ObjectivesThis course is ideal for candidates who have a keen interest in both Electronic Engineering and Computer Programming. The first year of this the degree course is the same as BEng. in Electronic Engineering H610 and covers the basics of electrical engineering, engineering mathematics and computer programming. Year 2 deepens your knowledge in specific areas of electronic design, including embedded systems with emphasis on computer systems and software engineering. The final year allows you to broaden out into areas such as computer networking, image processing or robotics as well as further software engineering modules. There is an extensive use of design-based laboratory and project work to support the lectures. Management and business studies are taught and an option exists to take a modern foreign language in the final year.
Entry requirementsThere are different entry qualifications for each programme. Some programmes require you to have a certain amount of knowledge in a subject before you begin the degree programme – this is called a ‘subject requirement’. Other programmes do not have any specific subject requirements. All programmes will, however, expect you to have reached a certain standard in your education and will ask you to achieve certain grades in your examinations. Most programmes have a standard offer so that you know in advance what you are likely to need. Please note that even if you have the minimum entry qualifications, you are not necessarily guaranteed a place on the degree programme.
Academic titleBEng Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Course descriptionThis BEng in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science involves the following modules.
-Signals and Telecoms
-Embedded Systems
-Further Programming
-FPGAs & VHDL
-Digital Circuit Design
-Extensive Project Work
-Control Theory
-Neural Networks
-EM Theory
-Computer Modelling
-Communication
-Compilers & Databases and Operating Systems
-Further Cybernetics and Computer Science modules
Year 3
-Digital Signal Processing
-Digital and Data Comms
-Part III Project
-Social and Ethical Aspects of Engineering
-Mechatronics
-Choice of Several Modern Languages
-Analogue Circuit Design
-Digital Motor Control
-DSP in Communication
-Manipulator Robots
-Computer Networking
-XML and Semantic Web
-Image Processing
-Computer Vision
-Digital Media