Open day for Electronic Engineers

H610 BEng / H612 MEng

Why Warwick University is a

great place to study

Open day for Electronic Engineers

H610 BEng / H612 MEng

Why Warwick University is a

great place to study

Student comments

After visiting Warwick on an Open Day, I knew it would be ideal for me:

the structure of the course, combined with the leafy campus

environment meant it was an obvious choice. It hasn’t disappointed.

The course at Warwick is highly enjoyable. The variety of topics covered

early on in the course helps to explore what areas are of interest to you,

as well as the group work and various methods of assessment, resulting

in a worthwhile experience.

Studying Engineering requires commitment and discipline to keep up

with the workload, but the rewards are worth it-

I wouldn’t want it any other way!

Making the best choice

• Making your choice of University

• Narrowing 5 UCAS choices to 2 (firm & insurance)

Agenda for this talk:

• What to look for

• Engineering at Warwick

• Student life

What to look for

Selecting firm and insurance offers

The University of Warwick is a top 10

university

• Consistently in the top 10 of UK universities

• Ranked 7th in UK Research Assessment

Exercise (RAE)

• According to a 2011 High Fliers Research

survey, Warwick is the “2nd most targeted

university in the UK by top employers”

2013 Guardian

University League Table

1 Cambridge

2 Oxford

3 London School of

Economics

4 St Andrews

5 Warwick

6 UCL

7= Durham

7= Lancaster

Generous bursaries

Family income Annual help with

tuition fees

Annual help with

living expenses and

course costs

Annual total

£0–£25,000 a year Warwick National

Scholarship of £2,000

This reduces tuition

fees to £7,000.

Warwick Bursary of

£2,500

£4,500

£25,001-£36,000

a year

- Warwick Bursary of

£1,500

£1,500

£36,001-£42,611 a year

- Warwick Bursary of £500

£500

We guarantee an automatic fee waiver of £2,000 (Warwick National Scholarship) to full-time students with family incomes of £25,000 a year or less, who are eligible for a tuition

fee loan from the UK Government and who have undertaken their sixth form education

within a state school or college in England.

Financial support from Engineering

• Free text books for all core modules in the first year

• Free lab coat and safety shoes

• Free calculator

• Merit scholarship for the first year for firm choice

offer holders

– £1,000 (paid in January 2014)

– Maximum of 100 awarded based on students’ A-Level

results or equivalent

What to do if all the offers are similar?

• Is there BEng / MEng flexibility

• Has there been flexibility on grades in August

• Is the course flexible

• Where do you think you will be happiest

What happens if I miss my offer

• In Engineering we aim to accommodate all firm offers

– We will review all results that just miss the offer and in some cases automatically accept you

– If you applied for MEng but miss the grades we expect to be able to offer you a BEng if you meet these grades

• If you hold us as insurance and miss your firm offer

• If you have been rejected and met our offer your place will be confirmed automatically

• If there is no decision – phone us

• If all else fails go to clearing!

Engineering employment statistics

6 months after graduation

• 68.7% in work

• Including 11.1% combining work & study

• 13.1% in further study

• 14.6% still seeking work

• 3.5% not available/other

• Median salary, six months after graduation, is

£25,000

• Warwick is 4th in the Russell Group for graduate

level jobs and 3rd in the highest average salary

Recent graduate destinations

• Civil – AECOM (formerly Faber Maunsell), AmeyMouchel, Atkins, Balfour Beatty,

Halcrow group, McAlpine, Network Rail

• Mechanical, Automotive, Manufacturing

– BAE Systems, Cummins diesel, GE Aviation, Jaguar Land Rover, Marshall

Aerospace, Ricardo, Rolls-Royce

• Electronic, Systems, Computer

– Dorset Software, Morgan Stanley, Renishaw, Siemens, Telent, Thales,

QinetiQ

• PhDs in

– Atmospheric Physics, Fluid Dynamics, Material Science, Medical Physics,

Mobile Robotics, Power Electronics, Optical & Radio Communications,

Sensors, Signal Processing, Bioelectronic devices,

Engineering at Warwick

Why choose our engineering courses ?

Student comments

I am pleased to say my first year has been a sea of opportunities! I feel

the degree is tailored perfectly to the needs of the industry, and this is

achieved particularly through the Business module.

I came into university very unsure of what I wanted to become, or even

what I wanted to study. I was only sure that I was interested in

technology, its changes and business. And Warwick was the university for

me that offered a good combination of engineering and business

studies.

