Welcome to your Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering course

Welcome to University of Staffordshire

We know you're already passionate about your subject, which is why we're excited you've chosen University of Staffordshire as the place to turn possibility into reality.

To give you an insight into what life as an Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering student is like, your course leaders have prepared introductions to the course and further activities.

Welcome to MSc Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, it has never been such an exciting time to study electronic and telecommunication engineering. Human as well as machine to machine communication is becoming ever more sophisticated as we have an ever increasing reliance on reliable, smart, intelligent and secure systems within industry and in our personal lives.

The world requires engineers to devise innovative solutions to enable us to continue to design communication systems, devices and sensors that we will require now and in the future.

Course delivery

Teaching will be through a mixture of workshops, lectures, tutorials, labs and seminars. Most modules have four hours of contact a week and class sizes will be bigger in lectures and smaller in workshops, tutorials and labs. Most classes are face to face on campus, and we use a range of assessments including technical reports, lab reports, group assignments and online and traditional exams.

Semester one activities

Welcome Week is your first opportunity to meet your fellow students and the staff you’ll be working with, in one place. We’ll be getting involved in activities and making sure you know more about how the University works and how the next few weeks and months are going to look. We’re hoping that you’ll get to know us and your course mates and be ready to start with the next stage of your journey.

In Welcome Week, you’ll be introduced to the IET professional body so you can learn more about becoming a member and the benefits linking in to a local and global network of professional engineers can bring to your future career.

Pre-learning

This is an award for the graduate engineer who wishes to enhance their knowledge of electronic and telecommunication engineering with the human and machine communication and the devices used to automate industrial and consumer processes at personal, domestic, industrial national and global levels. The course covers a broad range of areas related to Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering with modules in advanced digital signal processing, autonomous intelligent vehicles, wireless communications and machine learning, internet of things and optical fibre communication systems. You will also learn how to be a professional engineer and undertake research methods training which enable you to develop your own project proposal and write an in-depth literature review in readiness for your project.

Before you start, these are some fantastic websites to get you thinking and developing yourself for the course;

https://www.theiet.org/

https://www.instructables.com/

The Engineer is a great place to keep up with news in the Electronics and Communications Industries

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/category/electronics

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/category/communications

Equipment software

Software that we will be using on this course includes the following:

https://www.mathworks.com/

https://www.ni.com/en.html

https://www.python.org/

Download software

Groups and societies

Staffordshire Engineering Society is the best way to meet peers across courses and levels of study, building a network of contacts that will prove beneficial before and after graduation. Bringing science and technology that drives for research and learning.

https://www.staffsunion.com/activities/society/engineering_soc/

All clubs and societies

Pre arrival task!

Prior to your arrival we’d like you to complete a little activity – there’ll even be a little prize for the best entry! We’d like you to produce a page or two that presents the most important future looking idea in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering that you think will make the biggest impact in the next 20 years. You’ll need to explain WHY you have chosen it and explain why you think it will make such an impact. We want to know how you think these ideas are going to impact our future!

Meet the team

Dr Alison Griffiths

Associate Professor

Alison's expertise includes smart grids and their protection and renewable integration, smart homes, wireless sensor network design, implementation and optimisation.

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Professor Abdel-Hamid Soliman

Professor

Abdel-Hamid's expertise includes automation, including Smart Cities, Building automation, Energy management, Security, Safety and health applications.

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Torfeh Sadat-Shafai

Emeritus Professor

Torfeh's expertise lies in plastic electronics, Photovoltaics, Experimental Physics, Electronic Material; Thin Films Technology and Optoelectronics. Torfeh is also course leader for Advanced Technology MSc

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Dr Anas Amjad

Course Director

Anas is Course Director for Electrical and Electronic Engineering. His expertise lies in the use of smart systems for a diverse range of applications, such as smart healthcare, smart homes, smart cities etc.

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Professor Hamidreza Gohari Darabkhani

Professor-Low Carbon & Renew Energy Sys

Prof Gohari Darabkhani has focused his research and industry collaborations on technologies and projects that directly contribute to resolving current major issues in the energy industry to achieving net-zero emission targets by 2050.

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Debi Roberts

Interim Head Of Department

Debi has a keen interest in Automotive and Aeronautical Aerodynamics, Engine Design and Engineering History (Automotive and Aeronautical).

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What to expect on Welcome Week

We're so excited for you to join us on campus and to welcome you to where you matter. During your welcome week you'll be able to meet our friendly student services teams, connect with new friends, join societies, explore on-campus venues attend club nights and much more.