Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Discover the technology that powers modern life – from smartphones and electric vehicles to renewable energy systems and cutting-edge electronics. Learning spans everything from designing semiconductor chips, circuits and motors to building digital electronic, communication and power systems.

This degree spans everything from designing semiconductor chips, circuits, and motors to building complete digital, communication, and power systems. Informed by our world-leading research and shaped with input from industry, it will give you the skills and experience to launch a successful engineering career.

You will learn through lectures, labs, tutorials, and projects, many of which take place in our state-of-the-art teaching building, The Diamond. Here you will gain hands-on experience with industry-standard facilities, including our Electronics and Control Lab, teaching Cleanroom, computer labs, and student-led iForge makerspace.

In Year 1, you will gain a solid grounding in the key principles of engineering, spanning areas such as systems thinking, computing, electronics, engineering mathematics, and artificial intelligence, while also developing teamwork, laboratory, and project-based skills alongside employability skills.

In Year 2, you will broaden your knowledge through design-focused activities and applied studies in areas such as communications, control, embedded electronic technologies, semiconductor electronics, and electrical energy systems, with opportunities to explore both hardware and software perspectives.

In Year 3, you will take on an advanced individual project and you will have the flexibility to shape your degree by choosing a specialist pathway. Options allow you to focus on areas such as energy and power systems, semiconductor technologies, digital and integrated electronics, or advanced communications systems.

In Year 4, you will deepen your expertise with a major investigative group project and advanced modules in your chosen specialisation.

This integrated master’s degree gives you an extra year of advanced study, helping you graduate with the technical expertise, practical skills and professional confidence to make an immediate impact in industry or research.

Accreditation

Accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology on behalf of the Engineering Council for the purposes of fully meeting the academic requirement for registration as a Chartered Engineer (CEng).

Why study this course?

• Shape the future - Electronic and electrical engineering lies at the heart of many of the technologies that will shape the future. This programme will enable you to make a positive contribution to many global challenges, including green energy, AI, healthcare, cybersecurity and electric transport.

• Study with experts - You will learn from academic staff who are involved in world-class research with our industrial partners. Their research informs our teaching.

• Do engineering through project work - As well as learning about engineering, you will also do engineering by completing various projects. For your final year project you may be embedded within a research group or use the facilities in our bespoke project labs or the iForge Makerspace.

• Specialist teaching laboratories - The Diamond building is dedicated to teaching engineering students practical skills. It contains large, modern labs where you can apply the theoretical material delivered in lectures to real-world applications. It's staffed by a team of technical and academic staff who are dedicated to teaching practical skills. The building also contains over 1,000 individual study spaces.

• Exciting careers - The specialist and generic skills that you acquire will enable exciting well-paid global career opportunities in industry, commerce, research and beyond.