Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Overview

Degree benefits

• You will gain a solid technical understanding of the subject together with the requisite set of analytical, problem solving and collaborative skills necessary to build a successful career at the cutting edge of technological innovation and engineering. Your transferable skills would also be applicable to employment in other sectors such as finance or consultancy.
• You will benefit from close interaction with many of our world-leading research activities through project work and our emphasis on research-led teaching. You will also have access to state-of-the-art software and instruments in our extensive teaching laboratories.
• The Electronic and Electrical Engineering course at University College London (UCL) is part of an integrated programme across UCL Engineering which provides opportunities to broaden your horizons through interactions and projects with students from other engineering disciplines.
• The programme is accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), the UK's professional engineering body. The BEng is accredited by the IET as partially meeting the academic requirements for registration as a Chartered Engineer. Please see further information below. 

Careers

The breadth of employment opportunities our graduates enjoy around the world demonstrates the value of our degree programme with its strong emphasis on using teamwork to provide novel engineering solutions to real world problems. The thorough training we provide in areas such as advanced mathematics, problem-solving, engineering design and computer simulation is highly regarded by a wide range of employers across many different sectors.

Careers for graduates of this programme are available in diverse environments including the extensive electronics and IT sectors in the UK, Europe, North America or Asia. You might even start your own business in hardware or software design and production, or alternatively join a financial or trading institution on graduation.

If you instead wish to continue studying towards a more specialist Master's or PhD qualification, your degree will also provide a firm foundation for this.