Micro-Credential

Accounting and Finance for Managers

20

Office Hours & After Office Hours

This module consists of two parts.

• Accounting part elaborates how to interpret the Balance sheet, Income statement and cash flow statements and how to create management reports using different costing methods and performance measures.
• Finance part states how to value the different investment projects and valuation techniques of the firms

BM5218

Production and Operations Management

10

Office Hours

This module covers the following topics:

• Introduction of Operations Management
• Operations Performance
• Operations Strategy
• Process Design
• Process Technology and People in Operations
• Planning and control
• Capacity Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Inventory Management
• Operations Improvement
• Lean operations
• Quality Management

BM5313

Data Science for Business

10

Office Hours

This module covers the following topics:

• Data analytic thinking
• Data Science solutions to business problems
• Addressing customer churn with predictive modeling
• Logistic regression versus Tree induction
• Why is overfitting bad?
• Solving a business problem versus data exploration
• Visualizing model performance
• Analyzing data from social media
• Data-Driven Causal Explanation and Viral Marketing
• Data Science and Business Strategy

BM5312

Management Information Systems

10

Office Hours & After Office Hours

The module covers the following topics: Overview of MIS, Strategic Uses of Information Systems, Business functions and Supply Chains, Databases and Data warehouse, The Web-Enabled Enterprise, Challenges of Global Information Systems, State of the art Decision Support, Business Intelligence, Acquiring information systems for the various operations of business. Managing running business application in cloud infrastructure and protecting organizational information.

BM5213

Technopreneurship and Innovation

10

Office Hours & After Office Hours

Students taking the Technopreneurship and innovation module will expose to various issues related to starting up and running a business such as technopreneurship and business planning, new venture creation, intellectual property protection, technology evaluation and commercialization, developing new business models, technological innovation and design, Innovation strategy for new technology-based (NTB) SMEs, innovation process in NTB firms, new product development and creating value and growing ventures.

Cyber Physical Protection

15 CV

Office Hours

This module covers the following topics:

• Overview of Security and Privacy in CPS
• Network Security and Privacy for Cyber-Physical Systems
• Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems
• Cyber-Physical Systems and National Security Concerns
• Operational Security
• Legal Considerations of Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things
• Management of CPS
• Data Privacy Issues in Distributed Security Monitoring Systems
• Cyber Physical System Security Controls
• Security Challenges and concerns of IoT

Information Security Policies and Management

15 CV

Office Hours

This module covers the following topics:

• Introduction to security management – introduces the core concepts and definitions used in information security
• Standards – describe the role of standards in information security, e.g., ISO/IEC 27000 series
• Security controls – introduce and identify security measures taken to reduce security risks
• Security risk management – process of identifying security threats and plans to mitigate the threats, discuss the impact on the assets
• Legal - legal and regulatory aspects related to societies, data protection and legislation
• Internal control and audit – identify and evaluate the methods or processes in taking the correct steps to mitigate risks
• Incident management and disaster recovery
• Staff management – discuss the roles and how they play an important part in an organization
• Policy – Evaluate how policies help to shape the management of security in an organization
• Case studies - failures and successes in information security management

Data Analytics for Cybersecurity

15 CV

Office Hours

This module covers the following topics:

• Sensors and data collection techniques: Sensor in different domains (e.g., network, service) and data collection techniques (active and passive);
• Data processing for analysis: Approaches for collecting, storing and organizing data; Different tools for analyzing, visualisation and reporting; applied machine learning techniques for cybersecurity, Network forensic tools (e.g., tcpdump, NetFlow);
• Applied mathematical techniques: Provide mathematical techniques used to explore data using Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA); Examining traffic volume and traffic behavior;
• Data visualization and threat analysis: Extend and conversion of complex data into network and graph data to identify anomalies, significant hosts or aberrant behavior; Investigate unique problems involving insider threat data analysis; Threat intelligence supports analysis

Digital Forensics Lab

20 CV

Office Hours

This module covers the following topics:

• Browser History
• Email Forensics
• Hash Functions
• File Recovery
• Malicious Program Test
• Windows Forensics
• Acquisition and Duplication of Data
• Email Evidences
• Windows System Hives
• Recover Graphics Files
• Rebuild Header Data
• Bit shifting
• Installation of Tools and the use of these tools for recovery and countermeasures.

Managing Information Systems in Practice

20 CV

Office Hours

An overview of information systems and the underlying supporting IT infrastructure. The role of information systems to support organisational needs, and how information systems are essential for delving into business intelligence. It explores the strategic alignment of IS projects to organisational strategic direction. The fundamentals of project management such as scope, time and cost management are covered. A focus on risk management is included to ensure an understanding of business risk assessment in IS projects. Content on professional ethics and social issues will be covered to ensure an appreciation of professional integrity in managing IS projects and resources. The role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) will be discussed along with the impact of IT policy on managing information systems.

