Course description
Key facts
• Particular features of the programme include: one-to-one tuition with expert members of staff; teaching informed by active leading-edge researchers in the field; innovative and engaging teaching methods; access to many online resources; and flexibility in course content.
• The Faculty of Engineering is widely recognised as world-class - this fact is borne out by the high standard of our research and the extensive funding it attracts - overall research awards recently topped £80m.
• The School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nottingham has a strong reputation in both teaching and research. It achieved an excellent rating for its teaching quality rating (22/24) in 2000, and a grade of 4 in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise.
Course Content
The modular structure of the MSc in Electrical Engineering offers you a great deal of flexibility, allowing you to choose the modules that most reflect your interests and feed into your research project.
During the autumn and spring semesters, you will complete 120-credits’ worth of taught modules. You will choose four of the following five modules:
• Electronic Drives
• Electrical Machines
• Power Networks
• Power Electronics
• Control
In addition, you will be able to choose 80-credits worth of modules from the following list:
• Advanced Control System Design
• Instrument and Measurement
• Control Electronics and Microprocessors
• Induction Motor Drives
• Power Quality and EMC
• Special Drives
Please note that all module details are subject to change.
After completing the taught components of the course, you will undertake a major piece of advanced independent research over the summer under the supervision of a specialist in your chosen area.
We will provide you with advice and guidance while you select and refine your area of study, and offer close supervision and support as you complete your research and your MSc.
Course Structure
The MSc in Electrical Engineering is taught on a full-time basis over 12 months.
This course is operated on a modular basis and consists of two semesters during which you will follow a series of taught modules (worth 120 credits), followed by a 60-credit research project undertaken during the summer period.
Each 10-credit module requires approximately 75 hours of study and at least 140 credits must be taken from Level IV (‘Masters Level’) modules.
You will be taught using the latest advances in teaching methods and electronic resources, as well as small-group and individual tuition. Teaching is a mix of lectures, workshops, lab work, tutorials and projects, with assessment usually performed via a formal examination and lab report.
Tutors provide feedback on assignments. Our objective is to help you develop the confidence to work as a professional academic, at ease with the conventions of the discipline, and ready to tackle any area of research in Electrical Engineering.
In the early stages of your project dissertation, your supervisor will read through and comment on your draft work. The project dissertation itself comprises a significant piece of your own research.
