Everything you need to know...
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What is the fee?
Home: £12,120 for the course
International/EU: £19,225 for the course -
How long will I study?
2 Years
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Where will I study?
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When do I start?
September 2025
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Placement year available?
Yes
Course summary
- 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.
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How you learn
This course is designed for you to study key technical areas while gaining experience as a professional engineer from day one – developing your technical and professional skills from the very beginning. This lays the foundation for a course of study that can be designed to meet your specific needs, whether for a particular career or in academia.
You’ll learn from staff who are experts in the field and engaged in active research. Graduates of this course are in demand locally, nationally and globally, giving you an opportunity to follow your chosen career anywhere in the world.
You learn through:
- Core technical modules
- Project-based activities
- An embedded work placement
- Laboratory work
- Workshops
- Tutorial examples
- Careers events
- Site visits
Key themes
You’ll study key technical areas including digital electronics, electrical energy systems, communication engineering, system on chip (SoC) design and digital signal processing (DSP). You’ll also have the option to select from specialist modules in areas including robotics and artificial intelligence (AI).
Industry-standard approaches and lab equipment are used in these modules, and tutorial examples use realistic and relevant problems to enhance your understanding of contemporary requirements.
As well as improving your technical skills and knowledge, we also focus on building wider professional skills, such as planning, research techniques and promoting innovation.
Course support
You’ll be supported in your learning journey towards highly-skilled, graduate-level employment. This includes:
- Access to specialist support services to help with your personal, academic and career development.
- Access to our Skills Centre with one-on-ones, webinars and online resources, where you can get help with planning and structuring your assignments.
Course leaders and tutors
Applied learning
Work placements
You’ll have the opportunity to go on a work placement for up to 12 months, where you’ll apply academic theory and your skills in a real-world setting. This hands-on experience will enhance your professional development and help you to make informed career choices after graduation. We’ll support you to source a placement that is relevant to your course.
Throughout your placement, you’ll be supported to reflect on your experience and contribution to the organisation you work for. You'll also share your progress and achievements with your Placement Academic Supervisor as part of your final assessment.
Live projects
Throughout the course, you’ll engage in exciting live projects, applying your knowledge and skills to real-world scenarios, design challenges and problem-solving tasks.
Previous live projects have included developing a respiration monitor – requiring analogue and digital electronic design, microprocessor and sensor integration, software development, wireless communication, signal processing and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling.
You’ll also gain experience in numerical modelling of free space optical communication systems. This requires building an understanding of digital communication, optical wireless communication and digital signal processing.
Networking opportunities
You’ll be able to attend scheduled events across the academic year – meeting industry partners, employers, researchers and alumni. Past events have included the alumni careers panel, careers fair, winter research poster event, SHU Racing launch and EngFest.
Field trips
You’ll be able to observe relevant industry processes through site visits. Previous trips have included tours of power stations, automotive plants and advanced manufacturing industries.
Future careers
In our engineering postgraduate programme, a primary motivation for Masters-level study is enhancing your employability with higher-level technical knowledge and personal skills.
The course prepares you for a career primarily in electrical and electrical engineering, alongside related careers, such as:
- Electronic or electrical design engineering
- Electronic or electrical test engineering
- Electronic or electrical installation engineering
- Research and development
- Control engineering
- Telecommunications engineering
- Digital signal processing engineering
- Field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) design engineering
Where will I study?
You study at City Campus through a structured mix of lectures, seminars and practical sessions as well as access to digital and online resources to support your learning.
City Campus
City Campus is located in the heart of Sheffield, within minutes of the train and bus stations.
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Adsetts library
Adsetts Library is located on our City Campus. It's open 24 hours a day, every day.
Learn moreEquipment and facilities
For courses in the area of electrical and electronic engineering we have specialist labs and technical resources, which help you to develop high-level transferable skills. These include:
- Electronics
- Communications
- Embedded systems
- Electronic Computer-Aided Design
- Power systems
- Control systems
You’ll also use industry-standard software such as LabVIEW, Matlab and ARM embedded system development kits – and where possible, we’ve negotiated free student licences.
Entry requirements
All students
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.
Additional information for EU/International students
If you are an International or non-UK European student, you can find out more about the country specific qualifications we accept on our international qualifications page.
For details of English language entry requirements (IELTS), please see the information for 'All students'.
Modules
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
Digital Signal Processing And Communication Engineering
Modern Electrical & Electronic System Design
Postgraduate Work Experience Applied Professional Diploma
Systems-On-Chip (Soc) Architectures And Fpga Prototyping
Elective modules
Artificial Intelligence Concepts And Applications
Robotics And Autonomous Systems
Final year
Compulsory modules
Project And Dissertation
Research Methodology And Practice
Fees and funding
Home students
Our tuition fee for UK students starting full-time study in 2025/26 is £12,120 for the course. The tuition fee displayed above is for the full course. For this work experience route, your fees will be payable over two years, divided into two annual payments based on credits studied. The fee includes dedicated employability support to help you prepare for and secure work experience. It does not guarantee you a placement and if a placement is not secured the work experience fee will still be charged. If a placement is not secured you will transfer to the standard version of the course to complete your remaining credits, where the balance of your course fees will be due in year one in line with completing the course.
If you are studying an undergraduate course, postgraduate pre-registration course or postgraduate research course over more than one academic year then your tuition fees may increase in subsequent years in line with Government regulations or UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) published fees. More information can be found in our terms and conditions under student fees regulations.
International students
Our tuition fee for UK students starting full-time study in 2025/26 is £19,225 for the course. The tuition fee displayed above is for the full course. For this work experience route, your fees will be payable over two years, divided into two annual payments based on credits studied. The fee includes dedicated employability support to help you prepare for and secure work experience. It does not guarantee you a placement and if a placement is not secured the work experience fee will still be charged. If a placement is not secured you will transfer to the standard version of the course to complete your remaining credits, where the balance of your course fees will be due in year one in line with completing the course.
Postgraduate student loans
Up to £12,471 is available in 2024/25 for home students on most masters courses.
Additional course costs
The links below allow you to view estimated general course additional costs, as well as costs associated with key activities on specific courses. These are estimates and are intended only as an indication of potential additional expenses. Actual costs can vary greatly depending on the choices you make during your course.
General course additional costs
Additional costs for School of Engineering and Built Environment (PDF, 142.7KB)Legal information
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