Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Course Overview

Electrical and Electronic Engineering is concerned with defining the technologies required for our future needs, including communication, entertainment, energy and healthcare. Electrical and Electronic Engineers are involved in advances in medical technology, e-commerce, mobile telephones, wireless communications, renewable energy and the internet. This degree programme provides students with a broad range of skills relating to all aspects of the design of electronic systems and devices. It combines coursework in different aspects of electrical and electronic engineering, as well as individual and group project work, where students design and build innovative electronic systems.

This programme provides a solid technological base from which a career in electrical and electronic engineering can be launched, along with the basic skills needed to sustain professional development throughout a graduate career. As it combines coursework, laboratory classes and projects in different aspects of electrical and electronic engineering, the programme will give graduates the knowledge and skills needed to design and develop innovation technologies for a wide range of industry sectors. It incorporates the design and development of devices, circuits and systems that are used in a wide range of high-tech products and so it will appeal to students who like to understand how technology works, and who have an interest in electrical or electronic circuits. Students who enjoy science, and particularly physics, are usually attracted to it.

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Course Outline

Year 1

• Engineering Calculus
• Engineering Mathematical Methods
• Engineering Mechanics
• Engineering Chemistry
• Engineering Physics
• Fundamentals of Engineering
• Engineering Graphics
• Engineering Design
• Engineering Computing

Year 2

• Engineering Calculus
• Engineering Algebra
• Applied Maths I & II Engineering Numerical Analysis
• Engineering Statistics
• Electrical Circuits and Systems I & II
• Analogue Systems Design I
• Microprocessor Systems Engineering I & II
• Theory of Machines
• Digital Systems
• Laboratory exercises
• Fundamentals of Electromagnetic Theory Programming

Year 3

• Business Management and Finance
• Professional Studies
• Linear Control Systems
• Electrical Power and Machines
• Signals and Communications
• Communications Systems Engineering
• Project and laboratory work
• Engineering Electromagnetics
• Digital Systems
• Analogue Systems Design

Year 4

• Power Systems
• Power Electronics
• Digital Signal Processing
• Digital Systems Design and VHDL
• Telecommunications Software Applications
• Project and Laboratory work
• Semiconductor Technology
• Advanced RF Engineering Electromagnetics
• Systems Engineering
• Applied Software Engineering

Year 5 - Optional

Follow chosen course of Engineering to Masters level.

The ME has three primary elements: (i) advanced core modules in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, (ii) an individual capstone project, and (iii) modules on transferrable skills and personal development.

Details for Masters level can be found here.

The core Electrical and Electronic Engineering 5-credit advanced technical modules will be in topics covered by our research priorities of:

• AY872 Financial Management 1
• CE463 Computational Methods in Energy Systems Engineering
• CE6116 Risk and Reliability Engineering
• CT549 Smart Grid
• CT561 Systems Modelling and Simulation
• EE3101 Electromechanical Power Conversion
• EE343 Communication Signals and Systems
• EE345 Digital Systems II
• EE352 Linear Control Systems
• EE4100 Digital Control Systems
• EE445 Digital Signal Processing
• EE448 Power Electronics
• EE451 System on Chip Design I
• EE453 Telecommunications Software Applications
• EE502 Bioinstrumentation Design
• EE590 Reconfigurable System on Chip (rSoc) Design
• IE446 Project Management
• IE450 Lean Systems
• ME3104 Introduction to Regulatory Affairs (online module)
• ME432 Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• ME521 Research Methods for Engineers
• ME572 Human Reliability

Details for Year 5 modules can be found here.

Further Education

Upon completion of the undergraduate degree, suitably qualified students have the option to enrol and continue their studies to Masters or PhD level.

Students can advance to Masters level (ME) through our one year taught Masters programme (September-June) that builds on the successful completion of their undergraduate programme, subject to a sufficient standard (2nd Class Honours minimum). This programme is an integrated follow-on to the BE programme and is designed to meet Engineers Ireland’s criterion for Level 9 degrees, providing graduates with a route to Chartered Engineering status that will be recognised worldwide.

Masters degree education is becoming increasingly the norm internationally in Engineering, and this programme strengthens the ability of our graduates to compete nationally and internationally at the highest level for employment in industry and other sectors of the economy.

In our PhD programme students develop highly innovative state-of the-art solutions to current problems in power electronics, automotive electronics, consumer electronics, biomedical electronics and bio-inspired systems. Much of the research in Electrical & Electronic Engineering at NUI Galway involves a high level of interaction with the hi-tech R&D industry sector.

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