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01What it is
Information for students and teachers of our BTEC Higher Nationals in Engineering, including key documents.
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02The units
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Automation, Robotics and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll study the design and operational characteristics of Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) systems, develop PLC programs considering functional and communication requirements, and programme industrial robots to perform specific tasks using key control elements.
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the design characteristics of a PLC system.
- Describe the operational characteristics of a PLC system.
- Design a PLC program by considering function requirements.
- Design a PLC program by considering PLC information.
- Design a PLC program by considering programming techniques.
- Design a PLC program by considering communication techniques.
- Program industrial robots using commands to perform a given task.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the key elements of industrial robots and their functions.
- Investigate the design of a robot within an industrial application.
- Investigate the safe operation of a robot within an industrial application.
CAD for Schematics in Maintenance Engineering Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
This unit equips learners with skills to produce professional CAD drawings for maintenance engineering schematics. They will create and manipulate CAD blocks with textual attributes, construct complex schematics, and transfer information to external sources.
What you'll be able to do
- Produce CAD drawings to a professional standard
- Create blocks with textual attributes in CAD software
- Perform insert operations using CAD blocks with textual attributes
- Perform export operations using CAD blocks with textual attributes
- Construct complex schematic drawings using CAD software
- Transfer information from CAD drawings to external sources, such as reports and databases
Computer Aided Design (CAD) for Engineering Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll understand the role of CAD in engineering design and manufacturing, use 2D and 3D CAD software to produce models, assemblies, and technical drawings, and evaluate CAD integration within production processes.
What you'll be able to do
- Defend the role of CAD in different engineering contexts and its influence on design and manufacturing processes in areas of specialist practice.
- Use 3D and 2D CAD software to produce models, assemblies, schemes, technical drawings and visualisations and technical drawings.
- Develop models, schemes, drawings and renderings, for a given project, using CAD software.
- Evaluate the way in which CAD software may integrate into production processes.
Computer Aided Design and Manufacture (CAD/CAM) Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
It teaches you to apply CAD/CAM principles by preparing 3D solid models, generating manufacturing simulations using CAM software, and producing dimensionally accurate components on CNC or additive manufacturing machines.
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the key principles of manufacturing using a CAD/CAM system.
- Prepare 3D solid models of a component suitable for transfer into a CAM system.
- Use CAM software to generate manufacturing simulations of a component.
- Produce a dimensionally accurate component on a CNC/AM machine using a CAD/CAM system.
Digital Principles Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
This unit provides learners with an understanding of digital principles, including combinational and sequential logic circuits, technologies for digital circuit implementation, and analysis of digital subsystems forming larger systems.
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the function of combinational logic circuits.
- Interpret the operation of sequential logic circuits.
- Describe the technologies used to implement digital electronic circuits.
- Analyse a range of digital subsystems to establish the building blocks for larger systems.
Electrical Machines Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
This unit provides learners with knowledge of different electrical machines, their operation, starting methods for induction and synchronous machines, and analysis of their characteristics, construction, and applications.
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate the different types and operation of electrical machines.
- Explore the operation and the various starting methods of induction machines.
- Explore the operation and the various starting methods of synchronous machines.
- Analyse the operating characteristics, construction and applications of electromagnetic transducers and actuators.
Electrical Systems and Fault Finding Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll investigate the construction, applications, and potential faults in electrical systems, motors, and generators. The unit includes fault-finding methodologies and analysis of diagnostics in various electrical circuits.
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate the key constructional features and applications of electrical systems, including identification and resolution of potential faults.
- Examine the types, applications, and common fault-finding methodologies of electrical motors and generators.
- Analyse potential faults and fault diagnostics in the various types of lighting circuits available in the industry by assessing their practical application.
- Discuss the operating characteristics of electrical safety components including evaluation of their effectiveness through fault-finding techniques.
Electrical and Electronic Principles Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
It teaches you to apply fundamental electrical quantities to analyse DC and AC circuits, understand semiconductor action and its application in electronic devices, and explain differences between digital and analogue electronics.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply an understanding of fundamental electrical quantities to analyse circuits with constant voltages and currents.
