Electrical and Electronic Engineering Study Guide 2025/26
What you can study
Bristol is home to one of Europe's largest clusters of micro-electronics and hi-tech industries, the UK's biggest aerospace companies, renewable energy enterprises, and a thriving creative media industry, making it an ideal location in which to study electrical and electronic engineering. You will learn from world-renowned experts, apply your knowledge in our state-of-the-art laboratories, and benefit from our outstanding industrial links.
You will find units on:
- mathematics and computing
- analogue, digital, and power electronics
- communications
- electromagnetics
Pre-requisites
At UK universities, students specialise from their first year and rarely take units outside their degree subject. This means that:
- Year 1 units are suitable for all students.
- Year 2 units require some university study in the discipline.
- Year 3 units require a strong background in the discipline.
- Masters-level units require three years of study in the discipline.
Subject pathway students
If you have been nominated to Bristol on the Study Abroad (Electrical Engineering pathway), you must take the majority of your credits from this guide.
Year 1
Pre-requisites: suitable for all students
Teaching Block 1
Teaching Block 2
Teaching Block 4 (full year)
Year 2
Pre-requisites: some university study in the discipline.
Teaching Block 1
Teaching Block 2
Teaching Block 4 (full year)
Year 3
Pre-requisites: strong background of study in the discipline. Electrical and Electronic Engineering offers Year 3 units in Teaching Block 1 only.
Teaching Block 1
Masters-level units
Pre-requisites: at least 3 years of study in the discipline.
Teaching Block 1
- A Quantum Mechanic’s Toolbox - EENGM0037
- Analogue Integrated Circuits - EEMEM0006
- Antennas and RF Systems - EEMEM0015
- Applied ML for Engineering - EEMEM0024
- Computer Networks and the Internet - EEMEM0011
- Photonics - EEMEM0003
- Sensing, Actuation, and Energy Technologies - EEMEM0019
Teaching Block 2
Project units
Students interested in taking one of the following project units must develop and propose a research topic before arriving in Bristol. Registration on project units is subject to the availability of a supervisor.
Students will need to select an alternative unit if a supervisor is not available.
Project units are available for students beginning in September.
Teaching Block 2:
Teaching Block 4 (full year):
Application queries
Contact the Centre for Study Abroad inbound team if you have any queries about the application process for the study abroad programmes:
Phone: +44 117 39 40207
Email: cfsa-inbound@bristol.ac.uk
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