Course summary

Explore power systems, power electronics, digital electronics, circuits and devices, electrical machines and drives. Your study covers theoretical and practical aspects across the range of electronic and electrical engineering. Once you’ve successfully completed the foundation year, you can start your main degree. Learn about the design, fabrication and use of the devices and systems that make modern life possible, with a degree in electrical and electronic engineering. If you don't have the usual scientific or mathematical background for an engineering degree, a foundation year is for you. After successfully completing the foundation year, you can start the MEng or BEng degree. Electrical machines like those in wind turbines powering systems such as the National Grid; devices from LEDs and lasers to microprocessors and computers; communication systems like 5G mobile networks, all make the world go round. In this three-year course, you’ll explore the theoretical and practical engineering of these devices and systems, across a wide range of core and optional modules. Practical experience is key to our teaching. As a first-year you’ll take part in the faculty's Global Engineering Challenge to solve a real-world problem. In your second year, you’ll work on a week-long project, Engineering You’re Hired, devised by one of our industry partners – and get the chance to work with an engineering company through the semester-long Sheffield Industrial Project Scheme. At the end of your second year you can choose to specialise or continue with the more general electrical and electronic engineering, which is our most popular course. The degree streams that you can choose from are:

• electrical engineering

• electronic engineering

• electronic and communications engineering

• electrical and electronic engineering

• UK top 5 for electrical and electronic engineering - as rated by The Guardian University Guide, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024.

• Specialist teaching facilities - 'Learning by doing' is the reason The Diamond was built. Dedicated to engineering, this state-of-the-art electronics laboratory and semiconductor cleanroom is where you’ll apply the theory you learn in lectures – consolidating your understanding alongside students from other disciplines, and beyond the bounds of the curriculum.

• Total flexibility - as an undergraduate, you can change from this course to electronics and computer engineering at the end of year one. You can also choose a stream within the EEE programme by the end of year two, change course between MEng and BEng by the end of year three – along with the option to complete an industrial placement year.

• World-leading researchers - our academics tackle major scientific and technological challenges that have a positive impact on the world, ranging from improving the flow of data via wireless communications, renewable energy production and storage, improved efficiency and accuracy of manufacturing and the electrification of transport. Their research, which has been rated as internationally excellent, is what informs the content of your course.

• Industrial placement year - you have the option to either study abroad for a year or spend a year working in industry, gaining real-world experience and connections. Links with partners such as Siemens Gamesa and Rolls-Royce make Sheffield the right choice if you want to do a placement year – and mean we have world-famous companies joining us on campus for employability fairs and networking sessions.