Electronic and Electrical Engineering MSc (Eng)

Commercial products today combine many technologies, and industry is increasingly interdisciplinary. This masters degree course meets this demand, giving you an interdisciplinary knowledge base in modern electronics including power, communications, control and embedded processors.

You’ll develop a broad grasp of many interlocking disciplines through modules to develop your practical lab skills and industry awareness, as well as a range of other modules allowing you to focus on your interests or career plans. You can study wireless communication systems, electric drives, generating electric power from renewable sources, FPGAs and system-on-chip, medical electronics and E-Health, C and Matlab programming. In labs, you will use modern equipment.

This masters degree course will appeal to people with a broad interest in electronics, or who will specialise in modern communications techniques, system-on-chip, control systems, power and drives or renewable energy.

Specialist facilities

Our School is an exciting and stimulating environment where you will learn from leading researchers in specialist facilities. These include our Keysight Technologies Electronics Laboratory, as well as laboratories for Embedded Systems, Power Electronics and Drives, Ultrasound and Bioelectronics.

The School also contains facilities for electron-beam lithography and ceramic circuit fabrication, and a III-V semiconductor molecular beam epitaxy facility. The Faculty is also home to the EPSRC National Facility for Innovative Robotic Systems, a national resource for the fabrication of complex systems. The facility specialises in assistive robotics, surgical technologies, exploration robotics and smart cities.

Find out more about our facilities. 

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Accreditation

The MSc is accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) on behalf of the Engineering Council as meeting the requirements for Further Learning for registration as a Chartered Engineer. Candidates must hold a CEng accredited BEng/BSc (Hons) undergraduate first degree to comply with full CEng registration requirements.

Accreditation is the assurance that a university course meets the quality standards established by the profession for which it prepares its students. For this course, these are the quality standards set by the IET.

You will study compulsory modules including modern industry practice and lab experiments with top-rate modern equipment.

You can also choose optional modules in topics relating to your interests and career plans. You could focus on embedded systems (including FPGAs and system-on-chip), wireless communications systems or renewable energy, amongst others. You can specialise or gain a broad understanding. You can take the programming module if you want to strengthen this essential knowledge.

Over the summer months, you’ll work on a major individual project. This may give you the chance to work as an integral part of one of our active research institutes, focusing on a specialist topic of your choice and using the appropriate research methods.

Want to find out more about your modules?
Take a look at the Electronic and Electrical Engineering module descriptions for more detail on what you will study.

Course structure

The list shown below represents typical modules/components studied and may change from time to time. Read more in our Terms and conditions.

For more information and a full list of typical modules available on this course, please read Electronic and Electrical Engineering MSc (Eng) in the course catalogue

Modules

Year 1

Learning and teaching

Our groundbreaking research feeds directly into teaching, and you’ll have regular contact with staff at the forefront of their disciplines. You’ll meet them in lectures, seminars, tutorials, small group work, project meetings, and socially.

Independent study is important, as you develop your problem-solving and research skills as well as your subject knowledge. The University has an excellent Library with online access to much front-rank material, including all IEEE Journals.

On this course you’ll be taught by our expert academics, from lecturers through to professors. You may also be taught by industry professionals with years of experience, as well as trained postgraduate researchers, connecting you to some of the brightest minds on campus.

Assessment

You will be assessed by several techniques including case studies, technical reports, presentations, in-class tests, assignments and exams.

Entry requirements

A bachelor degree with a 2:1 (hons) in electronic/electrical engineering, computing, physics or a related subject.

Applicants with a high 2:2 (hons) degree will be considered if they can demonstrate specific competence in electronic/electrical engineering.

We accept a range of international equivalent qualifications. For more information please contact the Admissions Team.

English language requirements

IELTS 6.5 overall, with no less than 6.0 in any component.. For other English qualifications, read English language equivalent qualifications.

Improve your English

International students who do not meet the English language requirements for this programme may be able to study our postgraduate pre-sessional English course, to help improve your English language level.

This pre-sessional course is designed with a progression route to your degree programme and you’ll learn academic English in the context of your subject area. To find out more, read Language for Engineering (6 weeks) and Language for Science: Engineering (10 weeks). 

If you need to study for longer than 10 weeks, read more about our postgraduate pre-sessional English course.

How to apply

Application deadline

We operate a staged admissions process for this course with selection deadlines throughout the year.

If you do not receive an offer in a particular round, you will either be notified that your application has been unsuccessful, or we will carry your application forward to be considered in the next round.

Please see our How to Apply page for full details and the application deadlines for each stage.

Apply

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If you're unsure about the application process, contact the admissions team for help.

Read about visas, immigration and other information in International students. We recommend that international students apply as early as possible to ensure that they have time to apply for their visa.

Admissions policy

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences Postgraduate Admissions Policy 2021

Fees

• UK: £11,250 (total)
• International: £24,750 (total)

Read more about paying fees and charges.

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Additional cost information

There may be additional costs related to your course or programme of study, or related to being a student at the University of Leeds. Read more about additional costs

Scholarships and financial support

If you have the talent and drive, we want you to be able to study with us, whatever your financial circumstances. There may be help for students in the form of loans and non-repayable grants from the University and from the government.  Find out more at Masters funding overview.

Scholarships are available.

Graduates of this masters degree course can expect to find jobs where industry needs a breadth of knowledge matched by a depth in certain areas.

You’ll be well equipped to integrate and co-ordinate the strands of a cross-disciplinary project and manage the interfaces between specialities. With these skills, you’ll be in a good position to progress to project management roles in companies working at the cutting edge of modern multi-faceted systems.

General Electric, AECOM, Deep Sea Electronics, Hyperdrive Innovation, Descon Engineering, Broadcom, Pakistan Oilfields Ltd., Wabtec Rail UK and many others are among the organisations where graduates from our School have found employment.

Careers support

We encourage you to prepare for your career from day one. That’s one of the reasons Leeds graduates are so sought after by employers.

You’ll have access to the wide range of careers resources and support from your Careers Service. You’ll have the chance to attend industry presentations, book appointments with qualified careers consultants and take part in employability workshops and webinars.

Our annual STEM Careers Fairs provide further opportunities to explore your career options with some of the UKs leading employers.

Find out more about the range of services we offer on the Careers Service website and visit MyCareer.leeds.ac.uk once you have registered as a student to access one to one support, events and job vacancies.

The major individual masters project is one of the most satisfying elements of this course. It allows you to apply your knowledge and skills to a real-world problem, and it can be used to explore and develop your specific interests.

Recent projects by students in the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering have included:

• Wireless sensor networks, the internet of things and bicycle traffic in the city.
• Device to Monitor Activity of Ageing People
• Wind turbine strain gauge system
• Virtual Machines Placement in Core Networks with Renewable Energy
• Design and Analysis of High-Performance Internet Routers
• Spatial Modulation for Massive MIMO System
• Fuel cell for energy storage
• Low cost design and fabrication of 3D MEMS components
• Ultrasonic Wind Speed Detection
• Core Quantum Networks
• Microwave Low Noise Amplifier
• CANbus system to simulate car electronic systems
• Wind Turbine Teaching Demonstrator

A proportion of projects are formally linked to industry, and can include spending time at the collaborator’s site over the summer.