- Analyse circuits with sinusoidal voltages and currents.
- Describe the basis of semiconductor action, and its application to simple electronic devices.
- Explain the difference between digital and analogue electronics, describing simple applications of each.
Electro, Pneumatic and Hydraulic Systems Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll learn to calculate key parametres of pneumatic and hydraulic systems, interpret component notations and symbols, examine system applications, and investigate maintenance requirements for these fluid power systems.
What you'll be able to do
- Calculate the parameters of pneumatic systems.
- Calculate the parameters of hydraulic systems.
- Illustrate the notation of pneumatic components.
- Illustrate the notation of hydraulic components.
- Illustrate the symbols of pneumatic components.
- Illustrate the symbols of hydraulic components.
- Examine the applications of pneumatic systems.
- Examine the applications of hydraulic systems.
- Investigate the maintenance of pneumatic systems.
- Investigate the maintenance of hydraulic systems.
Electronic Circuits and Devices Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
It teaches you to determine the operational characteristics of amplifier circuits, investigate the effects of feedback on performance, examine oscillator operation and applications, and apply appropriate testing procedures to electronic devices and circuits.
What you'll be able to do
- Determine the operational characteristics of amplifier circuits.
- Investigate the types of feedback on an amplifier’s performance.
- Investigate the effects of feedback on an amplifier’s performance.
- Examine the operation of oscillators.
- Examine the application of oscillators.
- Apply testing procedures to electronic devices.
- Apply testing procedures to electronic circuits.
Engineering Design Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll plan design solutions and prepare engineering design specifications based on stakeholder requirements. The unit includes formulating technical solutions and producing industry-standard engineering technical design reports.
What you'll be able to do
- Plan a design solution in response to a stakeholder’s design brief and requirements, considering factors such as functionality, performance, and cost.
- Prepare an engineering design specification based on the stakeholder's brief, clearly defining the design objectives, constraints, and acceptance criteria.
- Formulate possible technical solutions to address the student-prepared design specification, exploring different approaches and technologies.
- Evaluate the feasibility and suitability of each technical solution, considering factors such as technical risk, resource availability, and environmental impact.
- Prepare an industry-standard engineering technical design report, documenting the design process, technical solutions, and evaluation results.
- Present to an audience a design solution based on the design report, effectively communicating the design rationale, key features, and expected benefits.
- Evaluate the design solution based on feedback from the audience and the original design specification, identifying areas for improvement and further development.
- Evaluate the presentation based on audience engagement, clarity of communication, and effectiveness in conveying the design solution.
Engineering Management Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
It teaches you to examine management techniques, cultural and leadership aspects within engineering organisations. They will explore risk and quality management roles and investigate project and operations management theories and tools.
What you'll be able to do
- Examine the application of management techniques in engineering organisations
- Examine the cultural aspects of management in engineering organisations
- Examine the leadership aspects of management in engineering organisations
- Explore the role of risk management in improving performance in engineering organisations
- Explore the role of quality management in improving performance in engineering organisations
- Investigate the theories of project management
- Investigate the tools of project management
- Investigate the theories of operations management
- Investigate the tools of operations management
- Perform activities that improve current management strategies within an identified element of an engineering organisation
- Optimise resource allocation within an identified element of an engineering organisation
Engineering Mathematics Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
This unit equips learners with mathematical methods applicable to engineering and manufacturing problems, including algebraic, trigonometric, and geometric techniques. You'll also investigate and apply statistical and probability methods to organise, present, and interpret data effectively.
What you'll be able to do
- Apply a variety of mathematical methods to a range of engineering sector problems.
- Apply a variety of mathematical methods to a range of manufacturing sector problems.
- Investigate applications of statistical techniques to interpret data.
- Investigate applications of statistical techniques to organise data.
- Investigate applications of statistical techniques to present data.
- Investigate applications of probability techniques to interpret data.
- Investigate applications of probability techniques to organise data.
- Investigate applications of probability techniques to present data.
- Use analytical methods for solving engineering sector problems by relating sinusoidal wave and vector functions to their respective applications.
- Use analytical methods for solving manufacturing sector problems by relating sinusoidal wave and vector functions to their respective applications.
