Undergraduate study
     

Engineering

BEng (Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering

  • Length: 3/4 years
  • UCAS code: H601 BEng/EEE
  • Typical offer: individualised offer following an interview or 280 tariff points. See entry requirements.
 

Electronic intelligence is found in virtually all household and industrial equipment. Modern life relies heavily on electrics and electronics, which makes engineering graduates in great demand.

During your first two years, you learn the principles and science behind mechanics, materials, programming and instrumentation. You then get the chance to apply your knowledge with a year-long placement, before specialising in heavy current or light current disciplines in the final year of your degree.

From large-scale projects like the National Grid to tiny microprocessor technologies, there is scope to find an exciting and challenging career in the rapidly evolving area of electrical and electronic engineering.

What you study

Year 1 provides a broad foundation to the subject area. Year 2 provides more advanced study and introduces more discipline-related subjects and your final year provides advanced study and allows you to specialise further in electrical and electronic engineering.

How you learn

You will have a range of lectures, small-group tutorials and hands-on laboratory sessions. Part of your course will also involve a substantial research-based project.

The course has been designed to provide a number of contact teaching and assessment hours (such as lectures, tutorials, laboratory work, projects, examinations), but you are also expected to spend time on your own, called ‘self-study’ time, to review lecture notes, prepare coursework assignments, work on projects and revise for assessments. Each year of full-time study consists of modules totalling 120 credits and each unit of credit corresponds to ten hours of learning and assessment (contact hours plus self-study hours). So, during one year of full-time study you can expect to have 1,200 hours of learning and assessment.

How you are assessed

Your course will involve a range of types of assessment including coursework assignments and examinations.

Professional placements

You are encouraged to spend your third year on an industrial placement. This provides the opportunity to gain relevant professional experience to enhance your technical knowledge and can improve employment prospects. Some find employment with their placement company after graduating.

Professional accreditation

This course is accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Career opportunities

Electrical and electronic engineers find employment in almost every area of modern manufacturing, service and financial industries. These sectors include aerospace, banking and financial, communications, generation, manufacturing and process, research and development and many others. In addition, because Electrical and Electronic Engineering graduates are numerate and have excellent reasoning skills, they can also find employment in a wide range of alternative career paths, such as insurance, management and 'The City'.

Entry requirements

Applicants are normally invited for an interview which enables them to see our excellent facilities and meet the staff and students. Each applicant will receive an individualised offer following an interview. In cases where an interview cannot take place the typical offer will be 280 tariff points from at least two A levels or equivalent, one of which should be in mathematics or physics or have substantial relevant mathematical content.

Applications from suitably-motivated mature students and those with other equivalent qualifications are warmly welcomed.

For additional information please see the standard University entry requirements.

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Modules

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Year 1 core modules

Year 2 core modules

Final-year core modules

Non-credit bearing optional modules

  • A foreign language: German, French, Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin)
  • In-sessional Academic English (for international students)
  • Professional Mentoring

You may select one or more of these modules.

Modules offered may vary.