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Electronics, Computing or Mathematics MPhil or PhD
PhD
Online
Description
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Type
PhD
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Methodology
Online
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Duration
2 Years
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Online campus
Yes
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Delivery of study materials
Yes
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Support service
Yes
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Virtual classes
Yes
Challenge your thinking, develop original ideas and realise your potential by completing your research degree at Derby.
Become a confident, forward-thinking specialist in your area of study
Shape your ideas under the supervision of committed, dedicated and qualified experts who are highly regarded internationally
Gain the ideal preparation for a career in academia, research and development
Study in state-of-the-art facilities
Benefit from our wide-ranging industrial and professional partnerships
Join a university with an excellent research environment and fast-growing reputation
Employable Graduates – we’re ranked 15th highest amongst all UK universities and 12th for English institutions with 96% of graduates in work or further study within six months of completing their degree: HESA 2016.
Research is an important component of academic life. It plays a major role in supporting what we teach to our students and directly helps organisations to solve real-world problems.
About this course
With the prestige of a PhD on your CV, you can progress in your present job or seek new career opportunities in a range of areas such as research and teaching in universities, industrial research centres or publicly funded bodies. You can also enter management at a senior level within industrial companies.
Applicants for research degrees should normally hold an honours degree from a UK University, or qualifications or experience which are deemed by the University to be equivalent.
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Subjects
- Computing
- Systems
- Technology
- Networks
- GCSE Mathematics
- Mathematics
- Sound
- Project
- Electronics
- Electrical
- Sustainability
- Power electronics
- Sensor Systems
Course programme
Available research areas for study include:
Electrical and Electronics project areas- Renewable energy and energy sustainability
- Embedded systems, smart systems and the Internet of Things
- Power electronics
- Sensor systems
- Control systems
- Mechatronics
- Live sound reinforcement system design and optimisation
- Real-time audio digital signal processing
- Digital signal processing for sound, music and multimedia technology
- Electroacoustic design and analysis
- Acoustic model development and refinement
- Virtual bass synthesis and applications
- Binaural sound reproduction and algorithms
- Surround microphone array technology
- Performance and live event technology and techniques
- Ambisonic surround sound
- 3D auditory displays
- 3D audio for virtual reality
- Cloud computing, P2P and data grids
- Data science
- Big Data analytics/streaming analytics
- Complex networks, network architectures and management
- Crowd sourcing, social networks and web data analytics
- Distributed data and collective computational intelligence
- Multi-agents and service oriented computing
- Resource discovery and scheduling in heterogeneous networks
- Semantics, ontologies and conceptual structures
- Situated, context-aware computing and smart environments
- Trust, intrusion detection and network security
- Security and performance in operating systems and the Internet of Things
- Privacy and the use of personal data
- Administrative domains and deontic logic
- Risk and trust within digital forensics
- Visual computing, games and serious games
Electronics, Computing or Mathematics MPhil or PhD