester (including exams): 2 (January - May)
- Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
- Additional Information: The class runs over 2 semesters but UNITEN students take the first half.
Class descriptor
The aim of this class is to further develop your skills and abilities in advanced mathematical concepts in the field of engineering. This will be achieved through contextualised problem solving using applicable mathematical and statistical techniques and tools on problems of moderate complexity. It is important for you to see mathematics and statistics in the context of the computational problems they will be exposed to in their discipline.
FULL YEAR
Full Year classes run from September - May including exams. Please see Key Dates for further details.
- Class code: EE273
- Level:2
- Semester (including exams): Full Year (September - May)
- Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
Class descriptor
This class aims to give students an understanding of programming concepts and object orientation. Students will gain familiarity with the syntax and facilities available in C++. Lastly, students will gain an ability to write working programs for use in engineering applications.
- Class code: EE311
- Level: 3
- Semester (including exams): Full Year (September - May)
- Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: EE269 - Electronic and Electrical Principles
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
Class descriptor
This class promotes detailed understanding of the electrical and electromagnetic principles and their deployment in a range of engineering applications. These are associated with electromagnetic waves propagation in bounded and unbounded media. They are also in: electronic power generation (both conventional and renewable), power distribution and energy utilisation, electric transportation systems, the propagation of electromagnetic waves in free space, in insulating and conducting lossless and lossy media, optical fibre. You'll gain an appreciation of the fundamental principles, engineering solutions, and social and economic implications of such applications.
- Class code: EE312
- Level: 3
- Semester (including exams): Full Year (September - May)
- Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: EE269 - Electronic and Electrical Principles
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
Class descriptor
This class aims to help students develop techniques for system modelling based on block diagrams and transfer functions and to use such techniques in the context of analysis and design. You will be introduced to instrumentation and measurement as an interdisciplinary engineering activity and the basic principles of feedback and control systems. This class also aims to enable an understanding of the dependence of measurement and control on a wide variety of scientific and engineering disciplines and to provide appreciation of the universal application of measurement and control within the same range of disciplines. This class also aims to demonstrate engineering design as applied to instrumentation systems and control engineering; in particular, to explain the important contribution of electrical, mechanical and software engineering to this process. This class will also allow you to gain practical design, implementation and test experience of the techniques required to create combined hardware/software systems with an emphasis on measurement.
- Class code: EE313
- Level: 3
- Semester (including exams): Full Year (September - May)
- Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: EE269 - Electronic and Electrical Principles
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
Class descriptor
The aim of this class is to further develop your skills and abilities in advanced mathematical concepts in the field of engineering. This will be achieved through contextualised problem solving using applicable mathematical and statistical techniques and tools on problems of moderate complexity. It is important for you to see mathematics and statistics in the context of the computational problems they will be exposed to in their discipline.
- Class code: EE315
- Level: 3
- Semester (including exams): Full Year (September - May)
- Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
Class descriptor
This class will help you to expand your knowledge in the fundamental electrical and electronic engineering areas of analogue and digital design.
- Class code: EE317
- Level: 3
- Semester (including exams): Full Year (September - May)
- Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
Class descriptor
This class aims to introduce you to a range of renewable energy technologies, specifically the renewable energy resource, the design and application of the technology and systems, and site assessment. Additionally you'll be introduced to generator/converter systems used with renewable energy sources and appreciate how the grid connection and control of these distributed sources effect power system operation. Wider issues of economic, environmental and social impacts of these technologies will be discussed.
- Class code: EE320
- Level: 3
- Semester (including exams): Full Year (September - May)
- Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: EE269 - Electronic and Electrical Principles
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
Class descriptor
The aim of this class is to introduce you to the fundamentals of continuous and discrete signals and linear systems for baseband applications and further describe how these principles are applied in modern communications and bandpass systems.
- Class code: 56324
- Level: 3
- Semester (including exams): Full Year (September - May)
- Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Project Supervision, Private Study
Class descriptor
This class aims to provide you with an understanding of the importance of innovation in today’s business environment. The class aims to also develop understanding and skills in the area of innovation management. It aims to develop practical skills for you to integrate a number of themes including: product development, IP, product finances, project management, market analysis with a view to successfully exploiting new ideas.
- Class code: EE470
- Level: 4
- Semester (including exams): Full Year (September - May)
- Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: EE313 - Engineering Analysis, EE320 - Signals and Communications Systems
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
Class descriptor
This class aims to impart an understanding of the principles by which information can be transmitted with varying levels of security and the techniques by which communication systems can be analysed and designed.
- Class code: EE471
- Level: 4
- Semester (including exams): Full Year (September - May)
- Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: EE313 - Engineering Analysis, EE320 - Signals and Communications Systems
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
Class descriptor
This class aims to provide an understanding of the principles and key transport technologies which underpin high-speed heterogeneous broadband communications networks and architectures while giving an insight to the technical and strategic challenges associated with the provision of a Quality of Service (QoS)-based integrated future-network platform.
