BEng (Hons) Electronic Engineering (Full Time)

On this course you will gain a strong business focus together with advanced practical skills that will launch you into a specialist engineering career.

Course overview 

Designed to launch you into a fast moving and rewarding sector of the technological industries, this innovative degree will spark your business imagination while helping you realise your aspirations and prepare for a career in electronic and other engineering fields.

The course provides many opportunities for you to develop your practical skills and to become familiar with the latest systems and techniques. Through individual projects and coursework, you will develop your own concepts and gain confidence to become an independent learner. You will also be expected to work in a small group on some units in order to develop your co-operative and business skills. 

With a foundation in mathematics, the degree explores a wide range of topics including analogue and digital electronics, microcomputer systems and manufacturing concepts. It also covers a variety of other subjects including signals and circuits, instrumentation and control, computer networks, and signal processing, allowing you to explore and develop your own interests. 

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Industrial focus

To give you a package of skills that will be attractive to employers and give you strengths in many business areas, the course includes the required underpinning business knowledge. This will complement your final year project, where you will be expected to demonstrate the application of engineering through an understanding of the needs of the market and how that can be translated into technical solutions.

Course content

Year 1

Six core units:

• Analogue and Digital Electronics
• Manufacturing Concepts
• Microcomputer Systems
• Mathematics
• Circuit Theory
• Professional Skills and Business.

• Electronic Systems
• Analogue and Digital Communications
• Instrumentation and Control Systems
• Electronic Design
• Signals and Circuits.

Options:

• Quality Systems and Measurement
• Curriculum Plus.

Year 3

Four core units and one option unit:

• Computer Networks 
• Signal Processing
• Industrial Applications of Computers
• Project (double unit).

Options:

• Entrepreneurship
• Business Strategy.

 

Why choose this course?  

• This degree is CEng accredited by the IET in fulfilment of the educational requirements for Chartered Engineer when presented with an accredited MSc or equivalent further learning. In addition, the degree meets the educational requirements for registration as an Incorporated Engineer
• Accredited by the Engineering Council
• The University funds student IET membership fees and encourages participation in professional body events.
• Working closely with several companies, the degree gives students links to business and has a proven track record of graduate employment.

Assessment

 In-course assignments, laboratory work, formal examinations and projects.

Key career skills

Project management, numeracy, IT, teamwork, logical thinking and decision making.

Projects/work experience

The Faculty has strong industrial links within a wide range of business sectors and can sometimes offer industrial projects in partnership with companies.

Graduate quote

John Ogden 

“My time at Solent University was a great experience and not only has it given me a good qualification in electronics it has also helped me to achieve a great career as an air traffic control engineer.”