Open University Courses

1994        S103 Science foundation now updated to S103   covers the Sciences: Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Earth Sciences.

1995        ST240 Our Chemical Environment
               The course concentrates on materials, energy, food, nutrition, health and the quality of life and how molecular structure is crucial to the way things behave
                T237 Environmental Control and Public Health
                Teaches methods of pollution identification, assessment, measurement and control in the fields of land, air, water and noise pollution.

1996         S268 Physical Resources and Environment
                The course focuses on the resources from which we get our building materials, water, energy and metals, their sustainability and occurrence, how they are extracted, and the environmental consequence.
                S280 Science Matters
                Teaches how to recognize incompleteness, variability and unreliability in scientific data and how to assess the quality and interpretation of scientific data.

1997         T303 Environmental monitoring, modelling and control  A project assessing the environmental  impacts of a Energy from Waste MSW Incinerator. (Distinction awarded)     

1998         M206 Computing: An Object-oriented Approach   An object-oriented view of software development, uses Smalltalk

1999         M358 Relational Databases  Relational theory, SQL and development of database systems.
                MT365 Networks, Graphs and Design   The main topics of mathematical interest are graphs and digraphs; network flows; block designs; geometry; codes; mathematical modelling. Areas covered include communications; structures and mechanisms; electrical networks; transport systems,social networks; computer science.

2000         MT262 Putting Computer Systems to work  My final course which completes the Dip.Comp. The course develops skills in analysis and design, with practical programming in C++,using non-object and object-oriented approaches