Electrical and Electronic Engineering for England pathway – HVGB4. This is the latest Higher Technical Qualification and “quality marked” by the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Qualification (IfATE)
The part time programme is scheduled to cover 4 units per year, each unit is worth 15 credits. 120 credits are required for the HNC. The 120 HNC credits are required as a pre-requisite for the HND which is a further 120 credits at level 5, the HND therefore requiring 240 credits in total. Full time programmes are delivered over one college year.
- Unit 4001 – Engineering Design
- Unit 4002 – Engineering Mathematics
- Unit 4004 – Managing a Professional Engineering Project
The remaining 5 “specialist” units are:
- Unit 4014 – Production Engineering for Manufacture
- Unit 4015 – Automation, Robotics and Programmable Logic Controllers (plc’s)
- Unit 4017 – Quality and Process Improvement
- Unit 4019 – Electrical and Electronic Principles
- Unit 4021 – Electrical Machines