Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 5
Pearson BTEC Level 5 HND Diploma in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 5
- Total credits240
- Guided learning960 hours
- Units in this qualification51
Awarded by Pearson Education Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Pearson Education Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Advanced Computer-Aided Design TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Modify and update an existing design
- Generate a surface model
- Generate a solid model
Advanced Mathematics for EngineeringReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse and model engineering situations and solve engineering problems using series and numerical methods for the solution of ordinary differential equations
- Analyse and model engineering situations and solve engineering problems using Laplace transforms
- Analyse and model engineering situations and solve engineering problems using Fourier series
- Analyse and model engineering situations and solve engineering problems using partial differential equations
Analytical Methods for EngineersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse and model engineering situations and solve problems using algebraic methods
- Analyse and model engineering situations and solve problems using trigonometric methods
- Analyse and model engineering situations and solve problems using calculus
- Analyse and model engineering situations and solve problems using statistics and probability
Applications of Pneumatics and HydraulicsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Read and interpret pneumatic and hydraulic fluid power diagrams
- Understand the construction, function and operation of pneumatic and hydraulic components, equipment and plant
- Design pneumatic and hydraulic circuits
- Evaluate and justify industrial applications of pneumatics and hydraulics
Applications of Power ElectronicsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand common configurations for controlled and uncontrolled rectification
- Understand the methods used for AC motor control
- Understand the methods used for DC motor control
- Understand other applications of power electronics
Business Improvement TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Apply the principles of lead-time analysis by creating a lead-time profile, frequency diagram and by using a cause and effect diagram,
- Use techniques in set-up reduction and prepare an improved standard operating procedure,
- Understand the benefits of total productive maintenance (TPM) techniques,
- Understand optimised production technology (OPT)
Business Management Techniques for EngineersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Manage work activities to achieve organisational objectives
- Select and apply costing systems and techniques
- Understand the key functions of financial planning and control
- Apply project planning and scheduling methods to an engineering project.
Combinational and Sequential LogicReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Design and build circuits using combinational logic
- Design and build circuits using sequential logic
- Design and evaluate a digital system
Computer Programming TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Design and develop code using structured programming methods
- Use modularisation appropriate to the chosen programming language
- Produce appropriate documentation for a given program application
- Create and apply appropriate test schedules
Control Systems and AutomationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Use analytical techniques to form models of engineering systems and processes,
- Use Laplace transforms to determine system parametres,
- Use Bode standard second order equations to determine system parametres,
- Understand how control parametres are applied to process controllers
Data Communications and NetworksReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand data communication networks and the requirement for open systems,
- Understand the methods used for data communication,
- Know the function and methods of control used for local area networks,
- Understand wide area networks and internet working
Design for ManufactureReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to analyse a product design for its economic manufacture
- Understand the product design features and techniques that facilitate economic assembly
- Apply the principles of geometrical tolerancing
- Select and use appropriate computer-aided manufacturing software.
Digital Subscriber Line Broadband TechnologiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key members of the (xDSL) family
- Understand the operation of an Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
- Understand the transmission constraints of standard analogue copper wire PSTN access
- Evaluate the commercial factors of ADSL against main competing technologies
Digital and Analogue Devices and CircuitsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- LO1 Be able to design, test and evaluate electronic DC power supply systems
- LO2 Be able to design and test operational amplifier circuits
- LO3 Be able to design, construct and test digital electronic circuits
Electrical PowerReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse three-phase systems
- Understand the sources and effects of harmonics in power systems
- Understand methods of power distribution
- Understand the economics of components, power systems and alternative energy
Electrical and Electronic Measurement and TestingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse a measurement system and solve problems relating to the characteristics of a signal
- Analyse the principles and techniques employed in measurement
- Select and use test equipment to measure a range of signals
- Be able apply the principles and techniques used in data acquisition systems
Electrical and Electronic PrinciplesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Apply electrical and electronic circuit theory
- Apply two-port network models
- Understand the use of complex waves
- Apply transients in R-L-C circuits
Electrical, Electronic and Digital PrinciplesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Apply complex notation in the analysis of single phase circuits
- Apply circuit theory to the solution of circuit problems
- Understand the operation of electronic amplifier circuits used in electro-mechanical systems
- Design and test digital electronic circuits used in electro-mechanical systems
Electronic Computer-Aided DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the features of ECAD systems and software
- Evaluate software packages
- Apply ECAD to design problems
Electronic PrinciplesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Apply testing procedures for semiconductor devices and circuits
- Understand the characteristics and operation of amplifier circuits
- Understand the types and effects of feedback on circuit performance
- Understand the operation and applications of sine wave oscillators
Employability SkillsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Determine own responsibilities and performance
- Develop interpersonal and transferable skills
- Understand the dynamics of working with others
- Develop strategies for problem solving
Engineering DesignReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare a design specification to meet customer requirements
- Analyse and evaluate possible design solutions and prepare a final design report
- Understand how computer-based technology is used in the engineering design process.
