Units
The individual subjects inside each degree: what’s taught, how it’s assessed, and when it runs.
4,303 units
| Code | Unit | Faculty | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| ECE4810 | Internet of Things: Communication, data and security This unit will cover aspects constituting the Internet of Things (IoT) including communications, data analytics and cybersecurity. The unit covers network protocols, management and control standards. It will also cover fog computing and mac… | Engineering | 4 |
| ECE4813 | Arm based system-on-chip design Arm architecture underpins the majority of today’s computing platforms, powering billions of devices across mobile, automotive, IoT, and edge-AI applications. In this unit, you will be introduced to Arm technologies and their role in modern… | Engineering | 4 |
| ECE4831 | Microsystem packaging, assembly and testing This unit cover all kinds of packaging from traditional techniques such as leaded and leadless packages, surface mount technology (SMT), and ball grid array (BGA) to advanced packaging techniques including: 2.5D and 3D packaging, Optoelectr… | Engineering | 4 |
| ECE4886 | Smart grids This unit provides comprehensive knowledge about the smart grid and how it should be operated and protected to improve sustainability and energy savings. The core of the unit is intelligent infrastructure for the smart grid and its heighten… | Engineering | 4 |
| ECE5156 | Grid integration of renewable energy resources This unit presents an extensive range of power electronic converter applications with a focus on renewable energy resources integration. The unit starts with modelling of DC/DC and DC/AC converters and then continues to design various volta… | Engineering | 5 |
| ECE5881 | Real-time system design The unit aims to enable you to understand, analyse, specify, design and test real-time systems using both hardware and software development. Migration between software and hardware will be considered as an approach to meet design criterion… | Engineering | 5 |
| ECE5882 | Advanced electronics design This is an advanced unit in electronics design. You will be provided with in-depth knowledge of radio frequency (RF) and microwave circuits and systems. The unit builds on your basic electronic knowledge obtained from your undergraduate eng… | Engineering | 5 |
| ECE5883 | Advanced signal processing The unit introduces the fundamentals of statistical signal processing with emphasis on stochastic models, estimation theory, parametric and non-parametric modelling and least squares methods. After a review of basic probability and random p… | Engineering | 5 |
| ECE5884 | Wireless communications This unit introduces the fundamentals of wireless communications and networking. You will learn about the characteristics of wireless channels, modulation techniques, methods of combating fading including space, time and frequency diversity… | Engineering | 5 |
| ECF1100 | Microeconomics This unit provides you with an introduction to microeconomics. You will be given the tools to understand basic economic ideas and to apply their learning to analyse economic applications in everyday life. It begins with an introduction to s… | Business and Economics | 1 |
| ECF1200 | Macroeconomics This unit uses aggregate demand and supply analysis as a tool for identifying and explaining the business cycle, output growth employment, inflation and the current account deficit. The investigation will illustrate the impact of the macroe… | Business and Economics | 1 |
| ECF2331 | Macroeconomic policy This unit examines the scope for policy to improve macroeconomic performance. It will cover: the cyclical behaviour of the economy; the role of monetary, fiscal and exchange rate policies in influencing economic activities; the implementati… | Business and Economics | 2 |
| ECF2721 | Trade finance and foreign exchange This unit examines international finance and trade policies in an open economy. Topics include purchasing power parity, interest parity, the balance of payments, financial integration, and market models and their effects on trade and capita… | Business and Economics | 2 |
| ECF2731 | Managerial economics This unit will deepen your knowledge of the behaviour of the firm. You will apply economic tools to analyse production, cost and other managerial decisions in different market structures. The unit will help you understand different forms of… | Business and Economics | 2 |
| ECF3120 | Consumer economics This unit introduces economic principles underlying consumer choice and market demand; describing consumer preferences, indifference curves and budget constraints, with particular emphasis on the role of prices as conveyors of information.… | Business and Economics | 3 |
| ECF3121 | Economics of international trade This unit aims to deepen your understanding of globalisation with a particular focus on international trade. The unit begins by describing historical global patterns of international trade, investment and migration. It turns to the question… | Business and Economics | 3 |
| ECF3143 | Economics of money and banking This unit is designed to analyse the effect of money on the key economic variables such as interest rates, inflation, output and the workings of the banking sector. In addition, we'll also examine the roles commercial banks and the central… | Business and Economics | 3 |
| ECF3144 | Government spending, taxes and public debt Fiscal and public policies affect our lives in more than one way every day, through the provision of education and health services, taxes levied on consumption goods and income, welfare payments and the regulation of imperfect markets. This… | Business and Economics | 3 |
| ECF3800 | The wealth and poverty of nations Why are some countries so much richer, and why have some countries developed so much faster than others? This course investigates those questions, with a focus on emerging economies, both recent and in the past. We will seek to understand (… | Business and Economics | 3 |
| ECF3900 | Business, competition and regulation This unit examines market structures, conduct, and performance from a business perspective, as well as economic policy and its impact on business, particularly in relation to dealings with consumers. It also explores various approaches to c… | Business and Economics | 3 |
| ECI1100 | Microeconomics This unit provides you with an introduction to microeconomics. You will be given the tools to understand basic economic ideas and to apply their learning to analyse economic applications in everyday life. It begins with an introduction to s… | Business and Economics | 1 |
| ECI1200 | Macroeconomics This unit uses aggregate demand and supply analysis as a tool for identifying and explaining the business cycle, output growth employment, inflation and the current account deficit. The investigation will illustrate the impact of the macroe… | Business and Economics | 1 |
| ECI3550 | Business in Asia This unit focuses on the recent economic and social development of selected Asian economies, especially the role of the business sector. It explores the development state of selected Asian economies and the stages, causes and consequences o… | Business and Economics | 3 |
| ECM1953 | Principles of economics This unit explores: Microeconomics: scarcity, economic choice, economic systems, demand and supply analysis, elasticity, costs of production and profit-maximisation, perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition and oligopoly, and… | Business and Economics | 1 |
| ECM2361 | Environmental issues in economics This unit applies microeconomic theory to environmental problems, including air pollution and the over-exploitation of open access resources. It also discusses environmental valuation tools and policy options such as command and control and… | Business and Economics | 2 |
| ECM2642 | Southeast Asian economies and global business In view of the rapidly changing global economic and business environment, this unit offers a thought-provoking analysis of the Southeast Asian (ASEAN) economies by examining their integration with the global market. The region has experienc… | Business and Economics | 2 |
| ECM3140 | Technology, business and economy This unit examines how technological change drives economic growth and business transformation through key economic frameworks such as creative destruction and endogenous growth models. You will analyze the determinants of technological pro… | Business and Economics | 3 |
| ECM3670 | Transforming economies: Labour markets, institutions and development This unit focuses on broad topics, including industrialisation, sectoral shifts in employment, urbanisation, education and health in developing and middle income countries. You will acquire a deeper and more structured understanding of tren… | Business and Economics | 3 |
| ECO10005 | Economics for Business Decision Making This unit aims to provide students with an introduction to microeconomic and macroeconomic theories and how these are applied practices. It seeks to bridge the gap between theory and practice in the context of today’s changing technological… | Business | 1 |
| ECON1042 | Macroeconomics for Decision Making This course examines the workings of the macroeconomy as it applies to the wellbeing of individuals and businesses and how policy decisions can affect the different groups in society using real world data and problems. It explores how the d… | College of Business and Law | — |