What do the advanced electrical engineering tasks in the dMAT Battery Science module cover?

If you sit the dMAT Battery Science module as an electrical engineering candidate, your two advanced tasks are Series and Parallel Connections of Ohmic Resistors and System Analysis. Both build on second-year circuits and control theory, and both are tested through a reading passage followed by four-option questions rather than open recall.

Advanced Electrical Engineering Tasks at a Glance

A Simple Way to Rehearse the Method

• Re-derive the parallel resistor formula, 1/Rtotal = 1/R1 + 1/R2 and so on, from first principles rather than memorising it, so you can apply it to an unfamiliar resistor network in the exam.
• Practice converting a basic time-domain circuit equation into its Laplace-domain transfer function, then substitute s = jw to get the frequency response, on a simple example you build yourself, such as a single resistor-capacitor pair.
• Read any short passage on control systems and ask what the poles of the transfer function tell you about stability, since this is the kind of applied question the module favours.

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My Advice

If you are an EEE or ECE graduate, block out two focused revision sessions: one purely on resistor network reduction until it is automatic, and one on Laplace transforms and frequency response, working through a self-made RC or RL example rather than searching for the official exercise, which you should never reproduce or share.