Engineering and Physical Sciences Foundation Programme: Electronic Engineering and Computer Science

Our foundation programme paves the way to a degree programme in BEng or MEng Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences.

Course outline

In our electronic engineering and computer science foundation programme, you will be equipped with the essential groundwork for your future undergraduate studies, offering a clear path towards BEng and MEng Electronic Engineering and Computer Science.

On this programme, you will learn, collaborate, and flourish through a blend of academic modules, specific subject knowledge, and project-based learning with students in other engineering areas and foundation students across different frameworks. This approach mimics the real-life working world, where your career will be enriched by working alongside people with different skill sets, viewpoints, and approaches, while also supporting a wider community of learning and building the specific skills for your progression.

Key benefits

• Supporting progression – Opportunity to progress onto an Aston University degree programme by learning fundamental subject knowledge.

• Gold standard teaching – Aston University was awarded Gold – the highest possible rating for the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF, 2023)

Where can this degree take me?

Successful completion of this foundation programme enables progression onto our full-time BEng (Hons) Electronic Engineering and Computer Science degree course.

The transferable skills that our electrical engineering and computer science programmes provide mean that our graduates are successful in finding employment in a wide range of roles such as:

• Software engineer

• Electrical engineer

• Controls engineer

• Graduate technical consultant

• Security analyst

• Junior applications engineer

• Web developer

• Graduate electrical and transport engineer

Our graduates have gone on to work at companies such as Microsoft, Royal Air Force (RAF), Atkins, Thames Water, Babcock, Amazon, Deloitte, and Vodafone.