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MSc - Master of Science
Shrivenham Campus
Full Time
Sep 2026
11 Month
This course provides education and training in selected military electronic systems. It is particularly suitable for those who will be involved with the specification, analysis, development, technical management or operation of military radar, electro-optics, communications, sonar or information systems, where the emphasis will be on an electronic warfare environment. Students taking the Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert) course variant are able to choose to study, and will be awarded, either the PgCert in Communications Electronic Warfare or PgCert in Sensors Electronic Warfare.
To provide you with an understanding of electromagnetic propagation, antennas and devices relevant to military sensor, communications and electronic warfare systems.
To provide you with an understanding of the subjects supporting the specialist modules and to provide you with the essential signal analysis and statistical tools used in the course.
To introduce the you to the field of EO/IR technology and give an understanding the underlying principles. To give an appreciation of the likely future advances in the technology and the importance of EO/IR technology in the wider defence system.
To provide you with an understanding of the concepts and techniques employed in modern communication systems.
To provide you with an understanding of the fundamental principles of radar, allowing you to relate this to the design and analysis of radar systems.
To provide the you with an understanding of how modern military and commercial communications systems utilise the principal techniques taught during the communications principles module.
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