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Telecommunications and Data Communications MSc degrees
The MSc in Electronics enables students
to acquire the essential knowledge, skills,
competency, and critical awareness necessary
for a rewarding career in the electronics
industry. A Master’s degree in Electronics
at Essex prepares students for a career in
analogue and digital circuit design; an area
with a major skills shortage worldwide, but
particularly in the UK. The content of this
course is far-reaching and includes theory,
practice, simulation and realisation
underpinned by the School’s 40 years of
expertise in electronics and
telecommunications.
The degree brings together our teaching, research and
industrial contacts to form a vocational offering with
enhanced postgraduate employability. Students will be
equipped with skills in: analogue design; digital design;
signal processing; CAD; time domain analysis; frequency
domain analysis; IC design; PCB manufacture; fault analysis;
electronic device principles; embedded processing; DSPs and
fast prototyping. The course is modular with compulsory as
well as optional modules allowing students to tailor their
qualification according to their interests within the
discipline. Compulsory options include: Signals and Systems;
DSPs, Programming; Embedded Systems; Design and Integration;
Professional Practice and Research Methodology. Options
include: Transmission Systems; Networking Principles;
Intelligent Systems and Robotics; Embedded System Design;
Mathematical Research Techniques; Fuzzy Logic and Hybrid
Systems.
All of the acquired knowledge culminates in the MSc
project which will see the design, simulation, construction,
testing and manufacture of a complex electronic system aimed
at the industrial or consumer markets. There are career
opportunities for well-qualified electronics design
engineers in the: avionics, automotive, entertainment and
consumer product markets, within companies such as:
Siemens, Fujitsu, Sony, Toshiba, Nokia, Samsung, LG, Apple,
Microsoft, Intel, Dell, Sharp, Cannon, Acer, Levono,
Hitachi, Epson, Philips, Nikon, Pioneer, TCL, JVC etc. are
all searching for competent designers. A large number of
careers are also available through local SMEs geographically
close to Essex who account for a significant proportion of
the workforce both in the UK and on the continent.
Telecommunication systems pervade modern society, providing the communication
infrastructure for the telephony and data services seen around us, and are now
expanding into areas normally associated with broadcasting. Furthermore, the
range of technologies employed in these systems is evolving rapidly; rather than
traditional copper, telecommunication networks are now a hybrid mix of optical,
wired and wireless networks, and employ both circuit- switched and
packet-switched protocols. This MSc in Telecommunication and Information Systems
provides a sound theoretical underpinning to the technologies employed in both
legacy and modern telecommunication systems, at the levels of hardware,
protocols and applications.
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Computer networks form the underlying infrastructure for the information
society of the twenty-first century, and there is a continual need for well-
qualified engineers with the appropriate background and expertise to work in
this area. The MSc in Computer and Information Networks provides a well- rounded
and in-depth education on computer networks and the applications that use them.
It provides a thorough understanding of computer networking technologies and
infrastructure, both existing and emerging; it examines services and
applications that operate over computer networks; and it provides experience of
the practicalities of setting up and operating these networks.
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Computers are used everywhere in modern business, storing and manipulating
information that is critical to the way companies operate. If that
information becomes compromised, a severe loss of revenue can ensue or, worse,
the research and development of new products or services can be stolen.
Consequently, emphasis is increasingly being placed on computer security,
especially in the context of the modern network environment.
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