Program Overview

Electronic and Electrical Engineering via Study Centres BEng (Hons)

Overview

This course allows you to benefit from Sunderland’s teaching of engineering while you live in your own country. The content of the course mirrors the Sunderland-based equivalent course, BEng (Hons) Electronic and Electrical Engineering.

Our courses delivered at study centres share the same ethos, material and approach as those delivered at Sunderland itself. So this course is a way to gain the benefits of an education from our University without having to move to Sunderland.

This course is for people looking for skills and knowledge in electronic and electrical engineering as well as in management. It provides particular emphasis to the fields of digital and analogue electronics, industrial control systems design and electrical power systems and machines.

Why us?

• The course specialises in both light current and heavy current
• Engineering graduates can earn between £20,000 and £30,000 a year

Course structure

Teaching methods include lectures, seminars, group work and e-learning. We encourage you to develop independent study skills. You will also have opportunities to present ideas to other students and develop concepts within groups.

As well as assessments that count towards your degree, there are also on-going assessments for feedback and consolidating your learning. Assessment methods include exams, multiple-choice tests, laboratory experiments and projects.

Course modules

Year 1 (national level 4):

• Digital Technologies for Engineering (20 credits)
  • Learn to use digital technologies to support and enhance your work as an engineer. Use advanced engineering software to perform engineering calculations and analysis and learn to design, simulate, and prototype systems as part of a digital workflow. Develop smart electronic systems, comprising both hardware and software, and simple computer programs.
• Engineering Mathematics (20 credits)
  • Develop the mathematical and analytical skills needed to solve engineering problems. Study the foundations of topics such as algebra, trigonometry, Calculus, matrices and differential equations. Gain transferable skills in problem-solving.
• Manufacturing and Materials (20 credits)
  • Expand your knowledge of all engineering materials (metals, polymers, ceramics and composites), their properties and processing. Build on your understanding of manufacturing processes and systems alongside economic, ethical, and environmental considerations. Apply computer-aided materials selection and manufacturing process selection techniques to engineering components.
• Applied Mechanics (20 credits)
  • Understand the fundamental concepts, laws, and analytical methods for the solution of engineering mechanics problems. Use mechanical technology and evaluate the results of practical mechanics experiments. Utilise different mathematical techniques such as differentiation, integration, solution of simultaneous equations, ordinary differential equations (ODEs), trigonometry, and vectors.
• Electronic & Electrical Principles (20 credits)
  • Gain a fundamental understanding of concepts related to electronic and electrical engineering. Grow your analytical skills to be able to solve electronic and electrical circuits. Enhance your knowledge of machines and transformers.
• Digital Design Principles (20 credits)
  • Get an introduction to the world of design engineering. Learn to use key design and engineering software such as CAD (Computer-Aided Design). Develop the ability to produce an engineering drawing, alongside workshop and manufacturing skills.

Year 2 (national level 5):

• Microprocessors and PLC (20 credits)
  • Examine the operation and application of a range of both microprocessors and PLCs. Investigate the internal architecture, operation and programming techniques of microprocessors and microcontrollers and their role in data capture applications. Apply your skills with design activities and use a problem-based learning approach.
• Electrical Power Systems and Machines (20 credits)
  • Gain a critical understanding of the operating characteristics of system components within Electricity Generation, Transmission and Distribution, and the techniques that may be employed to model them. Explore the range of sources of energy available for power generation, and economic factors relevant to the provision, and use of, electrical power. Analyse the steady state performance and interpret practical operating data for power system components, such as generators, transformers, and transmission lines.
• Electronics (20 credits)
  • Enhance your understanding of the operation of a wide variety of analogue and digital electronics. Design electronic circuits and analyse the imperfections and errors in typical circuits. Develop transferrable skills relevant to employment in the engineering sector.
• Control and Instrumentation (20 credits)
  • Advance your understanding of the principles of operation and performance of measurement systems. Delve into signal conditioning requirements and their design. Develop models of ‘complex’ systems by using system diagrams for the connection and manipulation of simple sub-systems.
• Mathematics, Statistics and Simulation (20 credits)
  • Expand your knowledge of the continuous and discrete time mathematics for the analysis of signals and systems. Undertake engineering analysis and use an appropriate mathematical approach. Develop and analyse mathematical models of the behaviour of a component or system due to external influences.
• Interdisciplinary Group Project (20 credits)
  • Work in groups across engineering disciplines to solve a real-world engineering problem. Apply your specialist skills and knowledge to perform tasks to support your project group. Progress your project through the various stages including; identifying the problem, project planning, design and evaluation.

Final year (national level 6):

• Professional Engineering Management Techniques (20 credits)
  • Explore some of the soft skills outlined in the UK-SPEC which are pre-requisites to chartered status. Develop your communication and interpersonal skills alongside the design and development of processes and systems. Discover more about project management, and some of the techniques associated with it.
• Project (40 credits)
  • Undertake a unique engineering project that builds on one or more of the topics you've studied throughout your course. Conduct research and resolve an engineering problem in an area of practice that is interesting to you. Enhance your time-management and research skills.
• Manufacturing Systems Design (20 credits)
  • Discover a range of tools that can be applied within a manufacturing context to analyse existing performance and aid the development of models and systems which achieve an enhanced level of productivity. Develop your knowledge of modern measurement and control tools.
• Electrical Power (20 credits)
  • Expand your knowledge of the practical applications and performance characteristics of DC machines, AC motors, and generators, their operation, performance, and control. Design, model and analyse the behavior of electrical machines under normal and abnormal conditions. Critically analyse the stability requirements, the load flow and fault capabilities of a power network, including protection interruption requirements.
• Electronic Systems (20 credits)
  • Consider the design of complex multivariable combinational and sequential logic circuits. Directly apply digital design principles to practical problems. Appraise circuit designs and formulate designs to improve them.

Facilities

This course is available at partner universities worldwide.

Entry requirements

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Fees and finance

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Career ready

Salaries in engineering can be very attractive and our course is directly relevant to the needs of employers.

Career options

This programme gives you a wide and varied choice of career. As an Electrical Engineer the main areas of employment would be electrical supply and distribution, power systems and electrical machinery. Instrumentation and control is a strong requirement within the oil and gas industry, pharmaceutical and utilities.