Microcomputer systems engineering concentrates on the operation and interfacing of embedded processors and is designed to provide electronics engineers with the necessary software skills to design such systems.

• Our BEng and MEng degrees are accredited by the Institution of Engineering & Technology.
• Electronics and electrical engineering research at Glasgow was rated in the top ten in the UK in the most recent independent survey of research quality (RAE 2008).

Ratings

Our students report satisfaction levels of 100% (Unistats 2010).

Study abroad

There are study abroad opportunities available in years two and five.

Programme structure

You will study the same courses in the first three years whether you are on the BEng or MEng degree programme.

Year 1
Your first year of study will include courses in electronics and electrical engineering, mathematics and physics. You will take foundational studies in computing science where the focus is on problem-solving skills, procedural and algorithmic program development, and an awareness of the role of computer programming within the larger software engineering context: independent of any particular programming language.

Year 2
You will take a range of courses and practical project work that will give you a firm grounding in the knowledge and skills required of any professional electronics or electrical engineer. Courses include analogue and digital electronics, computer architecture, electrical circuits, embedded processors, electromagnetics, mathematics, Java, object oriented programming and algorithms and data structures.

Year 3
In third year you will concentrate less on the underlying physics of electronics, and instead take advanced programming, network and operating systems courses. This will give you the ability to operate, maintain and design both the hardware and software of the next generation of systems involving microcomputers and micro-controllers – the complex digital devices at the heart of everything from washing machine controllers to intricate scientific satellites.

Years 4 and 5
The main route to becoming a fully chartered engineer is through the MEng degree, which usually takes five years. The BEng degree remains popular and can normally be completed in four years. To become a fully chartered engineer with a BEng degree requires further study after graduation, which can be done part-time from work.

Your selection for BEng or MEng depends on your progress record in your first three years.

Both BEng and MEng students take specialist technical options in fourth year, and while BEng students do a final individual project to round off their degree, MEng students take additional management, technical (and possibly language) courses and carry out an extensive six-month industrial placement abroad. You are also able to choose from a number of specialist technical options including real-time and embedded systems, and safety critical systems and machine learning.

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