Electrical and Electronic Engineering

At Newcastle we provide a supportive postgraduate research community in which original ideas can flourish and you can derive maximum benefit from your studies.

Our research is clustered into four groups: communications, sensors and signal processing; emerging technologies and materials; power electronics, drives and machines; and microelectronics system design, and we enjoy research links with over 100 companies in the UK, EU and overseas. The quality of our work was recognised in the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008, which classed 75 per cent of our work as ‘internationally excellent’ or ‘internationally recognised’ with 15 per cent classed as ‘world leading’.

We have a friendly and active postgraduate community with over 270 students on taught programmes and 120 research students. Our range of industrially relevant MSc courses are all accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology and are designed to provide you with a good foundation for professional registration via Chartered Engineering status with the UK Engineering Council.

We offer PhD supervision in topics relating to: power electronics, drives and machines; control theory and applications; renewable energy; signals, systems and communications; bioinformatics and biomedical engineering; nanomaterials and electronics; asynchronous computing; sensors and embedded systems. As a PhD student, you will be matched with world-leading research-active academics and will be encouraged to attend the comprehensive programme of research training and professional development provided by the Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering.

There are plenty of opportunities for you to present and discuss your work at seminars and conferences. For example, the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering’s annual student-led two-day research conference, attended by all staff and research students, provides a valuable opportunity to disseminate work and enables cross-fertilisation of research ideas.

Postgraduates have access to purpose-built research laboratories, many of which have been equipped with specialist facilities and equipment. This means that on-campus we have: high-speed test facilities for aerospace and automotive research; climate-controlled laboratory facilities for nanoelectronic and material characterisation; a class 100 clean room; multi-chip microcircuits fabrication and testing facilities; and extreme environments research and development facilities.

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