Course description
BTEC Level 3 National Foundation/Extended Diploma in Electrical/Electronic Engineering -B3FNEF
This course is equivalent in size to three A Levels. It has 15 units of which 7 are mandatory and 3 are externally assessed. All units must be passed to achieve the qualification.
Mandatory units
- Engineering Principles (External Examination)
- Delivery of Engineering Processes Safely as a Team (Internal Assessment)
- Engineering Product Design and Manufacture (External Assessment)
- Applied Commercial and Quality Principles in Engineering (Internal Assessment)
- A Specialist Engineering Project (Internal Assessment)
- Microcontroller Systems for Engineers (External Assessment)
- Calculus to Solve Engineering Problems (Internal Assessment)
Optional Units - Further Engineering Mathematics (Internal Assessment)
- Electrical Machines (Internal Assessment)
- Electrical Power Distribution and Transmission (Internal Assessment)
- Electronic Devices and Circuits (Internal Assessment)
- Analogue Electronic Circuits (Internal Assessment)
- Digital and Analogue Electronic Systems (Internal Assessment)
- Static Mechanical Principles in Practice (Internal Assessment)
- Programmable Logic Controllers
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This course is for students who are interested in a career in Electrical/ Electronic Engineering.
- Entry requirements
GCSE grades 4-9 in five subjects including Mathematics, Science, English Language and 2 of the following - Design Technology, Business and ICT.
Or BTEC Level 2 First Extended Certificate in Engineering with overall MM, and merit in Unit 10 Mathematics for Engineering, with GCSE grades 4-9 in Mathematics.
And a good academic reference or school report.
Course delivery details
Units 1, 3 and 6 will be assessed externally by the awarding body (Pearson). The remaining units will be assessed internally by course assignments and tests.
Continuing Studies
After successful completion of this course you may transfer onto the BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in Electrical/ Electronic Engineering and then you may go to into higher education, or an apprenticeship.
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