This BSc Instrumentation and PLC Systems is designed to deliver graduates with range of key skills, knowledge and competence relevant to modern advanced manufacturing industries, most notably those associated with industrial instrumentation and sensors, Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) systems and industrial automation.

 

This course replaces the long-standing BSc Applied Physics & Instrumentation programme, with core subject areas as follows:

• Industrial Instrumentation & Calibration
• Industrial Process Control & Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) systems
• Industrial Automation & SCADA
• Work placement / work-based project

 

The programme adopts a practical, hands on, approach to learning, where all modules are fully assessed using continuous assessment methods. There is no formal end of semester written examination.