BEng Electronic Engineering (4 Years Including Foundation Year)

University of Essex

Bachelor's degree

In Colchester

£ 9,250 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Colchester

  • Duration

    4 Years

About the course
Our BEng Electronic Engineering (including foundation year) is open to Home, EU and international students

It will be suitable for you if your academic qualifications do not yet meet our entrance requirements for the three-year version of this course and you want a programme that increases your subject knowledge as well as improves your English language and academic skills


This four-year course includes a foundation year (Year Zero), followed by a further three years of study

During your Year Zero, you study four academic subjects relevant to your chosen course as well as a compulsory English language and academic skills module


You are an Essex student from day one, a member of our global community based at the most internationally diverse campus university in the UK


After successful completion of Year Zero in our International Academy, you progress to complete your course with the Department of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering

Electronic engineering is a subject where you can exercise your imagination, using skills from both traditional communications and digital systems to resolve existing problems, and to create new products


On our course, you cover a wide spectrum of topics to help you become an electronics designer:
Mathematical skills and software tools for problem-solving in engineering
Wireless Communication technology
The building blocks of complex digital systems
Analogue systems and circuit techniques
Computer simulations
We were ranked 8th in the UK in the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities, with more than two-thirds of our research rated “world-leading” or “internationally excellent” (REF 2014)

Facilities

Location

Start date

Colchester (Essex)
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Wivenhoe Park, CO4 3SQ

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Electronic Engineering
  • English Language
  • Networks
  • Network
  • Telecommunications
  • Signal processing
  • English
  • Design
  • Mathematics
  • Radio
  • International
  • Project
  • Communications
  • Systems
  • Engineering
  • Programming
  • Network Training
  • Telecommunication
  • Telecommunication Engineering
  • GCSE Mathematics
  • Skills and Training

Course programme

Example structure
Studying at Essex is about discovering yourself, so your course combines compulsory and optional modules to make sure you gain key knowledge in the discipline, while having as much freedom as possible to explore your own interests. Our research-led teaching is continually evolving to address the latest challenges and breakthroughs in the field, therefore to ensure your course is as relevant and up-to-date as possible your core module structure may be subject to change.
For many of our courses you’ll have a wide range of optional modules to choose from – those listed in this example structure are just a selection of those available. The opportunity to take optional modules will depend on the number of core modules within any year of the course. In many instances, the flexibility to take optional modules increases as you progress through the course.
Our Programme Specification gives more detail about the structure available to our current first-year students, including details of all optional modules.
Year 0
Computers and Electronics
Pure Mathematics
Academic Skills
Computer Programming
Year 1
Professional Development
Mathematics for Electronics and Telecommunications
Introduction to Programming
Network Fundamentals
Fundamentals of Digital Systems
Digital Electronic Systems
Foundations of Electronics I
Foundations of Electronics II
Year 2
Group Project & Industrial Practice
Engineering Mathematics
Analogue Circuit Design
Digital Systems Design
Engineering Electromagnetics
C Programming and Embedded Systems
Telecommunication Principles (optional)
Robotics (optional)
Final year
Signal Processing
Advanced Embedded Systems Design
Individual Project
Mobile Robotics (optional)
Network Engineering (optional)
Large Scale Software Systems and Extreme Programming (optional)
Teaching
A typical timetable includes around eight to fourteen one-hour lectures per week with associated classes or laboratories
Any language classes involve language laboratory sessions
Courses are taught by a combination of lectures, laboratory work, assignments, and individual and group project activities
Group work
A significant amount of practical lab work will need to be undertaken for written assignments and as part of your learning
Assessment
Your assessed coursework will generally consist of essays, reports, in-class tests, individual or group oral presentations, and small scale research projects
All credit-bearing modules will involve a final exam, which will be either essay-based or in the form of a test
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And our students enjoy learning from our expert researchers – we achieved 92% student satisfaction (NSS 2016) You graduate as a creative, experimental, and focussed engineer ready to explore further how electronics can impact the people and world around you Professional accreditation This degree is accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) This accreditation is increasingly sought by employers, and provides the first stage towards eventual professional registration as a Chartered Engineer (CEng) Placement year Alternatively, you can spend your third year on a placement with an external organisation, as part of one of our placement year degrees The learning outcomes associated with this programme focus on using the specialist technical skills acquired in the first two years of the course and developing communications skills with customers Students are provided with support to secure a placement Recent placements undertaken by our students have been with ARM, Microsoft, Intel, Nestlé, British Aerospace, and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, as well a range of SME software and hardware companies Our expert staff We have been one of the leading electronics departments in the country throughout our history, and in recent years, our prolific research staff have contributed to some major breakthroughs We invented the world's first telephone based system for deaf people to communicate with each other in 1981, with cameras and display devices that were able to work within the limited telephone bandwidth Our academics have also invented a streamlined protocol system for worldwide high speed optical communications Specialist facilities By studying within our International Academy for your foundation year, you will have access to all of the facilities that the University of Essex has to offer, as well as those provided by our Academy to support you: We provide computer labs for internet research; classrooms with...

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