Brunel’s MSc in Advanced Electronic and Electrical Engineering is a broad degree of advanced studies in electronic and electrical engineering.

You will study in depth and breadth the key areas of electronic and electrical engineering. These include, sensors and instrumentation; control; photonics; power electronics; telecommunications; intelligent systems; medical systems; digital and analogue electronics; and embedded systems.

Access is available to modern technical facilities including computer, electronics, and power and control laboratories where you’ll work on your lab exercises. The latest industry standard engineering software packages are available for you to use in purpose-built computer laboratories.

During your studies, you will benefit from guest lectures delivered by industry professionals. You’ll participate in conferences and deliver poster presentations on your research work. This allows you to network and exchange ideas with key engineering and technology experts.

Our MSc advanced electronic and electrical engineering degree is accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). This professional engineering institution ensures that your engineering degree meets the academic requirement to qualify as a professional engineer. This accredited MSc degree in advanced electronic and electrical engineering fully meets the educational requirement for progression to Chartered Engineer (CEng) status. It is studied full-time over one year.

Entry Requirements

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Course Content

You will study the taught modules in the first two terms and then spend four months working on your dissertation. The dissertation is an advanced piece of research on a real world challenge relevant to electronic and electrical engineering.

Teaching and Learning

Our advanced electronic and electrical engineering degree is delivered by an expert team of multidisciplinary academic staff. Many are world-renowned researchers and they feed their active research into the course. There will also be guest lectures from our industrial partners and networking at conferences with key industry specialists.

Study will combine lectures, seminars, workshop sessions, computer simulation, self-study, and individual and group project work.

Applied Sensors Instrumentation and Control

This module aims to enable students to focus on particular aspects of sensors, instrumentation and control through the use of real-world examples and hence to acquire knowledge and understanding of the characteristics of sensors and associated systems for monitoring and control, and the skills to evaluate, design and implement them.

Power Electronics and FACTS

The main aims of this module are to develop students ability to critically analyse and design advanced power electronic circuits, and to incorporate state-of-the-art power electronic circuits in Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS).

Applied Sensors, Instrumentation and Control

Engineering Ethics and Sustainability

This module aim to enable Engineering students to deal with legal, social, ethical and environmental issues and apply professional codes of conduct. Indicative content: Ethics and Legal Aspects, Risk and environment management systems, Risk Assessment and engineering failure methods and sustainability.

Advanced Electronic and Electrical Engineering Group Project

Innovation, Business and Enterprise for Engineers

The aim of the module is to develop understanding of Management practices, financial and strategic aspects of engineering business enterprise and the particular process of business plan construction and evaluation.

Advanced Analogue Electronics and Photonics

This module aims to enable students to focus on photonic systems and electronic systems for sensors in general the use of real-world examples and hence to acquire knowledge and understanding of the characteristics of sensors and associated systems for, and the skills to evaluate, design and implement them.

Project and Dissertation

This module aims to provide experience in defining and organising, executing and evaluating a substantial individual in-depth investigation into a topic related to the appropriate wireless and computer communication networks and presenting the information in the form of a dissertation.

Careers

An advanced electronic and electrical engineering degree from Brunel will equip you with the broad knowledge and skills relevant to the demanding and dynamic electronic and electrical engineering sector.

Our graduates have gone on to work for high-profile companies including IBM, Intel, Mercedes, Microsoft, National Grid and Siemens. They are in specialist roles in areas such as: