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 study core modules in your first year, before a combination of core and optional modules in the second year, and a choice of 7 modules in the third year.

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.

You must achieve a mark of 40% in each examined module, and an average of 40% across the 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.

You must achieve a mark of 40% in each examined module, and an average of 40% across the 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 advanced subjects from the study of seven optional modules and undertaking an individual project.

You must achieve at least 40% in this year to be awarded an honours degree.

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 four modules from the first group, two modules from the second group, and at least 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