Program Description

Digital design, hardware circuit design, programming in C - this course teaches students skills that are at a premium.

All the program's first-year students take part in the faculty's Global Engineering Challenge, working with students from other engineering disciplines to solve a real-world problem. All second years get to work on a week-long project devised by one of The University of Sheffield's industry partners. Students also get the chance to work with an engineering company through the Sheffield Industrial Project Scheme.

In third year, students carry out their own research projects, supervised by an academic. Students will start to focus on more advanced topics such as digital signal processing, VLSI design, hardware description languages and operating systems.

These Electronics with Computer Engineering courses are new degree titles and the department is seeing accreditation from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) which will be backdated to entry. Students taking the 3 year BEng will need to complete some further learning to satisfy the requirements to achieve Chartered Engineer (CEng) status. A four year MEng meets all the academic standards for Chartered Engineer (CEng) status.