Intelligent System

20 CV

Office Hours

This module provides comprehensive coverage on the various concepts used in building intelligent systems. Topics include the followings: introduction to AI and intelligent agents, solving problems by searching, rule-based knowledge representation and reasoning, neural networks, and genetic algorithms.

Data Analytics and Visualisation

20 CV

Office Hours

The module covers the following topics: big data; spatial data; data analytics and patterns in data; computing tools & techniques for extracting patterns in data such as regression, classification, clustering and graphical models; visual perception and data visualisation; storytelling using various perceptual dimensions: quality, quantity, order, time series, space-time and geographic data; bring data to life using technologies such as HTML, SVG, and CSS; visualising static and dynamic data using plots, graphs, clusters, and animations; consent form, code of practice for data analysts.

Environmental Hydraulics

20

Office Hours

This module aims to equip students with knowledge to analyse transportation of pollutants in surface water using mathematical modelling.
This module covers the following topics:

• Molecular Diffusion: Definition of molecular diffusion; Fick’s Law and Einstein’s approach; 1D diffusion equation; General solution of the diffusion equation; Solution for line source, combining line sources; Limitations.
• Finite Difference solution of diffusion equation: Finite difference approach; Advantages and disadvantages; Formulation of finite difference form of the diffusion equation; Solution methods.
• 2D and 3D application of diffusion model: Expanding the diffusion equation to 2D and 3D; Solution to 2D and 3D equations; Interpreting units of solved equations; Plane, line and point sources; Solution for continuous discharge.
• Other forms of pollution transport: Turbulent advection and diffusion; Unified equation for advection; Turbulent advection; Diffusion; Sediment-water exchange.
• Longitudinal Dispersion: Dispersion in steady and unsteady flows; Solution for steady flows; Assumptions and solution for distributed sources and sinks; Limitations; Boundary reflection and absorption.
• Biodegradation of pollutants in Rivers: Definition of Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD); Dissolved Oxygen (DO); Oxygen Deficit; Streeter-Phelps equations; Longitudinal distribution of BOD & DO in river.
• Jets and Plumes: Wastewater outfalls; Dilution; Jets and plumes; Horizontal and vertical jets; Plume development and analysis.

Water Resources Engineering and Modelling

20

Office Hours

This module aims to equip students with knowledge of Water Resources Engineering to design various hydraulic structures for water resources development, flood control and irrigation.
This module covers the following topics:

• Integrated water resources management: Integrated approach to water management, source identification, demand assessment, watershed delineation, transboundary water problems, groundwater resource
• Water resource protection: Protection of water bodies, management with focus on climate change, water-saving technology
• Water supply: Drinking water supply, design of irrigation water supply with focus on cutting edge technologies
• Design of Hydraulic Structures: Design of components associated with multipurpose reservoir for water supply and hydropower
• Flood modelling: Flood modelling in 2D using software, model and design of drainage system
• Integrated water resources management: Integrated approach to water management, source identification, demand assessment, watershed delineation, transboundary water problems, groundwater resource

Construction Project Management

10

Office Hours

This module provides students with the skills and knowledge required to develop a management structure and relevant strategies to plan, manage and execute a construction project.
This module covers the following topics:

• Project management framework: Defining and identifying relationships between project, project management, programme management, and portfolio management; organisation structures and their influences on projects; project life cycle; project management processes; and project management knowledge areas.
• Project Selection and appraisal: Project selection criteria and procedure; project development issues and appraisals; and project success criteria and evaluation.
• Development and management of construction project: Inception stage: objectives, initial project brief and different roles. Feasibility stage: detailed project brief, site selection and acquisition, scheme design, technical study and market research, and funding and budgeting provision. Preconstruction Stage: selecting the project team, design management, planning and control mechanisms, permissions, detailed design and documentation, and tendering. Construction stage: project management plan (PMP), roles of project team members, supervision and project progress, commissioning and completion, handover, and post-construction review.
• Human resource strategies: Leadership: styles, traits, activities and role. Teamworking and motivation: models, types, styles, and stages. Project manager: role, activities, leadership and management.

