KB6055 - Vibration & Control

Active learning sessions will be used to allow you to engage with elevated material and assist you in exploring key concepts and topics within the module. Sessions will involve a combination of content delivery and practical learning exercises to enable you to apply your learning to authentic, broadly defined engineering problems that may involve conflicting and/or incomplete information. A problem-solving focused curriculum will allow you to explore and understand how well-proven solutions can be applied to more open-ended problems and provide further opportunity for innovative discovery of alternatives. Learning activities will enable students to work collaboratively through the further development of teamwork and communication skills, and the encouragement of creative thinking to solve engineering problems. 

During your active learning sessions, academic support will be available to facilitate your exploration of the problem-solving activities. Formative feedback will be provided by the module team, including answering student queries and providing guidance concerning the module such as assessments and your academic progress. The electronic learning platform (eLP) provides a comprehensive resource for integrated learning incorporating learning materials and reading lists that will facilitate directed and self-directed learning. Contact with academic tutors and your peers outside formal teaching hours is encouraged through dedicated ‘office hours’, discussion boards and messaging systems within the eLP. Professional support staff, such as Ask4Help, provide the first point of contact for a range of queries, including, for example, those concerning assessment submission, late submission/extensions, and other administrative issues.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. Online reading lists (provided after enrolment) give you access to your reading material for your modules. The Library works in partnership with your module tutors to ensure you have access to the material that you need.

Knowledge & Understanding:

MLO1. Apply knowledge of mathematics, statistics, natural science and engineering principles to the solution of complex problems relating to vibration and control. Some of the knowledge will be at the forefront of the particular subject of study.

MLO2. Select and apply appropriate materials, equipment, engineering technologies and processes, recognising their limitations that are within the field of vibration and control.



Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:

MLO3. Select and apply appropriate computational and analytical techniques to model complex vibration and control problems, recognising the limitations of the techniques employed.



Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):

MLO4. Apply creativity and curiosity to analyse complex vibration and control related problems to reach substantiated conclusions using first principles of mathematics, statistics, natural science and engineering principles.

Formative Assessment

Academic staff on the module will assess you in a formative manner to help build your confidence and highlight any misunderstandings you may have of the theoretical and professional concepts presented in the module. Your formative feedback will be given to you either verbally by academic staff on the module during formally scheduled teaching sessions or using the eLP. Your formative feedback aims to help you learn and prepare for the submission of your summative assessment.

Summative Assessment

Academic staff on the module will assess you in a summative manner by two pieces of assessment:

Component 1 to assess your knowledge and understanding vibration and control and the solution of complex problems through computational and analytical techniques (MLOs 1 - 3) through completing an industry compatible written submission.

Component 2, a timed electronic exam (competency-based challenge task), is used to evaluate your ability apply creativity to the solution of complex problems in vibration and control and substantiate outcomes meeting module learning outcomes MLO 1 & 4.

Feedback will be provided electronically through the eLP or student email within 20 working days of the date of submission.

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Vibration and control will combine knowledge, understanding, and practical application within the subject of dynamics to tackle complex engineering problems. You will investigate how the field of control theory is used to measure and regulate vibrating mechanical systems through the selection and application of appropriate equipment. Advanced techniques and tools will be blended with the methodologies practised in an earlier study to facilitate investigation into complex mechanics-based problems where independence and creativity are encouraged to explore and critically evaluate potential solutions to more open-ended challenges. Active learning sessions will be used to allow you to engage with elevated material and assist you in exploring key concepts and topics within the module. Sessions will involve a combination of content delivery and practical learning exercises to enable you to apply your learning to authentic, broadly defined engineering problems that may involve conflicting and/or incomplete information. The module utilises the electronic learning platform to provide a comprehensive resource for integrated learning incorporating learning materials and reading lists that will facilitate directed and self-directed learning.