2-Term Pathway - Pre-Master's in Science and Health - Continue to Master of Science - Electronic Engineering

The University of Essex MSc Electronic Engineering enables students to acquire the essential knowledge, skills, competency, and critical awareness necessary for a rewarding career in the electronics industry. Essex prepares students for a career in analogue and digital circuit design, an area with a major skills shortage worldwide and particularly in the UK.

The content of the course is far-reaching and includes theory, practice, simulation and realization underpinned by Essex's 40 years of expertise in electronics and telecommunications. The course brings together Essex's teaching, research and industrial contacts to form a vocational offering with enhanced postgraduate employability. Students will be equipped with skills in the areas of: analogue and digital design, CAD and IC design, time and frequency domain analysis, fault analysis, embedded processing, and DSPs and fast prototyping.

All of students' acquired knowledge culminates in a project which sees the design, simulation, construction, testing and manufacture of a complex electronic system aimed at the industrial or consumer markets.

The School is a community of scholars leading the way in technological research and development. Today’s electronic engineers are creative people who are focused and committed, yet restless and experimental. Essex is home to many of the world’s top engineers, and their work is driven by creativity and imagination as well as technical excellence.

Essex is ranked top 25 for electronic engineering, with more than two-thirds of our research rated ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent'.

There are career opportunities for well-qualified electronics design engineers in the avionics, automotive, entertainment and consumer product markets, and within companies such as Siemens, Fujitsu, Sony, Toshiba, Nokia, Samsung, LG, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Dell, Sharp, Canon, Acer, Lenovo, Hitachi, Epson, Philips, Nikon, Pioneer, TCL, and JVC, all of whom are searching for competent designers.

A number of careers are also available through local SMEs, geographically close to Essex, who account for a significant proportion of the workforce, both in the UK and on the continent. Recent graduates have gone on to work for a wide range of high-profile companies including: Electronic Data Systems, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Bank of Mexico, Visa International, Hyperknowledge, Hellenic Air Force, and ICSS (Beijing).