Josh Smith - My Placement Year at CISCO Video Computing student Josh discusses why he chose a placement year on his degree - and how he thinks his year at CISCO will help his career long-term.
Computer Science Alumni - Kingsley Burn Video Computer Science alumni Kingsley talks about the importance of placements in building student experience and links to industry.
Placement Years on our Computing Degrees Video Network Computing student Tim discusses his placement year at Cisco, and talks about his new graduate job at Techex.
We can basically go straight from here to working straight away and hit the ground running. We can basically go straight from here to working straight away and hit the ground running. The fact that we’ve had exposure to industry-standard tools, and we haven’t just had a quick look at them, but we’ve used them properly, puts us at an advantage to people from other universities.
Networking Labs The networking labs consist of three fully equipped Cisco labs with around 340 devices, plus a Juniper set-up which can be incorporated into courses. Read more Find out more about our networking facilities. Watch video
Cyber/Biometrics Lab Our Cyber Lab contains dual screen PCs bound within a dedicated isolated network. Our in-house developed virtual machines and environment enables several types of cyber protection to be developed, and ethical hacking investigations to take place. Read more Find out more: Networks and Cyber Security. Watch video
Real Time Lab Our Real Time Lab has a suite of 20, 6 axis programmable robotic arms, autonomous vehicles, micro-controllers, motors, sensors and state-of-the-art design suites for embedded software programming and electronic design. Watch video
Software Development Tools You'll have access to development environments for desktop, mobile and enterprise applications as well as access to common IDE’s Visual Studio, Visual Code and Rider, with the ability to test and deploy to a range of devices and configurations.
Usability Testing Observations, eye-tracking data and recorded usability video footage can be used to analyse how people interact with software systems such as games, web and mobile applications.
Data Analytics Tools Get access to software including Oracle and SQL Server, and NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB. You'll also have physical and virtual environments to develop practical skills.
Digital Loft A cross between a digital and natural environment, this space brings dynamic teaching spaces and state-of-the-art facilities. Here you'll find academic staff and student support teams and meeting spaces for all. There's private pods for work or online meetings.
Data Junction Housing our Computer Science and Cyber Security programmes, this mega laboratory is truly plugged in. We have a dedicated cyber and networking laboratory as well as additional meeting spaces.
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