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Programme code | 4EMAT003T |
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Programme type | Postgraduate Taught Degree |
Programme director(s) |
Luca Giuggioli Senior Lecturer
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Faculty | Faculty of Engineering |
School/department | School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology |
Teaching institution | University of Bristol |
Awarding institution | University of Bristol |
Accrediting types: |
Accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) on behalf of the Engineering Council as meeting the requirements for Further Learning for registration as a Chartered Engineer. Candidates must hold a CEng accredited BEng/BSc (Hons) undergraduate first degree to comply with full CEng registration requirements. (http://www.theiet.org/) |
Relevant QAA subject benchmark groups | Engineering (2023) (benchmark statement) |
Mode of study | Full or Part Time |
Programme length |
1 years (full time)
2 years (part time) |
This section sets out why studying this programme is important, both in terms of inspiring you as an individual and in considering the challenges we face. It describes how this degree programme contributes to:
This programme aims to provide participants with general scientific skills to develop mathematical, computational and statistical tools to analyze large dataset, to model natural and man-made processes, and to provide quantitative predictions and forecasting for real-world problems across the industrial, government and service sectors.
The learning outcome statements shown below for your programme have been developed with reference to relevant national subject benchmarks (where they exist), national qualification descriptors (see the Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) and professional body requirements.
Teaching, learning and assessment strategies are listed to show how you will be able to achieve and demonstrate the learning outcomes.
This programme provides opportunities for you to develop and demonstrate knowledge and understanding, qualities, skills and other attributes in the following areas:
Programme Intended Learning Outcomes | Learning/teaching methods and strategies |
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Lectures, independent learning, and on-on-one supervisor/student meetings. |
Methods of assessment (formative and summative) | |
Formative assessment via in class tests and exercise sheet. Summative assessment via exams and coursework. |
Programme Intended Learning Outcomes | Learning/teaching methods and strategies |
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Lectures, independent learning, and on-on-one supervisor/student meetings. |
Methods of assessment (formative and summative) | |
Formative assessment via in class tests and exercise sheet. Summative assessment via exams and coursework. |
Programme Intended Learning Outcomes | Learning/teaching methods and strategies |
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Lectures, independent learning, and coursework requiring teamwork. |
Methods of assessment (formative and summative) | |
Formative assessment via in class tests, unmarked coursework and team work. Summative assessment in exams and those units requiring project write-up and the final technical project. |
This section describes what is expected from you at each level of your programme. This illustrates increasing intellectual standards as you progress through the programme. These levels are mapped against the national level descriptors published by the Quality Assurance Agency.
Level M/7 - Postgraduate Masters |
This Masters level programme requires that students undertake a major research project. Much of the study undertaken at Masters level will be at, or informed by, the forefront of an academic or professional discipline. Students will have shown originality in the application of knowledge, and will understand how the boundaries of knowledge are advanced through research. They will be able to deal with complex issues both systematically and creatively, and they will show originality in tackling and solving problems. Students who do not complete the Postgraduate Masters but who have accumulated taught credits will be considered for a Postgraduate Certificate or Postgraduate Diploma as an exit award. |
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For information on the admissions requirements for this programme please see details in the postgraduate prospectus at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/prospectus/postgraduate/ or contact the relevant academic department.
The Departmental Web Page: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/departments/engineering-mathematics/
Postgraduate admissions
Department of Engineering Mathematics
University of Bristol
Merchant Venturers Building
Woodland Road
Bristol
BS8 1UB
United Kingdom
Students must meet with the Programme Director in order to establish which study pattern they should follow, according to their academic and industry background. Elective units are available subject to timetabling constraints.
