Postgraduate Course: Sensors and Sensing in Defence and Security (PGEE11277)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This is one of two 10-credit courses co-developed, delivered, and assessed with industry and government partners to expose students to practical and state-of-the-art challenges in sensing and processing.
- The course will also consider theoretical and practical foundations to develop and ethically apply novel sensing, processing, and AI to defence challenges.
- The course will be delivered in a block format through five 2-credit inter-related components, each delivered by multiple partners in one day (typically 5 hours per day + breaks and networking), but developed together with the SPADS management team.
- The course will include novel coursework-based assessment methods (but with no exam) that will follow on from the block taught elements, and be ungraded (pass/fail).
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| Course description |
The broad remit of the course will cover areas not typically included in the electives, or other core SPADS courses, and touch on subjects related to verification and validation, safety and certification, security awareness, as well as embedding exemplars of communication and presentation sub-skills.
An indicative list of technical topics covered in the lectures includes:
- System development from end user requirements based on use cases for specific sensor types
- Design principles of sensors
- Challenges faced in RF sensing, processing and AI in the defence and security sectors
- Developing and deploying monitoring and sensing equipment in practice.
- Sensing in the underwater environment.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2025/26, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 30,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 13,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
55 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Written Exam %: 0
Practical Exam %: 0
Coursework %: 100
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| Feedback |
Formative feedback may be given. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Explain the fundamental system engineering challenges for applications of sensing, processing, and AI in defence and security.
- Apply design principles of sensing, processing, and AI in defence and security to a given scenario.
- Analyse deployment and monitoring issues associated with applications of sensing, processing, and AI in defence and security.
- Evaluate the potential and limitations of novel applications of sensing, processing, and AI in defence and security.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | sensing,systems,design principles,defence challenges,sensing in adverse environments |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof James Hopgood
Tel: (0131 6)50 5571
Email: James.Hopgood@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Jacqueline Narendran
Tel:
Email: jackie.narendran@ed.ac.uk |
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