Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Robotics (with an industrial placement year) MEng

Master

In Brighton

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Brighton

  • Duration

    4 Years

Robotics is 'one of the UK's eight great technologies', as identified by the UK Government.
On this course, you have the opportunity to develop specific expertise in robotics alongside skills in electrical and electronic engineering. You’ll study in our £12-million Future Technologies Labs, dedicated to teaching and research in computing, robotics, electronics and mechatronics.
As a graduate, you’ll be ideally placed to develop or apply systems for robotics, automation, smart systems with autonomous capability, or ubiquitous and wearable computing.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Brighton (East Sussex)
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Sussex House, BN1 9RH

Start date

On request

About this course

Recent Engineering graduates have gone on to jobs as:
equipment design engineer, Digital Pixel
user experience designer, IBM
software engineer, Lloret.

You should also have a broad range of GCSEs (A*-C), including good grades in relevant subjects.

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Subjects

  • Computing
  • Signal processing
  • Teaching
  • Electronic Engineering
  • Project
  • Global
  • Electrical
  • Mathematics
  • Communications
  • GCSE Mathematics
  • Systems
  • Engineering
  • Team Training
  • Embedded Systems
  • Managerial skills
  • Automation Mechatronics

Course programme

Year 1 at sussex

Autumn teaching
  • Electrical Circuits & Devices
  • Engineering Maths 1A
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Programming for Engineers
Spring teaching
  • Electromechanics
  • Electronic Devices and Circuit Prototyping
  • Engineering Maths 1B
  • Engineering Thermodynamics
  • Global Design Challenge

You gain a good grounding in the fundamentals of engineering, looking at topics including electrical circuits and devices, engineering mathematics, and programming for engineers.

Global Design Challenge

You join all first-year students in the School of Engineering and Informatics in a team-based, week-long activity, the Global Design Challenge. Each team designs a solution to a problem faced by a community in the developing world. You develop transferable skills, benefiting both your studies and your future employability

Year 2 at sussex

Autumn teaching
  • Digital Systems and Microprocessor Design
  • Electronic Circuit & Systems Design
  • Engineering Mathematics 2
  • Mechanics of Mechanisms and Robots
Spring teaching
  • Embedded Systems
  • Industrial Automation Mechatronics
  • Professional and Managerial Skills
  • Systems Analysis and Control

You cover topics such as digital systems and microprocessor design, mechanics of robots and CAD, embedded systems and industrial automation mechatronics. You continue to develop your mathematics knowledge.

Year 3

Autumn teaching
  • Business and Project Management
  • Control Engineering
  • Electrical Power Systems
Autumn and spring teaching
  • Robotics Individual Project
Spring teaching
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Electrical Drive Systems
  • Robot Design and Implementation

You’ll work on a two-term individual project focusing on robotics. This includes training in project planning and management.

Taught topics include:

  • autonomous vehicles
  • robot design and implementation
  • control engineering
  • power systems.
Year 3 Sussex

Autumn teaching
  • Cybernetics and Neural Networks
Autumn and spring teaching
  • Robotics Group Project
Options

Autumn teaching
  • Advanced Digital Signal Processing
  • Advanced Electronic Systems
  • Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
  • Internet-of-Things
  • Mobile Communications
  • Real Time Embedded Systems
Spring teaching
  • Advanced Topics in Control of Electromechanical Systems
  • Digital Signal Processing Laboratory
  • Fibre Optic Communications
  • Image Processing
  • Reconfigurable System on Chip
  • Satellite and Space Systems
  • Strategic Management - Engineering module

You study advanced Masters-level modules and choose from a number of options, allowing you to specialise in your own areas of interest.

You join an interdisciplinary team of fellow students to undertake a substantial robotics group project. This robotics project may be part of an international challenge or competition. Recent projects include modification of a quadcopter into an aerial vehicle for video reconnaissance.

Year 4 at sussex

Autumn teaching
  • Cybernetics and Neural Networks
Autumn and spring teaching
  • Robotics Group Project
Options

Autumn teaching
  • Advanced Digital Signal Processing
  • Advanced Electronic Systems
  • Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
  • Internet-of-Things
  • Mobile Communications
  • Real Time Embedded Systems
Spring teaching
  • Advanced Topics in Control of Electromechanical Systems
  • Digital Signal Processing Laboratory
  • Fibre Optic Communications
  • Image Processing
  • Reconfigurable System on Chip
  • Satellite and Space Systems
  • Strategic Management - Engineering module

You study advanced Masters-level modules and choose from a number of options, allowing you to specialise in your own areas of interest.

You join an interdisciplinary team of fellow students to undertake a substantial robotics group project. This robotics project may be part of an international challenge or competition. Recent projects include modification of a quadcopter into an aerial vehicle for video reconnaissance.

Additional information

International students Fee : £20,750 per year

Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Robotics (with an industrial placement year) MEng

£ 9,250 VAT inc.