ETCAL Level 3 Diploma in Engineering Principles(QCF)

What you'll be able to do

• Determine the effects of uniaxial and complex loading on engineering components
• Determine the stress due to bending in beams and torsion in power transmission shafts
• Determine relative and resultant velocity in engineering systems
• Determine the characteristics of simple harmonic motion in engineering systems.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the health and safety precautions directly associated with aircraft handling and first line maintenance
• Understand the practice and procedures necessary for aircraft ground handling, weighing and balancing and in the event of abnormal occurrences
• Carry out selected aircraft maintenance activities in accordance with laid down procedures and safety precautions
• Understand the procedures and requirements for the planning, documentation, stores systems and quality processes associated with aircraft maintenance

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the principles of computer numerical control (CNC) and machine structures
• Interpret a component specification and produce an operational plan for its manufacture
• Produce a part program and manufacture a component
• Use a CAD/CAM software package to generate a part program and manufacture a component

What you'll be able to do

• Know about the purposes and uses of lubricants and lubrication systems
• Know about the uses and applications of a range of engineering components
• Know about the uses and operation of mechanical power transmission systems
• Know about the uses and operation of plant equipment and systems

What you'll be able to do

• Know how an engineering company operates
• Understand how external factors and the economic environment can affect the operation of an engineering company
• Know how legislation, regulation and other constraints impact on the operation of engineering businesses
• Apply costing techniques to determine the cost effectiveness of an engineering activity

What you'll be able to do

• Know about the business planning and corporate expectations of an engineering organisation
• Know about competitive commercial activities
• Know about local and national constraints
• Know about the concepts of quality assurance and quality control

What you'll be able to do

• LO1 Understand the communication principles of computer networks
• LO2 Know the main elements of data communications systems
• LO3 Be able to implement different forms of network communications

What you'll be able to do

• Know the advantages of using CAD in comparison with other methods
• Know about the software and hardware required to produce CAD drawings
• Produce and interpret CAD drawings
• Use CAD software to produce 3D drawings and views

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the benefits of CAM and the significance of simultaneous engineering
• Understand how the CAD/CAM interface operates and modelling is used to simulate the manufacturing process
• Understand the use of industrial robots and flexible manufacturing systems in engineering
• Design a simple component and generate a programme for a CNC machine using a CAD/CAM software package

What you'll be able to do

• Understand energy efficient use of modern digital electronics technology
• Understand the transmission of analogue data in a digital system
• Understand the selection and use of interface devices and logic devices for digital circuits
• Build and test digital systems

What you'll be able to do

• Interpret lighting and power circuits diagrams
• Understand the methods used to protect circuits
• Install and test lighting and power circuits
• Know the non-statutory and statutory regulations relating to the provision of an electrical installation.

What you'll be able to do

• Know the methods used to produce electrical energy
• Know the properties and applications of conductors, insulators and magnetic materials
• Know the physical arrangements of supply, transmission and distribution equipment
• Know how electrical energy is used to support applications of electrical technology

What you'll be able to do

• Use circuit theory to determine voltage, current and resistance in direct current (DC) circuits
• Understand the concepts of capacitance and determine capacitance values in DC circuits
• Know the principles and properties of magnetism
• Use single-phase alternating current (AC) theory

What you'll be able to do

• Know about the legislation, regulations and safety precautions that apply when working with fluid power systems
• Know the construction and operation of fluid power devices and how they are represented as symbols in circuit diagrams
• Apply fluid power principles in the design of circuits
• Carry out maintenance, inspection, testing and fault-finding on fluid power systems.

What you'll be able to do

• Know the design processes and production methods used in the manufacture of a printed circuit board
• Understand the use of software and thermal analysis techniques in the design, simulation and manufacture of an electronic circuit
• Understand the use and application of surface mount technology in the manufacture of an electronic circuit
• Design, manufacture, assemble and test a prototype printed circuit board for a given electronic circuit.