- Use computational methods for solving engineering sector problems by relating sinusoidal wave and vector functions to their respective applications.
- Use computational methods for solving manufacturing sector problems by relating sinusoidal wave and vector functions to their respective applications.
- Examine how differential calculus can be used to solve engineering sector problems.
- Examine how differential calculus can be used to solve manufacturing sector problems.
- Examine how integral calculus can be used to solve engineering sector problems.
- Examine how integral calculus can be used to solve manufacturing sector problems.
Engineering Mechanics and Materials Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll gain a comprehensive understanding of engineering materials and mechanics, including atomic and microstructures, key mechanical properties, performance assessment using indicators and databases, and calculation of engineering solutions.
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the fundamental structures of common engineering materials.
- Identify the most important properties of engineering materials.
- Assess the performance of engineering materials using key indicators.
- Assess the performance of engineering materials considering materials constraints.
- Assess the performance of engineering materials using established database resources.
- Calculate solutions to problems within static mechanical systems, with consideration of constraints on performance.
- Calculate solutions to problems within dynamic mechanical systems, with consideration of constraints on performance.
Engineering Science I Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll learn to analyse scientific data using quantitative and qualitative methods. The unit covers fundamentals of mechanical engineering systems, properties of engineering materials, and applications of electrical circuit and electromagnetic principles.
What you'll be able to do
- Examine scientific data using quantitative methods
- Examine scientific data using qualitative methods
- Apply the fundamentals of mechanical engineering systems
- Explore the characteristics of engineering materials
- Explore the properties of engineering materials
- Analyse applications of A.C. circuit theorems
- Analyse applications of D.C. circuit theorems
- Analyse applications of electromagnetic principles
- Analyse applications of electromagnetic properties
Engineering Science II Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll investigate engineering structures and machine components within mechanical systems, examine the kinetics and kinematics of dynamic systems, explore material properties and failure analysis, and analyse electrical circuits and systems to develop a comprehensive understanding of engineering science.
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate engineering structures in mechanical systems.
- Investigate machine components in mechanical systems.
- Examine kinetics of different dynamic systems.
- Examine kinematics of different dynamic systems.
- Explore material properties.
- Explore material testing.
- Explore failure analysis.
- Analyse different electrical circuits.
- Analyse different electrical systems.
Fluid Mechanics Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
It teaches you to determine the behaviour of static and dynamic fluids, including pressure, buoyancy, viscosity, and flow parametres. They will explore the principles and efficiencies of hydraulic machines and viscosity measuring devices.
What you'll be able to do
- Determine the behavioural characteristics of static fluid systems, including pressure and buoyancy
- Examine the operating principles of viscosity measuring devices
- Examine the limitations of viscosity measuring devices
- Investigate dynamic fluid parameters of real fluid flow, including velocity and turbulence
- Explore the operating principles of hydraulic machines, such as pumps and turbines
- Evaluate the efficiencies of hydraulic machines in different applications
Fundamentals of Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll investigate fundamental thermodynamic systems, apply the Steady Flow Energy Equation for system analysis, determine heat engine performance, and examine heat transfer principles relevant to industrial applications.
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate fundamental thermodynamic systems and their properties.
- Apply the Steady Flow Energy Equation for analysis of thermodynamic systems.
- Determine the performance of heat engines.
- Examine the principles of heat transfer applied to industrial applications.
Industrial Robots Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
This unit covers the operational characteristics, selection criteria, and applications of industrial robots in manufacturing industries. You'll explain safety standards and programme industrial robots for automated processes, alongside investigating the global economic impact of robotics.
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the operational characteristics of industrial robots, including their kinematic structures, degrees of freedom, and working envelopes.
- Define the selection criteria for industrial robots based on specific application requirements, considering factors such as payload capacity, reach, and precision.
- Discuss the applications of industrial robots within various manufacturing industries, providing examples of how they are used to automate tasks and improve efficiency.
- Explain the safety standards associated with industrial robots, including risk assessment procedures, safety devices, and safe operating practices.
- Program an industrial robot for an automated process application, demonstrating the ability to define robot movements, coordinate tasks, and integrate with other equipment.
