BEng (Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering

What will I study?

Our enthusiastic staff are always looking for new ways to enhance your learning experience and over recent years, we have won national awards for our innovative teaching ideas. All of our courses include a significant practical element, which, together with tutorial sessions reinforce the theory delivered during lectures, and you have many opportunities to enhance your presentation skills ready for the workplace.

More about the Course

This course is designed to enable you to study a range of topics similar to those of the more specific courses but in a more flexible way, allowing you to choose a more diverse individual course. Many of our students have an interest in one or more of the specialist areas and wish to combine them. This study route allows you to do that.

Final Year students benefit from the opportunity to study modules such as applications of electronics in subjects such as electrical and electronic power control, digital signal processing, micro-electronics, robotics and the option of telecommunication systems or micro-engineering and micro-technology. The aim is to allow you to keep your expertise broad if you wish, allowing you to specialise later.

This course starts with common study areas to give you a sound understanding of basic electrical and electronic engineering principles. Unlike the other courses, it maintains this breadth in your study of electrical and electronic engineering in the Final Year.

In your first year you focus on the basic principles and practices needed in electronic engineering, and on developing relevant analytical, design and organisational abilities. You will learn about digital fundamentals, computing concepts and the problem-solving tools that you will need as the course progresses.

In your second year you will explore in more depth the theories and techniques involved in product design and development, with particular emphasis on 'embedded' real-time microprocessor systems, programmable logic devices and power control. You will learn to apply practical skills to design, implement and test solutions relevant to electrical and electronic engineering.

In your final year the focus is on understanding more about the specialist technologies that are at the heart of today's advanced communication systems. Mobile communication concepts and computer networks, the design of high-speed analogue and digital electronics using integrated circuits, and radio frequency circuits and systems are all examined, along with key microprocessor topics, fuzzy logic and neural networks and digital signal processing. You will also carry out an individual double-module project on a topic relevant to electrical and/or electronic engineering.

Level 4

Module

• Computer Programming for Electronics Engineers
• Digital Electronics & Computer Organisation
• Electrical and Electronic Theory
• Career Skills Development
• Sustainable Business of Electronics
• Electronic Engineering Practice
• Introduction to Practical Safety for Engineers
• Introduction to Electronic Systems
• Engineering Mathematics
• Engineering Application of Mathematics

Level 5

Module

• Electrical Engineering and Power Control
• Digital Design & Embedded Systems
• Real-time Systems & Programming
• Mechatronic Systems Modelling and Control
• Mini Projects (Electrical)
• Project Management & Product Development
• Career Planning
• Foundations of Safety
• Electronic Communication Systems
• Further Engineering Mathematics
• Exchange Year
• Exchange Semester

Level 6

Module

• Advanced Power Conversion and Control
• Digital Signal Processing
• Intelligent Systems and Robotics
• Microelectronics and VLSI
• Semester Abroad
• BEng Individual Project (Electrical)
• Power Systems
• Industrial Placement
• Telecommunication Systems
• Year Abroad
• Careers Portfolio
• Micro-Engineering & Micro-Technology