Our MSc Electronic Engineering enables you to acquire the essential knowledge, skills, competency, and critical awareness necessary for a rewarding career in the electronics industry. We prepare you for a career in analogue and digital circuit design, an area with a major skills shortage worldwide (particularly in the UK). The content of our course is far-reaching and includes theory, practice, simulation and realisation underpinned by our 40 years of expertise in electronics and telecommunications. Our MSc Electronic Engineering brings together our teaching, research and industrial contacts to form a vocational offering with enhanced postgraduate employability. You will be equipped with skills in: analogue design; digital design; signal processing; CAD; time domain analysis; frequency domain analysis; IC design; PCB manufacture; fault analysis; electronic device principles; embedded processing; DSPs and fast prototyping. Our course is modular with compulsory, as well as optional, modules allowing you to tailor your qualification according to your interests within the discipline. Our compulsory modules include: Signals and Systems; DSPs, Programming; Embedded Systems; Design and Integration; Professional Practice and Research Methodology. Options include: Transmission Systems; Networking Principles; Intelligent Systems and Robotics; Embedded System Design; Mathematical Research Techniques; Fuzzy Logic and Hybrid Systems. All of your acquired knowledge culminates in a project which sees the design, simulation, construction, testing and manufacture of a complex electronic system aimed at the industrial or consumer markets. There are career opportunities for well-qualified electronics design engineers in the avionics, automotive, entertainment and consumer product markets, and within companies such as Siemens, Fujitsu, Sony, Toshiba, Nokia, Samsung, LG, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Dell, Sharp, Cannon, Acer, Levono, Hitachi, Epson, Philips, Nikon, Pioneer, TCL, JVC etc, all of whom are searching for competent designers. A number of careers are also available through local SMEs, geographically close to Essex, who account for a significant proportion of the workforce, both in the UK and on the continent.

Studying within our School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering provides both the recent graduate and the practising engineer with the opportunity to gain new skills or enhance existing ones. Our MSc courses, in addition to providing advanced training, also form a natural progression to postgraduate research. Our graduates have progressed to a variety of senior positions in industry and academia. Some of the companies and organisations where our former graduates are now employed include: Electronic Data Systems, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Bank of Mexico, Visa International, Hyperknowledge (Cambridge), Hellenic Air Force, ICSS (Beijing), United Microelectronic Corporation (Taiwan) and within our University.