- Investigate the global economic scope of industrial robots, analysing their impact on manufacturing productivity, employment, and competitiveness.
- Explain the integration of industrial robots into smart factories, describing how they contribute to data collection, process optimisation, and overall system intelligence.
Industry 4.0 Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
This unit explores the key concepts and principles of Industry 4.0, including cyber-physical production systems and the Industrial Internet of Things, enabling learners to analyse their implications for engineering and manufacturing.
What you'll be able to do
- Discuss the key concepts and principles of Industry 4.0.
- Review the range of cyber-physical production systems (CPPS) shaping Industry 4.0 and their integration with the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).
- Explore the implications and impacts of Industry 4.0 in engineering and manufacturing processes and technologies.
- Examine the factors manufacturers need to consider when transitioning to Industry 4.0 and workforce Implications.
Instrumentation and Control Systems Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
This unit covers the operation of instrumentation devices and process control systems, including sensors, actuators, and control parametres. You'll analyse industrial control concepts and apply predicted values to maintain system stability.
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the operation of instrumentation devices, including parameters used in process control.
- Investigate process control systems and controllers.
- Analyse the control concepts used within an industrial process.
- Apply predicted values to ensure stability within a control system.
Introduction to Professional Engineering Management Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
This unit introduces the role of the professional engineer, including ethical and regulatory codes governing practice. You'll develop leadership and communication skills and explore social responsibility in developing personal and professional standards.
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the role of a professional engineer within an organisation
- Explain the ethical codes that govern the role of a professional engineer
- Explain the regulatory codes that govern the role of a professional engineer
- Demonstrate effective leadership skills in an engineering context
- Demonstrate effective communication skills in an engineering context
- Explore the importance of social responsibility when developing personal standards in manufacturing organisations
- Explore the importance of social responsibility when developing professional standards in manufacturing organisations
- Review the role of reflection in professional engineering practice
- Apply reflection techniques to your own work as a professional engineer
Machining and Processing of Engineering Materials Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll explore conventional machining, additive manufacturing, and forming processes used in engineering component production. The unit also covers how the properties of metals and non-metals influence the selection of appropriate machining or forming techniques.
What you'll be able to do
- Explore conventional machining processes and their applications in the production of engineered components.
- Explore additive manufacturing processes and their applications in the production of engineered components.
- Explore forming processes and their applications in the production of engineered components.
- Explain how the properties of component materials, including metals, influence the selection of appropriate machining processes.
- Explain how the properties of component materials, including non-metals, influence the selection of appropriate machining processes.
- Explain how the properties of component materials, including metals, influence the selection of appropriate forming processes.
- Explain how the properties of component materials, including non-metals, influence the selection of appropriate forming processes.
- Examine the selection of appropriate machine tooling to support the production of an engineered component.
- Examine the selection of appropriate jigs to support the production of an engineered component.
- Examine the selection of appropriate fixtures to support the production of an engineered component.
- Discuss the moulding processes used to produce a range of metal engineered components.
- Discuss the shaping processes used to produce a range of metal engineered components.
- Discuss the moulding processes used to produce a range of non-metal engineered components.
- Discuss the shaping processes used to produce a range of non-metal engineered components.
Maintenance Engineering Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll analyse the impact of statutory regulations and organisational safety requirements on maintenance activities in industrial workplaces. They will differentiate maintenance strategies and demonstrate safe working practices in maintenance engineering.
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse the impact of relevant statutory regulations on the industrial workplace.
- Analyse the impact of organisational safety requirements on the industrial workplace.
- Differentiate between the merits of different types of maintenance strategies in an industrial workplace.
- Differentiate between the uses of different types of maintenance strategies in an industrial workplace.
- Demonstrate competence in working safely by correctly determining the hazards associated with maintenance techniques.
- Demonstrate competence in working safely by correctly determining the risks associated with maintenance techniques.
- Apply effective inspection techniques relative to a particular specialisation such as mechanical or electrical.
- Apply effective maintenance techniques relative to a particular specialisation such as mechanical or electrical.
