MEng Electronic Engineering

A professional electronic engineer is an inventor, a designer, someone who makes things work. He/she is the driving force behind the development of many of today's inventions. These range from mobile telephones to digital television, from active suspension units in Formula 1 cars to supercomputers, from MP3 players to industrial robots and from virtual reality games to high fidelity music amplification and playback. Our degree programmes emphasise the importance of embedded computer systems, communications and hardware design, making you ideally equipped for a successful career in any high‑technology industry.

Since the discovery of electricity by the ancient Greeks in 600 BC, man's success in harnessing its power has been incredible. We are now so dependent upon electronic systems that, without them, modern life would be unimaginable. Intelligent electronic systems underpin nearly all our business transactions, manufacturing, transport, healthcare, and entertainment. Engineers are the driving force behind this technology and are the people who will take it all to the next level. Our Electronic Engineering degree programmes will give you the knowledge and skills for a successful career in the high-technology electronics industry.

The MEng degree programme allows you study Electronic Engineering in more depth and includes a range of additional modules as well as a six month industrial placement or research project in the fourth year.

What will you study?

Year 1

Programming

Software engineering

Computer applications

Engineering mathematics

Cybernetics and circuits

Optional modules

Fundamentals of computing

Institution wide language programme

Year 2

System design and project management

Signal processing

Embedded microprocessors and digital systems

Control systems

Programmable logic and HDLS

Computer architecture

Sensors and devices

Telecommunications

Optional modules

Neural networks

Robots and mechanics

Robotic systems

Year 3

Group Project

Social, legal and ethical aspects of science and engineering

USB integration

Law and management

Computer networking

Optional modules

System identification and control

State space

Mechatronics

Image analysis

Sustainable electrical energy

Measurement systems

Analogue electronics

Year 4

Wireless and cellular networking

Industrial project or both a research

project and research studies

Optional modules

Advanced neural networks

Nonlinear control

Optimal control

Robust control

DSP architectures

Advanced DSP

Wireless communications for the real world

Visual intelligence

Practice of entrepreneurship