Master of Engineering in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

at University of Southampton - Highfield Campus United Kingdom

Gain the expertise to manage the movement of goods, people, data or money across a supply chain on this master’s degree course at the University of Southampton. You’ll develop advanced management and analytical skills, and have the chance to work on a real business project during a 3-month industry placement. You’ll be taught by academics from one of the country’s leading analytics research groups, and graduate with the skills and knowledge for a successful career in logistics.

On this MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Analytics degree, you'll learn advanced management skills and the ability to use data to make good business decisions. You'll gain a thorough grounding in:

• Integrated and international logistics supply chain management
• Software and programming skills
• Quantitative, qualitative and technical skills

You'll graduate from the course knowing how to:

• Formulate a hypothesis and use data to test it
• Use analytical techniques to support decision making
• Develop computer-based decision support systems to gain insight from data

We'll give you plenty of support before and during the project, including seminars and workshops, to help you get the most from your placement.

The course is taught in association with the University's cross-disciplinary Centre of Operational Research, Management Sciences and Information Systems (CORMSIS), one of the largest groups of its kind in the UK. This means you'll benefit from a wider choice of optional modules which you can use to pursue your own interests or career plans.

This accredited 4-year business analytics degree with placement will give you specialist skills to help organisations understand their customers and use data to make effective business decisions. You'll get a solid education in business, plus hands-on experience by spending a year on a work placement.

Your A level results will determine which core or compulsory modules you'll need to take.

You'll develop the mathematical skills needed to gain insights from a range of data sources, including the internet and social media.

On this BSc Business Analytics course with placement you can:

• Spend your third year on an approved industry placement in a business organisation
• Gain experience of industry-standard analytics software, including the most commonly used SAS (Statistical Analysis System) package
• Explore possible career paths by studying interdisciplinary modules, including languages and web design
• Learn the fundamentals of programming
• Put your knowledge into practice by working on a project to address a real-world industry issue
• Benefit from the expertise of our research-focused academics, as well as input from industry

You'll graduate with a degree accredited by:

• CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants)
• AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business)

Our BSc Business Analytics with placement course is very flexible because you can choose some of the modules you'll study. For example, you can deepen your accounting and finance knowledge or study relevant business and management topics.

Our MSc Aerodynamics and Computation degree focuses on numerical methods and the physics and computation modelling of turbulence. It will enhance your knowledge of flow physics and your ability to use state-of-the art computational tools to improve industrial designs. This course is ideal if you’re an engineering, maths or science graduate with a strong background in fluid dynamics or aerodynamics.

This degree will prepare you for a career in industrial research and development, or ongoing postgraduate research.

You’ll take part in individual and group practical work as well as a critical research project, developing your expertise in aerodynamics.

You’ll examine current trends and challenges and engage in discussion and research on critical issues in the field. You'll also develop your ability to use experimental and advanced computational methods, such as particle image velocimetry (the measurement of the velocity of fluids), finite volume method and high-order finite difference methods

Research projects are often linked to our current research activities, or supported by industry or government funding bodies. Past students have undertaken research projects such as:

• The investigation of the installation effects on the noise of Dyson high-spend fans
• Aerodynamic load estimation from particle image velocimetry
• Morphing wings aircraft modelling

You’ll benefit from state-of-the-art facilities including high-performance computers and the RJ Mitchell Wind Tunnel, the largest university wind tunnel in the UK. Recent graduates have gone on to work at organisations such as Dyson and Rolls-Royce.

The MSci Geophysics master's degree at Southampton is a wide-ranging degree, which combines many of the sciences. We have strong links with industry, excellent facilities and offer many fieldwork opportunities. You'll graduate with the knowledge and skills needed to pursue a career in anything from oil and gas exploration to offshore surveys.

Geophysics is the science of applying physical principles to help us understand our world. You’ll work across Maths, Physics, and Geology, with the opportunity to take modules in astronomy, geography, and archaeology.

At Southampton, you'll learn about current geophysics and gain a range of geophysical, geological and mathematical skills. These include practical field skills and computer programming.

This broad course is one of only a few in the UK that combines terrestrial and marine geophysics, and offers great flexibility.

You can shape the course to your personal interests or career plans by choosing options that explore subjects like:

• current and past climate change
• tides and waves
• hydrocarbon exploration
• our unique seafloor surveying module

Depending on your grades, you can apply to study abroad at one of our partner universities. There you'll take specialist modules and projects that are not available in the UK.

