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Mechanical, Robotics & Multi-Scale Systems

Where tolerance, thermal drift and metrology decide whether a mechanism works at all.

Scale 10^-6 m to 10^0 m

Can draw a free-body diagram for a real assembly and derive its governing equations. · Solid mechanics: stress, strain, failure criteria, and which criterion applies to which material. · Has run a finite element analysis and carried out a mesh convergence study on it. · CAD to the level of producing a manufacturable part, not just a picture. + 5 more

Computer Science, AI & Scientific Computing

How the department applies machine learning to science, and the evidence standard that applies to all of it.

Scale 10^-100 m to 10^100 m

Fluent in Python, and able to write code somebody else can read, test and extend. · Data structures and algorithms to the level of choosing correctly and justifying the choice. · Comfortable on Linux, and with Git as a working tool rather than a save button. · Has written tests for numerical code and can explain what a tolerance in a test means. + 6 more

Semiconductors, Electronics & Micro/Nano Systems

The division's technical direction and the hardest problems between a model and a manufacturable part.

Scale 10^-6 m to 10^-3 m

Can derive or explain the current-voltage characteristic of a diode or a MOSFET from device physics. · Has simulated a circuit in SPICE and compared the result against a hand calculation. · Semiconductor physics: carriers, doping, band structure, junctions. · Can read a datasheet and identify the conditions a specification was measured under. + 5 more

Computer Science, AI & Scientific Computing

Taking a working research script and turning it into a tested, documented package somebody else can install.

Scale 10^-100 m to 10^100 m

Fluent in Python, and able to write code somebody else can read, test and extend. · Data structures and algorithms to the level of choosing correctly and justifying the choice. · Comfortable on Linux, and with Git as a working tool rather than a save button. · Has written tests for numerical code and can explain what a tolerance in a test means. + 6 more

Mechanical, Robotics & Multi-Scale Systems

Robotic systems built and tested, including the failure behaviour rather than only the nominal one.

Scale 10^-3 m to 10^3 m

Can draw a free-body diagram for a real assembly and derive its governing equations. · Solid mechanics: stress, strain, failure criteria, and which criterion applies to which material. · Has run a finite element analysis and carried out a mesh convergence study on it. · CAD to the level of producing a manufacturable part, not just a picture. + 6 more

Mechanical, Robotics & Multi-Scale Systems

A robotic subsystem modelled and controlled in simulation, with the controller's limits characterised.

Scale 10^-3 m to 10^3 m

Can draw a free-body diagram for a real assembly and derive its governing equations. · Solid mechanics: stress, strain, failure criteria, and which criterion applies to which material. · Has run a finite element analysis and carried out a mesh convergence study on it. · CAD to the level of producing a manufacturable part, not just a picture. + 4 more

Computer Science, AI & Scientific Computing

One numerical method implemented, tested against an analytic case, and profiled.

Scale 10^-100 m to 10^100 m

Fluent in Python, and able to write code somebody else can read, test and extend. · Data structures and algorithms to the level of choosing correctly and justifying the choice. · Comfortable on Linux, and with Git as a working tool rather than a save button. · Has written tests for numerical code and can explain what a tolerance in a test means. + 6 more

Computer Science, AI & Scientific Computing

Research software built to survive handover: tested, documented, and maintained.

Scale 10^-100 m to 10^100 m

Fluent in Python, and able to write code somebody else can read, test and extend. · Data structures and algorithms to the level of choosing correctly and justifying the choice. · Comfortable on Linux, and with Git as a working tool rather than a save button. · Has written tests for numerical code and can explain what a tolerance in a test means. + 6 more

Semiconductors, Electronics & Micro/Nano Systems

What this division builds, who builds it, and the rule that simulated and fabricated are never conflated.

