Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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

You will cover core modules in the first year, core and optional modules in the second year, industrial placement and optional modules in the third year, and an individual project and an extensive choice of over 40 optional Master's level modules.

In each year you will complete a project, adding a vital practical element to the course.

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.

• 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

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 average 40% in practical work.

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

You will choose two modules from the below list:

• Devices
• Fields
• Algorithms and Complexity

In the third year you start to design your degree course to fit your interests and skills, in consultation with your personal tutor, by choosing seven advanced optional modules and undertaking an industrial placement.

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

The third year of our MEng degree 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 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

You can choose to complete an individual project as an alternative to the industrial placement.

You will choose four modules from the first group, and three modules from the second, as well as taking one humanities or business-related module.

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

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

You will also choose to do one of the following, within your seven choices:

• Imperial Horizons
• Business for Professional Engineers and Scientists

In the fourth year you will complete an individual project and develop a specialism by choosing from an extensive list of optional modules.

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

You will choose six modules from over 40 optional modules on offer, and the list below gives you an idea of the areas available:

• Analogue Electronics and Signal Processing
• Coding Theory
• Communication Theory
• Computation and Networks
• Digital Signalling Processing and Imaging
• Embedded, Linear, and Discrete Systems
• Information Theory
• Integrated Circuit Design
• Multi-body Mechanical Systems
• Optical and Wireless Communications
• Power System Control, Measurement and Protection
• Radio Frequency Electronics
• Robotics
• Speech Processing
• Stability and Sustainability of Systems
• Wavelets and Applications

• Graphics
• Introduction to Bioinformatics
• Computational Finance
• Software Engineering for Industry
• Intelligent Data and Probabilistic Inference

As well as the six choices you make above, you will choose a further one or two modules from the list above (fourth year optional modules) and/or below.

• Imperial Horizons
• Business for Professional Engineers and Scientists