StudyQA — Bachelor: Electronic and Electrical Engineering

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Electronic and electrical engineers invent and create the technology that typifies today's high-tech society, from devices and systems that monitor our health and wellbeing to global communications networks and renewable electric energy. The BEng gives a broad education in the mathematics, science and engineering that underpins this subject.

In each year of your degree you will take a number of individual modules, normally valued at 0.5 or 1.0 credits, adding up to a total of 4.0 credits for the year. Modules are assessed in the academic year in which they are taken. The balance of compulsory and optional modules varies from programme to programme and year to year. A 1.0 credit is considered equivalent to 15 credits in the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).

All our degree programmes have a common first and second year covering material fundamental to electronic and electrical engineering. You will make your final choice between the BEng or one of the MEng programmes towards the end of the second year (subject to any visa requirements if applicable). Applying initially for a MEng gives you the most control over your plans.

Project work is undertaken every year, and your final year will include a substantial individual project. The work is varied. There are projects to suit all tastes, ranging from original research to intricate design and development of software and devices.

This degree is part of the IEP, a teaching framework that engages students in specialist and interdisciplinary engineering activities designed to create well-rounded graduates with a strong grasp of the fundamentals of their discipline and a broad understanding of the complexity and context of engineering problems. Students register for a core discipline, but also engage in activities that span departments so the development of fundamental technical knowledge takes place alongside specialist and interdisciplinary research-based projects and professional skills. This creates degrees encouraging professional development, with an emphasis on design and challenging students to apply knowledge to complex problems.

Year 1

Core or compulsory module(s)

Analogue and Power Electronics
Design & Professional Skills
Digital Systems
Integrated Engineering
Introduction to Electronic Engineering
Mathematical Modelling and Analysis
Physics of Electronics
Programming
Signals and Systems

Optional modules

All first-year modules are compulsory.

Year 2

Core or compulsory module(s)

Analogue Electronics
Communications Systems
Control Systems
Design and Professional Skills
Digital Design
Electromagnetic Theory
Mathematical Modelling and Analysis II
Photonics
Programming II
Semiconductor Devices

Optional modules

Minor I

You will take one minor, chosen from a wide range across UCL Engineering, in areas such as aerospace engineering, entrepreneurship and management, or languages.

A minor consists of three related modules on the same topic. One is taken in the second year (Minor I) and two are taken in the third year (Minors II and III). UCL Electronic & Electrical Engineering currently offers minors in Nanotechnology, Sustainable Energy and Networking Technologies.

Year 3

Core or compulsory module(s)

Project I

Optional modules

Minors II and III

You will also select 1.5 credits from the following modules (each is worth 0.5 credits):

Advanced Digital Design
Control Systems I
Digital Signal Processing
Electronic Circuits
Electronic Devices and Nanotechnology
Numerical Methods
Optoelectronics
Renewable Energy

Plus further options from a wide range including the following to a total of 4.0 credits:

Computer Music
Corporate Finance
Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice
Image Processing
Medical Electronics and Neural Engineering
Networked Systems

A levels

Grades

AAA

Subjects

Mathematics required, plus either Physics or Further Mathematics preferred.

GCSEs

English Language and Mathematics at grade C. For UK-based students, a grade C or equivalent in a foreign language (other than Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew or Latin) is required. UCL provides opportunities to meet the foreign language requirement following enrolment, further details at: www.ucl.ac.uk/ug-reqs