Advanced Concrete Technology

10

Office Hours

This module aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding of concrete as a civil engineering material in the local and global context, including its importance and impacts on sustainability.
This module covers the following topics:

• Concrete and Constituent Materials: Introduction & Overview; Types and Properties of the Constituent Materials including cement, aggregates, and admixtures; Chemical interactions including hydration of aluminates and silicates; Physical interactions including transition zones.
• Concrete Properties: Fresh properties including rheology; Early age properties including curing; Long-term properties & performance including strength development, durability performance characteristics and dimensional stability; Cold weather concreting; Hot weather concreting.
• Production, Construction Process & Testing: Quality control; Fresh & hardened tests; Concrete repair & maintenance; Production methodologies; Principal construction methodologies; Concrete types for different applications; Reinforced and pre-stressed concrete.
• Sustainability & Advances in Concrete Technology: Alternative cements and concretes; Cement Replacement Materials; Aggregate alternatives; Recycled concrete; Sustainability issues including carbon footprint.

Advanced Geotechnics

20

Office Hours

This module aims to develop the conceptual understanding and analytical ability of students in order to develop solutions to a range of advanced geotechnical problems.
This module covers the following topics:

• Geotechnical analysis based on engineering plasticity: Upper and lower bound theorems; Stress discontinuities; Collapse load for drained and undrained conditions; Application of engineering plasticity to various field problems such as foundations with inclined loads, earth pressure coefficients for rough retaining walls, and walls with non-horizontal backfill.
• Behaviour of unsaturated soils: Occurrence; Distribution of air and water; Pore pressure and suction; Desaturation and water retention; Loading and unloading; Stability of unsaturated soil slope; Settlement of foundations on unsaturated soil.
• Ground improvement techniques: Problematic soils and conditions; Geotechnical problems and failures; Principles, design consideration and method - Shallow and deep compaction, deep replacement, Preloading and Geosynthetics; Case studies.

Sludge Management and Disposal

10

Office Hours

This module aims to develop students’ understanding of concepts of sludge management and enable them to plan and design sludge treatment systems. It also introduces methods of sludge disposal and reuse.
This module covers the following topics:

• Introduction: Solids and sludge sources, characteristics of sludge and quantities, regulations for the reuse and disposal of sludge.
• Sludge Thickening: Methods for sludge thickening such as gravity thickening, dissolved air floatation thickening, centrifugal thickening, gravity belt thickening, and rotary drum thickening; design of thickeners.
• Sludge Stabilisation: Methods for sludge stabilisation such as anaerobic digestion, aerobic digestion, chemical stabilisation, and thermal stabilisation, design of sludge stabilisation units.
• Further Sludge Processing, Disposal and Reuse: Sludge conditioning, sludge dewatering, composting, heat drying, thermal oxidation, recalcination, land application, landfilling.

Environmental Hazards and Disaster Management

10

Office Hours

The aim of this module is to introduce students to the causes and impacts of environmental hazards and equip them with the ability to apply measures for mitigating environmental hazards and disasters.
This module covers the following topics:

• Introduction: Common environmental hazards and disasters.
• Types, causes, impacts and mitigation measures of:
  • Hydro-meteorological Hazards: Floods, Gusts, Storms, Tornadoes.
  • Geophysical Hazards: Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Landslides, Erosion and accretion, Salinity intrusion.
  • Climatological Hazards: Sea level rise, Droughts, Wildfires.
• Disaster Management: Impact assessments; Planning for disasters, disaster prevention, preparedness, early warning, awareness building; Response to disasters.

Wireless and Mobile Communications

20

Office Hours

This module aims to equip students with advanced knowledge of wireless communication propagation theories and the design aspects of mobile communication infrastructure.
This module covers the following topics:

• Pass loss: Free space propagation, two-ray model, Okumura-Hata, Lognormal distribution, small- and large-scale fading models, outdoor and indoor fading models.
• Link budget analysis: Wireless propagation channel, propagation mechanisms, impact of fading, system noise floor.
• Diversity: Macroscopic, microscopic, space, frequency, polarisation, angle, combining methods, performance improvement.
• The design theory of mobile communication base station: RF/Microwave filter circuit model, coupling theory, microstrip filter design, Smiths chart, circuit matching theory, microstrip amplifier design; isotropic antenna, monopole and dipole antenna, microstrip antenna design.
• Cellular Design: Frequency re-use, cell shape, co-channel interference, design trade-off cell splitting and sectoring, traffic engineering.

