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.

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.

Why study this course?

• Learn from the experts - Informed by our world-leading research and shaped with input from industry, this programme will give you the skills and experience to launch a successful engineering career.

• Build solid foundations in Electronic and Electrical Engineering - Develop core skills in digital and analogue electronics, electrical machines and drives, power systems, communication systems, digital signal processing, and embedded programming – everything employers expect.

• Learn by doing from day one - You will gain hands-on practical experience in our state-of-the-art teaching and research labs. Design, implement, and test hardware and software systems on projects that mirror industry practice. You’ll build practical confidence alongside the theory from the start.

• Design for people and purpose for real impact - You will learn how engineering activity can have a significant societal impact and how engineers must operate in a responsible and ethical manner by considering accessibility, inclusivity, diversity, privacy, risk, security, and sustainability.

• Shape your path and progress your career - Choose a specialism from a number of options and complete a substantial final-year individual project. Develop employability skills throughout the programme to be a graduate ready for industry – or, subject to performance and availability, progress to the MEng for extended study. Our graduates are highly sought after and have gone on to careers with leading employers such as ARM, Siemens, National Grid, Jaguar Land Rover, Rolls-Royce, Shell, and Unilever.