Advanced Electronic and Electrical Engineering (with an industrial placement year)
(MSc) Advanced Electronic and Electrical Engineering (with an industrial placement year)
Entry for 2025
FHEQ level
This course is set at Level 7 (Masters) in the national Framework for Higher Education Qualifications.
Course Aims
Our Advanced Electrical and Electronic Engineering MSc course with Industrial placement (IP) aims to prepare newly qualified and practising engineers by further developing their knowledge and critical awareness of the key advanced areas in electrical and electronic engineering.
The course offers the opportunity to spend a year working in the industry making it an ideal platform to boost their future career, by developing new skills to a high level through practical hands-on experience, engineering analysis and the application of scientific knowledge to find solutions of complex problems present in different industrial settings including technical, societal and emerging applications in robotics, advanced manufacturing, internet-of-things, electric vehicles and medical technologies.
Graduates will develop their knowledge in advanced analogue and digital circuit design and electrical systems, control of electro-mechanical systems, digital signal processing, embedded systems, FPGA reconfigurable systems on chips and machine vision technologies. These are areas with a major skills shortage worldwide and particularly in the UK with a high level of employability.
The course has dedicated laboratories equipped with the latest industry standard hardware and software, benefiting from the research activities carried out at the Industrial Informatics and Signal Processing Research Group, the Robotics and Mechatronic systems research group, the Communications Research Group and the Sensor Technology Research Centre.
The industrial placement is supported by the Careers and Employability Centre at the University.
Course learning outcomes
M1. Apply a comprehensive knowledge of mathematics, statistics, natural science and engineering principles to the solution of complex problems. Much of the knowledge will be at the forefront of the particular subject of study and informed by a critical awareness of new developments and the wider context of engineering.
M2. Formulate and analyse complex problems to reach substantiated conclusions. This will involve evaluating available data using first principles of mathematics, statistics, natural science and engineering principles, and using engineering judgment to work with information that may be uncertain or incomplete, discussing the limitations of the techniques employed.
M3. Select and apply appropriate computational and analytical techniques to model complex problems, discussing the limitations of the techniques employed.
M4. Select and critically evaluate technical literature and other sources of information to solve complex problems.
M5. Design solutions for complex problems that evidence some originality and meet a combination of societal, user, business and customer needs as appropriate. This will involve consideration of applicable health and safety, diversity, inclusion, cultural, societal, environmental and commercial matters, codes of practice and industry standards.
M7. Evaluate the environmental and societal impact of solutions to complex problems (to include the entire life-cycle of a product or process) and minimise adverse impacts.
M16. Function effectively as an individual, and as a member or leader of a team. Evaluate effectiveness of own and team performance.
M17. Communicate effectively on complex engineering matters with technical and non-technical audiences, evaluating the effectiveness of the methods used.
Full-time course composition
| Year | Term | Status | Module | Credits | FHEQ level |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Postgraduate Academic Year | Core | MSc Individual Project (864H1) | 60 | 7 |
| Autumn Semester | Core | Advanced Digital Signal Processing (102H6) | 15 | 7 | |
| Core | Advanced Electronic Systems (524H1) | 15 | 7 | ||
| Option | Cybernetics and Neural Networks (100H6) | 15 | 7 | ||
| Internet-of-Things and Embedded System Practice (883H1) | 15 | 7 | |||
| Mobile Communications (826H1) | 15 | 7 | |||
| Spring Semester | Core | Advanced Topics in Control of Electromechanical Systems (866H1) | 15 | 7 | |
| Core | Reconfigurable System on Chip (822H1) | 15 | 7 | ||
| Option | Cryptography (L.7) (860G1) | 15 | 7 | ||
| Financial and Strategic Management (519H3) | 15 | 7 | |||
| Image Processing (521H3) | 15 | 7 | |||
| Wearable Technologies (867H1) | 15 | 7 | |||
| Year | Term | Status | Module | Credits | FHEQ level |
| 2 | Postgraduate Academic Year | Core | Industrial Placement Year (881H1) | 180 | 7 |
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