MEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Industrial Experience / Course details

The use of electricity is fundamental to modern life and 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 as traditional sources of energy will run out and new ways of generating, distributing and using electricity must be sought. Electrical and Electronic Engineers have a vital role in addressing this challenge.  There are many reasons why we encourage students to spend a period in industry during their undergraduate degree course. Time in industry will develop your business, team-working and transferable skills - all of which are sought after by graduate employers. Industrial experience will increase your awareness of the broad range of careers on offer and guide your choice of option subjects.

• The MEng fourth year includes a team project directly funded by industry or inspired by industrial needs.
• You will have opportunity to learn from academics working on the cutting edge of research solving the world's biggest challenges.
• Past projects have included developing an instrumented training wheelchair for para-athletes, creating a new core infrastructure for a robot orchestra and developing a cyber-secure electricity management system in smart cities.

In subsequent years this split changes to a greater amount of independent learning with the split being approximately 33:67 in the third year and 22:78 in the fourth year.  This does not mean that less help is available; part of being an independent learner is knowing who to ask when you need to find something out, our staff are there to help.  This leads you to becoming an independent learner, as would be expected of an education process that is preparing you for graduate employment or study towards a higher degree.

Contact time could be in a lecture, example class, tutorial, laboratory class with a blended approach to include in person teaching and on line teaching (email/video conferencing/e-learning/fora...) All of these activities enable you to interact with us to ensure that you have the best possible learning experience.

We consistently receive positive feedback from our students as can be seen by the excellent scores that we receive in the National Student Survey (NSS). You can read what our current students have to say on the school blog site .

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

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