What you'll be able to do

• Read and interpret a circuit diagram for an electronic system
• Plan and implement a fault-finding strategy
• Diagnose fault conditions using test equipment and record the results

What you'll be able to do

• Know the function, features and characteristics of electronic measurement and test equipment
• Select and use electronic measurement and test equipment to make meaningful measurements on an electronic circuit
• Know the principles of calibration and configuration of electronic test equipment
• Select and use virtual test instruments and software to make measurements and analyse measurement data

What you'll be able to do

• Know how the design process operates when dealing with customers
• Know the impact that legislation, standards and environmental and manufacturing constraints can have on the design function
• Prepare design proposals that meet the requirements of a product design specification
• Produce and present a final design solution

What you'll be able to do

• Sketch engineering components
• Interpret engineering drawings that comply with drawing standards
• Produce engineering drawings
• Produce engineering drawings using a computer aided drafting (CAD) system

What you'll be able to do

• Know about the types of maintenance associated with engineering plant, equipment and systems
• Know about maintenance frequency, the cost of maintenance and its effects on production
• Produce a maintenance plan a specific engineering system
• Understand how data gathered from monitoring the performance and condition of engineering plant, equipment and systems can be used

What you'll be able to do

• Know how moulding techniques involving metals, ceramics and polymers are used
• Know how deformation processes involving metals and polymers are used
• Know how shaping and assembly processes involving composites are used
• Understand how health and safety issues relate to primary forming processes

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how a range of secondary machining techniques are used
• Know how a range of non-traditional techniques are used
• Know how heat treatment processes and assembly techniques are used
• Know how finishing techniques are used

What you'll be able to do

• Know about health and safety legislation, regulations and safe working practices in the fabrication industry
• Know the processes used to mark out and prepare materials to produce fabricated structures
• Know how materials are formed and assembled to produce fabricated structures
• Interpret the specification of a fabricated structure and plan and carry out its manufacture

What you'll be able to do

• Diagnose communications equipment fault conditions with the aid of test instruments and record results
• Understand the principles of calibration and configuration of electronic test equipment
• Understand the need for scheduled maintenance, maintenance procedures and the responsibilities of a technical support team

What you'll be able to do

• Know the electrical hazards and the legislation, regulation and standards related with working with electrical apparatus
• Understand alternating current machines
• Understand direct current machines
• Know how electrical machine control circuits and systems operate

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the role of rail signalling within the railway system
• Understand the principles of safety and high integrity systems as applied to a railway signalling system
• Know the functions and characteristics of lineside signalling elements
• Know the major sources and categories of controlled documentation, signalling information, notation and terminology

What you'll be able to do

• Use advanced graphical techniques
• Apply algebraic techniques
• Manipulate trigonometric expressions and apply trigonometric techniques
• Apply calculus

What you'll be able to do

• Determine the forces acting in pin-jointed framed structures and simply supported beams
• Determine the stress in structural members and joints
• Determine the characteristics of rotating systems
• Determine the operating characteristics of simple lifting machines

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the key features of health and safety legislation and regulations
• Identify and control hazards in the workplace
• Carry out a risk assessment, identifying control measures
• Understand the methods used when reporting and recording accidents and incidents

What you'll be able to do

• Understand basic process control concepts
• Know about common modes of control and their effect on control system performance
• Apply tuning methods to three-term controllers to improve control system performance
• Understand hierarchical and advanced process control systems

What you'll be able to do

• Know about industrial transducer systems and their applications
• Know about the operation and application of signal processing systems
• Examine a range of signal transmission and recording systems
• Select and use a range of equipment to test and calibrate instruments on process plant.

What you'll be able to do

• Know the techniques and policies used to improve product manufacturing efficiency
• Know about general aspects of planning and control
• Use a product specification to produce a production plan
• Produce a production schedule

What you'll be able to do

• Use algebraic methods
• Use trigonometric methods and standard formula to determine areas
• Use statistical methods to display data
• Use elementary calculus techniques

What you'll be able to do

• Understand principles and applications of mechanical measurement
• Use measurement equipment and techniques
• Use comparators and design a gauging system for inspection
• Apply sampling and statistical process control (SPC) during inspection

What you'll be able to do

• Determine the effects of loading in static engineering systems
• Determine work, power and energy transfer in dynamic engineering systems
• Determine the parametres of fluid systems
• Determine the effects of energy transfer in thermodynamic systems.

What you'll be able to do

• Use mechanical testing methods to measure the properties of an industrial alloy
• Prepare samples for macro and micro-examination and carry out a metallographic examination
• Know the principles and procedures used in the chemical analysis of metallic materials
• Know about non-destructive testing techniques that can be used to reveal defects in metallic component

What you'll be able to do

• Know how microprocessor-based systems can be applied
• Understand the architecture and operation of a microprocessor system
• Understand decimal, binary and hexadecimal number systems, instructions and subroutines
• Use a microprocessor development system to prepare and run a program

