Engineering|Design|Responsible Innovation|Science and Technology Studies|Public Engagement

This module is the third part of a three-part minor, entitled, Engineering Design for Society. This part of the minor provides students with in-depth practical...

Responsible Design: Engineering Action (HPSC0143)

This module is the third part of a three-part minor, entitled, Engineering Design for Society. This part of the minor provides students with in-depth practical design and responsible innovation experience that is structured around the second half of the design cycle. Students will be tasked with prototyping and testing designs with external audiences.
This will deepen students’ understanding of responsibility, demonstrating that socially responsive design requires a continual process of reflection and engagement as projects move towards, and ultimately beyond, completion. The integration of responsible innovation principles and techniques with the engineering design cycle will enable these students to respond to engineering design challenges in creative ways sensitive to social context.  These students will not only change the world, but they will learn how to change the world for the better.
 

The course aims to read a variety of texts in the light of the colonial, anticolonial and postcolonial forces that shaped them: historical, political and...

Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures (ENGL0083)

This module provides greater depth and further insights into the fabrication, operational characteristics and underlying physics of electronic devices already...

Electronic Devices and Nanotechnology (ELEC0029)

This module provides greater depth and further insights into the fabrication, operational characteristics and underlying physics of electronic devices already introduced in first and second year courses. This module offers further study of fundamental semiconductor device physics, quantum mechanics, advanced technology and advanced devices, and emerging technologies such as III-V compound semiconductor heterostructures.


This course has the following aims:
• To learn silicon wafer technology, oxidation processes as well as micro-fabrication techniques.
• To learn doping and ion implantation, epitaxial growth of semiconductor films and metallisation.
• To understand basics of electronic states
• To learn basics of concepts/tools of quantum mechanics to describe electronic states and wave functions
• To learn the properties of III-V semiconductors both in bulk and at the nanoscale
• To investigate the design and fabrication of nanoscale electronic devices from these materials
• To appreciate the current state-of-the-art in performance with III-V semi-conductors and to speculate on materials and devices for ultimate nm-scale operation
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
• Describe how high grade silicon is fabricated from rare materials to wafer products.
• Answer to why silicon oxide make a good insulating material;
• Articulate semiconductor clearnroom processes and technologies and also other thin-film growth techniques.
• Describe the basic concepts of quantum mechanics and solve time-independent Schrodinger equations for simple potential profiles, hydrogen atom and operators/commutators
• Have clear understanding mobility, effective mass and other transport parameters connected to electronic structures.
• Describe the difference between Si semiconductor devices and III-V compound ones and demonstrate a basic understanding on the formation of III-V heterostructures such as HEMTs and their device operation and characteristics.
 