Computer Systems Engineering

Degree structure

The MSc programme consists of a set of compulsory core modules:

• Professional software development - Mr Phillip Gray (20 credits)
• Human computer interaction - Prof Stephen Brewster (10 credits)
• Digital signal processing 1 - Dr Bernd Porr (20 credits)
• Individual MSc project (60 credits)

and either

• Advanced networking and communications - Dr Lewis MacKenzie (10 credits)

or

• Computer communications 2 - Dr Faiz Rahman(20 credits)

The optional modules on this programme are:

• Analogue CMOS circuit design - Dr Bhaskar Choubey (20 credits)
• Computer communications 1 - Dr Fernando Rodriguez-Salaza (20 credits)
• Microwave and millimetre wave circuit design - Dr Khaled Elgaid (20 credits)
• Optical communications - Prof Ann Bryce (20 credits)
• VLSI design and CAD - Dr Timothy Drysdale (20 credits)
• Digital signal processing 2 - Dr Bernd Porr (20 credits)
• Computer architecture - Dr John O'Donnell (10 credits)
• Safety critical systems - Prof Christopher Johnson (10 credits, not offered 2010-2011)
• Artificial intelligence - Prof Roderick Murray-Smith (10 credits)
• Mutimedia systems and applications - Prof Joemon Jose (10 credits)
• Internet technology - Dr Leif Azzopardi (10 credits)
• Modelling reactive systems - Dr Alice Miller (10 credits)
• Advanced operating systems - Dr Colin Perkins (10 credits)
• Security & cryptography - Dr Ronald Poet (10 credits)

Typically, you will split your taught modules credit loading about equally between the two semesters.