Welcome to your Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering course

Welcome to MSc Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, it has never been such an exciting time to study electronic and telecommunication engineering. Human as well as machine to machine communication is becoming ever more sophisticated as we have an ever increasing reliance on reliable, smart, intelligent and secure systems within industry and in our personal lives.

The world requires engineers to devise innovative solutions to enable us to continue to design communication systems, devices and sensors that we will require now and in the future.

Your staff team

We want to make sure you know some of our team before you arrive. Hopefully this will help you recognise us and ensure you know who you can contact if you need any additional help and guidance.

Dr Alison Griffiths

Associate Professor

Alison's expertise includes smart grids and their protection and renewable integration, smart homes, wireless sensor network design, implementation and optimisation.

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Professor Abdel-Hamid Soliman

Professor

Abdel-Hamid's expertise includes automation, including Smart Cities, Building automation, Energy management, Security, Safety and health applications.

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Torfeh Sadat-Shafai

Emeritus Professor

Torfeh's expertise lies in plastic electronics, Photovoltaics, Experimental Physics, Electronic Material; Thin Films Technology and Optoelectronics. Torfeh is also course leader for Advanced Technology MSc

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Dr Anas Amjad

Course Director

Anas is Course Director for Electrical and Electronic Engineering. His expertise lies in the use of smart systems for a diverse range of applications, such as smart healthcare, smart homes, smart cities etc.

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Professor Hamidreza Gohari Darabkhani

Professor-Low Carbon & Renew Energy Sys

Prof Gohari Darabkhani has focused his research and industry collaborations on technologies and projects that directly contribute to resolving current major issues in the energy industry to achieving net-zero emission targets by 2050.

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Debi Roberts

Interim Head Of Department

Debi has a keen interest in Automotive and Aeronautical Aerodynamics, Engine Design and Engineering History (Automotive and Aeronautical).

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Course delivery

Teaching will be through a mixture of workshops, lectures, tutorials, labs and seminars. Most modules have four hours of contact a week and class sizes will be bigger in lectures and smaller in workshops, tutorials and labs. Most classes are face to face on campus, and we use a range of assessments including technical reports, lab reports, group assignments and online and traditional exams.

Semester one activities

Welcome Week is your first opportunity to meet your fellow students and the staff you’ll be working with, in one place. We’ll be getting involved in activities and making sure you know more about how the University works and how the next few weeks and months are going to look. We’re hoping that you’ll get to know us and your course mates and be ready to start with the next stage of your journey.

In Welcome Week, you’ll be introduced to the IET professional body so you can learn more about becoming a member and the benefits linking in to a local and global network of professional engineers can bring to your future career.

Pre-learning

This is an award for the graduate engineer who wishes to enhance their knowledge of electronic and telecommunication engineering with the human and machine communication and the devices used to automate industrial and consumer processes at personal, domestic, industrial national and global levels. The course covers a broad range of areas related to Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering with modules in advanced digital signal processing, autonomous intelligent vehicles, wireless communications and machine learning, internet of things and optical fibre communication systems. You will also learn how to be a professional engineer and undertake research methods training which enable you to develop your own project proposal and write an in-depth literature review in readiness for your project.

Before you start, these are some fantastic websites to get you thinking and developing yourself for the course;

https://www.theiet.org/

https://www.instructables.com/

The Engineer is a great place to keep up with news in the Electronics and Communications Industries

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/category/electronics

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/category/communications

Equipment software

Software that we will be using on this course includes the following:

https://www.mathworks.com/

https://www.ni.com/en.html

https://www.python.org/

Download software

Groups and societies

Staffordshire Engineering Society is the best way to meet peers across courses and levels of study, building a network of contacts that will prove beneficial before and after graduation. Bringing science and technology that drives for research and learning.

https://www.staffsunion.com/activities/society/engineering_soc/

All clubs and societies

Pre arrival task!

Prior to your arrival we’d like you to complete a little activity – there’ll even be a little prize for the best entry! We’d like you to produce a page or two that presents the most important future looking idea in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering that you think will make the biggest impact in the next 20 years. You’ll need to explain WHY you have chosen it and explain why you think it will make such an impact. We want to know how you think these ideas are going to impact our future!

Academic skills

Whether you're joining us from school or college, or you're returning to education after some time away, everyone can benefit from the Academic Study Skills resources provided by the University library.

The Academic Skills team is here to support you throughout your academic journey and to help you gain the skills you need to reach your full potential. They can assist with academic reading and writing skills, give advice on how best to plan assignments, and help improve your time management.

The library's Academic Skills Guides offer the key information to make studying easier and give a comprehensive guide to the learning resources and services we offer.

Staffs CampusConnect

Staffs CampusConnect is our student-led community app for new students. Connect with other people from your course, hometown or country, and even those with similar interests.

To register, please ensure you use your Applicant ID (Student Number) that you received in your offer letter, and the email address you used in your application to us.

Register for CampusConnect

Welcome website

Our welcome website will provide you the link to your new student life. It's all about how you find your place at university, including everything from how to meet friends, feel confident in doing your academic work, being a member of your Student Union and getting involved in Union Societies, Academic Societies, Sports, Volunteering or representing your peers in your School.

Part of this Welcome Week - we have an exciting program of University and course level activities planned for you for your first week in September. We are also building an extended program for you to join a series of events throughout the first half of the autumn term. Further details will be shared with you via the Welcome website and Students' Union pages over the coming weeks.

Welcome website

Campus map

Use our campus map to familiarise yourself with our campus before you arrive.

Campus map (PDF)

Check your email

Please make sure you check your personal email account regularly over the next few weeks. We will be sending you lots of information about Welcome Week.