The teaching quality at Loughborough University is fantastic; students are assigned a personal tutor which allows you to get to know an academic member of staff to help you settle in. Staff also proactively engage with the students to find out how the students are managing, while always listening to feedback to better improve the courses/content.

The facilities are excellent! I was fortunate enough to have access to the very new STEMLab, which opened its doors for the first time during my second year at Loughborough. The facilities include state of the art computer labs with many peripheral devices on offer to assist with the delivery of the course content, such as FPGAs and micro controller development boards.

During the course, I learnt how to programme in several languages such as C, C++, ARM ASM, VHDL and other forms of programming such as mathematical modelling using MATLAB or scripting using TCL. This was completely new to me, so was quite daunting to begin with as I had no prior experience of programming, but the course is taught with that in mind, teaching you from the ground up. The soft skills that I gained during my time at Loughborough include leadership, initiative and teamwork. Loughborough feels like a family with everybody working together to achieve common goals.