Aerospace Electronic Engineering with Industrial Studies

Summary
Aerospace electronics is at the centre of how we explore, navigate and connect across the skies and beyond. From aircraft systems to space technology, it powers the future of engineering.

On this integrated master’s course, you will develop both the theoretical knowledge and practical skills to design and build advanced aerospace electronic systems. You will study everything from circuits and radar to flight mechanics, guidance and control, space system engineering, alongside programming, digital systems and mathematics, and advanced topics that are at the frontiers of the discipline.

You can choose to take your degree further with a year in industry, working with professionals and applying your learning in a real-world environment. It is a chance to build confidence, gain experience and stand out to employers before you graduate.

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 study in a department consistently ranked in the UK top 5, with facilities designed to reflect how modern engineers work and think.

Key features of the course
Add real-world experience. Choose to take a year in industry after your third year, gaining practical experience and insight into how engineering works in professional settings. Your placement is assessed by both academics and industry experts.

Go further with an integrated master’s. This five-year MEng programme allows you to deepen your knowledge and tackle more advanced engineering challenges.

Explore the full system. Study key areas including aerospace systems, radar, space engineering, microprocessors and control, building a strong and connected understanding of the discipline.

Learn by doing. Your third-year project gives you the opportunity to design and build your own aerospace electronic system, applying your knowledge in practice.

Work with leading researchers. Collaborate with academics working at the forefront of aerospace electronics and develop innovative solutions to real problems.

Study in a leading environment. Benefit from facilities supported by major investment in computer science and electrical and electronic engineering.

Prepare for your future. Strong links with employers mean you will graduate with the skills and experience needed across a wide range of industries.

Work as a team on real challenges. In your fourth-year Group Design Project, you’ll collaborate in a small team on a project inspired by an industrial partner, applying your skills to develop solutions to real-world problems.

Student support
Your Personal Academic Tutor will support you throughout your time at Southampton, offering guidance on your studies, career ambitions and personal development.

You will also have access to our 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, that embeds career planning and employability across all courses. Furthermore, our new “Career Advantage” employability programme builds your skills, experience, and confidence, including customised programme for international students.  If you want to develop your own ideas, Future Worlds, our startup incubator, will help you take them further.

Further Information

This MEng degree is accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), supporting your route to professional registration.

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

Course Modules

This five-year MEng programme including a year in industry 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 and fourth years of study 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/meng-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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