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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

313597 v.1 Computer Systems Engineering Major

Introduction

Computers to most means laptops, desktop machines and the like. However, the largest number of computer systems by far are embedded systems where the computer acts to control another or provide it with sophisticated functionality. Once confined to areas such as microwave ovens and other consumer appliances, industrial machine and process control, instruments and so forth, now embedded systems are rapidly moving into other areas. Most modern automobiles for example, now include over 200 embedded systems for engine management, automatic braking and similar functions. There is also what is being referred to as the “Internet of things”; devices that in some way link to the Internet. This includes mobile phones, notebook computers and the like from a previous era, but is rapidly expanding to include radically new systems. Hence embedded engineering has become one of the fastest expanding professions in the world with strong demand in almost al the industrially advanced nations.

Course Structure Hrs/Wk Credit
Year 2 Semester 1
12706 v.3   Electrical Circuits 203 4.0 25.0
308768 v.1   Foundations of Digital Design 201 5.0 25.0
313670 v.1   Engineering Programming 210 4.0 25.0
314204 v.1   Mathematics 290 5.0 25.0
  100.0
Year 2 Semester 2
12711 v.5   Electromagnetic and Electromechanical Energy Conversion 200 5.0 25.0
308780 v.1   Signal and Systems 202 5.0 25.0
308781 v.1   Electronic Fundamentals 202 5.0 25.0
313690 v.1   Microcomputers 204 4.0 25.0
  100.0
Year 3 Semester 1
12855 v.4   Embedded Systems Engineering 301 4.0 25.0
308790 v.1   Foundations of Computer Engineering 301 5.0 25.0
308792 v.1   Real-Time Operating Systems 301 4.0 25.0
308798 v.1   Control Systems 301 4.0 25.0
  100.0
Year 3 Semester 2
12847 v.5   Data Communications and Networking 304 5.0 25.0
308791 v.2   Advanced Digital Design 320 5.0 25.0
308794 v.2   Embedded Software Engineering 302 5.0 25.0
  SELECT 1 OPTION   25.0
  100.0
Year 4 Semester 1
12838 v.4   Engineering Project 401 10.0 25.0
12856 v.3   Microprocessors 401 4.0 25.0
308793 v.2   Models of Computation 410 4.0 25.0
313672 v.2   Legal Framework and Sustainability in Electrical Engineering 400 4.0 25.0
  100.0
Year 4 Semester 2
12844 v.5   Engineering Project 402 5.0 25.0
12859 v.2   Computer Structures 402 5.0 25.0
310683 v.1   Engineering Management 302 4.0 25.0
  SELECT 1 OPTION   25.0
  100.0
Optional Units to Select from in Year 3 Semester 2 Hrs/Wk Credit
12834 v.4   Digital Signal Processing 304 5.0 25.0
308796 v.1   Electromagnetic Propagation 401 5.0 25.0
Optional Units to Select from in Year 4 Semester 2 Hrs/Wk Credit
12845 v.3   Communications Engineering 304 5.0 25.0
308787 v.1   Instrumentation and Control 402 5.0 25.0
313673 v.1   Introduction of Smart Grid Control 410 3.0 25.0