Dates for the Diary

Cohort 1: 09 September 2024
Cohort 2: 16 September 2024
Cohort 3: 23 September 2024
Cohort 4: 30 September 2024 (Runs in Republic of Ireland)

The CertHE, FdSc and BSc start on 23rd September 2024

The Distance Learning UCPD starts 13th January 2025

IMI Award in Light Vehicle Examination and Prohibition - Approved

The IMI has now approved the Award in Light Vehicle Examination and Prohibition Course.

We have designed the course to allow those who have successfully completed their CertHE Fundamentals of motor vehicle technology to carry those assessments forward and use them towards this Award. There are an additional two weeks classroom work to gain the IMI Award with the two weeks being taken outside the academic year.

Top-up subjects include

• More in depth understanding of suspension and braking systems
• CAN and LIN Networks and fault diagnosis
• Electronic control systems, ABS, EBS etc. and fault diagnosis
• EDR data retrieval via the OBD and direct from the EDR (please note this is not the Bosch course) 
• A basic introduction around EV’s (there are some certificated IMI courses that deal with EV’s in more depth)

We are going to run a catch-up course in January/February and then it is envisaged that top-ups will take place over the summer (between academic years). Next year we will run a standalone version of the course for those who do not hold the CertHE. 

Places can be secured on a first come first served basis by contacting the faculty office.

A full list of the Learning Outcomes is available on the course page.

New Course - Uncertainty of Measurement in Collision Investigation

During the recent meeting with Senior CI's there was a discussion about the measurement of uncertainty and how we should seed uncertainty calculations through the UCPD and upwards including, and particularly topical at the moment,  CCTV.  The general discussion was that that it is difficult to translate the lab based UKAS methods taught on their course to our science, collision investigation.  We have therefore taken the UKAS methodology and applied it directly to collision investigation in a three day classroom based course.

Attendees will learn how to take the uncertainties associated with the collision investigation task and apply the correct statistical technique to measure the uncertainty.  Given that more CI’s have access to EXCEL than Mathcad the course will use EXCEL as the primary calculation tool and attendees will leave the course with several starter templates for various collision investigation techniques.  We will of course cover CCTV.

An AiTS course completion certificate provided to delegates who complete the course. 

To ensure we get the content right, Craig will run a pilot of the course before delivery starts in September. The provisional content can be found on the course page.