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Electronic and Communication Engineering

The availability of affordable means of communication has been one of electronics’ greatest contributions to human society.

• The telephone, radio, satellite communications, the internet, mobile phones – each new development has revolutionised the way we live and the way we think about our world.
• New technologies continuously emerge, with 4G mobile phones offering the possibility of real-time high quality video.
• DSL and broadband wireless systems provide many times the capacity of modems bringing increased amounts of information into our homes.
• Other examples include advanced wavelength-division multiplexing schemes, promising vast reductions in the cost of long-distance data transmission.
• Soon fourth generation systems will unify all these technologies and users will be able to receive and transmit anything, at anytime, from anywhere.

All these developments have been fuelled by advances in communications technology. Constantly emerging new protocols and coding schemes, new ways to represent video, images and speech as data, new means of delivering this information to users via cable, fibre, and increasingly via radio. These developments are, in turn, based on sound engineering principles.

The Communications Group in the Department has a very well established reputation in many areas of communications, particularly mobile and satellite communications.

These courses aim to prepare students to play a leading role in the continuing adventure of modern communications – researching, designing, building and marketing the next generation of products.

Course Structure

FIRST YEAR	SECOND YEAR	THIRD YEAR	FOURTH YEAR
CORE SUBJECTS:	CORE SUBJECTS:	CORE SUBJECTS:	CORE SUBJECTS:
Communications Networks	Internet Protocols	Mobile Communication Systems	Major Industrial/Research Project (2 terms)
Communications Principles	Analysis of Frequency and Filters	Wireless Modems	Project Management
Computing	Electromagnetic Fields and Transmission Lines	Wireless Principles	OPTIONS:
Circuit Design (Analogue and Digital)	Noise and Interference in Circuits	Design & Construction Project	Personal and Mobile Communications
Major Circuit Components Design and Application	Computer Modelling	Analogue / Digital Filters	Radio Frequency and Microwave Circuit Design
Computer Programming in Java/C	Digital Circuit Design and Programming	Software Engineering Project	Wireless and Sensor Networks
Mathematics	Control Theory	Laboratory Practical	Advanced Internet Protocols
Laboratory Practical	Software Engineering	OPTIONS:	Signal Processing
	Mathematics	Optical Communications	Information and Coding
	Laboratory Practical	Distributed Circuits	Electronics for Medicine
	OPTIONS:	Antennas and Propagation	Automatic Flight Control Systems
	Computer Architectures	Environmental Engineering	Biologically Inspired Computation
	Analogue Circuitry	DSP Architectures	Embedded Computer Systems
		Digital Engineering	Transducers, Sensors and Actuation
		Distributed Computer Systems	Strategic Management
		Accounting and Finance	Enterprise
		Flight Control
		Neural Networks
		Management of Technology
		Business Law for Technology
		Modern & Digital Control

The structure of both of the BEng Honours Degree courses is identical to that of the MEng programme for the first two years but involves a less ambitious individual project and a smaller range of courses and options in the final year.

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