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EE4011: OPTICAL SYSTEMS AND SENSING (2024-2025)

Last modified: 11 Jul 2025 14:16


Course Overview

COURSE AIMS

  • To introduce the fundamental concepts of laser and optoelectronic sensors and optical systems and sensing within a context of engineering.
  • To demonstrate the broad ranging nature of optical engineering systems and their application in sensing and measurement; and to show their relevance and importance across many branches of engineering and pure & applied sciences.
  • To describe a range of sensing and system applications in industry and science though the mechanism of selected case studies.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 4
Term First Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr K Nakkeeran

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • One of EE1501 Electronics Design (Passed) or EE3053 Signals, Systems & Signal Processing (Passed) or EG3007 Engineering Analysis and Methods 1a (Passed)
  • One of Bachelor of Engineering in Eng (Mech with Oil & Gas Studies) or Bachelor of Engineering in Eng (Electrical and Electronic) or () or Master of Engineering in Electrical & Electronic Engineering or Master Of Engineering In Electronic & Software Engineering or Bachelor Of Engineering In Engineering Electronic & Software or Master Of Engineering In Elec & Electronic Eng W Renewabl En or Meng Electrical And Electronic Engineering With Robotics or Bachelor of Engineering in Eng (Mechanical and Electrical) or Master of Engineering in Mechanical & Electrical Eng
  • Any Undergraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course covers a systems approach to the study of lasers and optoelectronics and their application to problems in engineering. Although aimed primarily at electrical and electronic engineers, the course should also appeal to mechanical and civil engineers, chemical engineers and physicists and chemists who have some experience of electronic properties of materials, analogue and digital electronics, and optics. The course covers introductory concepts of optical engineering; nature and origins of light; amplification of light and laser action; solid state, gas, and semiconductor lasers; laser design; light detection; imaging detectors; radiometry and light coupling; a selection of industrial applications such as optical communications, optical fibre sensing, holography and materials processing will be covered in a series of case studies.


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 31 August 2025 for 1st Term courses and 19 December 2025 for 2nd Term courses.

Summative Assessments

Design Project: Individual

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 30
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Design Project that involves a transmission system design/simulation work as well as App development. Students will develop the App in MATLAB and the code has to be uploaded as the assignment submission, including a signed plagiarism sheet via the respective MyAberdeen link. Handwritten and scanned submissions will not be graded.
Learning Outcomes
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Exam

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 70
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Campus-based invigilated final exam
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Formative Assessment

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Resit Assessments

Resit failed element in same format

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The re-sit will comprise of re-doing the failed assessment from the first attempt. The marks for other successfully passed assessments will be carried over.
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Course Learning Outcomes

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