Handbook

Systems modelling and simulation are important tools for understanding, designing, and improving systems in many fields including electrical engineering. By developing mathematical models and running them on a computer, you can predict the behaviour of the system and its performance in various situations, without needing physical prototypes. By simulating different scenarios and conditions, you can identify any flaws, inefficiencies, or risks in the design. You are also able to explore different design options, compare their outcomes, and optimise performance.  Overall, systems modelling, and simulation methods are powerful tools to gain insights, improve designs, reduce costs, and ensure the reliability and performance of systems before they are built and deployed in the real world. They are core elements of the modern engineering workflow.

This course is a design-oriented course, in which you will carry out a practical system design. The design will be supported by relevant theory and practical proficiency gained earlier in the course.

The syllabus includes topics such as analogue and discrete-time systems, analogue filters, basic digital filters, concepts of time and frequency responses, differential equations, simulation and modelling techniques, state-space representations, and the use of state-of-the-art computer simulation/modelling tools for designing analogue/discrete-time systems..