Curriculum Information

Databases

Understand basic database concepts, including:

• information storage and retrieval;
• data capture and representation, and
• searching, retrieving, linking, and navigating data in databases

Understand database design concepts, including:
• components of database systems;
• design of core DBMS functions (e.g. query mechanisms, access methods), and
• database architecture and query language.

Implement a database solution using industry standard database
technologies

Data and analytics

Have gained an appreciation of the strategic importance of data
analytics for decision making.
Understand how to apply quantitative analytical techniques to make
business recommendations from data.

Cyber security

Understand the potential cyber security threats to engineering
systems, controls, and products
Understand the need to protect significant engineering installations
and the potential impact on maintaining secure control of physical
processes that relate to infrastructure including power, transport,water, and other systems.
Understand the need to carefully manage IT operating system patching
and updates, in engineering systems, including automatic updates that
may cause systems to restart or shut down.
Be able to perform a risk assessment on a typical engineering system
assessing the range of potential threats, including malware, hacking,
unauthorised access to systems and data etc.