Program Overview

The modern world depends upon electronics, from mobile phones and digital broadcasting, to GPS navigation and robotics; and it is electronic engineering which has driven these inventions and more. This is a subject where you can exercise your imagination, using skills from both traditional communications and digital systems to resolve existing problems, and to create new products.

On the four-year MEng version of this course, you cover the same wide spectrum of topics as those on the BEng in order to provide you with the foundation to become an electronics designer:

• Mathematical skills and software tools for problem-solving in engineering
• Wireless Communication technology
• The building blocks of complex digital systems
• Analogue systems and circuit techniques
• Computer simulations

In addition to these areas, you also achieve a masters-level qualification and have the opportunity to investigate more advanced topics in electronic engineering, including:

• Mathematics and modern communication systems
• The development of software for embedded systems and robots
• The design simulation and production of complex electronic circuits

Our School is a community of scholars leading the way in technological research and development. Today’s electronic engineers are creative people who are focused and committed, yet restless and experimental. We are home to many of the world’s top engineers, and our work is driven by creativity and imagination as well as technical excellence.

You graduate as a creative, experimental, and focused engineer ready to explore further how electronics can impact the people and world around you.

Programming at Essex

Teaching someone to programme is about opening a door. In your first year at Essex you will study a module that introduces you to programming using C. We assess your ability to think in a programmatic way in the very first week of term and if you require additional support, we offer classes which will boost your skills and confidence with programming.