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MSc - Master of Science
Main Campus
Full Time
Jan 2026
27 Month
In this course, You will study in depth and breadth the key areas of electronic and electrical engineering. These include, sensors and instrumentation; control; photonics; power electronics; telecommunications; intelligent systems; medical systems; digital and analogue electronics; and embedded systems.
Access is available to modern technical facilities including computer, electronics, and power and control laboratories where you’ll work on your lab exercises. The latest industry standard engineering software packages are available for you to use in purpose-built computer laboratories.
During your studies, you will benefit from guest lectures delivered by industry professionals. You’ll participate in conferences and deliver poster presentations on your research work. This allows you to network and exchange ideas with key engineering and technology experts.
Our MSc advanced electronic and electrical engineering degree is accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). This professional engineering institution ensures that your engineering degree meets the academic requirement to qualify as a professional engineer. This accredited MSc degree in advanced electronic and electrical engineering fully meets the educational requirement for progression to Chartered Engineer (CEng) status.
An advanced electronic and electrical engineering degree from Brunel will equip you with the broad knowledge and skills relevant to the demanding and dynamic electronic and electrical engineering sector.
Brunel’s closeness to the highest concentration of the UK’s information engineering and telecommunications industry – in London and along the M4 corridor – means our careers network is second to none.
Our graduates have gone on to work for high-profile companies including IBM, Intel, Mercedes, Microsoft, National Grid and Siemens. They are in specialist roles in areas such as, telecommunications; mechatronics; sensors and instrumentation; embedded systems; signal processing; intelligent systems; and sustainable systems.
This module aims to enable students to focus on particular aspects of sensors, instrumentation and control through the use of real-world examples and hence to acquire knowledge and understanding of the characteristics of sensors and associated systems for monitoring and control, and the skills to evaluate, design and implement them.
This module aim to enable Engineering students to deal with legal, social, ethical and environmental issues and apply professional codes of conduct. Indicative content: ethics and legal aspects, risk and environment management systems, risk assessment and engineering failure methods and sustainability.
This module aims to enable students to focus on photonic systems and electronic systems for sensors in general the use of real-world examples and hence to acquire knowledge and understanding of the characteristics of sensors and associated systems for, and the skills to evaluate, design and implement them.
This module aims to provide experience in defining and organising, executing and evaluating a substantial individual in-depth investigation into a topic related to the appropriate wireless and computer communication networks and presenting the information in the form of a dissertation.
The aims of this module are to develop students’ ability to: 1. critically analyse and design advanced power electronic circuits; 2. incorporate state-of-the-art power electronic circuits in electric vehicle machines and drives.
The aim of the module is: To understand the full range of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence systems techniques; To raise critical awareness of the issues affecting the performance of artificial intelligence systems; To develop the skills required to develop artificial intelligence applications; To gain hands-on experiences through learning, applying and implementing artificial intelligence systems to a given simulated system. The indicative content includes, Overview of artificial intelligence systems techniques, Intelligent Computation Techniques (Fuzzy Logic: Concepts, Membership functions, Inference methods and design; Neural Networks (NN): Representations, Topologies, Deep Learning techniques; Neuro-Fuzzy Systems (NF): Design, Topology, Training, Comparison to NN; Genetic Algorithms: Representations, Genetic operators, Selection schemes, Fitness & population evaluation, Constraint handling, Learning and evolution; Swarm Intelligence: Particle swarm, Ant Colony optimisation), Intelligent Data Processing Techniques, Applications (Wireless and computer networks, Bioinformatics, Medical imaging & visualisation, Pattern recognition & biometrics, Computer vision, Future trends).
This module will focus on advanced communication technologies and networks. Indicative contents: Network Basics: ISO/OSI Reference Model and TCP/IP Reference Model, Network layer operation: TCP/IP, Packet Scheduling and Delay, IP Quality of Services (QoS), Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP), Integrated Service Model and Differentiated Service Model, Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), ATM Networks, Traffic Engineering IP Multicasting Mobile and wireless communication systems: Cellular system, Frequency reuse, 1st and 2nd generation systems, 2 and 2.5 G (GSM, GPRS, EDGE), UMTS-3G, (UTRAN, Core Networks, Handover, Power Control, Rake receiver), 4G (LTE – Advanced, S/P, IFFT, CP, P/S), 5G (Introduction, C-RAN, MIMO), ZIGBEE, UWB, Bluetooth. Ad-hoc and Mesh Networks: Introduction to mesh networks, power spectral efficiency and green radio, Mesh network Components, Ad-Hoc Routing protocols.
To develop in-depth knowledge and understanding of real-time signal processing, embedded DSP and FPGA system architectures and to develop students’ ability in to implement real time algorithms on embedded DSP processors for DSP or communication applications.
This module aims to consider the operation of radio and optical frequency systems and their integration into global systems for effective communications.
The main aims of this module are to teach the students how to: 1. critically analyse and assess smart grid operation and management objectives and functionality; 2. Evaluate and review methodologies and algorithmic structures for operational control of sustainable electrical power systems.
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