The main appeal of studying engineering for me at Warwick was how you

don't have to make a decision of which engineering discipline you want

to study until the end of your second year.

2013 Guardian

University League Table –

General Engineering

1 Cambridge

2 Imperial College

3 Bournemouth

4 Oxford

5 Exeter

6 Warwick

7 Leicester

8 Loughborough

Why Engineering at Warwick?

• Consistently in the top 10 for general

engineering

• Ranked 5th in UK Research

Assessment Exercise (RAE)

• Unified approach to teaching

engineering

• Common 1st year leaves you time to

decide on your choice of specialist

engineering course

Undergraduate engineering

degrees at Warwick

• Engineering

• Automotive Engineering

• Civil Engineering

• Electronic Engineering

• Mechanical Engineering

• Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering

• Systems Engineering

• Engineering and Business Management

• Engineering and Business Studies

Structure of the degrees

• Our courses are flexible

• Students can adapt as they

discover their strengths and

passion for certain

disciplines

• Project work is an important

part of the course

Flexible degrees at Warwick

• One intake for all Engineering courses

• Gap year students welcome

• BEng and MEng courses

• Final choice made at end of 2nd year

• MEng students must achieve 2i performance

• Options at end of years 1 & 2 to change degree course

• Ability to take a year in industry at any point after year 1

• Exchange years for MEng 3rd year

• Current partners in Europe and Australia

Measuring student performance

• First year

– Does not count to final degree

– Students must pass exams at end of year

– Tutors monitor performance weekly to

address any issues early on

• BEng

– 2nd year: 30% of final degree based on exams and course work

– 3rd year: 70% based on exams and course work

• MEng

– 2nd year: 20% of final degree based on exams and course work

– 3rd / 4th years equally important

• 40% each based on exams and course work

Accreditation

• MEng engineering courses are accredited as fully satisfying

the educational base for a Chartered Engineer (CEng)

• BEng engineering courses are accredited as partially satisfying

the educational base for a Chartered Engineer (CEng)

• BEng Engineering Business Management and BSc Engineering

& Business Studies are not accredited as they do not contain

enough engineering

3 year BEng or 4 year MEng?

• MEng degree has 4 years of study

– UK students have access to Government

funded student loans for all 4 years

– Courses automatically meet the

academic CEng requirements

– Employment rates are normally higher

• To become chartered from a BEng degree:

– Typically involves taking an accredited MSc course

• 1 year versus 9 months of study

• Individual research project versus group project

• MEng degree integrated, MSc stands alone

• UK/EU students have no access to Government funded student loans

for MSc courses

Electronic Engineering at Warwick

Course details

Course details – 1st Year

• Typical week

– 12 hours of lectures

– 5 hours of labs and seminars

– 20 hours self-study

• Each student has a

Responsecard

– Interact in

lectures via

keypad

• Support

• Weekly meetings with

your personal tutor

• Engineering student

office

• Computing in

Engineering 24/7

• Library

• Learning grid

Core Subjects in 1st year

• Technological science

– Mathematics

– Mechanics and Energy

– Circuits & Devices and Systems

• Design for function

– Project work

– Materials and production methods

• Economics & the structure of

industry

– All accredited engineers require

business teaching

Optional modules in 1st year

• Optional modules, choose one from

– Biomedical Engineering, Multimedia

Technology, Technology in

International Development

– Aesthetics of Design, History of British

Car Industry, Rights & Wrongs: The

Engineering profession and society

– Foreign language

– Foundation Maths: for those with higher

level physics but no maths

2nd year studies

• Core modules

– Technological science

– Electronic Design

– Starting & running a business

– Computer systems

3rd year study modules

• Project

• Analogue systems

• Communication Systems

• Digital systems design

• Fundamentals of modern VLSI

design

• Signal processing

• Optional modules include:

• Automation and robotics

• Electrical machines & power systems

• Systems modelling

• Software engineering

Electronic engineering project

• Typically are related to research in this research-led department

• Involve the main three strategic core research areas: Sensors &

Biomedical, Power & Energy, and Communication Systems

• Typical projects cover subjects such as : Silicon Carbide devices for

electrical transport, gas- and fluidic sensors for the “electronic

nose” and “electronic tongue”, and optical wireless for secure

underwater- and atmospheric free-space communications

4th year study

• Group project

• Core modules

• ASICs

• MEMS and Smart devices

• Intelligent systems engineering

• Power electronic converters

• 3 optional modules from subjects such as: • Internet engineering • Instrumentation and

measurement • Optical

communications • Quality systems • Wireless

communications • Simulation of

operations • Supply chain

management

Electives

M.Eng Recav project (2011-12 year)

• Designed to give experience of different sensor

technologies and other subjects

• Multidisciplinary – electronics. IT, mechanical

engineering, structural engineering, fluids … !