Engineering ScienceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Determine the behavioural characteristics of elements of static engineering systems
- Determine the behavioural characteristics of elements of dynamic engineering systems
- Apply DC theory to solve electrical and electronic engineering problems
- Apply single phase AC theory to solve electrical and electronic engineering problems.
Further Analytical Methods for EngineersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse and model engineering situations and solve problems using number systems
- Analyse and model engineering situations and solve problems using graphical and numerical methods
- Analyse and model engineering situations and solve problems using vector geometry and matrix methods
- Analyse and model engineering situations and solve problems using ordinary differential equations
Further Electrical PowerReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the construction and properties of overhead lines and cables
- Understand symmetrical faults and protection schemes
- Analyse power system transients
- Understand the synchronising and control of synchronous machines
Further Electrical PrinciplesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse electrostatic and electromagnetic fields
- Design and evaluate filters
- Understand transmission lines
- Apply topology to circuit analysis
Further Electrical PrinciplesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Apply direct current (DC) circuit analysis methods and consider the types, construction and characteristics of a DC motor and generator
- Understand the transient behaviour of resistor-capacitor (RC) and resistor-inductor (RL) DC circuits
- Understand the behaviour of single-phase alternating current (AC) circuits
- Understand three-phase alternating current (AC) theory
Further Mathematics for Engineering TechniciansReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Use advanced graphical techniques
- Apply algebraic techniques
- Manipulate trigonometric expressions and apply trigonometric techniques
- Apply calculus
Health, Safety and Risk Assessment in EngineeringReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Select and apply safe working procedures to engineering operations
- Understand the nature and use of current health and safety legislation
- Analyse engineering activities for the assessment of risk
- Manage and minimise risk to life, property and engineering activities within an industrial environment
Instrumentation and Control PrinciplesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand instrumentation systems used in process control,
- Understand process control systems and controllers,
- Understand the use of regulating units
Knowledge-Based Systems and TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the use of knowledge-based and rule-based systems
- Use fuzzy logic
- Use artificial neural networks
Managing People in EngineeringReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the processes and procedures involved in people management,
- Understand the working relationships within an engineering context,
- Understand methods of managing and developing human resources,
- Understand industrial relations and legislation within an employment relationship.
