Electronics & Electrical Engineering

Career Prospects

There are many exciting job opportunities available to our MSc graduates in Scotland, the UK and beyond after graduation. There is a strong demand for graduates with knowledge and understanding in the field of electronics and electrical engineering.

The MSc programme will provide you with a wide range of skills giving you the opportunity to work in different areas of electronics and electrical engineering ranging from computer chip design to power engineering.

Possible areas of employment are:

• Chip design
• Embedded system design
• Telecommunications
• CCTV and surveillance
• Automation and control
• Aerospace
• Software development
• Development of PC peripherals and FPGA programming.
• Defence
• Services for the heavy industries, for example cooling, compressors, etc
• Bio-engineering

The MSc programme is also a perfect basis for further research particularly if you are interested in doing a PhD.