Modules

Year 1 From day one of your studies, you will find there is an emphasis on learning by doing. The first year will equip you with the tools to build tomorrow’s technology. Analogue to sense or affect our physical environment, digital to add logic and intelligence to act upon information, and embedded systems to tie these together with computing power. All learned through experience in labs and projects. Year 2 In Year 2, you will develop a greater understanding of underlying engineering principles and circuit design methods. You’ll take the tools and skills you learnt in your first year and start using them to design technology for communications, power systems, and robotics, all through practical experience in the labs. At the core of these are embedded systems providing the intelligence and interactive features, and the heart of the second-year project. Optional placement year Gain relevant experience and an excellent opportunity to seek final year sponsorship. Many of our graduates are offered permanent jobs with their placement company. We can help you find industrial placement opportunities in the UK, France, Germany and Japan. Your optional work placement experience gives you opportunities to put theory into practice. This means you are well prepared for your final year of academic study and your specialist, individual project. Year 4 Your fourth year has modules based around industrial skills and topics. It provides an exciting opportunity to develop an individual project, consolidate your knowledge, explore, and evaluate new technologies. It can be based on one of our research areas or a personal interest. Machine vision for rock climbing analysis, A data logger and emergency system for a motorbike, a Mars rover, an autonomous navigation system for drones. Your achievements will be showcased on the project open day, with visitors from thirty to forty tech companies and sponsored prizes awarded. Final year Your final year includes additional technical modules, and a large interdisciplinary design project partnered with industry or a research group. Past projects have included designing robotic arms for an autonomous farm vehicle to weed and fertilize, an autonomous sailing boat and a smart Beehive to monitor and study Bees. The project is again shown on the project open day to our industrial visitors and guests, and groups have frequently won prizes at research competitions locally and nationally, beating PhD students in the process.

Assessment method

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Professional bodies

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• Engineering and Technology, Institution of

Qualified teacher status (QTS)

To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:

• Course does not award QTS