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BSc (Hons)

Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Top Up)

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

  • Start Date

    September

  • Location

    Pontypridd

  • Campus Code

    A

Fees

  • Home students

    £9,000*

  • International students

    £15,260*

  • Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits.

  • Start Date

    September

  • Location

    Pontypridd

  • Campus Code

    A

Fees

  • Home students

    £740*

  • Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits.

Topping up to a BSc (Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering qualification is a great way to increase your specialist knowledge and skills. Taught full-time (direct entry) or part-time for those already in employment, the top-up allows you the option to specialise in either electrical power engineering or electronics engineering.

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.

Accredited by

  • Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

Career Paths

  • Electronic Design Engineer
  • Electronics and Communication Engineer
  • Power systems Engineer
  • Mobile and Communication Engineer

Skills taught

  • Electronic Design
  • Optoelectronics and Systems
  • Power 

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Course Highlights

Industry Focused

We have strong links with industry and place considerable emphasis on student projects and practical, problem-based learning.

Expert Knowledge

Staff are experts in their fields, some through research activities and some through professional practice in industrial careers.

Module Overview

You will have the opportunity to undertake significant project work. This can be industry based from your own workplace, which could be of great benefit to your employer. Past students have used project work as the opportunity to identify organisational efficiencies, make cost savings and to influence their long-term career plans by acquiring the relevant skills.

Either Singleton Project and Project Management (40 credits) or Industrial Singleton Project (40 credits) 

Power option

  • Power Electronic Applications for Energy Systems - 20 credits (optional)
  • Smart Grid - 20 credits (specified)
  • Power Systems- 20 credits (optional)
  • Hybrid/Electric Vehicle Technology - 20 credits (specified)

Electronics option

  • Electronic Systems Engineering - 20 credits (optional)
  • Smart Grid - 20 credits (specified)
  • Electronics Design - 20 credits (optional)
  • Automotive and Electrical Vehicle Technology - 20 credits (specified)

Course Highlights

How you’ll learn

The Electrical and Electronic Engineering course is delivered through a range of lectures, seminars and practical workshops as well as guided independent study. Independent learning skills are a critical aspect of the degree, and this enables graduates with the ability to develop new skills throughout their careers.

Assessment methods include assignments, coursework and examinations.

 

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.

 

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.

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.

Careers and Employability

Graduate careers

By the time you graduate from your Electrical and Electronic Engineering course, you will be ready for a leading role in the development of modern electrical and electronic systems: researching, designing, building and marketing the next generation of products.



Possible career paths

Career opportunities exist in a wide range of engineering sectors including electronic engineering design and development, and the management and production of electronic systems and components for a wide range of applications. You may also develop and produce communication and computer systems, including hardware, software and signal processing aspects. You could work in medicine, communications, aerospace or the military, while your transferable skills will be valued in many sectors, particularly business.

 

 

Careers support

Our careers service offers a range of advice and guidance to students. We can link you up with industry, we can help you with interview skills and CVs and help you to focus on your own direction of travel.<Image>

 

Innovation Hub at USW

A student observes a robot arm with a claw on the end on a desk while sat at a computer at the Innovation Hub in an engineering workshop at the Treforest campus

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Relevant HND, foundation degree or equivalent.

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

UK Full-time Fee

£9,000

per year*
International Full-time Fee

£15,260

per year*
UK Part-time Fee

£740

per 20 credits*

Further Information

Studying at university is one of the most significant investments you'll ever make. Whilst you’re studying, you’ll have two main financial obligations – tuition fees and living costs. There’s lots of financial help available from the University of South Wales and external funding sources, that may provide loans (which have to be paid back) and grants, scholarships and bursaries (that don't).

*Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits. Once enrolled, the fee is anticipated to remain at the same rate throughout the duration of your study on this course except as described below.

Please be aware that we may increase the maximum fee for home students on full-time undergraduate courses only where the Welsh Government increases the permitted level of inflation of fees. Fees for all students (including part-time, postgraduate and international students) may be amended in accordance with our applicable Fees and Debt Management Policy.  We will ensure that students are given clear, intelligible, unambiguous and timely information about our courses and costs in good time, ahead of the next academic year.

 

Fees and Funding Scholarships and Bursaries Cost of Living Support

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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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.

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