Managing a Professional Engineering Project Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
It teaches you to select and manage a professional engineering project by defining a viable problem, conducting planned activities to generate solutions, and producing a comprehensive report that critically evaluates outcomes and presents findings effectively.
What you'll be able to do
- Select a project that will provide a viable solution to a clearly identified engineering or manufacturing problem.
- Conduct planned project activities in a systematic manner to generate tangible outcomes that contribute to a solution for the identified engineering or manufacturing problem.
- Produce a comprehensive project report that analyses the outcomes of each of the project processes and stages, demonstrating critical evaluation.
- Present the project report effectively, drawing well-supported conclusions on the overall outcomes and impact of the project.
Materials Engineering with Polymers Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
This unit covers the relationship between polymer molecular structure, morphology, and properties. You'll distinguish polymer types and select appropriate materials for specific applications based on performance and processing requirements.
What you'll be able to do
- Examine how the fundamental aspects of the molecular structure and morphology of polymers affect their processing and performance properties.
- Distinguish between the main types of polymer materials to inform the selection of a polymer material for a given application.
- Determine how to select, modify, compound or adapt polymer material systems for a specific engineering application.
- Recognise the limitations of polymer behaviour and potential solutions to environmental concerns associated with polymers.
Materials, Properties and Testing Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
It teaches you to explain the relationship between atomic structure and material properties, determine material suitability for engineering applications, explore testing techniques, and categorise materials accordingly.
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the relationship between the atomic structure and the physical properties of materials.
- Determine the suitability of engineering materials for use in a specified role.
- Explore the testing techniques used to determine the physical properties of an engineering material.
- Recognise and categorise the causes of in-service material failure.
Mechanical Principles Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll solve problems related to static and dynamic mechanical systems, analyse simple mechanical power transmission elements, and investigate natural and damped vibrations in translational and rotational mass-spring systems.
What you'll be able to do
- Solve problems within static mechanical systems
- Analyse dynamic mechanical systems
- Investigate elements of simple mechanical power transmission systems
- Analyse natural vibrations within translational mass-spring systems
- Analyse natural vibrations within rotational mass-spring systems
- Analyse damped vibrations within translational mass-spring systems
- Analyse damped vibrations within rotational mass-spring systems
Mechanical Workshop Practices Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll discuss potential hazards and health and safety regulations related to machine tools and bench fitting equipment. They will develop skills to produce dimensionally accurate components using manual lathes and milling machines in a workshop environment.
What you'll be able to do
- Discuss the potential hazards that exist when operating machine tools and bench fitting equipment, with reference to the appropriate health and safety regulations and risk assessment criteria.
- Produce dimensionally accurate engineering components through operating a manual lathe and milling machine.
- Interpret information from engineering drawings to operate measuring tools and work-holding equipment to check dimensional accuracy of machined components.
- Explain mechanical measurement and quality control processes.
Mechatronic Systems in Manufacturing Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
This unit provides an understanding of mechatronic systems in manufacturing, focusing on design considerations, the role of sensors and actuators, and control systems. You'll investigate components and programmable control devices, and develop system design skills.
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the design characteristics of a manufacturing mechatronic system
- Explain the operational characteristics of a manufacturing mechatronic system
- Investigate a range of mechatronic system components
- Investigate a range of mechatronic technologies
- Review the operation of programmable control devices within a manufacturing mechatronic system
- Review the selection of programmable control devices within a manufacturing mechatronic system
- Review the interfacing of programmable control devices within a manufacturing mechatronic system
- Design a mechatronic system for a manufacturing application
Mechatronics Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll study the design and operational characteristics of mechatronic systems, produce design specifications, and use simulation software to examine system functions. The unit also develops fault-finding skills within mechatronic systems.
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the design characteristics of a mechatronic system
- Explain the operational characteristics of a mechatronic system
- Produce a mechatronic system design specification for a given application, including component selection
- Examine the operation of a mechatronics system using simulation software
- Examine the function of a mechatronics system using simulation software
- Examine the operation of a mechatronics system using modelling software
- Examine the function of a mechatronics system using modelling software
- Demonstrate fault finding skills on a mechatronic system
- Perform fault analysis on a mechatronic system to identify root causes
Net Zero Energy Technologies I: Systems and Demand Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
This unit introduces learners to the fundamentals of energy systems, including supply, demand, and infrastructure. You'll explain how key Net Zero energy technologies operate across various sectors and analyse their suitability for decarbonising energy demand in different geographical contexts.
