Postgraduate Course: Digital Communications and Signal Processing: Project and Thesis (PGEE11052)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering | 
College | College of Science and Engineering | 
 
| Course type | Standard | 
Availability | Not available to visiting students | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) | 
Credits | 60 | 
 
| Home subject area | Postgrad (School of Engineering) | 
Other subject area | None | 
   
| Course website | 
http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/taughtdeg/ | 
Taught in Gaelic? | No | 
 
| Course description | This course is the project and thesis element of the MSc programme. The students will do a substantive project in a topic relevant to signal processing and communications and generate a thesis detailing their results. 
 
There will be a thesis written in English.  The thesis will be completed between September and April of Year 2 whilst the students are resident in China. 
 
There will be a supervisor at Beihang University and a supervisor at the University of Edinburgh. 
 
The thesis will be assessed according to the Edinburgh assessment rules, which include the provision of an external examiner appointed at Edinburgh. | 
 
 
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites | 
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Co-requisites |  | 
 
| Prohibited Combinations |  | 
Other requirements |  None | 
 
| Additional Costs |  None | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |   
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes 
| Students must demonstrate a firm knowledge of background literature in a chosen project area.  They must be able to formulate a research problem in the chosen field.  They must be able to develop a systematic approach to solving the problem.  They must apply the knowledge acquired on their taught courses to provide a solution to the stated problem.  They need to critically discuss the obtained result in their thesis. | 
 
 
Assessment Information 
| The course will be assessed by consideration of the practical work of the students via their lab notebooks in English and by the technical quality of the submitted thesis. A viva, by videoconference or in person and in English, will form part of the assessment of the thesis. |  
 
Special Arrangements 
| None |   
 
Additional Information 
| Academic description | 
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| Syllabus | 
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| Transferable skills | 
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| Reading list | 
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| Study Abroad | 
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| Study Pattern | 
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| Keywords | Digital Communications and Signal Processing Project and Thesis | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Prof Harald Haas 
Tel: (0131 6)50 5591 
Email: H.Haas@ed.ac.uk | 
Course secretary | Mrs Sharon Mulvey 
Tel: (0131 6)51 7076 
Email: Sharon.Mulvey@ed.ac.uk | 
   
 
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