Modules Offered in Semester II, 2009/2010
Faculty of Science
Module Code
Module Name
Discovering Science
Fundamentals Of Organic Chemistry
Fundamentals Of Physical Chemistry
Computer Skills in Chemistry
Chemistry in Everyday Life
Advance Mathematical Methods for the Sciences
Basic Statistics
Electronics: Analogue & Digital
How things work - The Physics of Everyday Life
Introduction to Image Processing and Computer Vision
Programming Fundamentals II
Computer Architecture and Organisation
World Wide Web and Applications
Programming for Scientists
Plants and People
The Evolving Earth
Classical Mechanics
Electrical & Magnetism
Thermal Physics & Optics
Innovation & Design
Energy, Environment & Society
Understanding Information Transmission & Wireless Comm.
Discovering Computers
Type of Module
Breadth
Major
Major
Option
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Major
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Option
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Major
Major
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Major
Option
Option
Option
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Modular Credit
4
4
4
2
2
4
2
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
Breadth
8-10 hours per week
Aims/Objectives/Rationale:
This course is suitable for any undergraduate student who has a passion to learn underlying principles of commonly used wired or wireless telecommunication technologies. This course aims to provide the students with a basic overview of the available methods of information transmission and wireless communication technologies starting from the fundamental information transmission theories to present day 3G/3.5G mobile communication technologies. This course will provide necessary background for students to think deeper into the technologies available in the present day market. The content will be presented to suite a non-technical audience.
Module Content :
History of telecommunication, Information transmission technologies, Analog and Digital signals, mobile communication technologies and their basic properties, radio spectrum and frequency bands, theory of cellular mobile technologies such as FDMA (Frequency Division Multiple Access), TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access), and CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access), early mobile communication technologies such as AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone System - Analog), DECT (Digital European Cordless Telephone), recent mobile technologies such as GSM (Global System for Mobile communication), GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution), 3G (3rd Generation) mobile technologies such as WCDMA (Wideband CDMA), other technologies such as Bluetooth, Wireless LAN (Local Area Network), RFID (Radio Frequency Identification).
