Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Management

Modules shown are for the current academic year, and are subject to change depending on your year of entry.

You will study core modules in your first year, before a combination of core and optional modules in following years.

In years one, two and four you will complete a project, adding a vital practical element to the course.

Year 1

You follow a core pathway of 11 modules, supported by study groups and experiments in the electrical and computer laboratories. The modules are assessed by written examinations in the summer term.

The first year project establishes the basis of the engineering design process. You begin by deconstructing a simple electronic toy and using a circuit simulation program to understand how it works. You then propose and design some enhancements to the toy and try them in the circuit simulator. Finally, you build your chosen design and test it in competition with other groups.

In order to pass the first year, you must achieve 40% in each of the examined modules, and an average of 40% across practical work.

Core modules

• Analysis of Circuits
• Digital Electronics 1
• Semiconductor Devices
• Analogue Electronics 1
• Energy Conversion
• Introduction to Signals and Communications
• Software Engineering 1: Introduction to Computing
• Mathematics I
• Professional Engineering
• Electronics Lab
• Design and Build Project

Year 2

You take 12 compulsory and two optional modules, which are assessed by written examination in the summer term.

The second year group projects are on ideas proposed by you, and lead to the solution of a current socio-economic problem by technical means.

In order to pass the second year, you must achieve 40% in each of the examined modules, except Mathematics II where the pass mark is 50%. In addition you must average at least 50% in examinations, and 40% in practical work.

Core modules

• Digital Electronics II
• Analogue Electronics II
• Power Engineering
• Communication Systems
• Signals and Linear Systems
• Control Engineering
• Mathematics II
• Algorithms and Data Structures
• Computer Architecture I
• Computing Lab
  
• Electronics Lab
  
• Design and Innovation Project

Optional modules

You will choose two modules from the following:

• Devices
• Fields
• Algorithms and Complexity

Year 3

In the third year you will complete an industrial placement and begin to turn your focus to the management aspect of the course.

In order to pass the third year, you must achieve an average of 40% across the academic year.

Six month industrial placement

The third year is structured to include a six-month industrial placement as part of your degree (as an alternative to an internal project). The placement runs from April to September, allowing you to tackle significant industrial projects that help develop skills in solving real engineering problems, and provide invaluable experience of engineering as it is really practiced.

The industrial placement is supervised by a member of staff from the company you will be working for and a member of staff from the Department. It must be related to your degree in technical, business or commercial content. Departmental staff will help you set and agree objectives for your placement, which is assessed by a written and oral report.

Students have previously enjoyed placement opportunities with:

• Altera
• Bang & Olufsen
• Dialog Semiconductors
• Goldman Sachs
• IBM
• Ocado Technology

Group project

As an alternative to the placement, you can instead do a group project (6-8 people) during the summer term. The group acts as a technical consultant to a brief provided by an industrial client. The project will involve the specification, design, implementation and testing of a pre-production prototype of a new product or technical solution.

Core modules

You will take three core modules and five optional modules.

• Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition
• Project Management
• Accounting

Optional modules

You will choose three from the first group and two from the second.

Group 1

• Advanced Electronic Devices
• Analogue Integrated Circuits and Systems
• Artificial Intelligence
• Biomedical Electronics
• Communication Networks
• Communication Systems
• Control Engineering
• Digital Signal Processing
• Electrical Energy Systems
• Mathematics for Signals and Systems
• Microwave Technology
• Optoelectronics

Group 2

• Advanced Signal Processing
• Digital System Design
• Instrumentation
• Power Electronics
• Real-time Digital Signal Processing
• VHDL and Logic Synthesis

Year 4

In the fourth year you will continue with three core modules in management, as well as completing an individual project and electrical and electronic engineering optional modules.

In order to pass the fourth year and graduate with an honours degree, you must achieve at least 40% across the academic year and at least 40% in the group project/industrial placement, module average and individual project.

Electrical and Electronic Engineering Project

The project provides you with the opportunity to demonstrate independence and originality, to plan and organise a large project over a long period, and to put into practice some of the techniques you have learnt throughout the course. It should be the most satisfying and inspiring piece of work in your degree.

Core modules

You will take three core modules:

• Finance and Financial Management or Corporate Finance*
• Business Economics or Managerial Economics*
• Managing Innovation

*The modules marked with an asterisk are online versions of the taught module. For example, Corporate Finance is the online version of Finance and Financial Management.

Optional modules

You will choose four modules from an extensive list of 55 specialist modules, in addition to choosing one business or humanities option.

You may also choose to do an additional module from the list below (including business/humanities).

Electrical and Electronic Engineering areas

• Advanced Signal Processing
• Artificial Intelligence
• Coding Theory
• Communication Networks
• Communication Systems and Theory
• Computation and Networks
• Control Engineering
• Digital Signal and Image Processing
• Digital Signalling Processing and Imaging
• Digital System Design
• Embedded, Linear, and Discrete Systems
• Information Theory
• Integrated Circuit Design
• Mathematics for Signals and Systems
• Optical and Wireless Communications
• Radio Frequency Electronics
• Real-time Digital Signal Processing
• Robotics
• Stability and Sustainability of Systems
• VHDL and Logic Synthesis

Computing modules

• Graphics
• Network and Web Security
• Advanced Computer Architecture
• Introduction to Bioinformatics
• Computational Finance
• Software Engineering for Industry
• Intelligent Data and Probabilistic Inference

Humanities and Business

You will also choose to do one of the following, as one of your eight choices:

• Imperial Horizons
• Business for Professional Engineers and Scientists