Control and Communications

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Understand the relevance of the frequency-domain analysis in engineering
• Program control system design and analysis problems in MATLAB
• Apply time and frequency domain techniques for the analysis of linear systems of any order.
• Use MATLAB as a design and simulation tool.
• Engage proficiently with the more advanced signal processing, communications and control courses
• Analyse and design simple linear control and modulation systems.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Analogue and digital modulation
• The techniques used to design and analyse the performance of control systems
• The principles of communications and control theory

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Use the control and communications point of view to analyse problems arising in other disciplines

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.