What you'll be able to do

• Know the health and safety requirements relevant to monitoring and fault diagnosis of engineering systems
• Know about system monitoring and reliability
• Use monitoring and test equipment
• Carry out fault diagnosis on engineering systems.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the principles of gain and loss and the function of amplifiers in analogue circuits
• Understand the operation of analogue electronic circuit systems and their components
• Use computer-based techniques to design and test analogue electronic circuits for specified functions
• Build and test an analogue electronic circuit

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the function and operation of diodes, transistors and logic gates
• Build and test operational amplifier-based analogue circuits
• Build and test combinational and sequential logic circuits
• Use computer-based simulation software packages to construct and test the operation of analogue and digital circuits

What you'll be able to do

• Know about the applications of common measurement systems
• Understand the operation of measurement system components
• Use testing, recording and display equipment for a measurement application
• Test and calibrate a measuring system

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the physical properties and characteristic behaviour of fluids and system parametres for oiled bearings
• Determine the parametres that act in hydrostatic devices and act on immersed surfaces
• Apply fluid flow theory to determine parametres for piped measuring systems and nozzle vane systems
• Understand the use of wind tunnel testing, aerodynamic theory and associated test data to determine the aerodynamic parametres of test models.

What you'll be able to do

• Apply thermodynamic principles to the expansion and compression of gases
• Quantify energy transfer in thermodynamic systems
• Determine combustion process requirements and the calorific value of fuels
• Quantify energy transfer in steam plant

What you'll be able to do

• Use electrical relationships and determine current, voltage and power quantities for three-phase circuits
• Know about the operation of three-phase supply systems
• Calculate parametres and carry out measurements in three-phase balanced and unbalanced loads
• Know how three-phase power is protected and monitored and the safety requirements for working on high voltage equipment

What you'll be able to do

• Know the principles of lean manufacturing
• Create a flexible production system
• Apply the single minute exchange of die (SMED) method to a production system
• Implement a total productive maintenance system

What you'll be able to do

• Know the structure and classification of engineering materials
• Know material properties and the effects of processing on the structure and behaviour of engineering materials
• Use information sources to select materials for engineering uses
• Test engineering materials

What you'll be able to do

• Know the preparatory activities required for the construction of railway track infrastructure
• Know the scope of earthwork activities that may be undertaken in association with railway track infrastructure
• Understand the forms of construction and material specifications used in railway track infrastructure
• Understand track maintenance processes used to identify and correct defects in railways.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the selection, hardware and software requirements of a programmable controller
• Use programming techniques to produce a program for a modern programmable controller
• Understand complex programmable controller applications
• Understand data communications media and networks used with modern programmable controllers

What you'll be able to do

• Know how traditional and specialist secondary processing machines function
• Understand how work holding devices, tools and machine parametres are set up to produce a range of components
• Safely set up a secondary processing machine to accurately make a component
• Produce trial components relevant to the use of a secondary processing machine before handing over to an operator

What you'll be able to do

• Understand Six Sigma methodologies
• Apply the DMAIC model to a project
• Carry out a Six Sigma detailed process mapping activity
• Know about quality function deployment (QFD)

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the principals of alternating current (AC) circuits
• Understand the effects of line impairments on a transmitted signal
• Apply the characteristics of transmission lines
• Understand the transmission of digital signals over transmission media
• Understand the process of modulating an analogue carrier frequency using digital signals
• Apply the process of multiplexing digital and analogue signals over transmission media

What you'll be able to do

• Apply the laws of reflection and refraction to different situations using appropriate terminology
• Use different types of lenses for specified applications
• Understand the behaviour of light in terms of polarisation, diffraction and interference
• Understand light in terms of the photon

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the nature, physical parametres and use of the International Standard Atmosphere (ISA) and subsonic airflow over aerofoil sections
• Understand the generation and interaction of aircraft lift and drag forces
• Understand aircraft stability and control
• Understand, the nature of subsonic, transonic and supersonic airflow

What you'll be able to do

• Know how squirrel-cage and wound rotor three-phase induction motors operate
• Know how three-phase synchronous and synchronous-induction motors operate
• Know about the function and operation of motor starters and control gear
• Know about a range of industrial applications for installing, commissioning and maintaining three-phase motors

What you'll be able to do

• Know the physical features of welding processes
• Know the effects of welding and select post-weld heat treatments
• Understand the weldability of metals
• Use and interpret quality standards and weld testing techniques

What you'll be able to do

• Know about health and safety legislation, regulations and safe working practices in the welding industry
• Prepare for welding operations
• Produce welded joints to a quality standard
• Understand how quality inspection processes are applied to welded joints in components