What you'll be able to do
- Discuss the fundamentals of energy systems, demarcating supply.
- Discuss the fundamentals of energy systems, demarcating demand.
- Discuss the fundamentals of energy systems, demarcating energy system infrastructure.
- Explain how key Net Zero energy technologies work across key sectors of energy demand.
- Analyse the suitability of different energy technologies in decarbonising energy demand in given geographical contexts.
- Analyse the suitability of different energy technologies in decarbonising energy demand in given socio-economic contexts.
Operations and Plant Management Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll analyse fundamental thermodynamic systems and their properties, investigate power transmission systems, determine parametres of fluid systems, and examine heat transfer principles in industrial applications.
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse fundamental thermodynamic systems and their properties.
- Investigate power transmission systems.
- Determine the parameters of static and dynamic fluid systems.
- Examine the principles of heat transfer in industrial applications.
Polymer Manufacturing Processes Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
It teaches you to relate polymer flow and heat transfer principles to polymer processing techniques. They will examine various polymer shaping methods and describe the technical components of commonly used polymer processing equipment.
What you'll be able to do
- Relate the fundamental principles of polymer flow to polymer processing techniques.
- Relate the fundamental principles of heat transfer to polymer processing techniques.
- Illustrate the variety of polymer processing techniques available for manufacturing engineering components.
- Illustrate the variety of polymer shaping techniques available for manufacturing engineering products.
- Describe the main technical components of commonly used polymer processing equipment.
- Explain the functions of the main technical components of commonly used polymer processing equipment.
- Describe the main operational steps involved in using commonly used polymer processing equipment.
- Determine the most suitable manufacturing process for a given engineering component from a design perspective.
- Determine the most suitable manufacturing process for a given engineering product from a design perspective.
Production Engineering for Manufacture Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
It teaches you to illustrate the role of production engineering within manufacturing systems, including process planning, tooling design, and work measurement. They will describe suitable production processes and facility arrangements for various materials.
What you'll be able to do
- Illustrate the role of production engineering within a manufacturing system.
- Illustrate the purpose of production engineering within a manufacturing system.
- Illustrate the relationship between production engineering and other elements of a manufacturing system.
- Describe the most appropriate production processes for manufacturing products of different material types.
- Describe the most appropriate facility arrangements for manufacturing products of different material types.
- Analyse how a production system can incorporate a number of different production processes for a given product.
- Analyse how a production system can incorporate a number of different production processes for a given assembly.
- Explore the effectiveness of a production system in terms of its operation within the wider manufacturing system.
Professional Engineering Practice Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
This unit provides learners with an understanding of the roles, responsibilities, and competences of professional engineers, including regulatory, legislative, and ethical frameworks, and the importance of communication, teamwork, and leadership.
What you'll be able to do
- Determine the roles, responsibilities and competences required of a professional engineer.
- Describe the regulatory frameworks that govern the work of the professional engineer.
- Describe the legislative frameworks that govern the work of the professional engineer.
- Describe the ethical frameworks that govern the work of the professional engineer.
- Review the roles of communication in the development of professional engineers.
- Review the roles of team working in the development of professional engineers.
- Review the roles of leadership in the development of professional engineers.
- Discuss how professional engineers can develop holistic approaches to the sustainability of manufacturing processes.
Programmable Logic Controllers Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll study the design, operation, and selection of Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) systems, including Functional Safety principles. They will develop PLC programs for automated processes and review how PLCs communicate with other devices.
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the design principles of Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) systems, including their architecture and key components.
- Explain the operation of PLC systems, detailing how they execute programs and interact with input/output devices.
- Evaluate the selection criteria for PLC systems based on specific application requirements, considering factors such as processing power, memory, and communication capabilities.
- Explore the principles of Functional Safety within PLC systems, including safety integrity levels (SIL) and relevant safety standards.
