Electrical and Electronic Engineering MEng/BEng (Hons)

Year two builds on year one learning and introduces new curriculum material.

Modules

• Analogue and Digital Electronics 2 - 20 credits

  This module aims to provide you with the capability to produce useful practical designs in the technology area of analogue and digital electronics. It adopts an activity led learning style requiring you to conceive and simulate your own designs.

  Compulsory

• Engineering Mathematics 2 - 20 credits

  This module emphasises the fundamental concepts that an engineer needs to understand in order to formulate and analyse practical problems.

  Compulsory

• Control and Instrumentation 1 - 20 credits

  The aim of this module is to develop a broad understanding of the principles, techniques and applications associated with control engineering and instrumentation.

  Compulsory

• Embedded System Design and Development - 20 credits

  The module allows you, via group activities, to apply appropriate theoretical and practical project management methods to aid the design, develop, manufacture, construct, commission, operate, maintain, decommission and re-cycle embedded products.

  Compulsory

• Electrical Engineering 2 - 20 credits

  The curriculum of this module covers topics associated with electrical engineering. These topics will include single phase and three phase circuits, transformers, motors, and generators.

  Compulsory

• Manufacture of Electronic Systems for Regulatory Compliance - 10 credits

  This module aims to develop your understanding of failure analysis of electronic systems linked to manufacture and environment, and the regulatory aspects involved in the design development and manufacture of electronic systems.

  Compulsory

• Add+vantage module - 10 credits

  You will also be able to take an Add+vantage module which can allow you to develop your CV by taking credits in an area of study that doesn’t have to be related to your degree. The assessment type will depend on the type of Add+vantage module you wish to take.

  Compulsory

  Assessment: Coursework and exam

During your Year two studies you will have the chance to apply for a professional work placement or a study abroad in a partner institution. Work placements afford opportunities to experience industry and commerce whilst study abroad affords to gain know-how of studying in commensurate universities outside of the UK.

If you wish to undertake the optional study abroad/placement year, you will take either the Placement Year module or the Study Abroad Year module which both typically run for a full academic year between second and third years of your course. You are normally able to progress onto the relevant module if you have successfully completed the first two years of the course (for example having accumulated 240 credits) and have a confirmed opportunity two weeks prior to the start of the academic year, however we encourage international students to confirm their placements earlier to ensure they are able to meet any applicable visa requirements.

Students opting for either the work placement or study abroad module will be registered on a non-credit bearing module and therefore no additional tuition fees apply. While the modules do not bear credits, they do require completion of marked activities reflecting on your placement/study abroad or work placement experience. Following successful completion of the activities, the module selected will appear on your final academic transcript.

Modules

• Professional Placement

  Optional

• Study Abroad

  Optional

This year aims to bring you to a level of professional capability equivalent to that of a graduate electrical and electronic engineer. As part of your Year three studies, you will undertake an individual project which will entail undertaking research and design studies with the guidance of a supervisor to provide a set of engineering solutions. Other study subjects are as shown below and include an optional subject choice thus giving the opportunity to tailor your level three studies.

Modules

• Individual Project Preparation - 10 credits

  The aim of this module is to provide preparation for you to undertake a substantial project.

  Compulsory

• Individual Project Realisation - 20 credits

  The aim of this module is to undertake a substantial project which will exercise in-depth technical, problem-solving, creative, and other skills required of a professional practitioner, including working to appropriate ethical codes of practice.

  Compulsory

• Advanced Electronics - 20 credits

  This module aims to provide the knowledge and skills necessary to work in specialised areas of electronics involving radio frequency and power control functions.

  Optional

• Advanced Digital Systems - 20 credits

  The aim is to enable the student to design a digital signal processing solution using two different approaches: hardware-only and programmable digital signal processor.

  Compulsory

• Engineering Impact - 0 credits

  Engineering has an impact on the environment, commerce, society, and the individual. The aims and objectives of this module are to strengthen graduate background in areas associated with these matters by further developing a skill set associated with managing engineering activities.

  Compulsory

• Add+vantage module - 10 credits

  You will also be able to take an Add+vantage module which can allow you to develop your CV by taking credits in an area of study that doesn’t have to be related to your degree. The assessment type will depend on the type of Add+vantage module you wish to take.

  Compulsory

  Assessment: Coursework and exam

• Optional modules

  Choose two from the following:

  Control and Instrumentation 2 – 20 credits

  Control and Instrumentation provides an important link between contemporary digital based monitoring and control engineering and their usage in the field of engineering and science, particular emphasis is provided to application techniques.

  Power Semiconductor Devices and Convertors – 20 credits

  This module aims to develop the knowledge and understanding of power semiconductor devices and converters in the context of general industrial applications.

  Power Systems – 20 credits

  The module provides a study of subjects pertinent to the generation, supply, and control of electrical energy.

  Optional

Following on from successful completion of the BEng (Hons) study, students can opt to proceed to the MEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the curriculum of which is described below.

Modules

• Industrial Group Project (ALL) - 60 credits

  This module will enable students, working in groups and in conjunction with industry, to produce successful system and sub-system designs, incorporating where necessary the most advanced technical and mathematical concepts from both their past knowledge and that acquired during the course.

  Compulsory

• Electrical Machines and Drives - 15 credits

  This module aims to enhance your understanding of electrical machines and their associated drive systems, to develop the relationship between the theoretical and practical aspects of the subject.

  Compulsory

• Digital Signal and Image Processing - 15 credits

  This module will first revise/introduce the fundamentals of the analysis of digital signals and systems. This will then lead to the development of higher-level signal processing techniques and filters design before applying them to some problems to demonstrate their applications.

  Compulsory

• Robots, Kinematics, Dynamics and Applications - 15 credits

  This module aims to introduce the science and engineering of mechanical manipulation, an introduction to mobile robotics, some common sensors used in the field, drive mechanisms and their differing configurations and some of their applications.

  Compulsory

• Advanced Control Engineering and Instrumentation -15 credits

  The Control Engineering segment is aimed to provide you with exposure to the underlying classical linear control theory and design tools with extensive applications in industrial practice.

  Compulsory