Electronic Engineering (Taught)

Designed in collaboration with professionals at the forefront of the industry, the course advances your technical knowledge and practical expertise while allowing you to explore cutting-edge technologies in a rapidly developing field. It is aimed at graduates with a background in electronics who wish to follow a specialist career in digital electronics or communications. You prepare for the workplace through practice-based learning and hands-on sessions, applying what you learn to real-world situations and projects, and explore your specialist interests with an Electrical Engineering MSc project of your choice.

Course accreditation
This course is in the process of gaining accreditation from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). Professional registration with IET testifies that you work at an internationally recognised standard of competency and opens up additional career opportunities, from higher salaries to more challenging work.

Facilities and specialist equipment

• Purpose-built STEM building with modern facilities and bespoke study spaces

• New electronic engineering lab with state-of-the-art equipment supplied by National Instruments and Rohde & Schwarz

• Access to 3D printers, solder stations and an extensive range of manufacturing tools

• Industry-standard software such as Multisim and MATLAB to prepare you for current working practices

Your student experience
Block delivery course structure gives you year-round entry points and intermediate qualifications so you can tailor your learning to fit around your life.

Study with a team of highly qualified, research-active teaching staff.

Enhance your employability with our focus on developing key transferable skills such as effective communication; critical thinking; advanced analysis; and innovative problem solving.

Build knowledge and connections through field trips, interactive seminars and collaborative work opportunities with sector employers.

Benefit from your own personal academic tutor.

Course modules

Signals and electronic systems – Gain essential skills and understanding of electronic system design and optimisation as well as advanced digital signal processing.

Wireless and embedded systems – Explore key emerging technologies in the wireless, embedded and control systems that underpin the Internet of Things.

Digital, microwave and optical communications – Apply your knowledge of these technologies in practice, using computational techniques to solve complex problems.

Research methodologies and project management – Apply project management theory and research methods in practice, working within legal and ethical boundaries.

MSc project – Electronic Engineering – Work creatively to generate an idea and develop it further, applying your technical, analytical, practical and managerial skills.

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