BEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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This course is now closed to International applicants for 2021 entry.

We would normally only consider applicants who obtained the relevant qualification within the two years prior to entry. Applicants who have left education for more than two years would normally be recommended to take an Access course. Please contact the Admissions Office to discuss your particular circumstances. You should not usually apply for more than one of the courses offered by The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.  Students can switch between Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic Engineering and Mechatronic Engineering up until the end of the first year.

Applicants submitting mitigating circumstances. Mitigating circumstances may be personal or family illness, other family circumstances, change of teachers during a course, problems with school facilities or an unusual curriculum followed by your Department or college. We recommend that information on mitigating circumstances that have affected or are likely to affect your academic performance will be included in the referee's report. We cannot usually take into account information that is supplied after an adverse decision has been made on an application by the admitting Department. If you encounter mitigating circumstances after you have submitted your application, please inform the admissions staff in the Department to which you applied as soon as possible.  Where mitigating circumstances have already been taken into account, for example by the relevant Exam Board, we will not be able to make further allowances.

Switch on your career in electrical and electronic engineering at The University of Manchester. We're home to one of the largest departments dedicated to the subject in the UK, have fantastic links with industry, and have taught the discipline here since 1905. More than 100 years later, we continue to help solve the day's biggest energy problems.

The use of electricity, for example, is fundamental to modern life. Without a secure supply, society in its current form would collapse. Consequently, the importance of efficient and sustainable generation, secure distribution, and intelligent user devices cannot be overstated. This will be a lifetime challenge facing the next generation - and electrical and electronic engineers have a vital role to play.

• You will explore the importance of efficient and sustainable solutions for Electrical and Electronic engineering current and future challenges, for example sustainable electricity generation, secure distribution, intelligent communication systems, etc.
• We will provide ample opportunity for practical application and project work. These are strong themes throughout our course.
• You will be taught by academics working on the cutting-edge of research, helping to solve the world's biggest challenges.

Regular, close support

You will enjoy a close relationship with your personal tutor, meeting on a weekly basis to supplement your learning in lectures and lab sessions.

Excellent facilities

With access to an extensive range of leading facilities , you will get hands-on with industry-standard equipment - improving your knowledge and skills, and preparing you for work post-graduation. Our flagship facilities include the High Voltage Lab and Photon Science Institute .

We're getting ready to move into a £400million Manchester Engineering Campus Development. Learn more

Options and flexibility

The first three semesters of our undergraduate courses share the same content. This gives you the opportunity to transfer between electrical and electronic, electronic and mechatronic engineering up until halfway through your second year.

At Manchester you will be taught by academic staff who are leading experts in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, in a diverse and inclusive learning environment. Teaching and Learning will be delivered using a variety of methods, including:

• Lectures 
• Pre-recorded videos
• Tutorial classes 
• Practical work sessions
• PASS sessions and peer mentoring 

Some activities will be delivered face-to-face and others online, following a blended learning approach.  The course material is delivered by a mixture of live lectures and pre-recorded videos, with additional examples provided to consolidate your knowledge and answer technical questions. 

Tutorial and practical work sessions facilitate an interactive learning experience as well as allowing you to develop critically important practical engineering skills. All these activities enable you to interact with us and have the best possible student experience. A typical week in your first year of study will comprise of approximately 40 hours of activity, of which approximately 19 hours will be timetabled study and 21 hours will be independent or self-directed study. Given the strong practical elements in this course, a typical week will include 4 to 6 hours of hands-on practical work.

The course contains strong practical elements: a year-long practical build project of an electronic device in Year 1, a year-long practical build project of an embedded system in Year 2 and a year-long individual project in Year 3.

As you progress from Year 1 to Year 3, you will gradually develop into an independent learner and we will facilitate this progression by increasing the amount of self-directed study time, during which you will have opportunity to work on the project work as well as having the freedom to decide what aspects of the course you want or need to focus more on.

In your third year of study, between 25 and 30 hours each week will typically be independent study. You will be supported by staff through all of your independent study, and this transition to being able to explore your own ideas through project work is an important attribute of a graduate engineer.

PASS (Peer Assisted Study Sessions) and Peer Mentoring

We're proud of our innovative PASS (Peer Assisted Study Sessions) and Peer Mentoring scheme. The PASS scheme provides additional support around the current week's tutorial. It's entirely voluntary and consists of second, third and MEng fourth-year current students helping first years to tackle problems defined by the content of the current tutorial. The emphasis is on showing students how to think about the problems, how to develop problem-solving skills and how to get the most from the educational resources available.

More about blended learning  

Some of your activities will be synchronous, where you learn live with your lecturer / peers and can interact as appropriate, helping you get support and feel part of a community. At other times it will be asynchronous, where you access materials like presentations, video content, online discussion boards or collaborative documents in your own time (within a framework provided by your programme).

We believe this blended approach will help each individual study in a way that works best for them and will ensure students receive the best student-experience.

The course is assessed by a variety of methods, each appropriate to the topic being assessed. These methods include coursework exercises, laboratory reports, written examinations, online tests and examinations, presentations and practical demonstrations. You will also have many opportunities to self-assess your progress using online quizzes and tutorial exercises.

Find out what it's like to study at Manchester by visiting the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering blog .

Our strong, ever-growing links with industry not only help to inform our courses, but also boost our excellent teaching and research facilities. These include:

• National Instruments Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory
• High Voltage Lab
• Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre
• Oxford Instruments VG Semicon Molecular Beam Epitaxy facility
• National Graphene Institute
• Dalton Nuclear Institute

The University of Manchester also offers extensive library and online services , helping you get the most out of your studies.

Manchester's Engineering Campus Development, MECD.  

Get ready to collaborate, create and innovate in a brand-new £400m purpose-built building which will allow you, our future engineers and material scientists, to come together and make your mark on the world. Manchester's Engineering Campus Development (MECD) will officially open from September 2022 and will include hundreds of flexible teaching and learning spaces with unrivalled world-class research facilities - whatever your inspiration, with MECD the possibilities are endless. 

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Your electrical and electronic engineering degree from The University of Manchester will open up a world of opportunity, and the skills you develop will be sought across a wide range of industries.

For example, our graduates have gone on to forge successful careers in the design and operation of large-scale power systems and their integration with renewable energy sources; the design of electrical machines and associated power conversion systems; high voltage engineering; and oil and gas exploitation.

Alternatively, you might progress into the design of mobile and wireless communications systems; the development of real-time speech and image processing algorithms; the design of guidance and control systems for unmanned intelligent underwater, ground and aerial vehicles; or the development of microcontroller-based embedded systems and robotics.

Each year the Department hosts a careers fair, where you can meet with company representatives and discuss work experience options. These companies include Rolls-Royce, Alstom, National Grid, BP, Centrica, Jaguar Land Rover, National Instruments, Network Rail, Shell, and Siemens.

What's more, graduate with a degree from us and you'll be in demand among the top graduate employers (most targeted university in The Graduate Market in 2020 - High Fliers Research ). With a year-long industrial placement under your belt, you'll be well placed to take the next step - either into the workplace or towards further learning.