Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited · RQF Level 2
EAL Level 2 Diploma in Applied STEM for Digital Engineering
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits44
- Guided learning330 hours
- Units in this qualification14
Awarded by Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
The EAL Level 2 Diploma in Applied STEM for Digital Engineering is designed to provide practical skills and knowledge across various engineering and computing disciplines, focusing on a hands-on learning approach to electronics, automation, and cyber manufacturing processes.
These are the units Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited 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.
Electronics for ApplicationsReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand fundamental electronic principles relevant to applications
- Identify common electronic components and their functions in circuits
- Construct and test basic electronic circuits for specific applications
- Analyse the behaviour of electronic circuits in different application scenarios
Electronics for ApplicationsReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the basic principles of electricity
- Understand basic components used in electrical circuits
- Demonstrate using breadboard and test equipment
- Demonstrate basic circuit construction
Introduction to Industrial ControllersReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of industrial controllers
- Identify different types of industrial controllers and their applications
- Explain the basic components and functions of an industrial controller system
- Understand how to configure and program a basic industrial controller
Introduction to Industrial ControllersReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the basic principles of a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)
- Understand the basic programming functions of a Programmable Logic Controller
- Demonstrate practical programming tasks
- Demonstrate basic fault finding on PLC controlled programs
Introduction to Industrial Cyber SecurityReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the basic concepts of industrial cyber security
- Recognise common cyber security threats in industrial environments
- Identify methods for protecting industrial control systems from cyber attacks
- Understand the importance of cyber security policies and procedures in industrial settings
Introduction to Industrial Cyber SecurityReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the basic principles of Secure IT Systems and how to implement and test them
- Understand the differences between IT (Information Technology) and OT (Operational Technology) on IT Networks
- Understand traffic types and various protocols
- Understand threats and defences in IT & OT Networks
Introduction to Manufacturing TechnologiesReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of manufacturing technologies.
- Understand different types of manufacturing processes.
- Understand the materials used in manufacturing.
- Understand the tools and equipment used in manufacturing.
- Understand quality control procedures in manufacturing.
- Understand health and safety requirements in a manufacturing environment.
Introduction to Manufacturing TechnologiesReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Produce a basic CAD drawing
- Understand different manufacturing technologies
- Demonstrate your ability to use various manufacturing machines
Introduction to Technology and the WorkplaceReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of technology in the workplace.
- Understand different types of technology used in the workplace.
- Understand the impact of technology on work processes.
- Understand health and safety considerations when using technology in the workplace.
- Understand the importance of data security and privacy in relation to technology.
Introduction to Technology and the WorkplaceReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Work safely in a technical environment
- Use technical tools and equipment
- Know the importance of making a good impression
- Provide and maintain a good customer service
Practical ControllersReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Apply practical skills in working with industrial controllers
- Demonstrate the ability to connect and configure industrial controllers
- Implement basic control programs on industrial controllers
- Troubleshoot common problems encountered when using industrial controllers
Practical ControllersReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the basic principles of applying a microcontroller/microprocessor
- Understand basic electrical concepts associated with using microcontrollers/microprocessors
- Understand basic devices used with microcontrollers/microprocessors
- Demonstrate practical programming tasks
ProjectReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Plan a project within a defined scope and objectives
- Implement the project plan, managing resources and timelines effectively
- Evaluate the outcomes of the project against the original objectives
- Document the project process, including challenges and lessons learned
ProjectReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for a project
- Produce and monitor a project plan
- Design and implement a project idea
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 2 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.
Who’d teach you this
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Architect end-to-end Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions
- Deploy and integrate Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) infrastructure
- Design Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) hardware solutions
- Implement security for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems
Where this can lead
Associate Digital Manufacturing Engineer
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
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
Learners will understand fundamental electronic principles, including voltage, current, resistance, and Ohm's Law. The unit covers the characteristics of series and parallel circuits and the functions of key components such as resistors, capacitors, diodes, and transistors.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for EAL Level 2 Diploma in Applied STEM for Digital Engineering
7 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited.
- Electronics for Applications
- Introduction to Industrial Controllers
- Introduction to Industrial Cyber Security
- Introduction to Manufacturing Technologies
- Introduction to Technology and the Workplace
- Practical Controllers
and 1 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.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
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
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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.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.