Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Advance your skills and qualifications for a career in Electronics. Get hands-on with state-of-the-art facilities at USW.
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Key Course Details
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UCAS Code
H601
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Start Date
September
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Location
Pontypridd
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Campus Code
A
Fees
Home students
£9,250*
International students
£16,200*
- Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits.
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UCAS Code
HQ00
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Start Date
September
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Location
Pontypridd
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Campus Code
A
Fees
Home students
£9,250*
International students
£16,200*
- Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits.
As the electronics industry continues to grow worldwide, the demand for electrical and electronic engineering graduates is high. BEng (Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering offers a healthy balance between theory and practice, with the aim of producing graduates who can play leading roles in industry.
DESIGNED FOR
Electrical engineers have an inquiring mind, wanting to understand how things work and how to apply knowledge to real-world problems. If you have an interest in how the world is wired up, this is the course for you.
Industry Ready
- Designed to meet the learning outcome requirements of the UK Engineering Council Accreditation of Higher Education Programmes version 4.
Career Paths
- Electronic Design Engineer
- Electronics and Communication Engineer
- Power systems Engineer
- Mobile and Communication Engineer
Skills Taught
- Electronic Design
- Optoelectronics and Systems
- Power systems design
- Wireless network systems
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Course Highlights
Module Overview
Years one and two provide essential knowledge and skills to prepare you for the final years of the electrical engineering course. Areas of study include analogue and digital electronics, embedded systems, mathematics, power, machines and control, and signals and digital communications. In your final year, you will cover electronics design, control system design, power electronics and drives, telecommunications and embedded systems design. You'll also undertake a major practical project.
- Mathematics for Engineers - 20 credits
- Electrical Principles - 20 credits
- Engineering Applications - 20 credits
- Introduction to C programming and Embedded Systems- 20 credits
- Analogue and Digital Electronics 1- 20 credits
- Health Safety and Professional Development - 20 credits
- Analogue and Digital Communications - 20 credits
- Power, Machines and Power Electronic Devices - 20 credits
- Electrical Principles and Analytical Methods - 20 credits
- Configuration and Programming of Embedded Systems - 20 credits
- Analogue and Digital Electronics 2 - 20 credits
- Group Project and Management for Engineers - 20 credits
- Communication Engineering and Application - 20 credits
- Control System Design - 20 credits (Optional)
- Power Electronics and Drives - 20 credits
- Advanced Embedded Systems - 20 credits (Optional)
- Electronics Design - 20 credits
- Singleton Project and Project Management (40)
- Supervised Work Experience (SWE) - 120 credits
Course Highlights
How you’ll learn
You will be taught through lectures, tutorials and workshops involving hands-on systems modelling and simulations using state-of-the-art hardware and software facilities. Students will also engage in supervised research supported by full access to world-class online and library facilities.
The full-time route is delivered in three major blocks. Six taught modules are completed during two teaching blocks featuring 12 contact hours per week followed by a 16-week major research project. The course duration is about 14 months.
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Teaching staff
Our lecturers are experts in their subject areas, having worked in, or with, industry, conducting research, presenting at conferences, publishing their work, and informing your studies with the latest insights.
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Placements
We encourage you to gain experience in the workplace as part of your engineering degree. Our students have completed year-long placements with a range of companies, including Tata Steel, 3M, Renesas, Airbus UK, Renishaw, GlaxoSmithKline, Panasonic, Bosch, and IBM.
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Facilities
Our state-of-the-art University library provides access to major global publications. Facilities include a Cisco Academy networking lab, a Wireless Communications lab with a 1-65 GHz anechoic chamber, a satellite communication station, and a Communication Systems simulation lab with the latest software like MATLAB.
The Calypto lab, sponsored by Calypto Design Systems Inc, focuses on rapid, cost-effective electronic product development with a £1.9m software grant, exclusive to select universities worldwide.
Our Embedded Systems lab, designed with top microcontroller vendors, has 32 advanced computers with the newest electronic design tools, ensuring students work with cutting-edge technologies.
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ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
UCAS Points: 112 (or above)
Typical qualification requirements:
- A Level: BBC to include Mathematics and a numerate subject such as Physics, Chemistry, Biology or Geography
- Welsh BACC: Pass the Advanced Welsh Baccalaureate Diploma with Grade C in the Skills Challenge Certificate and BB at A Level to include Mathematics and a numerate subject such as Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography
- BTEC: BTEC Extended Diploma Distinction Merit Merit in a relevant subject which must include Maths and Engineering or Science modules
- Access to HE: Pass an Access to HE Diploma in Maths/Science and obtain a minimum of 112 UCAS tariff points
Additional Requirements:
GCSEs: The University normally requires a minimum 5 GCSEs including Mathematics and English at Grade C or above, or their equivalent but consideration is given to individual circumstances
International applications welcomed:
We welcome international applications with equivalent qualifications of our entry requirements. For more details related to your country of residence please view our dedicated country pages.
English language requirements
International applicants will need to have achieved an overall of IELTS 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component/TOEFL 72 overall and a minimum of 18 in reading, 17 in listening, 20 in speaking and 17 in writing or equivalent.
Equivalents can be located on our English Language pages.
If you have previously studied through the medium of English IELTS might not be required, please visit our country specific page for further details. If your country is not featured, please contact us.
If you do not meet the English entry criteria please visit our Pre-Sessional course pages.
Contextual offers
We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions.
USW prides itself on its student experience and we support our students to achieve their goals and become a successful graduate. This approach helps us to support students who have the potential to succeed and who may have faced barriers that make it more difficult to access university.
We're here to help
Whether you a have a question about your course, fees and funding, the application process or anything else, there are plenty of ways you can get in touch and we'd to talk to you. You can contact our friendly admissions team by phone, email or chat to us online.
Fees and Funding
£9,250
per year*£16,200
per year*£16,200
per year*Additional Costs
As a student of USW, you’ll have access to lots of free resources to support your study and learning, such as textbooks, publications, online journals, laptops, and plenty of remote-access resources. Whilst in most cases these resources are more than sufficient in supporting you with completing your course, additional costs, both obligatory and optional, may be required or requested for the likes of travel, memberships, experience days, stationery, printing, or equipment.
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Investing in your future
We are investing in the future of STEM at USW with an exciting new Computing, Engineering and Technology building at our Pontypridd Campus.
University Quality Assurance
At USW, we regularly review our courses in response to changing patterns of employment and skills demand to ensure we offer learning designed to reflect today’s student needs and tomorrow’s employer demands.
If during a review process course content is significantly changed, we’ll write to inform you and talk you through the changes for the coming year. But whatever the outcome, we aim to equip our students with the skillset and the mindset to succeed whatever tomorrow may bring. Your future, future-proofed.
