Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
Systems Engineering MSc
1 year full-time; 3 years part-time (typical)
This course has been designed with industry specifically to meet its changing needs. Engineers who have specialised in one traditional discipline are now often expected to understand, operate in and develop entire systems which today are not only increasingly complex but rapidly changing.
The curriculum challenges the thinking and extends the capabilities of managers and engineers working in technological fields, by providing them with tools, practices and processes which enable them to remain effective in the workplace.
It provides:
- an integrated systems engineering viewpoint of related technologies, processes, techniques and their effective use
- essential systems skills such as multi-criteria decision-making with an awareness of business risk and a systems engineering approach to managing complex projects
- knowledge and technical expertise in a selected range of systems technologies
- experience of the importance to ultimate success, of effective, integrated, multi-skilled project teams working in extended enterprises beyond the confines of any particular organisation
- increased depth of technical and management knowledge through elective modules
- the ability to transfer systems skills and knowledge into the workplace through the experience of theteam project and, thereafter, through the industry based individual Master’s project.
Modules
Compulsory Modules
- Systems Thinking
- Systems Design
- Soft Systems Engineering
- Systems Architecture
- Individual Project
Plus four optional modules from
- Validation and Verification
- Sensors and Actuators for Control
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Engineers
- Holistic Engineering
- Engineering and Management of Capability
- Understanding Complexity
Assessment
Coursework and examination.
Entry Qualification*
Upper second class honours degree in electronic/ electrical engineering, physics or an equivalent qualification or equivalent industrial experience. Applicants with a good lower second class honours degree will also be considered. Candidates holding CEI Part II admitted.
Careers and Further Study
The programme was designed in response to industry’s urgent demand for Systems Engineers. The skills acquired are relevant and applicable to all sectors where technological complexity is found.
Scholarships and Sponsorships
We welcome industry sponsored students who commonly attend on a part-time basis.
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