Advanced Fibre Optic Communication

10

Office Hours

This module aims to equip students with advanced knowledge of fibre optic communication technologies, their applications, challenges and mitigation techniques for the current and the future demands.
This module covers the following topics:

• Technology evolution of the fibre optics communication: First to the latest generation fibre optic communication technologies and analysis.
• Ultra-long distance, ultra-high speed-capacity fibre characteristics: Non-linear fibre effects, self-phase modulation, cross-phase modulation, four wave mixing, stimulated Raman scattering, stimulated Brillouin scattering, chromatic dispersion, material dispersion, polarisation mode dispersion.
• Undersea Fibre Communication Systems: Configuration of a submarine fibre optic communication system, recent and emerging evolution, advanced technology for submarine fibre communication system powering, technologies for the mitigation of transmission impairments in ultra-long haul submarine fibre networks.
• Advances in fibre communication technologies for future capacity demands: Dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM), optical add-drop multiplexers (OADM), optical add-drop filters, optical cross connect, broadband optical amplifiers, Raman amplifier, optical cross connect, GPON, advanced modulation techniques.
• Wavelength-routing network design: Light-path topology design, routing and wavelength assignment, wavelength conversion.

Distributed Generation and Microgrid

10

Office Hours

This module aims to equip students with a comprehensive understanding of distributed generation (DG) technologies, microgrid systems, smart grids, electric vehicles, and their roles in the modern grid infrastructure.
This module covers the following topics:

• Distributed generations: Definition and concept of distributed generation (DG) and distributed energy system (DES), types of DG technologies, role of DG in modern power systems, role of DG and DES in sustainable development, advantages and challenges of DG integration, standards for interconnecting distributed resources to electric power systems, energy storage systems.
• Integration of distributed generation to grid: Concepts of microgrid, microgrid structure and configurations, interconnection of microgrids, technical and economic advantages of microgrid, challenges and disadvantages of microgrid, modes of operation of microgrid, power electronics interfaces in DC and AC microgrids, microgrid control strategies.
• Smart grid: Definitions and need for smart grid, opportunities, features and benefits of smart grids, smart grid architecture and functional layers, global initiatives and roadmaps (IEEE, IEC, NIST, CIGRE, etc.), advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, phasor measurement units (PMU) and wide area measurement systems (WAMS), demand side management (DSM) and demand response (DR).
• Electric vehicles: Evolution of electric mobility, global trends and policies driving electric vehicle (EV) adoption, benefits of EVs, challenges in EV deployment, types of EVs, EV charging technologies, impact of EVs on the grid, role of EVs in modern grids, optimisation and energy management of EV charging

Applied AI for Smart Systems

20

Office Hours

This module aims to equip students with applied artificial intelligence (AI) skills, particularly deep learning and generative AI for the design and development of smart systems.
This module covers the following topics:

• Foundations of applied AI: Overview of AI in engineering, role of deep learning in signal, image and speech processing, evolution from neural networks to transformers.
• Deep learning architectures: Convolution neural network (CNNs), recurrent neural network (RNNs), long short-term memory (LSTMs), gated recurrent unit (GRUs), transformers and attention mechanisms, multimodal learning.
• Generative AI and GPT models: Pre-training and fine-tuning paradigms, transfer learning for domain-specific tasks, generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) for natural language understanding, reasoning and code generation, prompt engineering, few-shot and zero-shot learning.
• Application development: AI for robotics, IoT and autonomous systems, AI-driven energy management and predictive maintenance, GPT-powered conversational agents and control interfaces, AI for embedded and edge systems.
• Engineering considerations: Model efficiency, optimisation and deployment, AI on field programmable gate array (FPGA), GPU and cloud platforms, ethics, bias and security in applied AI systems.

Composite Structures

10

Office Hours

This module provides the students with the means of evaluating and analyzing the mechanical properties of laminate composite for laminate composite design theoretically and using Finite element Analysis tools.
This module covers the following topics:

• The concepts of composite materials: classify and characterize composite materials. Determine the macro-mechanical and micro-mechanical properties.
• Composite Fabrication methods: Types of fabrication methods, selection of fabrication method.
• Mechanical properties of composites: stress-strain relations and compliance matrix of composite materials.
• Failure theories and selection of failure criteria: Maximum stress theory, Maximum strain theory, Tsai-wu theory, Tsai-hill theory, Hoffman’s criteria, Hashins criteria.
• Laminate structures: Forms of laminas to laminate, unidirectional laminates, cross-ply laminates, angle - ply laminates, symmetric laminates, antisymmetric, unsymmetric and quasi-isotropic.
• Lamination theories: Assumptions, lamina strains, lamina forces and moments, element in stiffness matrix.
• Finite element analysis on composite materials: Build models of composite structures for different applications using FEA software. Applying different loading conditions and analyzing the results.

