University of Sheffield
UCAS Code: H655 | Bachelor of Engineering (with Honours) - BEng (Hon)
Entry requirements
A level
including Maths and a science (science subjects include Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Electronics, Physics or Further Mathematics)
Access to HE Diploma
Award of Access to HE Diploma in a relevant subject, with 45 credits at Level 3, including 36 at Distinction (to include Maths and Physics units), and 9 at Merit + Grade B in A Level Maths (or equivalent)
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
with 6,5 in Higher Level Maths and a science (science subjects include Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, or Physics)
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017)
including Maths and a science (science subjects include Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Electronics, Physics or Further Mathematics)
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
in Engineering + A in A Level Maths
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
in Engineering + B in A Level Maths
Scottish Advanced Higher
in Maths and a science + AABBB in Scottish Highers (science subjects include Biology, Chemistry, or Physics)
T Level
"Distinction in the relevant T Level, including grade A in the core component + B in A Level Maths (relevant T Level subjects include: Maintenance, Installation & Repair for Engineering & Manufacturing; Building Services Engineering for Construction; or Design & Development for Engineering & Manufacturing)"
Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (last awarded Summer 2024)
+ AA in Maths and a science at A Level (science subjects include Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Electronics, Physics or Further Mathematics)
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About this course
Learn how to design and implement optimised hardware and software for computing, sensing, control and communication systems that power modern life. Refine your skills through a third-year individual project. Apply your skills in careers across AI and computing, autonomous vehicles, IoT and telecommunication systems.
**Learn about the technology that makes modern life possible, with a degree in electronics and computer engineering.**
The electronics and computer engineering discipline combines the fields of electronics and computer science. You'll learn how to design and fabricate individual electronic components, the combining of these components into complex circuits that form semiconductor integrated circuits (ICs) and then the assembly of the ICs into complete systems, such as mobile phones or autonomous vehicles.
You'll learn these steps using industry standard software and hardware tools. Your studies will be informed by our research and designed in collaboration with our industry partners, thus giving you a flying start to your career.
You'll learn by a combination of lectures, laboratory classes, tutorials and projects. Much of which will be delivered in our modern engineering teaching building - The Diamond. In particular, you will learn to use the industry-standard equipment in our Electronics and Control Lab, Teaching Cleanroom and Computer Labs.
In year one we will review the basic physics behind electrical/electronic devices and you will learn how to design, build and test simple electronic systems. These classes will be supplemented by a formal introduction to computer programming - a necessary skill for all engineers.
Year two contains in-depth material relating to embedded programming; digital and analog electronic circuit design, data communications, and software engineering. You'll do three projects:
A week-long faculty-wide engineering challenge
An industrial project with one of our industrial partners
A design project in which you will design, build and test either a simple microprocessor or microcontroller system.
Your third year will include higher level modules on digital engineering and electronic circuits, together with a management module. You will also complete a large individual research project, supervised by one of our academic staff.
Our graduates go on to exciting careers within leading design companies, including ARM and Imagination, plus many other engineering companies, including ARUP, BAE Systems, Barclays, Deloitte, Jaguar Land Rover, Nissan, National Grid, National Instruments, Renault, Rolls Royce, Shell, Siemens, Unilever and Volvo.
**Accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) on behalf of the Engineering Council for the purposes of fully meeting the academic requirement for registration as an Incorporated Engineer (IEng) and partially meeting the academic requirement for registration as a Chartered Engineer (CEng).**
**Why study this course?**
- Shape the future: This programme will enable you to make a positive contribution to many global challenges, including AI, computing, cybersecurity, autonomous vehicles, IoT and communications.
- Study with experts: You will learn from academic staff who are involved in world-class research with our industrial partners. Their research informs our teaching.
- Do engineering through project work: For your final year project you may be embedded within a research group or use the facilities in our bespoke project labs or the iForge Makerspace.
- Specialist teaching laboratories: The Diamond building is dedicated to teaching engineering students practical skills. It contains large, modern labs where you can apply the theoretical material delivered in lectures to real-world applications.
- Exciting careers: The specialist and generic skills that you acquire will enable exciting well-paid global career opportunities in industry, commerce, research and beyond.
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University of Sheffield
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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This is one of the more popular areas to study engineering and there is not quite such a serious shortage of electrical engineers as there is of other engineering subjects - but there's still plenty of demand. The most common jobs are in telecommunications, electrical and electronic engineering, but there is some crossover with the computing industry, so many graduates start work in IT and computing jobs. At the moment, there's a particular demand for electrical engineers in the electronics, and the car and aerospace industries, and also in defence, and salaries can vary across the country depending on the industry you start in. Bear in mind that a lot of courses are four years long, and lead to an MEng qualification — this is necessary if you want to become a Chartered Engineer.
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Electrical and electronic engineering
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