Aerospace Electronic Engineering

Summary
Aerospace electronics is where engineering meets exploration. From satellites to navigation systems, it shapes how we move, communicate and understand the world beyond our atmosphere.

On this course, you will build the knowledge and practical skills to design the electronic systems that power modern aircraft and spacecraft. You will explore everything from circuits and radar to guidance, navigation and control, space system engineering, alongside programming, digital systems and mathematics.

This is hands-on learning from the start. In your third year, you will design, simulate and build your own aerospace electronic system, working alongside academics who are pushing boundaries in research. Their ideas and discoveries will shape your learning and challenge how you think.

At Southampton, you will be part of a department consistently ranked in the UK top 5, with access to facilities shaped by major investment and designed for the way engineers work today.

By the time you graduate, you will be ready to step into a wide range of industries, with the practical mindset and problem-solving skills that employers value.

Key features of the course
Explore the systems behind flight and space technology. You will study areas including aerospace systems, radar, space system engineering, microprocessors and control systems, building a strong foundation across the discipline.

Learn by doing. Your third-year project gives you the chance to design and build your own aerospace electronic system, applying your knowledge to a real challenge.

Work alongside researchers. You will collaborate with academics at the forefront of their fields, gaining insight into new ideas and approaches in engineering.

Study in a leading environment. You will benefit from facilities shaped by significant recent investment, designed to support electrical & electronic engineering and computer science students.

Build skills employers want. Strong links with industry mean you will graduate with practical experience and an understanding of how engineering works in real organisations.

Student support
Your Personal Academic Tutor will support you throughout your time at Southampton, offering guidance on your studies, career planning and any challenges you may face.

You will also have access to a dedicated careers hub, including an annual careers fair and opportunities to connect with employers. You will have access to “Successful Futures”, the award-winning employability skills model, which embeds career planning and employability across all courses. Furthermore, our new “Career Advantage” employability programme builds your skills, experience, and confidence, including a customised programme for international students. If you are interested in starting your own venture, Future Worlds, our startup incubator, is there to support your ideas.

Further information
This course is accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), helping you take the next step towards professional registration.

We are also a Partner University of the UK Electronics Skills Foundation and the IET Power Academy, connecting your degree to industry and future opportunities.

Course Modules

This three-year BEng programme has been designed to maximise student choice by allowing you to tailor the degree structure to suit your own interests.

During the first two years you will undertake a series of core modules, for example electronic circuits and systems, flight mechanics and aerospace systems, radar techniques and applications, digital systems and microprocessors, programming and computer engineering, devices and solid state electronics and mathematics.

In your third year you can choose from a wide range of optional modules that reflect the specialist areas of electronic engineering that will take you to the leading edge of technology sought by industry. You will also work on an individual project with one of our research groups which will allow you to work at the frontier of knowledge.

For further information on our optional modules: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/programmes/beng-aerospace-electronic-engineering#modules

A range of assessment methods are used on this programme to enable students to demonstrate their achievement of the intended learning outcomes. These include written examinations and assessments, in-class tests, design exercises, programming exercises, oral presentations, assessed laboratories and group work exercises.

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

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