Academic excellence for business and the professions

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Professor Panos Liatsis

Welcome to City!

Who studies at City?

• Around 13,000 students from all over the world – 1500 on Engineering and Technology related subjects – Around 300 on Electrical & Electronics Engineering (EEE)

subjects • Gender of students: 22% Female and 78% Male • Status of students: 60% UK, 11% EU and 28% Overseas • All ages – majority of undergraduates aged 18 - 30 • All cultural backgrounds and walks of life

What is an Engineer?

• someone who fixes your car, your house electrics or boiler? • someone who ‘does engineering’ ? • an ‘applied scientist’?

The Engineering Council says: “engineering is the practice of creating and sustaining services,

systems, devices, machines, structures, processes and products to improve the quality of life; getting things done more effectively and efficiently”

What is an Engineer? • Almost everything around you is there because of an engineer

– If an engineer didn’t design it, then an engineer made it fit-for-purpose!

• Engineers make things work – We are more interested in ‘how it works’ than ‘why is it so’ – We exploit scientific knowledge to achieve goals – We make decisions based on incomplete information

Interpretation of limited, incorrect or contradictory

information

Trials Reverse Engineering

and product improvement

Risk Assessment

Management

Measurement and analysis of system

behaviour

Teaching

Market analysis

Changing the world!

Development and application of mathematical

models

Technology Development

Design

Research

Some examples of the roles of an Engineer

What do I need to know to be an Engineer?

What do I need to know to be an Engineer?

• Engineering Science – Mechanics – Electricity – Magnetism – Fluids – Thermodynamics – Waves and light

• Engineering Practice – Design – Communication – Team work – Management

• Engineering Analysis – Mathematics – Computing – Problem solving

What do I need to know to be an Engineer?

• Specialist topics! – Electronics – Renewable Energy – Electric Circuits – Dynamics and Control – Signals and

Communications

– Image Processing – Web Design – Video Editing – Networks – Biomedical Instrumentation – Anatomy and Physiology – Languages!

Electrical and Electronics Engineering • BEng Programmes in

– Electrical and Electronics Engineering

– Computer Systems Engineering – Telecommunications Engineering

• MEng Programme in – Electrical and Electronics

Engineering

• Accredited by – Institution of Engineering and Technology

– Institute of Measurement and Control

Biomedical Engineering • BEng/MEng Programme in

– Biomedical Engineering

• Accredited by – Institution of Engineering and Technology – Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine

– Institute of Measurement and Control

Interdisciplinary

• BEng Programme in – Engineering with Management and Entrepreneurship

Course details

7-8 modules every year Each module has a practical component Support available for industrial placement after year 2 Courses provide a good balance of electronics, computing, science, management and mathematics Group and design projects part of the course EE / CSE / Telecom programmes have common 2 years Excellent University services: career advice, library, personal development Access to first class research

Why study electronic engineering and related areas? Challenging career Range of options after graduation Respectable income Creative profession Intellectual Development Discovery Helping Society

Why City University London? Long Tradition Research and Teaching excellence 83% of student completely satisfied 2010 NSS (75% sector average) 14th in the UK in RAE 2007 Courses fully accredited In top 10 Universities in the UK for employability Creative international atmosphere Excellent links with local industry for student placements Small and friendly environment Excellent facilities

Industrial Placement

Student: Amardeep Course: Computer System Engineering

Company: BBC / Siemens (Maidenhead) Job Title: Junior Software Developer Role: Developing Streaming software for BBC website (single most accessed website outside of USA).

Skills acquired: Detailed knowledge of Microsoft.Net technology. Comments: “I am currently in talks with a company about the video conferencing system that I developed for my final year project. I have allowed them to license my product”.

Industrial Placement

Students: Gavin & Abi Course: Computer System Engineering Job Title: Support tester Role: Functional software testing. Skills acquired: Detailed knowledge of Java and software testing procedures.

Accenture provides a $4000 training budget for each placement student. Both students are now professionally certified by Sun Micro-systems.

Both students have worked with a number of large companies in both the UK & Spain.

Industrial Placement

Student: Homayoun Course: Computer System Engineering Job Title: Support Engineer Role: Maintaining computer servers Skills acquired: Practical experience of Unix OS, Server Technology, SQL data bases, PHP and Java Comments:

Strong links with Coulomb, who now employ two City University graduates, and has just employed their forth placement student from City University.

Homayoun completed an industrially-linked final-year project

So how do I get here? Typical offers • ‘A’/‘AS’ level: 340 UCAS tariff points, typically AAB (BEng), or 360 UCAS

tariff points, typically AAA (MEng), ‘A’ level maths and physics required with a minimum of grade B in ‘A’ level maths

• BTEC: DDD in ND in a relevant subject, including D in Further Maths (BEng)

• IB: 30 (BEng), or 32 (MEng), including 6 in high level maths and physics. Foundation Year also available: • 200 UCAS points including ‘A’ level maths and physics

Funding

The Lord Mayor of London Scholarships for Academic Excellence The Scholarship amount for UK and EU students starting an undergraduate course at City in September 2013 ranges from

• up to £3,000 per year for those achieving AAB (or equivalent) .

• up to £2,000 per year for students achieving grades ABB at 'A' level (or equivalent) to

As a graduate, you will have gained…

a solid grounding in the principles and applications of Electronic,

Computer Systems, Telecommunications or

Biomedical Engineering and the role of engineering businesses in

a sustainable world;

the knowledge and skills to face current engineering challenges

such as the sustainable and secure development of transport

and energy supply.