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
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Start Date
September
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Location
Pontypridd
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Campus Code
A
Fees
Home students
£785*
- Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits.
This HND Electrical and Electronic Engineering, two-year, part-time course allows HNC graduates in a related discipline to top-up to an HND Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Following successful completion of the HND, there is a further opportunity to progress onto our BSc (Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering ‘top up’.
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
- This course has been 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
Overview
- Energy Storage and Distribution
- Power, Machines and Power Electronic Devices
- Communication Engineering
- Advanced Electronic Systems
- Engineering Practice
- Leadership and Product Development
Course Highlights
How you’ll learn
The HND Electrical and Electronic Engineering course is delivered through a range of lectures, tutorials and practical workshops.
You will be required to attend the university one day a week.
Assessment
Assessment methods include assignments, coursework and class tests, as well as preparing and delivering presentations to develop your communication skills.
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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
Typical qualification requirements:
HNC in Electrical and Electronic Engineering or a similar closely related qualification
Additional Requirements:
The University normally requires a minimum 3 GCSEs including Mathematics and English at Grade C/Grade 4 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 love to talk to you. You can contact our friendly admissions team by phone, email or chat to us online.
Fees and Funding
£785
per 20 credits*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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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.
How to apply
All applications for full-time undergraduate courses or foundation degrees should be made via UCAS. Take the next step: Apply through UCAS. You can apply to us directly for all part-time undergraduate courses, if you’re seeking advanced entry or you’re an international student. To apply directly, please choose the application form below for your preferred start date and mode of study (full-time or part-time.)
Advanced entry
If you already have a relevant qualification or experience related to the course you're applying for, you may be eligible to start at a later stage of the course. For example, students from partner colleges can ‘top up’ their qualifications to a degree by joining us in Year Two or Year Three of a course. This process is known as ‘advanced entry’, you can apply directly to the University for 'advanced entry' using the application forms provided above.
International admissions
International applicants can apply to us directly. If the University has an in-country team in your region, your application will be assigned to them for assistance.