Postgraduate Course: Geometric Computing (MSc) (PGEE11215)

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	The course covers the fundamentals of how digital technologies create and manipulate shapes for design and manufacturing applications. The course will introduce the main geometric representations and the algorithms used to support their use in various industrial manufacturing and design applications. The relative strengths and weakness of different representations will be discussed.
Course description	The fundamentals of geometric reasoning will be introduced and a number of case studies will be used to illustrate the capabilities and limitations of current software. A number of different commercial and open-source software platforms will be used to support a series of computing laboratory session that develop both the students¿ knowledge and experience of geometric computing. The course will be developed to facilitate hybrid teaching and will compromise a series of 8 x 3 hour workshop sessions that will encourage student-centred learning. A combination of technical lectures, geometric programming exercises (for design & manufacturing applications) will be employed to allow students to make informed decisions regarding the selection and effective implementation shape representations appropriate to a particular application. Workshop 1: Digital Representation of 3D shape (Voxels, Points, BReps) Workshop 2: Complex Shapes (Bezier Curves, B-splines and NURBS) Workshop 3: Fundamentals of Geometric Algorithms & Programming Workshop 4: Geometric Algorithms & Programming for Display Workshop 5: Geometric Algorithms & Programming for Manipulation Workshop 6: Geometric Algorithms & Programming for Reasoning Workshop 7: Design Case Study and exercise 1 Workshop 8: Manufacturing Case Study and exercise 2 Workshop 9: Revision

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2024/25, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 2
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 11, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 11, Formative Assessment Hours 6, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Revision Session Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 66 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Coursework %: 100
Feedback	Mid-term formative feedback exercise, in-person feedback during individual workshop exercises, feedback on formal individual assignments given within 15 days as well as class overview feedback.
No Exam Information

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: Understand/implement computer models of 3D shape using a number of different representations; Discuss and demonstrate the capabilities and limitation of the geometric algorithms and reasoning system employed in industrial applications; Discuss and evaluate geometric engineering data management issues across an engineering enterprise; Demonstrate an appreciation of the complex relationship between geometry, topology and computational technology.