Managing the Work of Individuals and TeamsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- LO1 - Be able to establish the objectives of individuals,
- LO2 - Be able to evaluate the performance of individuals,
- LO3 - Be able to establish the roles and responsibilities of teams,
- LO4 - Be able to review the performance of teams
Mechatronic SystemsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the applications of a range of mechatronic systems and products
- Understand electro-mechanical models and components in mechatronic systems and products
- Produce a specification for a mechatronic system or mechatronic product
- Apply mechatronic design philosophies to carry out a design analysis
Microprocessor Interfacing and ControlReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand microprocessor interfacing and control systems
- Write programs to control the configuration of ports, data transfer and delay duration
- Understand the operation of microprocessor interfacing and control peripherals
- Write programs to control the configuration of, and the control of peripheral devices
- Build designed transducer operated monitoring systems
Microprocessor SystemsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand microprocessor-based systems
- Design software, write and test programs for a microprocessor-based system
- Design and build programmable interface devices
Mobile Communication SystemsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand radio wave propagation at very high frequency (VHF), and above, applicable to mobile communications systems
- Work with the modulation, multiple access, coding and encryption techniques used in mobile communications systems
- Understand the principles associated with trunked mobile radio and digital cordless telephone systems
- Take practical measurements on a range of radio-based systems
Operational AmplifiersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- LO1 Understand the characteristics and parametres of operational amplifiers
- LO2 Be able to design, build and test operational amplifier circuits
- LO3 Be able to design an active filter to meet a given specification
Optical Fibre Communications SystemsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand optical fibre transmission lines
- Understand sources and modulating devices used for fibre optic communication systems
- Understand optical detectors used for fibre optic communication systems
- Determine the overall performance of typical optical fibre communication systems
Principles and Applications of MicrocontrollersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- LO1 Understand microcontroller-based systems
- LO2 Be able to produce software for a microcontroller-based system
- LO3 Be able to interface microcontroller-based systems
Principles of Electronic Product ManufactureReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the production and packaging of solid-state electronic devices
- Understand electronic component design parametres
- Understand the methods used for the design, simulation, manufacture and testing of printed circuit boards (PCB)
- Understand the key elements of an automated PCB assembly facility
Programmable Logic ControllersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the design and operational characteristics of a PLC system
- Understand PLC information and communication techniques
- Apply programmable logic programming techniques
- Understand alternative implementations of programmable control
Quality Assurance and ManagementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how Total Quality Management (TQM) systems operate
- Know the key factors of Quality Assurance (QA) techniques
- Apply Quality Control (QC) techniques
Quality and Business ImprovementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Apply continuous improvement principles and techniques
- Understand the key factors of six-sigma methodology
- Carry out potential failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA)
- Create a worksheet of a mistake/error proofing activity and identify suitable solutions
Radio Communication EngineeringReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- LO1 Understand amplitude and angle modulation
- LO2 Understand the principles of radiation and propagation of transverse electromagnetic waves in the bands VLF to EHF
- LO3 Understand the operation of radio transmitters
- LO4 Understand the operation of radio receivers
Research ProjectReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to formulate a research specification,
- Implement the research project within agreed procedures and to specification,
- Evaluate the research outcomes,
- Present the research outcomes
Signal Transmission in Digital NetworksReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the operation of PSTN and ISDN networks
- Understand signalling and switching of messages over telecommunication networks
- Understand the processes used for conveying analogue signals over digital networks
- Understand the systems used for transmission, switching and signalling in modern digital exchanges
Statistical Process ControlReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the basic types, variations and characteristics of statistical techniques used in process control
- Select data, construct process control charts and initiate a control program for a specified application
- Evaluate process capability against a given product or component quality requirement using modified control chart limits
- Analyse types of variation within a process and record information on that variation
Telecommunications PrinciplesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the requirements of communication systems,
- Understand communication channels and their characteristics,
- Understand modulation and multiplexing techniques used for analogue and digital signals,
- Understand the characteristics of communications traffic
Utilisation of Electrical EnergyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the operation of power transformers,
- Understand the applications of circuit protection for distribution and installation systems,
- Understand the design and construction of lighting systems,
- Be able determine the cost of energy used in a system in order to be energy efficient,
- Understand the operation of a polyphase induction motor
Workplace Study and ErgonomicsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand productivity measurement techniques and the effect of a range of improvement methods,
- Understand the features of work measurement and method study techniques,
- Assess the ergonomic and layout planning features of workstation and manufacturing operations design,
- Select and apply appropriate industrial engineering techniques to a given engineering/manufacturing situation
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 5 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
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How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson BTEC Level 5 HND Diploma in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
50 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Advanced Computer-Aided Design Techniques
- Advanced Mathematics for Engineering
- Analytical Methods for Engineers
- Applications of Pneumatics and Hydraulics
- Applications of Power Electronics
- Business Improvement Techniques
and 44 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
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Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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