Telecommunication and Electronic Engineering (top up) – BEng (Honours)

At a glance

Completing this course enables you to convert your existing qualifications into an honours degree. It Increases the number of opportunities available to you in industry by building on your existing knowledge and experience and enhancing your qualifications.

Key points
• Convert your previous qualification into a full honours degree.• Gain the skills and knowledge needed to advance in your career.
• Qualify for initial registration as a professionally accredited Engineer (Incorporated Engineer).
• Learn through hands-on projects that are a key feature of the course.

What is telecommunication and electronic engineering?
Most modern organisations in many industries are increasingly dependent on telecommunication and electronic technology. They use it to • obtain, store and analyse information
• control processing operations
• manage people, resources and finances

This course

This top-up award is suitable for you if you have a HND or foundation degree in electronic or telecommunication engineering and wish to develop your award to degree level.

It prepares you for a career in an industry where there a demand for engineers with a sound knowledge of engineering applications based on communication systems and information networks, as well as people who understand the necessary techniques to develop, test and maintain them.

You learn through problem-based and project-based assignments that involve working as a team. This style of active learning produces a motivated, enthusiastic learning environment where you can develop strong employability skills.

Your studies take place in a dedicated communications lab with experienced technicians and academic staff. Here you learn about and test the scientific principles that underpin telecommunications system design.

You also learn about analogue and digital electronics, digital signal processing and optical communications. You investigate the principles of telecommunication systems design and the methods, constraints, techniques and procedures involved in creating the products, systems and services that organisations use.

As well as specialist knowledge, you gain the professional and personal skills needed for a successful career in industry and commercial engineering enterprises. A project management module also develops your ability to plan, organise and manage resources.

Assessment tasks progressively mirror many of the projects that experts in industry and the professions would carry out, but are also designed to develop and test many of the key skills needed in employment generally.

By successfully completing the course, you gain the academic skills needed for initial registration as an Incorporated Engineer (IEng). This includes individual and group project work, presentations, independent learning and work-related learning.

Key areas of study
• digital signal processing • optical fibre communications • electronic engineering • optoelectronics and microelectronic system applications • mobile computing technology • project management.