BEngRobotic Engineering (Including Placement Year)

Study location	United Kingdom, Colchester Campus
Type	Bachelor courses, sandwich
Nominal duration	4 years
Study language	English
Awards	BEng
Course code	H615

Entry qualification	High school / secondary education (or higher)

Language requirements	English Accepted proof of proficiency: Cambridge English, IELTS, TOEFL or other equivalent IELTS: 6.0 TOEFL (IBT): 76 CAE: B2 with 52+ CAE (from Jan 15): 169+

Other requirements	At least 1 reference(s) must be provided.

More information	essex.ac.uk/..tercourse=UG01061&subgroup=1

Overview

Interested? To learn more about this study programme, entry requirements and application process, please contact one of our consultants in a country nearest to you.

Programme structure

Year 1

Introduction to Programming
Object-Oriented Programming
Introduction to Databases
Web Development
Network Fundamentals
Mathematics for Electronics and Telecommunications
Professional Development
Fundamentals of Digital Systems

Year 2

Group Project & Industrial Practice
Application Programming
Data Structures and Algorithms
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
C++ Programming (optional)
Engineering Mathematics
Human Computer Interfaces and Visualisation (optional)
Computer Game Programming (optional)
Control theory and practice
C Programming and Embedded Systems (optional)

Final year

Individual Project
Mobile Robotics
Computer Vision
Evolutionary Computation and Genetic Programming (optional)
Intelligent Agents (optional)
High-Level Games Development (optional)
Advanced Embedded Systems Design (optional)
Signal Processing (optional)
Digital Signal Processing (optional)

Career opportunities

Being a robotics engineer means that you could be working on humanoid robotic toys, animatronics equipment for amusement parks, robotic equipment for defusing landmines in war-stricken countries, or robots for space and deep sea exploration.

Our recent graduates have gone on to work for a wide range of high-profile companies including:

National Instruments
Circad Design Ltd
The McClaren Formula One Team
B&W Group
BT
IBM
Visa
Google