This unit is the starting point for your professional skills development - design and build, IT, communication skills, team working, interpersonal skills. Year two semester one Physical properties of materials Physical characterisation techniques are essential in the development of new materials and the understanding of existing ones. The physical properties of a material dictate the choice of material for a particular product or purpose. Provides experience of a working regime that reflects industrial working life along with subject material which is relevant to the industrial workplace and improving student employability Photonics Photonics is the technology of generating and harnessing light from other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit ids the photon. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to communications and information processing.
Projects draw on a range of skills and ideas which have been developed through the course.