Engineering, Computing and Technology

This module is designed to build on your academic learning, together with life and employability skills, ensuring you reach your full potential through a clear understanding of Higher Education expectations.

Alongside developing your skills in communication and academic writing you will explore your best strategies for learning, develop skills in team building, cooperation and resilience and know how these will support your further studies and employability.

This module works in partnership with ARU Personal and professional Development (PPD) Pulse, to support your personal and professional development throughout your four years

The module comprises of 16 Student Standards that will evidence your preparation for undergraduate study.

During your two trimesters of study, you will submit evidence to the sixteen student standards. This allows you to demonstrate your learning journey throughout the module with a focus on learning to learn, resubmissions and improvements support your portfolio and demonstrate your cheerful outlook and resilience to learning.

It will ensure you have a confident understanding of the institutional culture, practices, norms and expectations of British higher education together with personal skills in resilience, teamwork and an understanding of the responsibilities of belonging to a higher educational establishment.

The module aims to ensure you develop:

• Academic Communication
• Effective resilient learning skills
• Career and Life-building skills

Learning to Learn is benchmarked to the Common European Framework of Reference for Language Learning.  Standards 1-7 have clear referencing to the benchmarking within the standard.  Your portfolio of evidence will demonstrate competence in each of the four skills of academic reading, writing, speaking, and listening and are included to confirm that you meet the appropriate exit threshold in English language proficiency.

This module aims to enable you to participate in and practice independent learning tasks for deeper thought and investigation as needed for Higher Academic pursuits. You will participate in a Socratic Discussion based around Conspiracy Theories and Source Checking to encourage presentation and debating skills. You will be encouraged to invest in strategies that will deepen understanding and interpretation of processes, motives, argument, rationale, credibility, and possibilities which will then be applicable to a range of studies. You will also undertake research, based on an issue related to your degree programme, to review the main points of examining an argument in depth. You will then learn to create a personal response that analyses the content of the issue under study.

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Maths for Scientists will ensure that you have the necessary basic mathematical skills required for entry to level 4 on various science related degree programmes. By the end of the course, you will be able to carry out the basic mathematical manipulations and understand the relevant key concepts required to progress on to your chosen degree course. Each mathematical concept is introduced by a lecture, in which examples of how to use and apply the concept are demonstrated. The subjects covered are a range of arithmetic skills, algebra, areas and volumes, trigonometry, and basic statistics.

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Maths for Engineers has been designed to support you in progressing onto engineering and computing degree programmes. This module will make extensive use of calculus, vector, and matrix mathematics and will call attention to the application of pure maths to engineering and computing problems. Throughout the module, you will build on basic maths concepts to prepare for success in level 4 programmes which have a heavy mathematical focus.

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Physics for Engineers will teach you the basics in physical sciences needed to prepare you for your studies in Engineering and Computing. You will analyse the motion of objects in 1 and 2 dimensions with constant acceleration and will become familiar with friction and its effect in moving and static systems. You will also study simple statically determinant systems and will be able to calculate forces in equilibrium. Finally, you will work on concepts of conservation of mechanical energy and conservation of momentum and will be able to apply them to simple situations.

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Fundamentals of Computing will introduce you to basic computer programming using a low-level programming language (C). You will not be required to have previous programming experience for this module as you will learn the basic principles, such as the structure of a program, syntax of simple statements, data types, functions, files, design and testing, and problem solving. By the end of this module, you should have sufficient mastery of the C programming language to allow you to design, implement and test simple programs. The material taught to you in this module is intended to form skills directly transferable to the workplace, giving you a basic foundation which will allow you to apply programming skills in your subsequent studies.

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Engineering Design has been created to help you progress to Engineering, Computer Science, or Architecture degree programmes. This module focuses on putting your studies into context in the wider world, by considering how different professions must collaborate in the world of work. This module will consider several unique design processes, and how they might be implemented by multi-disciplinary teams, as well as how the design activity fits within the wider business context.

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