Data Logger Design and Build
Specializtion begins in earnest in the third year (Part IIA). During the first two terms, students are asked to study five papers of their choice with at least three chosen from one of the following groups. The remaining two may be taken from any of these groups.
Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer
Power Electronics, Systems and Drives
Electronic and Optical Devices
The third term of the third year is devoted entirely to project work. During this term all student undertake two projects choosing from a wide range of available topics. A variety of design, build and test projects are offered, together with computer-based, foreign language and surveying projects.
Surveying, Position Fixing, Structures I-III, Civil Engineering, Fluid Dynamics I and II, Geotechnical Engineering I and II, Architectural Engineering I and II.
Primary Forming of Materials, Secondary Forming and Joining, Advanced Materials and Composites, Design Methods, Design Case Studies, Advanced Linear Vibration, Random and Nonlinear Vibration, Vehicle Dynamics and Orbital Motion, Continuum Mechanics, Finite Elements, Advanced Tribology, Advanced Mechanics.
Nuclear Power Engineering, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Turbomachinery I and II, Internal Combustion Engines I and II, Noise Generation and Control, Aerodynamics, Aeronautics, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Plasmas and Fusion.
Digital Electronic Circuits, Analogue Circuits, VLSI, Superconductors, Quantum Devices, Optoelectronics, Optical Communications, Nonlinear optics, microwaves, Power (Machines), Power Electronics, Electroheat and Power Systems.
Control I-IV, Computing I-IV, Communications I-IV.
Economic Policy Issues, Sociology of Technological Change, Decision Making, Production Control, Marketing, Information Management, Manufacturing Technology, Manufacturing Operations, French, German.
These modules benefit from the Department's leading role in engineering research. The courses are taught by experts and students graduate with an up-to-date appreciation of theory and practice in their chosen area. A major project extends throughout the final year, and can be expected to occupy about half the student's time. There is collaboration with industry and many projects have direct industrial application. The flexible modular system of the fourth year may enable a limited number of students with high standards to work to enter exchange schemes and study for a term at a University in another European country.
Electrical and Information Sciences Tripos