Electronic and Electrical Engineering MEng

Year 1

Our first year has been designed to provide a contemporary and flexible educational model that builds upon essential engineering fundamentals to develop your broader understanding of behaviour, policy, entrepreneurship, and global perspectives and kindles the passion necessary to address the societal challenge agenda.

The first year is shared across the disciplines of Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering.

• Computing for Engineers
• Electrical Engineering 1
• Engineering Materials
• Engineering Mathematics 1
• Fluid Mechanics and Energy Transfer
• Mechanics 1

This year you will begin to specialise. Your core courses will include digital systems and embedded computing, electronic circuits, devices and electromagnetics, maths for engineering, energy systems and control, communications systems, and software engineering. You will enjoy undertaking both discipline-specific and interdisciplinary group projects. In recent years students have built, programmed and raced robots in the end of year challenge. Assessments in the integrated design project are devised in consultation with our partners in industry, and are presented in an end of term showcase. All modules are compulsory.

• Digital Electronics and Electrical Machines - 20 credits
• Engineering Mathematics 2 - 20 credits
• Electronic Circuits and Devices and Electromagnetics - 20 credits
• Integrated Design Project 2 - 20 credits
• Microprocessors and Control Systems - 20 credits
• Communication Systems - 10 credits
• Multidisciplinary Systems and Software Engineering - 10 credits

• Electronic Engineering - 20 credits
• Integrated Design Project 3 - 20 credits
• Advanced Communication Systems - 20 credits
• Power Electronics and Power systems - 20 credits
• The Internet of Things - 20 credits
• Engineering Mathematics 3 - 20 credits

This is your final stage of your MEng degree, the flagship of our degree programmes. You will carry out an individual research project in close collaboration with an academic supervisor. The taught component contains specialised high-level courses within one of three pathways; these are Communications Engineering, Power Engineering and Computer Engineering.

• Individual Project - 40 credits

Choose 80 credits. Example optional modules may include:

• Communications Engineering theme
  • Satellite, Mobile & Optical Communications - 20 credits
  • Electromagnetics, Antennas & Propagation - 20 credits
  • Digital Communications & Signal Processing - 20 credits
  • RF & Microwave Engineering - 20 credits
  • Radar and Satellite Navigation - 20 credits
  • Virtual and Mixed Reality Design and Technologies
• Computer Engineering theme
  • Computer and Communications Networks - 20 credits
  • Data Mining and Machine Learning - 20 credits
  • Small Embedded Systems - 20 credits
  • Sensing and Control for Autonomous Systems - 20 credits
• Power Engineering theme
  • Power System Economics - 20 credits
  • Power Systems Operation and Control - 20 credits
  • Renewable Energy Systems Integration - 20 credits
  • Power Systems Stability Control and Protection - 20 credits

Please note: The modules listed on the website for this programme are regularly reviewed to ensure they are up-to-date and informed by the latest research and teaching methods. Unless indicated otherwise, the modules listed for this programme are for students starting in 2020. On rare occasions, we may need to make unexpected changes to core modules; in this event we will contact offer holders as soon as possible to inform or consult them as appropriate.