• A sensor platform under radio control was

implemented – using a radio controlled plane for this

• Sensors included : wind speed, temperature,

pressure, altitude, and imaging system

• 5 students made it work – but overlooked something

vital !

Recav (2)

Engineering MEng CubeSat project

• Design and build a prototype

CubeSat, with a working

communications and power

platform using a scaled down

version of the EPS developed in

previous years for ESMO.

• Establish technical specification of a

CubeSat for orbital deployment.

• Conduct a test launch (and

successful recovery) using a weather

balloon in Spring 2013.

Research projects in relation to

student projects – Power Electronics

Led by Professor Phil

Mawby, a team is

developing Silicon

Carbide devices which

can withstand high

temperatures and high

voltages – used in

modern electric- and

hybrid vehicles

“Electronic nose” – specialised and

sophisticated gas sensors

Professor Julian Gardner

heads this internationally-

renowned group which has

also developed the

electronic tongue, and

electronic nose with mucus !!

Communications – Optical Wireless

Professor Roger Green heads the Communications Systems Laboratory

which is pioneering Optical Wireless – sending out “WiFi” and mobile

phone signals through free-space on invisible infrared light, or

underwater on visible Green light !

Microfabrication and new polymer

electronics and optics

In this case, a large team is working on devices and subsystems for such

applications as micromachines (Professor Gardiner, Dr. Covington, Dr. Billson,

Professor Hutchins et al) and new micro-optics for communications (Professor

Green, Dr. Covington, Dr. Leigh) using rapid prototyping

(microstereolithography) in polymers

Biological system modelling of systems,

diseases, and drug therapies Dr. Mike Chappell and Dr.

Neil Evans are working on

modelling in different

healthcare aspects.

They have a “Gait Lab.” to

observe and monitor

movements in patients so as

to be able to optimise such

activities for therapeutic

purposes for example

Student Life at Warwick

Helping students settle in and making the

most of their opportunities

Student comments

Taking part in societies and sports clubs is one of the best aspects of

being at university. Most students I know are part of at least one society

and one sports club. With over 75 sports clubs and 230 societies,

everybody finds something to their liking. I wouldn’t consider university a

complete experience without trying out several new activities!

Last year I participated in Warwick Hitch, a 1500 mile hitchhike to

Morocco where I raised nearly £500 for charity. I met so many amazing

people and experienced Europe & Africa in a way I never would have as

a tourist.

On the way I was lucky enough to drive over the tallest bridge in the

world which for me, as I am studying Civil Engineering, I found absolutely

fascinating.

Accommodation

• 6458 rooms in self catering halls

• Firm and insurance choice offer holders apply online for accommodation by 31st July

• Students are asked to select their 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice of accommodation

• Priority for firm choice offer holders

• All recent students, firm and insurance, placed in Hall for their first year

• Flexible letting periods 30 or 39

• Weekly costs from £78 to £150

Accommodation after 1st Year

• We support students for their whole stay not

just first year!

• Plentiful, quality off-campus housing

• Found via Warwick’s Accommodation Office,

estate agents & friends

• 42 to 48 week lets typical £60-£80 per week

• Add £15-20 per week for utility bills

• Buses every 10 to 15 minutes

• Can return to hall in final year

Coventry

Leamington Spa

Life at Warwick

• Sports

– From £49 / year for sports hall, swimming

and fitness

– Football & rock climbing to frisbee

& ball room dancing!

• Culture

– Warwick Art Centre, for theatre,

cinema, art

• Students Union

– Over 230 societies including curry club

and belly dancing

– Cultural, political and religious societies

Engineering societies

Engineering Society

– Making the most of

your degree

– Engineering Challenge

• Revision help

• Internship help

• Industrial visits

• Socials

– Trip to Dublin

Engineering Without

Borders

• The role of engineering

in tackling poverty

• International projects

available for students

Conclusion

We hope you enjoyed our open day and found it useful

Please have a safe journey home

I am happy to answer any final questions