To recognise the importance of employability skills our Telecommunication Engineering degree focuses heavily on developing the competences that employers want such as effective team working, excellent communication skills and confident presentation skills. You will work in our brand new telecommunication laboratory facilities and you will have access to state-of-the-art hardware platforms and software tools in telecommunications, instrumentation and control systems, VLSI design and embedded software, and PCB design and manufacturing. This MEng route has a core industry based project module where you tackle a real problem for a company with involvement in the company throughout the year underpinning that study. During your third year of study, you will complete an independent engineering project along with specialist modules in Telecommunication. During your fourth year, you will complete a group project as well as advanced specialist modules in Telecommunication Engineering.

What it's like working in telecoms Roles are mostly office-based, although it is often possible to work from home. There are opportunities to travel and work abroad, but mobility is not usually a requirement. Teamwork is a major aspect of most roles, and those working in infrastructure or support teams are often client-facing. There isn’t a culture of working very long hours, but things do get more pressured when you’re close to releasing a new product. The sector has remained fairly recession-proof owing to the continued requirement for telecommunications solutions. Projects might include designing and developing new products, product testing, setting up infrastructure and supporting customers. The pace of the work depends on your role: a developer or designer might have a moderately-paced project whereas a colleague in support will work much faster to deal with customer issues. After studying on this course you will be equipped to deal with the variety of design optimisation challenges in the complex and frequently changing world of modern telecommunication systems design and management. You will be a work ready Staffordshire Graduate and enable you to be gainfully employed within the worldwide telecommunication industry or to proceed to further study and research. Our graduates are highly employable. For example in 2013, 100% of our Electronic Engineering graduates and 93% of our Mechanical Engineering graduates were in employment six months after graduation (Source: DLHE 2013).