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Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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UCAS Tariff

100-128

About this course


Course option

3years

Full-time | 2024

Subject

Design

In this high-tech and forward-thinking world, Electrical Engineers are essential to the innovation of our daily lives and the future. With this comes responsibility to minimise the environmental damage currently being done, that’s why sustainability is an integral part of this course.

Whether you’re designing parts of a performance car, a space craft, or a new medical device, you’ll learn the skills to become an engineer capable of imagining and creating ground-breaking products.

**Why study at BNU?**
Led by a dedicated teaching team with a wealth of experience within, you’ll benefit from their insider-knowledge and the professional-network they bring with them. Our array of industry practitioners and working alumni will be involved in delivering guest lectures, masterclasses and workshops, site visits and where possible, contribute to the assessment of your work.

During your three year degree programme you'll learn hands-on practical skills to help you stand out to potential employers. You’ll get to grips with industry-standard equipment including Zero Energy Systems, Power electronics, Machines and Drives, Industry 4.0, Mechatronic, Robotics, PLC and electro-mechanical rigs to provide real-time hands-on experiences - ensuring upon graduation you are prepared for your exciting future career.

Delivered through lectures, tutorials, laboratory and studio-based work, each of the modules you study will help to build your identity and specialist knowledge as an Electrical & Electronic Engineer. You will also work closely with other students across a range of disciplines allowing you to experience the professional structures you will be a part of in the workplace.

Local to the University are high tech business clusters and with London only a short train ride away, you’ll have the opportunity to engage with representatives from industry during your course.

**What facilities can I use?**
We have a range of state-of-the-art-facilities for you to get hands-on with, here you’ll have access to Digital technologies and industry standard software including Autodesk ECAD and MCAD software, MATLAB Simulink and SolidWorks.

You’ll develop essential skills within our Electrical and Electronic Suite and the Engineering IT Studio, using programmes such as Matlab-simulink, AutoCAD (electrical), 3d Studio Max, Rhino and Photoshop through structured lessons in the IT/CAD suites and studios. You’ll also get hands-on with programming digital assets, 3D printing, robotics and automation, and augmented reality (AR) technology.

**What will I learn?**
This practical and hands-on course incorporates innovation and creativity at every stage of learning. During your time with us you’ll gain an extensive knowledge and critical understanding of professional ethics, social and cultural values in engineering.

You’ll study the principles, characteristics, control design requirements and applications of instrumentation and power systems used in industry. During your time with us you’ll create, simulate, build and test prototype circuits and systems using printed circuit boards, MATLAB Simulink, LTSpice and electronic laboratory equipment.

Modules are centred around industrial systems, analogue, digital and power electronics with basic engineering. With a focus on sustainability, you’ll learn skills to help you identify and solve electrical engineering problems, whilst meeting the needs of the industry and the forward-thinking sector.

Graduates of this course will be able to use a sound, evidence-based approach in applying innovative technologies, processes and systems and leadership skills to transform ideas into fully functioning real products, individually and working as a team, by meeting client, financial, environmental, quality, statutory and safety objectives.

Modules

**Year One**
**Core Modules**
Mathematics for Engineers
Science and Materials for Engineers
Fundamentals of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Computer Aided Design and Simulation
Modelling and Analysis of Electromechanical Systems
Individual Engineering Project and Management

**Year Two**
**Core Modules**
Circuit analysis and three-phase systems
Analogue and Digital Electronics
PLC, Microprocessor and Embedded Systems lab
Sensors, actuators, and instrumentation
Control Systems Engineering and Mechatronics
Power system analysis, Smart Grids and All-Electric Vehicles

**Year Three**
**Core Modules**
Leadership and Management
Advanced Power Electronics, Machines and Drives
Emerging and Sustainable technologies for Engineers
Research Project

**Option Modules**
Robotics, Automation and Industry 4.0
OR
Control and Automation of Sustainable Electrical Power Network

Assessment methods

A range of active teaching methods and authentic assessment strategies will be used during the course, with an emphasis on both practical and traditional teaching approaches. Laboratory sessions and a range of practical activities will build upon previous learning from lectures and tutorials.

Traditional forms of assessment include;

Written assignments
Report
Portfolio and digital models
In-class assignments
Computer-based test
Set Presentations (for example, poster and oral)
Proposal
Dissertation

You’ll study in a close-knit tutor group where everyone’s input is recognised and valued. Not only will you make friends for life, you’ll also make important connections that will last through your career, and you’ll form a network, just like you’d find in the working-world.

Tuition fees

Select where you currently live to see what you'll pay:

Channel Islands
£9,250
per year
England
£9,250
per year
EU
£15,000
per year
International
£15,000
per year
Northern Ireland
£9,250
per year
Republic of Ireland
£9,250
per year
Scotland
£9,250
per year
Wales
£9,250
per year

Extra funding

Buckinghamshire New University offers a range of bursaries and scholarships. For more information, please visit https://www.bucks.ac.uk/study/fees-and-funding/financial-support-bursaries-and-scholarships

The Uni


Course location:

Buckinghamshire New University

Department:

School of Engineering and the Built Environment

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What students say


We've crunched the numbers to see if overall student satisfaction here is high, medium or low compared to students studying this subject(s) at other universities.

94%
Design

How do students rate their degree experience?

The stats below relate to the general subject area/s at this university, not this specific course. We show this where there isn’t enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

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Teaching and learning

95%
Staff make the subject interesting
98%
Staff are good at explaining things
89%
Ideas and concepts are explored in-depth
88%
Opportunities to apply what I've learned

Assessment and feedback

Feedback on work has been timely
Feedback on work has been helpful
Staff are contactable when needed
Good advice available when making study choices

Resources and organisation

61%
Library resources
76%
IT resources
70%
Course specific equipment and facilities
91%
Course is well organised and has run smoothly

Student voice

Staff value students' opinions
Feel part of a community on my course

Who studies this subject and how do they get on?

90%
UK students
10%
International students
25%
Male students
75%
Female students
85%
2:1 or above
18%
First year drop out rate

Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)

C
B
B

After graduation


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Design studies

What are graduates doing after six months?

This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.

£19,000
med
Average annual salary
89%
low
Employed or in further education
69%
med
Employed in a role where degree was essential or beneficial

Top job areas of graduates

36%
Design occupations
12%
Media professionals
9%
Sales, marketing and related associate professionals

What about your long term prospects?

Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.

Design studies

The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.

£17k

£17k

£21k

£21k

£24k

£24k

Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.

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