Electronic Engineering Challenge Project - 2021 entry

This module develops the necessary electronic design and practical skills in an electronic engineering degree course through a project based learning approach. Through this project, you will design, implement and test a complete communications system to solve an authentic problem.  You will be working as part of a group to bring the project to a successful conclusion. Through the project based approach, you will use your existing knowledge, learn new theory and skills or adopt a heuristic approach to tackle some aspects of the work. In this way you will gain practical understanding of the electronic design process which can not be developed through lectures alone.

 

Design, implementation and evaluation of a practicable wireless communications system.

 

In this module you will learn the electronic engineering design cycle, including the conceptualisation of potential solutions, synthesis of the concepts into well defined structure/blocks, analysis and testing of the structure components and refinements to meet performance and cost requirements, and to mitigate design risk. This module will also develop technical skills including printed circuit board design, electronic circuit design and simulation, analysis, component selection, prototyping, use of laboratory equipment and programming. This knowledge will be combined with the technical content that you have learnt in core modules to develop, as a group, an integrated communications link solution for applications such as a wireless audio communications system. The project brief will provide sufficient flexibility for different approaches and solutions. 

 

You will have PBL support sessions, progress reports and presentation to manage and demonstrate your progress.  Your final design and circuit will be assessed and practically demonstrated as part of a group presentation at the end of the module. 

 

The development of practical skills, circuit building and testing will be through scheduled practical sessions, design surgeries and self-planned time.  You will have access to the electronics laboratory and various test and measurement equipment, prototyping equipment and electronic components for your project.

 

Pre-requisites: ENG1001, ENG1009, ENG1005, or equivalent.

 

For any failed component of summative assessment, a student or group will be given the opportunity to (re)submit a suitably designed coursework within the current academic year. In this way ref/def assessment is moved within the current project context. The usual rules around mitigation and capped marks apply.

 

If all assessment opportunities are exhausted and the module is failed, this must be remedied in the following academic year. The likelihood of failure is mitigated by the assessment strategy that utilises multiple assessment and reassessments throughout the academic year.