Electrical and Electronic Engineering, MEng (Hons), with industry placement

Our MEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering offers a five-year program with an optional industry year after Year 2 or 3, assessed by academics and experts, enhancing your employability by linking academic knowledge to real-world applications. This degree builds strong theoretical and practical skills, allowing specialization through optional modules in Years 3 and 4, participation in group projects solving industry problems, and individual research. With top UK rankings, advanced facilities like a £100m clean room complex, and strong employer ties, graduates are well-prepared for diverse careers.The program includes core modules in circuits, electronics, programming, and mathematics in the first two years, followed by advanced options in specialist areas. Assessment involves exams, tests, design exercises, presentations, and group work. Accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology, it ensures recognition for professional engineering roles.

This five-year MEng programme including a year in industry will enable you to pursue a career in any area of the electrical and electronic engineering industry. It has been designed to maximise student choice by allowing you to tailor the degree structure to suit your own interests. During the first two years you will undertake a series of core modules, for example Circuits, Electronic Systems and devices; Programming; Digital Systems; Mathematics. In your third and fourth years you can choose from a wide range of optional modules that reflect the specialist areas of electrical engineering that will take you to the leading edge of technology sought by industry. You will also work on an individual project with one of our research groups which will allow you to work at the frontier of knowledge. This programme can also be offered with a year in industry. For further details of our optional modules: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/courses/electrical-and-electronic-engineering-degree-meng#modules.