Welcome to City!

Who studies at City?

• Around 13,000 students from all over the world

1500 on Engineering and Technology related subjects

Around 300 on Electrical & Electronics Engineering (EEE) subjects

• Gender of students: 22% Female and 78% Male

• Status of students: 60% UK, 11% EU and 28% Overseas

• All ages – majority of undergraduates aged 18 - 30

• All cultural backgrounds and walks of life

What is an Engineer?

• someone who fixes your car, your house electrics or boiler?

• someone who ‘does engineering’ ?

• an ‘applied scientist’?

The Engineering Council says:

“engineering is the practice of creating and sustaining services, systems, devices, machines, structures, processes and products to improve the quality of life; getting things done more effectively and efficiently”

What is an Engineer?

• Almost everything around you is there because of an engineer

If an engineer didn’t design it, then an engineer made it fit-for-purpose!

• Engineers make things work

We are more interested in ‘how it works’ than ‘why is it so’

We exploit scientific knowledge to achieve goals

We make decisions based on incomplete information

Interpretation of limited, incorrect or contradictory

information

TrialsReverse Engineering

and product improvement

Risk Assessment

Management

Measurement and analysis of system

behaviour

Teaching

Market analysis

Changing the world!

Development and application of mathematical

models

Technology Development

Design

Research

Some examples of the roles of an Engineer

What do I need to know to be an Engineer?

What do I need to know to be an Engineer?

• Engineering Science Mechanics

Electricity

Magnetism

Fluids

Thermodynamics

Waves and light

• Engineering Practice Design

Communication

Team work

Management

• Engineering Analysis Mathematics

Computing

Problem solving

What do I need to know to be an Engineer?

• Specialist topics! Electronics

Renewable Energy

Electric Circuits

Dynamics and Control

Signals and Communications

Image Processing

Web Design

Video Editing

Networks

Biomedical Instrumentation

Anatomy and Physiology

Languages!

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

• BEng Programmes in Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Computer Systems Engineering

Telecommunications Engineering

• MEng Programme in Electrical and Electronics Engineering

• Accredited by Institution of Engineering

and Technology Institute of Measurement and Control

Biomedical Engineering

• BEng/MEng Programme in Biomedical Engineering

• Accredited by Institution of Engineering

and Technology

Institute of Physics

and Engineering in

Medicine

Institute of Measurement and Control

Interdisciplinary

• BEng Programme in Engineering Management

Course details

7-8 modules every year

Each module has a practical component

Support available for industrial placement after year 2

Courses provide a good balance of electronics, computing, science, management and mathematics

Group and design projects part of the course

EE / CSE / Telecom programmes have common 2 years

Excellent University services: career advice, library, personal development

Access to first class research

Why study electronic engineering and related areas?

Challenging career

Range of options after graduation

Respectable income

Creative profession

Intellectual Development

Discovery

Helping Society

Why City University London?

Long Tradition

Research and Teaching excellence

83% of student completely satisfied 2010 NSS (75% sector average)

14th in the UK in RAE 2007

Courses fully accredited

In top 10 Universities in the UK for employability

Creative international atmosphere

Excellent links with local industry for student placements

Small and friendly environment

Excellent facilities

Student: Amardeep Course: Computer System Engineering

Company: BBC / Siemens (Maidenhead)Job Title: Junior Software DeveloperRole: Developing Streaming software for BBC website (single most accessed website outside of USA).

Skills acquired: Detailed knowledge of Microsoft.Net technology.Comments: “I am currently in talks with a company about the video conferencing system that I developed for my final year project. I have allowed them to license my product”.

Industrial Placement

Students: Gavin & Abi Course: Computer System EngineeringJob Title: Support testerRole: Functional software testing.Skills acquired: Detailed knowledge of Java and software testing procedures.

Accenture provides a $4000 training budget for each placement student. Both students are now professionally certified by Sun Micro-systems.

Both students have worked with a number of large companies in both the UK & Spain.

Liverpool, Worthing,Madrid

Students: Homayoun Course: Computer System EngineeringJob Title: Support EngineerRole: Maintaining computer serversSkills acquired: Practical experience of Unix OS, Server Technology, SQL data bases, PHP and Java Comments:

Strong links with Coulomb, who now employ two City University graduates, and has just employed their forth placement student from City University.

Homayoun completed an industrially-linked final-year project

London, Canary Wharf

So how do I get here?

Typical offers

• A/AS-level: 340 UCAS tariff points, typically AAB (BEng), or 360 UCAS tariff points, typically AAA (MEng), A-level maths and physics required with a minimum of grade B in A-level maths

• BTEC: DDD in ND in a relevant subject, including D in Further Maths (BEng)

• IB: 30 (BEng), or 32 (MEng), including 6 in high level maths and physics.

Foundation Year also available:

• 200 UCAS points including A-level maths and physics

So how do I get here?

The Lord Mayor of London Scholarships for Academic Excellence

The Scholarship amount for UK and EU students starting an undergraduate course at City in September 2013 ranges from

• up to £2,000 per year for students achieving grades ABB at 'A' level (or equivalent*) to

• up to £3,000 per year for those achieving AAB (or equivalent*) .

As a graduate, you will have gained…

a solid grounding in the principles and applications of Electronic,

Computer Systems, Telecommunications or

Biomedical Engineering and the role of engineering businesses in a

sustainable world;

the knowledge and skills to face current engineering challenges

such as the sustainable and secure development of transport

and energy supply.