Scale 10^-6 m to 10^-3 m

Can derive or explain the current-voltage characteristic of a diode or a MOSFET from device physics. · Has simulated a circuit in SPICE and compared the result against a hand calculation. · Semiconductor physics: carriers, doping, band structure, junctions. · Can read a datasheet and identify the conditions a specification was measured under. + 5 more

Computer Science, AI & Scientific Computing

Several divisions' computational needs at once, and the engineering standard applied across them.

Scale 10^-100 m to 10^100 m

Fluent in Python, and able to write code somebody else can read, test and extend. · Data structures and algorithms to the level of choosing correctly and justifying the choice. · Comfortable on Linux, and with Git as a working tool rather than a save button. · Has written tests for numerical code and can explain what a tolerance in a test means. + 6 more

Semiconductors, Electronics & Micro/Nano Systems

Several device programmes at once, and the specification discipline applied across them.

Scale 10^-6 m to 10^-3 m

Can derive or explain the current-voltage characteristic of a diode or a MOSFET from device physics. · Has simulated a circuit in SPICE and compared the result against a hand calculation. · Semiconductor physics: carriers, doping, band structure, junctions. · Can read a datasheet and identify the conditions a specification was measured under. + 5 more

Semiconductors, Electronics & Micro/Nano Systems

The device as built: characterisation, failure analysis, and why measured differs from simulated.

Scale 10^-6 m to 10^-3 m

Can derive or explain the current-voltage characteristic of a diode or a MOSFET from device physics. · Has simulated a circuit in SPICE and compared the result against a hand calculation. · Semiconductor physics: carriers, doping, band structure, junctions. · Can read a datasheet and identify the conditions a specification was measured under. + 5 more

Semiconductors, Electronics & Micro/Nano Systems

A circuit designed to a written specification, simulated, and checked by hand calculation.

Scale 10^-6 m to 10^-3 m

Can derive or explain the current-voltage characteristic of a diode or a MOSFET from device physics. · Has simulated a circuit in SPICE and compared the result against a hand calculation. · Semiconductor physics: carriers, doping, band structure, junctions. · Can read a datasheet and identify the conditions a specification was measured under. + 5 more

Materials & Advanced Matter

Materials selected and specified against an engineering requirement another division has stated.

Scale 10^-10 m to 10^0 m

Can relate a crystal structure to at least one measurable property and explain the mechanism. · Reads a phase diagram and can say what happens on cooling through a boundary. · Has analysed real characterisation data — diffraction, microscopy or mechanical testing — and stated its uncertainty. · Python for data analysis over a materials dataset. + 4 more

Semiconductors, Electronics & Micro/Nano Systems

A micromechanical structure modelled in FEM, with its resonance compared against an analytic estimate.

Scale 10^-6 m to 10^-3 m

Can derive or explain the current-voltage characteristic of a diode or a MOSFET from device physics. · Has simulated a circuit in SPICE and compared the result against a hand calculation. · Semiconductor physics: carriers, doping, band structure, junctions. · Can read a datasheet and identify the conditions a specification was measured under. + 5 more

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

Nanoscale designs taken from a target to something a partner facility could attempt.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

One nanoscale design question modelled and written up with its fabrication tolerances.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

A sensing mechanism modelled to its noise floor, with the limit of detection derived rather than asserted.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

How a nanoscale component behaves once it is part of something a person can hold.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-3 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Semiconductors, Electronics & Micro/Nano Systems

Electronics at the scale where interfaces and contacts dominate the electrical behaviour.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can derive or explain the current-voltage characteristic of a diode or a MOSFET from device physics. · Has simulated a circuit in SPICE and compared the result against a hand calculation. · Semiconductor physics: carriers, doping, band structure, junctions. · Can read a datasheet and identify the conditions a specification was measured under. + 5 more

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

A nanoscale device modelled electrically, with the contact and interface effects included rather than idealised away.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

Analysing characterisation data for a nanomaterial and stating what the data does and does not establish.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

An optical nanostructure simulated and its spectral response compared against an analytic limit.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

A literature-grounded review of one nanomaterial class, separating what has been made repeatably from what has been made once.

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more