Overview

Our modern lifestyle depends on electronics – from iPods to ovens, they’re everywhere. With our Electronic Engineering degree you’ll master a branch of technology essential to the way we live. In our new electronics laboratories in Chelmsford, you’ll use the latest industry-standard software to design, simulate and build electronic systems, and develop your creative problem-solving skills. Accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology, this course offers a placement year in industry and leads to Incorporated Engineer status.

Our course will give you detailed knowledge of a branch of technology which is absolutely vital to our modern lifestyle. It will prepare you for a career at the cutting edge of technology development.

You’ll focus on the central topics in electronics while learning to design and build electronic systems. You’ll also have the opportunity to develop certain skills in more detail to specialise on an area of interest.

Take advantage of our state-of-the-art electronics and microelectronics laboratories, with support and guidance from our in-house team of technical experts. We use industry-standard software including the Xilinx ISE digital systems design software and National Instruments’ Multisim and Labview System Design Software and hardware platforms that feature the latest all programmable Zynq SoC FPGA circuits and ARM microcontrollers. You’ll also use a wide range of central computing and media facilities.

By the time you graduate, you’ll be a creative problem-solver and be able to design systems and components. You’ll also be able to consider the social, environmental and economic implications of different aspects of electronics.

All our students have the option of doing a year-long placement in industry between Year 2 and Year 3.

This programme is CEng accredited by the IET and fulfils the educational requirements for Chartered Engineer when presented with an accredited MSc. In addition, the programme meets the educational requirements for registration as an Incorporated Engineer.

Careers

We work with employers to make sure you graduate with the knowledge, skills and abilities they need. They help us review what we teach and how we teach it – and they offer hands-on, practical opportunities to learn through work-based projects, internships or placements.

There is a wide variety of career opportunities in electrical engineering, ranging from pure research through product design and development, to industrial and business management.

You’ll be able to choose from jobs in medical electronics, environmental monitoring, microelectronics, sound technology, biophysics, power, transport, media, engineering, industrial process control, construction and building services, and teaching.

Throughout the course, we’ll help you to think about what you’ll do when you graduate. We’ll help you with your CV and a personal development plan. You’ll also go on company visits and some lectures are delivered by working engineers. You might even get a job offer from one of the companies that we invite to see students’ work: employers tell us that graduates from this course have just the skills they’re looking for.

Graduation doesn’t need to be the end of your time with us. If you’d like to continue your studies we offer a wide range of full-time and part-time postgraduate courses including MSc Electronic and Electrical Engineering.

Modules & Assessment

Analogue Electronics
Core Technology
Digital Electronics
Introduction to Microprocessors
Mathematics for Technology 1
Embedded Systems
Computer Modelling

Data Communications
Design Methods and Technology Project
Electronic Circuits
Mathematics for Technology 2
Microprocessor Systems Design

Signals and Signal Processing
Data Acquisition Systems

Digital Systems and Power Control
Microelectronic Systems Design
Signals and Control Systems
Final Project
Digital Signal Processing

Assessment

We’ll assess you throughout the course to measure your progress. Besides exams and essays, there’ll be reports, logbooks, presentations, posters, interviews, and work resulting from practical classes.

Where you’ll study

Your faculty

The Faculty of Science & Engineering is one of the largest of the four faculties at Anglia Ruskin University. Whether you choose to study with us full-time or part-time, on campus or at a distance, there’s an option whatever your level – from a foundation degree, BSc, MSc, PhD or professional doctorate.

Whichever course you pick, you’ll gain the theory and practical skills needed to progress with confidence. Join us and you could find yourself learning in the very latest laboratories or on field trips or work placements with well-known and respected companies. You may even have the opportunity to study abroad.

Everything we do in the faculty has a singular purpose: to provide a world-class environment to create, share and advance knowledge in science, technology and engineering fields. This is key to all of our futures.