Electronic and Information 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 years one and two, before selecting optional modules in the third year.

Some of the core modules are delivered jointly with students on the Electrical and Electronic Engineering courses; others are specifically designed for Electronic and Information Engineering students; and some are taught by the Department of Computing.

In the first year, you follow twelve core modules, supported by study groups and experiments in electrical and computer laboratories.

You will learn how to program in C and become familiar with software design, programming concepts and tool use – skills that will transfer to any programming language/environment that you encounter.

You will take part in a group project that allows you to perform image and video processing on a configurable hardware board. There is no processor, only a Field Programmable Gate Array. This will enable you to carry out high performance parallel processing by essentially building your own processor designed to process your own algorithm and design a game. Your project is assessed by report and demonstration.

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

• Analysis of Circuits
• Digital Electronics 1
• Introduction to Signals and Communications
• Software Engineering 1: Introduction to Computing
• Software Engineering 1: Algorithms and Data Structures
• Introduction to Computer Architecture
• Mathematics I (E-stream and I-stream)
• User-centred Information Systems
• Professional Engineering
• Computing Lab
• Electronics Lab
• Group Design Project

In the second year, you continue with the common programme of study within Electronic and Information Engineering, taking 14 core modules.

Your second year project is a four-day IBM Computer Architecture Workshop, run by staff from IBM and Imperial. This will give you the opportunity to apply your understanding of systems architecture, databases, middleware, operating systems and network hardware and software to a real IT systems challenge.

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

• Databases
• Computer Networks and Distributed Systems
• Digital Electronics II
• Communication Systems
• Signals and Linear Systems
• Mathematics II
• Algorithms and Complexity
• Software Engineering 2: Object-oriented Software Engineering
• Computer Architecture II
• Language Processors
• Feedback Systems
• Computing Lab
• Electronics Lab
• Architecture Workshop

In the third year you design your degree course to fit your interests and skills, in consultation with your personal tutor, by choosing advanced subjects from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and the Department of Computing.

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 seven modules in total, including at least one from both Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computing, and including one humanities or business module.

• Communication Systems
• Digital System Design
• VHDL and Logic Synthesis
• Digital Signal Processing
• Advanced Signal Processing
• Control Engineering
• Mathematics for Signals and Systems
• Artificial Intelligence
• Communication Networks
• Real-time Digital Signal Processing

• Advanced Databases
• Computer Vision
• Graphics
• Custom Computing
• Robotics
• Simulation and Modelling
• Introduction to Bioinformatics
• Operations Research
• Concurrent Programming

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

• Imperial Horizons
• Business for Professional Engineers and Scientists