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This course is designed to instil in the student practical understanding and capability in a range of laboratory activities relevant for future ultrasonic engineering. Each student will select from a range of laboratory experiments which they will carry out and formally report on. The class will be provided with support to make the choice of experiments.

Bespoke timetable to allow all students carrying out all laboratory work (4 hr/experiment) to access necessary equipment.

Mandatory Entry Requirements

None

Recommended Entry Requirements

None

None

Ultrasonic Engineering Technology and Applications

The summative assessment will comprise 100% laboratory reports.

The aims of this course are to:

■ Provide students with knowledge of a range of equipment used in contemporary ultrasonic engineering research laboratories and the opportunity to acquire general scientific skills and experimental techniques;

■ Provide students with practice in relating procedures described in the research literature to similar but not identical practical laboratory work;

■ Provide students with the skills to carry out a range of procedures in ultrasonic engineering and to interpret the results according to established best practice.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ Select different forms of software, consumables and equipment that will be used in future ultrasonic engineering and relate these to descriptions of procedures in the ultrasonics engineering research literature;

■ Operate ultrasonic engineering software and equipment and use it to carry out experiments to produce data for later interpretation;

■ Evaluate the safety of experimental techniques and complete a risk assessment relating to the use of contemporary ultrasonic engineering equipment, including items such as laser Doppler vibrometers, power amplifiers, high voltage power supplies, positioning systems, ultrasonic transducers, and fabrication consumables and equipment.

■ Design sets of experiments to test a hypothesis using predictions of results to construct the tests.

■ Evaluate data generated by laboratory equipment of relevance to future ultrasonic engineering, including specialised forms of interpretation, and to present information from the data in a coherent report with relevant conclusions.

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components of the course's summative assessment.