Mandatory Unit EMATM0038 is must pass. For the definition of must pass units please see the Glossary of Terms from Annex 1 to the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
Unit Name | Unit Code | Credit Points | Status | |
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Mathematical and Data Modelling | EMATM0037 | 10 | Mandatory | TB-2 |
Research Skills | EMATM0036 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-4 |
Research Project | EMATM0038 | 60 | Mandatory | AYEAR |
Prescribed, preliminary units: | ||||
All students must complete 30 credits of prescribed preliminary units (each preliminary units is worth 10 credits). Preliminary units are grouped by ‘strand’ depending on your study background and/or industrial experience. The three strands are presented based on the most common prior learning experience of students and consist of the following suggestions. Students with a Mathematical and Statistical background are encouraged to complete EMATM0044, EMAT20920 or EMAT30008, and EMAT30670. Students with an Engineering background are encouraged to complete EMAT30007, EMAT30012 or EMAT33100 or EMAT30010, and EMATM0044 or EMAT30670. Students with a Computational Science background are encouraged to complete EMAT30012, EMAT30010 or EMATM33100, and EMAT20920 or EMAT30008 or EMAT30007. Preliminary choices mixing units from different strand or with alternate choices within each strand are also possible. | ||||
Numerical Methods in Matlab | EMAT20920 | 10 | Optional | TB-1 |
Applied Statistics | EMAT30007 | 10 | Optional | TB-2 |
Scientific Computing | EMAT30008 | 10 | Optional | TB-2 |
Partial Differential Equations | EMAT30010 | 10 | Optional | TB-2 |
Engineering Mathematics III | EMAT30012 | 10 | Optional | TB-1 |
Control Theory | EMAT30014 | 10 | Optional | TB-2 |
Optimisation Theory and Applications | EMAT30670 | 10 | Optional | TB-1 |
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos | EMAT33100 | 10 | Optional | TB-1 |
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence | EMATM0044 | 10 | Optional | TB-2 |
All students must choose at least 30 M-level credits from the following, LIST A | ||||
Advanced Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos | EMATM0001 | 10 | Optional | TB-2 |
Computational Genomics and Bioinformatics Algorithms | EMATM0004 | 10 | Optional | TB-2 |
Mathematical Modelling in Physiology and Medicine | EMATM0007 | 10 | Optional | TB-1 |
Transport and Mobility Modelling | EMATM0021 | 10 | Optional | TB-1 |
Mathematics of Movement | EMATM0064 | 10 | Optional | TB-1 |
Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence | EMATM0029 | 10 | Optional | TB-2 |
Intelligent Information Systems | EMATM0042 | 10 | Optional | TB-2 |
Robotics Systems | EMATM0054 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Uncertainty Modelling for Intelligent Systems | EMATM1120 | 10 | Optional | TB-1 |
All students may choose up to 30 M-level credits from the following, LIST B | ||||
Advanced Space Systems | AENGM2400 | 10 | Optional | TB-2 |
Infrastructure Systems Management | CENGM0072 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 |
Learning, Computation and the Brain | COMSM0094 | 10 | Optional | TB-1 |
Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise | INOVM0015 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Modern Mathematical Biology | MATHM0014 | 10 | Optional | TB-2D |
Complex Networks 4 | MATHM6201 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 |
Advanced Topics in Mechanical Engineering | MENGM0059 | 20 | Optional | TB-4 |
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The pass mark set by the University for any level 7(M) unit is 50 out of 100.
For detailed rules on progression please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes and the relevant faculty handbook.
All taught masters programmes, unless exempted by Senate, must allow the opportunity for students to exit from the programme with a postgraduate diploma or certificate.
To be awarded a postgraduate diploma, students must have successfully completed 120 credit points, of which 90 must be at level M/7.
To be awarded a postgraduate certificate, students must have successfully completed 60 credit points, of which 40 must be at level M/7.
An award with Merit or Distinction is permitted for postgraduate taught masters, diplomas and certificates, where these are specifically named entry-level qualifications. An award with Merit or Distinction is not permitted for exit awards where students are required to exit the programme on academic grounds but is permitted in designated programmes (as set out in the programme specification) where students choose to withdraw from the intended programme but otherwise achieve the necessary credit points for the exit award.
