Hello I'm Nick and I'm here to take you on a tour
of our Electrical and Electronic Engineering facilities
but I thought we should start off outside our great Students Union
Our campus is perfectly situated less than two minutes walk
from Newcastle's city centre
where you'll find everything a big city has to offer
Newcastle has a beautiful campus
with plenty of green spaces and a blend of old and modern architecture
These are the iconic Arches that you see
in lots of photographs of the university
they're one of the oldest parts of the campus
Welcome to Merz Court
this is where you'll have most of your lectures, practical sessions
and where our lecturers' offices are based
I'll take you on a tour of our facilities
This is a our largest lab space for our entire cohort
it even extends further for 3rd year and postgraduate projects
This is where we spend most of our time in practical learning
There are 60 separate benches in here
each with their own individual PCs and test equipment
including waveform generators and oscilloscopes
allowing for digital testing to be captured in real-time
Each bench in the lab has certified solder and fume extraction
and the latest in circuit programming of microchip and FGPA boards
The university is constantly updating the equipment
in the Electronics Teaching Lab
to ensure it remains state of the art
It benefits from a large number of bespoke experiments
tailored to the exact subject fields we are learning about
The entire Stage 1 lab is all practical, hands-on design
and construction experiments
giving us the practical experience in electronic design
The PCs have the latest PCB design and CAD software
which is used to take your design from prototype to final testing
reproducing the way circuits are prototyped in industry
it is available all day five days a week for drop-in
allowing flexibility of work
The lab has a brilliant technical team that keep it running smoothly
additionally if your project is having some hiccups
you can't quite figure out, support is always available
and you can quite often return outside of your lab time
to get help from one of the technical staff
In this room there is a large stock of electronic components
that you may need for your projects
You can help yourself to resistors, capacitors and wires
from the student store area
plus there is a large and more comprehensive store
which benefits from an online catalogue
where the technical staff will be on hand
to be able to give advice on choosing
the best components for your project
This is a typical lecture theatre in Merz Court
but some of our lectures can be based in other buildings on campus
Each lecture is also recorded using a programme called ReCap
where you'll be able to go over any lectures if you have missed something
This is the Buttery - it is a staff and student cafe
Being a member of our core society gets you
free coffee every Thursday
This is the downstairs Common Room
this is where we chill between lectures and have lunch
Our computer cluster for Electrical and Electronic Engineering
has 116 workstations and a lecture area for mixed-mode teaching
Reception is the hub of the building
it's where we go to hand in our essays or coursework
and collect our marked work
it's also where you can go if you have any questions
This is the Electrical Power Teaching lab
The university recently invested over £250,000
in a state of the art training laboratory for electrical power
renewable energy and motor-control systems
The Electrical Power teaching Lab has been equipped
with a range of Lucas-Newell test rigs
for students to develop skills in renewable energy generation
The test benches are used to simulate a wide-range of scenarios
engineers face in the renewable energies industry
This lab is used for practical demonstrations
which work alongside theory taught in lectures
in addition to student projects
When doing labs lecturers are on-hand
to help you with anything that might get a bit confusing
alongside the lecturers are a team of postgraduate students too
so there is always plenty of support
I hope you've enjoyed our tour
of our amazing Electrical and Electronic Engineering facilities
Goodbye!