Our changing world relies on electrical machines and electronic systems, from wind turbines to 5G mobile networks and computers. In this four-year course, you’ll explore the engineering of these devices and systems across a wide range of core and optional modules.
Practical experience is key to our teaching. As a first-year you’ll take part in the faculty's Global Engineering Challenge to solve a real-world problem. In your second year, you’ll work on a week-long project, Engineering: You’re Hired, devised by one of our industry partners – and get the chance to work with an engineering company through the semester-long Sheffield Industrial Project Scheme.
At the end of your second year you can choose to specialise or continue with the more general ‘electrical and electronic engineering’ option, which is our most popular course.
The degree streams that you can choose from are:
electrical engineering
electronic engineering
electronic and communications engineering
electrical and electronic engineering
All that academic study will then be put into context with a year-long industry placement. While placements are not guaranteed and are your responsibility to source, you’ll receive plenty of advice and support from our dedicated Industrial Placement Year team.
Our students have completed placements at companies including Siemens, Dyson, Bosch, Arm, IBM, BMW and Huawei, making Sheffield the right choice if you want to do a placement year.
This wide ranging and exciting degree leads you to a final year individual design project, where you’re encouraged to investigate a subject that interests you, setting you up for a career as an electronic or electrical engineer.
