Program Overview

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Overview

The BEng (Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Professional Experience degree is designed to prepare students for an exciting career in the field of electrical and electronic engineering. The course explores how engineering is reshaping our world and combines both electrical and electronic engineering disciplines to provide students with a comprehensive skill set.

Course Details

Course Delivery

The course is delivered through a blend of theoretical, collaborative, and practical methods, including lectures, tutorials, workshops, and industry events.

Learning Experience

Located at the heart of the property and construction market, Salford is a great place to study electrical and electronic engineering. The course takes advantage of its amazing location to visit nearby world-famous engineering projects and gain hands-on experience.

Industry Placement

Students have the option to take an industry placement year between years two and three. Although students are responsible for securing their placement, tutors will support them in finding a role and monitor their progress throughout.

Year One

• Analogue Electronics: This module spans both semesters in the first year and is at the heart of first-year teaching. The main aim is to introduce the fundamental concepts and principles of analogue electronics and develop the skills necessary to design and build analogue circuits.
• Digital Electronics: This module aims to provide knowledge and critical understanding of the digital hardware elements required to build digital electronic systems that process digital signals.
• Engineering Mathematics: This module develops the underlying mathematical skills necessary when considering physical systems.
• Project and Risk Management: Students are introduced to project management techniques, particularly in project planning, organisation, and control.
• Introduction to Computer and Network Systems: This module introduces the fundamentals of computer hardware, software, and networking technology.

Year Two

• Control Engineering and Group Design 2: This module provides an introduction to the design and analysis of both analogue and digital feedback control systems and the application of fundamental feedback control systems.
• Machines and Drives: This module investigates the fundamentals of electrical power engineering and magnetic systems.
• Engineering Mathematics: This module builds on the engineering mathematics module from the first year by developing advanced knowledge and skills in mathematical analysis.
• Digital Signal Processing: This module gives a thorough grounding in the techniques and applications of digital technology in the acquisition, processing, storage, and transmission of acoustic signals.
• Computing Laboratory: This module helps students build computer programming skills to tackle simple non-analytic physical and engineering problems.

Year Three

• Powertrain, Hybrid and Electric Vehicles: This module investigates the design of electric and hybrid vehicle powertrain systems.
• Industrial Management and Project Preparation: This module has two main components: industrial management and project preparation.
• Final Year Project: A vital part of career preparation, whether in industry or research, is to complete an individual project.
• Control and Power Systems: This module introduces the design and analysis of both analogue and digital feedback control systems and the application of fundamentals of electronic power control systems.
• Embedded Systems: This module includes a significant practical element where the functionality of embedded systems is explored through the design and implementation of modern microcontroller systems and their associated programming languages.
• Automation and Robotics: This module explores techniques used to analyse discrete event control and the kinematics of robotic manipulators.

Employment and Stats

• The Fourth Industrial Revolution will herald the next generation of integrated robotics and automation in everyday life.
• As an engineering graduate with a specialism in electronics and electrical engineering, students will have a huge range of career opportunities available to them.

Requirements

• Applicant Profile: There is no such thing as a typical engineering student. The programme team is looking for applicants who have a keen desire to follow a career in electronics.
• English Language Requirements: All courses are taught and assessed in English. If English is not the first language, students must meet the minimum English language entry requirements.
• Standard Entry Requirements:
  • GCSE: English Language and Mathematics at grade C/level 4 or above (or equivalent).
  • UCAS Tariff Points: 112-120 UCAS points to include the study of mathematics or a numerate science.
  • A Level: 112-120 UCAS points, to include grade C in Mathematics or a numerate science.
  • BTEC National Diploma: DMM from engineering or science subjects, must include Distinctions in mathematics modules.
  • Access to HE: Pass with 112-120 UCAS points from a QAA-approved science or engineering course.

Tuition Fees

• Type of Study | Year | Fees
  • Full-time Home | 2025/26 | £9,535 per year
  • Full-time International | 2025/26 | £17,650 per year

Additional Costs

• Students should consider further costs, which may include books, stationery, printing, binding, and general subsistence on trips and visits.
• Any optional visits to airlines, airports, or industry events to be covered by the student.

International Student Scholarships

• If students are high-achieving international students, they may be eligible for one of the scholarships.