- Class code: EE469
- Level: 4
- Semester (including exams): Full Year (September - May)
- Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: EE313 - Engineering Analysis, EE320 - Signals and Communications Systems
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
Class descriptor
This class will help students to develop necessary tools that will allow you to design, analyse and simulate (MATLAB/Simulink) DSP systems by introducing core mathematical concepts, algorithms and fundamental properties of discrete signal and systems with applications.
- Class code: EE468
- Level: 4
- Semester (including exams): Full Year (September - May)
- Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: EE315 - Analogue and Digital System Design, EE320 - Signals and Communications Systems
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
Class descriptor
This class will provide you with an appreciation and understanding of analogue electronic circuit design, relating to high frequency amplifiers and low noise design of electronic systems.
- Class code: EE473
- Level: 4
- Semester (including exams): Full Year (September - May)
- Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: EE313 - Engineering Analysis, EE320 - Signals and Communications Systems
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
Class descriptor
The primary aim of this class is to enable you to develop a basic conceptual understanding and working knowledge of fibre optic communications systems and their component parts addressing basic principles, engineering, design and performance limits. All of the fundamental principles of light, optics and photonic components necessary to achieve this are dealt with, giving a broad appreciation of photonics in general.
- Class code: EE472
- Level: 4
- Semester (including exams): Full Year (September - May)
- Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: EE313 - Engineering Analysis, EE320 - Signals and Communications Systems
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
Class descriptor
This class aims to introduce you to the basic concepts, mathematical tools and design methods of classical control theory. It also enables you to use analysis and design tools used in control engineering and appreciate the industrial applications of control systems. It will also enable you to analyse and design closed loop control system specifically using industrial three-term (PID) controllers. You will be introduced to advanced control methods and to provide a basic understanding of a time-domain approach to control analysis and design of industrial processes. Finally, you will be able to appreciate the application of control theory in industrial applications.
- Class code: EE474
- Level: 4
- Semester (including exams): Full Year (September - May)
- Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: EE312 - Instrumentation and Microcontrollers, EE313 - Engineering Analysis, EE320 - Signals and Communications Systems
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
Class descriptor
This module aims to provide an introduction and overview to the various core aspects of robotics which include design, control, sensing and localisation. It provides a solid base of understanding through theory and examples. Intuition is encouraged through numerous hands-on examples. At the end of this module students will be able to: describe types of robotic systems, their dynamic and mechanical architecture and associated sensor technology; describe appropriate path-planning techniques taking into account ways to perform collision avoidance and speed up optimal path evaluation; understand standard camera models and common approaches to image registration; use computer-based tools to evaluate designs, measure, record and report experimental and numerical data relevant to robotic and other computer control systems; formulate models from given relevant information and design control systems to drive these models to specified positions and within required accuracy, speed and other performance-related parameters.
- Class code: EE466
- Level: 4
- Semester (including exams): Full Year (September - May)
- Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: EE311 - Electronic and Electrical Principles, 19207 - Electromagnetism
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
Class descriptor
This class aims to understand the principles of common power electronic systems. Students will gain familiarity with the techniques required to analyse common power electronic circuits and understand the basic principles behind the design of rotating electrical machines. You will gain familiarity with the techniques required to analyse basic DC and AC machines and recognise that disturbances exist within a power system substation and appreciate that these disturbances may affect electromagnetic compatibility. Students should also learn to be competent in dealing with the implications of those disturbances; in particular the effects of system switching. Finally, students should be able to understand the use of power electronic devices, drives and machines for given application, specifically for Electric Vehicles i.e. cars and trains, as well as understand the range of energy sources capable of powering 'independent' EVS (as opposed to catenary supplied) like batteries and fuel cells. understand how these energy sources work, their performance and degradation issues, and how to charge/fuel them.
- Class code: EE467
- Level: 4
- Semester (including exams): Full Year (September - May)
- Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: EE311 - Electronic and Electrical Principles
- Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical
Class descriptor
This class aims to enable you to appreciate the principles of analysis, design and protection of electrical power systems including: design and operational approaches in power systems including electricity generation, transmission and distribution; analysis and design of transmission and distribution networks; power flow, fault and stability calculations; power system control including load frequency control and economic dispatch; generation technology implications on power system design and operation; the main concepts related to the requirements, functions, design and operation of protection schemes for power system transmission and distribution systems; detailed understanding of selected protection schemes used in transmission and distribution networks.
- Class code: 19496
- Level: 4
- Semester (including exams): Full Year (September - May)
- Credits: 40 (20 ECTS)
- Level of study: Undergraduate
- Prerequisites: None
- Teaching methods: Lectures, Project Supervision
Class descriptor
You undertake an individual design project. This will help you gain valuable technical and project management skills.