The classification of the award in relation to the final programme mark is as follows:
Award with Distinction*: at least 65 out of 100 for the taught component overall and, for masters awards, at least 70 out of 100 for the dissertation. **Faculties retain discretion to increase these thresholds.
Award with Merit*: at least 60 out of 100 for the taught component overall and, for masters awards, at least 60 out of 100 for the dissertation. Faculties retain discretion to increase these thresholds.
* The MA in Law has separate regulations for awarding distinction and merit.
** For the award of Distinction, the Faculty of Engineering requires at least 70 out of 100 for the taught component overall and, for masters awards, at least 70 out of 100 for the dissertation.
All taught masters programmes, unless exempted by Senate, must allow the opportunity for students to choose, or be required, to leave at the postgraduate diploma or certificate stage.
To be awarded a postgraduate diploma, students must have successfully completed 120 credit points, of which 90 must be at level M/7.
To be awarded a postgraduate certificate, students must have successfully completed 60 credit points, of which 40 must be at level M/7.
Progression to the dissertation stage is normally only permitted on the satisfactory completion of the taught component
Unit Name | Unit Code | Credit Points | Status | |
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Selection of all preliminary units (30CP total) depending on your undergraduate study background and/or industrial experience and 30CP of the M-level optional units. All unit choices must be agreed in advance with the Programme Director, prior to unit selection deadlines. | ||||
120 |
Unit Name | Unit Code | Credit Points | Status | |
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Research Skills | EMATM0036 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-4 |
Mathematical and Data Modelling | EMATM0037 | 10 | Mandatory | TB-2 |
Research Project | EMATM0038 | 60 | Mandatory | AYEAR |
Plus 30 CP selection of the remaining M-level optional units in TB1 and TB2. All unit choices must be agreed in advance with the Programme Director, prior to unit selection deadlines. | ||||
120 |
The pass mark set by the University for any level 7(M) unit is 50 out of 100.
For detailed rules on progression please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes and the relevant faculty handbook.
All taught masters programmes, unless exempted by Senate, must allow the opportunity for students to exit from the programme with a postgraduate diploma or certificate.
To be awarded a postgraduate diploma, students must have successfully completed 120 credit points, of which 90 must be at level M/7.
To be awarded a postgraduate certificate, students must have successfully completed 60 credit points, of which 40 must be at level M/7.
An award with Merit or Distinction is permitted for postgraduate taught masters, diplomas and certificates, where these are specifically named entry-level qualifications. An award with Merit or Distinction is not permitted for exit awards where students are required to exit the programme on academic grounds but is permitted in designated programmes (as set out in the programme specification) where students choose to withdraw from the intended programme but otherwise achieve the necessary credit points for the exit award.
The classification of the award in relation to the final programme mark is as follows:
Award with Distinction*: at least 65 out of 100 for the taught component overall and, for masters awards, at least 70 out of 100 for the dissertation. **Faculties retain discretion to increase these thresholds.
Award with Merit*: at least 60 out of 100 for the taught component overall and, for masters awards, at least 60 out of 100 for the dissertation. Faculties retain discretion to increase these thresholds.
* The MA in Law has separate regulations for awarding distinction and merit.
** For the award of Distinction, the Faculty of Engineering requires at least 70 out of 100 for the taught component overall and, for masters awards, at least 70 out of 100 for the dissertation.
All taught masters programmes, unless exempted by Senate, must allow the opportunity for students to choose, or be required, to leave at the postgraduate diploma or certificate stage.
To be awarded a postgraduate diploma, students must have successfully completed 120 credit points, of which 90 must be at level M/7.
To be awarded a postgraduate certificate, students must have successfully completed 60 credit points, of which 40 must be at level M/7.
Please note: This specification provides a concise summary of the main features of the programme and the learning outcomes that a typical student might reasonably be expected to achieve and demonstrate if he/she takes full advantage of the learning opportunities that are provided.
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