Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Overview

Design and build your own hardware and benefit from hands-on practical experience in well-equipped labs supported by expert researchers and practising engineers with this MSC Electrical and Electronic Engineering programme offered at University of Plymouth .

Key Features:

• Gain hands-on experience in signal processing and embedded systems programming.
• Benefit from the industrial collaboration with British Telecommunications plc (BT) and Bombardier Transportation. Strong collaboration with BT's Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station.
• Progress in a school that has gained national and international recognition for its research in satellite communications, data storage, and digital signal processing (Research Assessment Exercise RAE 2008).
• Develop research skills in leading edge technology. and advance with the support of our Centre for Cyber Security, Communications and Network Research.
• Develop your knowledge in our Digital Signal Processing [DSP] laboratory, a new networks laboratory funded in part by CISCO, a separate postgraduate study room with full internet and specialist software, and a dedicated communications laboratory.
• Draw on the expertise of our lecturers who are nationally and internationally recognised leading researchers. Professor Martin Tomlinson is internationally recognised for the invention of the Tomlinson-Harashima precoder – a key component of any telecommunications modem.
• Benefit from Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) accreditation. The MSc is a significant step towards the status of Chartered Engineer (CEng) which is highly sought after in industry.

Careers with this subject:

Graduate destinations include BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, Spirent Communications, Roke Manor, Allen & Heath, Jaguar Land Rover, Babcock Marine, Texas Instruments and National Instruments, with salaries starting at around £25,000.