This course gives you a solid grounding in the fundamentals of electronics and communications, including digital and analog processing, computing, embedded systems, project work, design and management. The team-building practical modules in Year 2 have been developed with assistance from the BBC as well as Ericsson, Nokia and Orange, ensuring they are immediately relevant in the modern job market, and have been widely applauded by employers. The course covers a similar area to the Electronic Engineering BEng Honours but emphasises the more practical and less analytical aspects of electronics design. The course covers a similar area to the Electronic Engineering BEng Honours, but emphasises the more practical aspects of electronics design. In particular, it is targeted towards the rapidly growing and changing industries involving electronic and telecommunications systems. Because of the interest in these technologies among students without the ‘traditional’ engineering background of advanced mathematics and physics, the course includes the teaching of these underpinning skills. This makes the course accessible to applicants with a wider range of technical backgrounds.

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