- Develop a PLC program for an automated process system, demonstrating the ability to implement control logic and manage system behaviour.
- Review the methods by which PLCs exchange information with other devices, such as sensors, actuators, and supervisory control systems.
- Analyse how PLCs process signals from various input devices and generate appropriate output signals to control automated processes.
Programming for Engineers Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll study software evolution and development methodologies relevant to engineering, and gain skills to design, implement, and test programming solutions to engineering problems, ensuring they meet defined requirements.
What you'll be able to do
- Discuss key aspects of software evolution and development in the context of engineering applications
- Design a programming solution for an engineering problem, considering relevant constraints and requirements
- Implement a programming solution for an engineering problem using appropriate programming languages and tools
- Perform testing of the programming solution to meet defined requirements and to ensure high quality outputs
Quality and Process Improvement Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll examine the application of statistical process control (SPC) in industrial environments to improve efficiency, analyse cost-effective quality control tools, and determine the role of standards in enhancing operational efficiency, meeting customer requirements, and facilitating trade.
What you'll be able to do
- Examine the practical applications of statistical process control (SPC) within an industrial environment, focusing on its role in improving operational efficiency and reducing waste.
- Analyse the application of cost-effective quality control tools and techniques to identify areas for improvement and ensure product or service quality.
- Determine the significant role of industry standards and regulations in enhancing efficiency, consistently meeting customer requirements, and facilitating new opportunities for trade and market expansion.
- Analyse the importance of Total Quality Management (TQM) principles and the implementation of continuous improvement methodologies in diverse manufacturing and service environments to drive ongoing enhancements and customer satisfaction.
Renewable Energy Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll explore renewable energy resources and technologies, determine optimal technology combinations for specific locations, and conduct cost-benefit and socio-economic analyses to evaluate renewable versus conventional energy options.
What you'll be able to do
- Explore potential renewable energy resources
- Explore potential renewable energy technologies
- Determine the optimum combination of renewable energy technologies for a particular location
- Determine the efficiencies of renewable energy technologies for a particular location
- Conduct a cost-benefit analysis to determine the most viable option between renewable and conventional energy sources
- Analyse the socio-economic factors in selecting appropriate renewable energy technologies
- Analyse the legislative factors in selecting appropriate renewable energy technologies
- Analyse the environmental factors in selecting appropriate renewable energy technologies
Semiconductor Manufacture Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll describe the equipment and process stages involved in automated semiconductor device fabrication, including wafer preparation and integrated circuit production, focusing on operational characteristics, selection criteria, and applications.
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the operational characteristics, selection criteria and application of equipment used in automated systems for fabricating semiconductor devices.
- Explain the individual process stages in producing a semiconductor wafer suitable for further processing in an automated semiconductor fabrication plant.
- Discuss the processes necessary to take a semiconductor wafer and produce a finished integrated circuit in an automated semiconductor fabrication plant.
- Demonstrate how the data collected during the semiconductor manufacturing process from inspection and testing is used to improve the yield of each integrated circuit to final packaging.
Semiconductor Production Environments Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll recognise and apply Health and Safety legislation relevant to semiconductor manufacturing, understand cleanroom classifications, and investigate the toxicity of materials and processes to assess and minimise workplace risks.
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise the role and applicability of Health and Safety legislation and other guidelines in semiconductor manufacturing.
- Describe the different cleanroom arrangements and their relevance to semiconductor manufacturing.
- Investigate the toxicity of the materials and processes employed in semiconductor manufacturing.
- Examine workplace activities in a semiconductor manufacturing environment for assessment, minimisation and management of risk.
Statistical Process Control Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
This unit provides learners with skills to review quality control functions, select data for process control charts, investigate process capability, and report on process variation to meet specified quality requirements.
What you'll be able to do
- Review the quality control function of inspection and measurement.
- Select data to construct process control charts and determine a control program for a specified application.
- Investigate the process capability of a system to meet the specified quality requirement of a component using modified control chart limits.
- Report the variation found within the output of a process.
Telecommunication Principles Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll develop fundamental knowledge of analogue and digital communication techniques, assess transmission channels and applications, and investigate the design of data networks within telecommunication systems.
