De Montfort University - Electronic Engineering MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert

De Montfort University

Electronic Engineering MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert

Designed to address skills gaps in this innovative industry, our MSc will help maximize your employability. Industry-relevant course content, placement opportunities, and teaching from research-active staff mean our graduates are well-equipped for a range of roles. 

You will grow your skills across core electronic engineering disciplines, by taking modules such as Digital Signal Processing, Semiconductor Fundamentals and Power Electronics and Electromagnetic Compatibility and Embedded Systems. You will further enhance your employability by studying Engineering Business Environment, a module that considers the opportunities and threats to business arising from environmental policy, legislation, and societal change. In your final semester, you will be supported by our academics and technicians with your project, a substantial piece of work focused on your specific research interests.

You will be taught by staff who are carrying out research in areas including emerging memory devices, growth nano-structures, and communications cabling. This means you will develop a thorough and up-to-date understanding of the context of electronic engineering in the 21st century. 

Our graduates work as control systems and embedded systems engineers, engineering electronics design, and biomedical monitoring. Opportunities also exist for further academic study toward a doctorate and a research career.

Key features

  • Accredited by the IET, ensuring that you will develop the appropriate skills and knowledge for an engineering career and professional registration. 
  • Boost your skills in our professional laboratories and workshops, including general electronics and assembly facilities, digital electronics and microprocessor engineering, power electronics, control systems, and communications engineering. 
  • Learn through a mixture of lectures, tutorials, and laboratory sessions, ensuring a good balance between theoretical knowledge and practical abilities. 
  • Benefit from experienced research-based teaching staff, including those from DMU’s dedicated Centre for Electronic and Communications Engineering, which offers engineering solutions and multimedia techniques for electronics, communications, healthcare , and entertainment.

Entry Requirements

  • You should have the equivalent or above of a 2:2 UK bachelor’s honours degree in a relevant subject

  • If English is not your first language an IELTS score of 6.0 overall with 5.5 in each band (or equivalent) when you start the course is essential.


Career Prospects

DMU Global is an innovative international experience programme that aims to enrich your studies and expand your cultural horizons. It offers a wide range of opportunities, including on-campus and UK activities, overseas study, internships, faculty-led field trips and volunteering, as well as Erasmus+ and international exchanges. Electronic Engineering MSc graduates have taken up positions as project engineers and data processing specialists at companies including Oracle, Industrial Engineering Services (IES), Nielsen, and SNC - Lavalin Rail & Transit. Additionally, students have taken up placements with companies such as security service company Progressive Facilities Management, and London-based payment software company StyloPAY. DMU Works can help to hone professional skills with mock interviews and practice aptitude tests, and an assigned personal tutor will support students throughout their placement.

Course Details

Modules are delivered through lectures, tutorials and laboratories to ensure a balance between theory and practice. Each module requires 4 hours of timetabled taught sessions, 16 hours of full time study, and 212 hours of independent study per 30 credit modules. Alternate study modes and entry points may change the timetabled session available.

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