Bachelor in Electronic Engineering - Trinity College Dublin

Students who wish to study the Bachelor in Electronic Engineering apply to the Engineering degree. The first two years are common to all Engineering students and at the end of the second year students select Electronic Engineering as their specialist area.

Until recently it was possible to define the skillset of an Electronic Engineer as related to the design of hardware chips that could, for instance, be found in computers and consumer devices. In fact it is a continuously evolving profession and is the driving force behind the development of the world’s information technology.

Electronic engineers create, design and develop everyday devices like the mobile phone, tablets, game engines and computers. In particular they increasingly design systems which are at the interface between decision making systems and actions in the real world. That means an engineer in this speciality has to also have a working knowledge of software engineering since all engineers now exploit software design to implement ideas and prototypes.