I had a prior interest in electrical engineering, firstly after completing work experience with an electrician during high school and secondly from doing an Electronics A Level at college. When I was researching universities, I saw that Loughborough was a very good institution for the subject and I’d heard and read some extremely positive things about the university in general. It made perfect sense for me to put it in my UCAS shortlist.

The best thing about my course was the total variety of disciplines covered within electronic and electrical engineering. This included software engineering, digital electronics, renewable energy, communications, control, signal processing, electrical machines, power electronics as well as much more. The module choices became very flexible, so you are really were able to develop specialist knowledge in a particular area. For me, this was in renewable energy and power.

My favourite module was Power Electronics for Renewables in the third year. As the world shifts to a reliability on renewable energy to generate electricity, it was useful to learn about how they are connected to the grid. Also, it was interesting to learn what goes into conditioning and controlling electrical power for various grid scale and domestic applications.