South Devon College offers a range of distance learning courses designed to support the UK photonics and microelectronics sector.
These courses have been developed in partnership with the Torbay Hi-Tech Cluster and much of their development has been funded by Innovate UK as part of the PICPAC project. Businesses that have been explicitly involved in developing the course content include: Bay Photonics; Davies and Bell ; PandA Europe and Mecon Services.
All of these courses are distance learning courses that do not require lecturer support and you can complete them in your own time. Upon confirmation of payment and your student access to the College Virtual Learning Platform (Moodle), you will have access to the course content for three months.
Each course is divided into teaching sessions. The number of teaching sessions varies according to the length of the course (see information below). Learning content for each session includes: a teaching video (approximately 15-20 minutes) and accompanying handout and transcript. Upon completion of the course you will receive a certificate of completion.
There are four different routes to access these courses:
- Individual Student – Online
- Individual Student – Face to Face
- Industrial Package for Businesses – Online
- Industrial Package for Businesses – Face to Face
Courses available and in development:
| Course Name | Number of teaching video sessions | Cost for Individuals (Online) | Cost for Industrial Package (Online) | Course Delivery Time in Hours | Theory or Practical |
| Introduction to Microscopy | 3 | £14.99 | £100.00 | 2 | Both |
| Introduction to Photonics Systems | 17 | £400.00 | 2,000.00 | 14 | Theory |
| Introduction to Microelectronics | 5 | £200.00 | £1,000.00 | 7 | Theory |
| Introduction to Opto and Photonic Semiconductor Packaging | 4 | £300.00 | £750.00 | 4 | Theory |
| Introduction to Motion Control | 3 | £14.99 | £100.00 | 2 | Theory |
| Introduction to Vacuum Reflow Technology | 3 | £150.00 | £750.00 | 4 | Theory |
| Introduction to Die Bonding – under development | 2 | £150.00 | £750.00 | 6 | Both |
| Introduction to Wire Bonding | 2 | £150.00 | £750.00 | 6 | Both |
| Introduction to Statistical Process Control (SPC) | 2 | £14.99 | £100.00 | 4 | Both |
Interested? Let us know
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- Based on minimum delegate numbers and lecturer, room and materials availability ↩︎
