Electronics & Electrical Engineering

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The University of Glasgow has been home to many distinguished scientists and engineers including James Watt, Lord Kelvin, John Kerr, John Logie Baird and William John Macquorn Rankine. The University's School of Engineering is the oldest in Britain with the Regius Chair founded in 1840. Students from the Electronics and Electrical Engineering Department have been responsible for inventing the television and developing the first VGA monitors.

Glasgow University is the 5th ranked UK university and the highest ranked Scottish university in recent Times Higher Education Supplement QS World University Rankings. It is one of only 2 Scottish universities in the top 100 and is located in the dynamic west end of Glasgow only 3 miles from the city centre. The university was also named Scottish University of the Year 2007-2008 by the Sunday Times. The department has had one of the top positions in the Research Assessment Exercise for the last 15 years and is consistently ranked at the top of most of the league tables for Electronic and Electrical Engineering degrees in the UK. We are also the most influential Electronics and Electrical Engineering department in the UK with more citations for published research than any other UK EEE department. Our degrees are all IET accredited and our strong industrial links provide industrial placements and sponsorship to our students.

Students at Glasgow are taught the latest topics in Electronic and Electrical Engineering by over 50 teaching staff and 85 support staff, many of whom are world leaders in their research fields. Undergraduate courses include degrees in Electronic and Electrical Engineering; Microcomputer Systems Engineering; Audio and Video Engineering; Avionics; Electronics and Software Engineering; and Electronics with Music. The department is internationally renown for research in opto-, bio-, power-, micro- and nano-electronics with major centres including the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre, the Electronics Design Centre and the Bioelectronics Research Centre. We are beginning to make a major impact in the emerging fields of Music Technology, Robotics and Renewable Energy technologies. Our present research grant portfolio is over £28M providing internationally leading facilities for postgraduate research and undergraduate projects.

A degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering is an excellent start to a rewarding career. For example, Scotland presently manufactures and exports more electronic products than whisky per annum (statement from the Scottish CBI President in 2007). Our graduates are highly sought after in many industries including microelectronics, nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, nanotechnology, computing, photonics, biotechnology, the oil industry, power engineering, renewable energy, shipbuilding, defense, the music industry, the motor industry, motor racing, patent law, consultancy and banking with average salaries above £50,000.

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