Gain cutting-edge knowledge and the skills required of modern electrical and electronic engineers. With an emphasis on hands-on learning, you’ll gain the expertise and quality training needed for highly skilled employment, with an embedded work placement as part of the course.
Become a professional electrical and electronic engineer from day one.
Expand your specialist knowledge in state-of-the-art labs and workshops.
Enhance your skills through real-life projects and work placements.
Learn to design and manage electrical systems for a sustainable future.

From smartphones and smart buildings to electric cars and renewable energy, the world we live in today is profoundly dependent on the talents of electronic and electrical engineers. Creating, designing and managing the systems that keep things running is vital in our society – from the generation of heat, light and power to the ease and speed of communication that we’ve come to expect.

Live projects

Project-based learning – including live real-world projects – will help you develop the transferable skills and multi-disciplinary awareness so highly prized by industry. You’ll also take on a specialist role in a group project and start planning your career in detail.

Work placements

You’ll have the chance to undertake an optional placement in your third year – helping you to build on the knowledge and skills you develop on the course. Over 12 months you’ll be able to enhance your employability and develop your skills as an individual.

We’ll be on hand to support you in applying for and finding suitable placement opportunities. We’re in regular contact with local and national companies – and we can help you with interview techniques and preparing your CV. Previous students have spent their placement year at companies including Siemens, Cummins, Network Rail, Caterpillar, Cetix, Power Control, Servelec Group, Abaco Systems, ARM, BG Solutions and Heraeus Electro-Nite.

Networking opportunities

Industry fully supports the course with work placements, course planning, visits, real projects, case studies and guest lecturers. These connections help to increase your career opportunities and employability. You’ll also have the opportunity to work alongside practising engineers who are industry-sponsored students studying part-time.

Our industrial sponsors include Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery, BAE Systems, Tata Steel, Fairfield Control Systems and Bombardier Transportation. Every year the university holds a careers fair where more than 140 companies come to Sheffield Hallam and offer jobs and placement opportunities.

You’ll establish the fundamentals of engineering science, applicable mathematics, and practical and project skills and develop scientific and analytical skills by studying electrical energy systems, machines, control engineering and electronic systems design. In the final year, specialist options and projects enable you to undertake real-life inquiry, investigation, and discovery through a specific research topic, project or consultancy – making an original contribution to your discipline or related industry requirements. 

You learn through

• lectures, tutorials and practical sessions
• examinations
• assignments
• project work
• a group project
• work experience
• research

This course is delivered face-to-face over three semesters - teaching is scheduled based on the length of your course and the academic calendar.

Work experience is embedded midway through your course. Your dissertation module will be submitted upon completion of your placement.

97% of our engineering graduates are in work or further study fifteen months after graduating (2017/18 Graduate Outcomes Survey)

This course prepares you for a career in

• electrical engineering
• junior field service engineering
• project engineering
• controls engineering
• plant management
• senior quality engineering
• global telecommunications
• aerospace, automotive and railway engineering
• robotics
• consumer, computer, medical and military electronics
• general manufacturing
• water, gas and electricity supply
• teaching

Previous graduates of this course have gone on to work for

• BBC
• Tata Steel
• Emhart Glass
• Sony Mobile Communications
• Honeywell Control Systems
• Motorola
• Rolls-Royce
• First ScotRail
• Siemens
• Vodafone
• British Steel
• TBG Solutions
• Core Control Solutions
• Asteral
• Cummins
• the NHS

 

Academic Qualifications

• An honours degree in an appropriate science or engineering subject, usually at least second-class, or

• Suitable professional qualifications in a field appropriate to engineering, or

• A degree in any relevant discipline plus at least one year of relevant industrial experience, or

• A diploma in a technological area, with at least three years of relevant experience.

Level of English language capability

• IELTS 6 or equivalent with a minimum of 5.5 in all tasks.

Important notice:

 

The structure of this course is periodically reviewed and enhanced to provide the best possible learning experience for our students and ensure ongoing compliance with any professional, statutory and regulatory body standards. Module structure, content, delivery and assessment may change, but we expect the focus of the course and the learning outcomes to remain as described above. Following any changes, updated module information will be published on this page.

You will be able to complete a placement year as part of this course. See the modules table below for further information.

Year 1 Compulsory modules
Module	Credits	Assessment
Digital Signal Processing And Communication Engineering	40	Coursework
Modern Electrical & Electronic System Design	40	Coursework
Postgraduate Placement
Systems-On-Chip (Soc) Architectures And Fpga Prototyping	20	Coursework

 

 

 

Elective modules
Module	Credits	Assessment
Artificial Intelligence Concepts And Applications	20	Coursework
Robotics And Autonomous Systems	20	Coursework

 

 

 

Final Year Compulsory modules
Module	Credits	Assessment
Project And Dissertation	40	Coursework
Research Methodology And Practice	40	Coursework