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a fundamental knowledge of analogue electronic communication.
- Analyse digital communication techniques.
- Assess transmission channels and their applications.
- Investigate the design of Data Networks.
Welding Inspection Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll understand the role and importance of inspection in weld construction, including welding procedure and welder performance testing, the operation of Non-destructive Testing methods, and quality assurance systems in welding.
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the role and importance of inspection in weld construction.
- Illustrate the purpose and value of welding procedure and welder performance testing.
- Explain the operation and application of Non-destructive Testing (NDT).
- Demonstrate the role of quality assurance systems in the welding process.
Welding Technology Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
This unit covers fundamental welding principles, including arc, resistance, and gas welding processes. You'll understand metallurgical properties affecting weld performance and how weld design influences structural behaviour under different loading conditions.
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the fundamental principles of welding processes.
- Describe the fundamental principles of welding equipment.
- Demonstrate how the metallurgical properties of weld materials affect the performance of welded joints.
- Explain how weld construction can influence the behaviour of welded structures under different types of loading.
- Explain how weld design can influence the behaviour of welded structures under different types of loading.
- Demonstrate how weld stresses can affect a weld construction.
- Explain the causes of weld stresses.
- Describe avoidance measures for weld stresses.
- Describe control measures for weld stresses.
03The standards
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
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Assist in developing a strategy for the engineering design process
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Carry out Computer Modelling and Simulation of a Biomanufacturing Process
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Create designs for broadcast and media systems
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Deploy and integrate Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) infrastructure
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Design Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) hardware solutions
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Evaluate Opportunities for Innovation and Improvement
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Produce a Design for a Biomanufacturing Process
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Provide technical input into bulk production
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Understand how to use engineering drawings and documents in maintenance activities in food and drink operations
04Where it leads
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Where this can lead
Head of Maintenance and Engineering
This work can lead to managing maintenance strategy and budgets across a whole property portfolio, or into wider facilities and engineering leadership.
See the whole journey05The credits
The credits, and who awards them
Level 4 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Pearson Education Ltd rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Automation, Robotics and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)CAD for Schematics in Maintenance EngineeringComputer Aided Design (CAD) for EngineeringComputer Aided Design and Manufacture (CAD/CAM)Digital PrinciplesElectrical MachinesElectrical Systems and Fault FindingElectrical and Electronic Principles
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration The Navigator Your plan for “Managing a Professional Engineering Project” assumes the same two people are free in March. What have you seen that makes you slightly uneasy about that?
You One of them has been pulled onto the migration twice already. Probably fine.
The Navigator That is the thread worth pulling. Let us build the version where it happens a third time and find the move that works either way.
- Bring your own plan Create
For “Managing a Professional Engineering Project” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Electrical Systems and Fault Finding” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
- Lead it Apply
“Engineering Management” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
Pearson BTEC Level 4 Higher National Certificate in Engineering
- Assist in developing a strategy for the engineering design process
- Carry out Computer Modelling and Simulation of a Biomanufacturing Process
- Create designs for broadcast and media systems
- Deploy and integrate Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) infrastructure
- Design Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) hardware solutions
- Evaluate Opportunities for Innovation and Improvement
- Produce a Design for a Biomanufacturing Process
- Provide technical input into bulk production
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Automation, Robotics and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Which job do you mean?
Learners will study the design and operational characteristics of Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) systems, develop PLC programs considering functional and communication requirements, and programme industrial robots to perform specific tasks using key control elements.
How the thinking builds
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
It is £70 a month, billed monthly. Your free first module is Future Fluency, and you can cancel any time. Teaching towards this qualification begins when you subscribe.
Built for Pearson BTEC Level 4 Higher National Certificate in Engineering
46 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Automation, Robotics and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)
- CAD for Schematics in Maintenance Engineering
- Computer Aided Design (CAD) for Engineering
- Computer Aided Design and Manufacture (CAD/CAM)
- Digital Principles
- Electrical Machines
and 40 more in the full unit list below.
Free tools
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Learned on your own work, taught one-to-one.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your free first module is Future Fluency, so you can see how the teaching works before you pay for anything.
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.
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