Continuing professional development
We offer numerous Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses each year. These courses are advantageous to employers and employees because:
- they provide access to university facilities and expertise
- they initiate improvements in business / individual knowledge and skills
- employees are only away from the workplace for short periods, usually one week.
- each course is linked to a Postgraduate qualification
Each of our short courses is a module on one or more of our MSc Programmes (see the 'postgraduate study' links in the main navigation). If a course is taken with assessment, successful delegates can gain module credits towards a Postgraduate qualification.
Entry requirements
In order to get the most from our courses, you need to be a science or engineering graduate, or equivalent who is working in a relevant industry.
If you have any questions, please contact Amanda Pearce.
Short Courses for the Academic Year 2009-2010
| Course title | Start date | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering & Management of Capability | 8th March 2010 | Two consecutive weeks |
| Quality Aware Networks | 15th March 2010 | Block taught over 2 weeks |
| Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles | 22nd March 2010 | One week |
| Wind Power 2 | 26th April 2010 | One week |
| Systems Architecture | 26th April 2010 | One week |
| Intelligent Signal Processing | 26th April 2010 | Block taught over 2 weeks |
| Systems Design | 26th April 2010 | One week |
| Solar Power 2 | 8th May 2010 | One week |
| Validation and Verification | 10th May 2010 | One week |
| Wind Power Summer School | 5th July 2010 | One week |
| Systems Thinking | 4th October 2010 | One week |
| The Concepts and Principles of Advanced Systems Engineering | T.B.C. | One week |
| Human Factors in Design and Use | T.B.C. | Two weeks |
| Sensors and Actuators For Control | T.B.C. | One week |
| Understanding Complexity | T.B.C. | Two weeks, full-time |
| Integration of Renewables | T.B.C. | One week |
| Solar Power 1 | T.B.C. | One week |
| Wind Power 1 | T.B.C. | One week |
| Water Power | T.B.C. | One week |
| Biomass 1 | T.B.C. | One week |
| Biomass 2 | T.B.C. | One week |
| Innovation and Entrepreneurship | T.B.C. | One week |
| Digital Signal Processing for Software Defined Radio | T.B.C. | Block taught over 2 weeks |
| Fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing | T.B.C. | Block taught over 2 weeks |
| Communication Network Security and E-Commerce | T.B.C. | Block taught over 2 weeks |
| Communication Networks | T.B.C. | Block taught over 2 weeks |