KD7066 - Analogue Electronic Design

Lectures are used in this module as your main delivery mechanism. Directed learning is used in conjunction with lectures to guide you to specific topics or chapters within the lecture material or towards texts in the indicative reading list. Moreover, industrial case studies and design problems are focused upon in lectures and laboratories to reinforce theory. Finally, interactive questions are included within the lecture material for formative feedback.
Laboratory sessions are used to provide access to industry standard CAD tools for the purposes of design, practical experience, and for positive reinforcement of the theoretical material.
A number of technologies are utilised, in learning, to provide key lectures and laboratory plenaries in a video format. This provides the opportunity for repetition in assimilation of knowledge or in the explanation of key lab work at the needed pace for your own personal learning.

The module is delivered for you in both Lectures and Workshops. These provide the key academic support to your module; however around this is build a number of support structures.
Lectures support the more formal aspects of learning in the module, with key knowledge and understanding explored from current technology, case studies and research papers.
Workshops, supported by a lab tutor provide an opportunity for problem solving within a laboratory context, specifically using complex CAD tools. Feedback within the session is through verbal comments such that a rich dialogue is formed of commentary as to the engineering solutions to design and manufacturing problems. Within the laboratory session, the module team have deeply integrated video techniques such that you can view the plenary to the workshop beforehand, and have the opportunity to recap at your own learning pace.

The most appropriate use of blackboard (online platform) is made in the module where the module taught content is provided along with links to both the reading list support, relevant professional body related web sites showing relation of the theory to the industrial context of the module. Moreover additional support is provided in this module in the form of integrated videos. These provide support for the development of key skills in using software tools (for example OrCAD) and some support in some mathematically tricky derivations or circuit theory examples such that you can observe not only the problem but the process and the thinking behind the examples. The blackboard website can be accessed both on and off campus.

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:
1. Pertinent design knowledge, mathematics and engineering principles from relevant research for complex analogue abstractions. AHEP 4 M1

2. Critically evaluate complex design concepts for the design of analogue circuits, at pertinent abstraction levels, with potentially incomplete data. AHEP4 M2


Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:

3. Demonstrate expertise in the use of laboratory-based industry standard CAD tools for the design, testing and modelling of innovative analogue circuitry. AHEP4 M3, M12

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

4. Evaluate a design for a relevant audience in the context of professional, & commercial standards. AHEP4 M5

There is one form of summative assessment in this module:

Assignment (CW) 100%. An open-ended design assignment (4000 words max) will test a combination of the mathematical design steps, the application of CAD to a real world design example. This addresses module learning outcomes: 1, 2, 3 and 4. Feedback will be provided electronically.

Formative Assessment:
1. Feedback to students is key to learning; this is provided in the case studies inside the lecture content, to give a positive context to the design work. Simple in class tests are utilised for establishing a baseline on which the foundation of the content is driven. This provides immediate feedback on understanding and knowledge

2. Clear verbalised feedback in the lab sessions, where key designs are experimented with during tutor led discussions. Furthermore, the laboratories are provided with a number of ScreenCam videos to encourage own paced learning and key guidance as and when required.

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Analogue electronic design is a module that will challenge you in the design of analogue electronic circuitry. I will show, in this module that you can succeed and understand analogue building up a key set of analogue blocks, so you learn the concepts and the apply the design mathematics. You will be taught using a combination of lectures and workshops where we complement the delivery with additional video content in the form of videos that provide support in the use of industrial standard CAD tools (for example OrCAD) and design run through to aid conceptualisation. You will perform a series of laboratories leading up to an assignment based on a real-world design example with mathematical derivations, design steps and application of CAD tools clearly demonstrated.