Maintenance Management

15

Office Hours

To enable the student to understand the principles, functions and practices adopted in industry for the successful management of maintenance activities and be able to plan human and technological resources for maintenance projects.
This module covers the following topics:

• Introduction: Maintenance, need of maintenance management, policies, strategies and options in maintenance management. Maintenance forms/actions and their inter relationships, brief descriptions of various maintenance actions. Objectives of maintenance in terms of profitability, quality and safety.
• Different categories of maintenance: Corrective, preventive, predictive and proactive maintenance.
• Improving Maintenance strategies: Reliability centered maintenance (RCM) process to determine particular maintenance to be performed. Failure mode effects & criticality analysis (FMECA) and fault tree analysis (FTA) to identify root causes of failure models.
• Principles and Practices of Maintenance Planning: Basic principles of maintenance planning, objectives and principles of planned maintenance activity – Importance and benefits of sound Maintenance systems – Reliability and machine availability – Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF), Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) and Mean Time To Failure (MTTF) – Factors of availability – Maintenance organization – Maintenance economics.
• Maintenance Organizations: Prerequisites, factors determining effectiveness of a Maintenance organization, objectives of organization design, types of organization.
• Total productive maintenance (TPM) for the systematic elimination of the causes of equipment failure using a people-oriented approach to resolve problems at source.
• Design for maintainability: for maintenance to be carried out safely, without large investment in time, resources (labor, materials, tools, facilities, etc.), and with minimal impact on the environment.
• Maintenance project management: project planning tools, precedence diagrams, critical path networks and program evaluation & review technique (PERT). Project management for maintenance resource allocation and organization, need for multi-skilling, shutdown preparation and execution.

Advanced Heat and Mass Transfer

10

Office Hours

This module covers the following topics:

• Introduction: Differential formulation for heat and mass diffusions. Exact solution of two-dimensional heat diffusion problem using separation of variables, Fick’s law of diffusion.
• Convective Heat Transfer: Convective heat transfer in internal and external boundary layer flows, heat transfer by jets.
• Heat and Mass Transfer: Analogy between convective Heat and Mass Transfer, Convective Mass Transfer in Boundary layer flows, impingement heat transfer.
• Heat transfer with phase-change: Boiling and Leidenfrost problem, analytical model for freezing processes. Convective Mass Transfer, Distillation, impingement drying.

Energy and Environment

10

Office Hours

This module covers the following topics:

• Energy Generation: Conventional energy generation from fossil fuels, alternative energy generation from renewable energy resources, effective generation of energy, carbon capture and storage, types of renewable energy resources.
• Current Trends of Energy Generations, Consumption and Motivation: Global energy production and consumption, current policy and politics, global commitment to energy generation, global warming and climate change.
• Energy Hierarchy: Concept of energy use, energy efficiency and conservation measures and management, energy transition to alternative resources.
• Sustainability in Energy Generation: Impact of energy use on the environment (both conventional and renewable), Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), industrial energy efficiency policy and programs.

Engineering Optimization

10

Office Hours

This module covers the following topics:

• Introduction: General concepts; applications; decision/design variables (discrete, continuous); constraints; objective functions; convex; concave; unconstrained; constrained; linear; non-linear; deterministic; stochastic and metaheuristics.
• Optimisation Modelling & Algorithms: Constrained and unconstrained problem formulations stochastic and nature inspired algorithms; and their applications to numerical and mechanical engineering problems.
• Factorial Design: One-, two- and multiple-factor factorials; main, interaction and coefficient effects; analysis of variance; case studies.
• Taguchi Methods: Tolerance, system and parameter designs; orthogonal arrays; signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio; analysis of variance; optimisation (minimisation, maximisation and target objective functions); case studies.
• Response Surface Methodology: Central composite design (CCD); Box-Behnken design (BBD); small composite design (SCD); problem formulation; data transformation; analysis of variance; optimisation by desirability function; case studies.

Conflict Resolution and Mediation

10

Office Hours

The module aims to equip students to understand the theoretical perspectives on application of coaching and mediation in conflict resolution. The module also It helps students to develop skills in coaching, mediating, and facilitating informed decisions and consensus building.
The module covers the following topics:

• Introduction to conflict resolution
• Conflict prevention approaches and strategies
• Coaching in conflict management
• Conflict transformation
• Conflicts at other levels, such as the role of different stakeholders in conflict and its transformation
• Conflict mediation management

LC5220

Advanced Public Relations: Perspectives and Applications

10

Office Hours

This module aims to explore public relations (PR) in its varied perspectives and potential applications. It espouses a holistic approach in conveying the ethical, empirical, and critical dimensions of public relations to practitioners and the public.
This module covers the following topics:

• Public relations: Components, functions, and benefits
• Approaches and communicative perspectives in public relations
• Relational interaction and management in public relations
• Emerging public relations practices, linkages, and opportunities
• Issues and challenges in public relations
• Critical applications: Operational contexts of public relation