As part of this course you'll:

• study at our pioneering research institution and waterfront campus, the National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOCS)
• use our modern, industry-standard, labs and teaching equipment, including the National Oceanographic Library
• take field courses in the UK and abroad, where you'll design and carrying out your own surveys
• benefit from our many links to geophysics and geology companies

Accreditation by The Geological Society of London means that our teaching is of the highest quality and has been approved by an independent body of academics and industrialists.

Discover the issues driving the world's population health and wellbeing on our MSc Global Health degree. Learn to tackle the risks posed by global issues such as infectious disease, rising obesity and climate change.

You'll cover socio-behavioural, demographic, spatial, economic, political, environmental and healthcare perspectives.

Explore the global risks of disease and changing population structures. Understand the trends behind inequality, globalisation, migration and urbanisation.

You’ll learn:

• The concepts and dimensions of global health
• The issues underpinning health outcomes and inequalities between countries and population sub-groups
• How to analyse and solve complex global health problems
• How to apply critical thinking and analytical skills to problem-solving

You’ll also develop:

• Quantitative skills in global health research
• Key transferable skills, including independent research, report writing, data analysis, and teamwork
• Ways to develop your professional career in global health and related fields

The modules you study may be taught by academics from specialisms including social sciences, medicine, the environment, and life sciences.

Students on this master's degree come from a range of backgrounds, in the UK and overseas. This makes for a diverse learning environment where you can connect with peers from all over the world.

This degree is available to take as an intercalation degree for undergraduate medical students. Intercalation means that you'll take a year out of your undergraduate medicine degree to gain this extra award.

At Southampton, you can study the music you care about, and develop the skills and experience for a successful career. This 4-year BA Music degree provides a broad musical education, across all forms and styles. You can specialise in areas including performance, music history, composition and technology. Your chance to study music abroad will give you international performance experience and build your global network.

Our students sing opera and music theatre, play funk guitar and classical oboe. No matter what your musical background, we'll provide:

• regular performance and composition workshops, including with guests from the industry
• performance projects with world-renowned performers and recording artists
• up to 20 hours of fully funded individual tuition per year
• ensemble and conducting coaching

This 4-year course lets you study at a partner university abroad for an academic year. This includes cities such as:

• Paris
• Madrid
• Venice
• Hong Kong
• Norway

As part of this course, you can:

• learn different approaches to musical topics, from the middle ages to global hip hop
• work on projects with other students across classical, pop and jazz
• study concert hall composition, commercial songwriting or film scores
• experience advanced studio techniques, jazz theory and orchestration
• take your music to the local community, with school placements, therapy sessions and workshops

You'll also gain professional career skills. These may include arts administration or managing events.

Our excellent facilities include:

• dedicated rehearsal spaces
• electronic studios
• networked multimedia workstations

Our Turner Sims concert hall supports the most extensive series of professional concerts and workshops of any UK university. You can also perform around the city in a range of different venues.

Sustainable energy supply is one of the greatest challenges we face today. At Southampton, you'll learn to focus your engineering skills into cutting-edge technologies, such as wind turbines, solar cells and batteries. You'll study core mechanical engineering topics and explore how we store, use and distribute energy. You'll graduate with vital skills for environmental engineering and beyond.

Sustainable energy is a fascinating and growing area. This 4-year integrated master's in mechanical engineering focuses on the latest in energy technology, systems and processes, such as:

• Fuel cells
• Photovoltaics
• Biomass systems
• Tidal energy
• Wind turbines

This degree provides the core topics you'll need to master mechanical engineering. It then gives you the advanced skills to design and test sustainable-energy technologies.

As part of this course you can:

• Examine the economics behind energy technology investments
• Develop your management skills
• Take a work placement to boost your academic performance and prepare for your career
• Use our design workshops and studios
• Showcase your work in our annual Engineering Design Show
• Go on site visits to experience engineering in practice

You can take this course with an additional, year-long, paid placement. Apply with UCAS code H3J7 for the Industrial Placement Year option.

We're a designated university for the Defence Technical Undergraduate Scheme (DTUS).

Enter the world of large-scale electrical power. Learn to build the systems and technologies that will grow our power networks for decades to come. From sustainable energy generation to the use of electric vehicles, big changes in the way we produce and use power are creating exciting challenges for today’s electrical engineers.

Electrical engineering is about the generation and control of electricity, its distribution for use in homes and industry, and the design of large-scale machinery.

You’ll study technologies of:

• Electrical power engineering, including production, distribution and control
• Microelectronics and computing
• Systems that interface electronics and computers with aircraft, electric cars and renewable energy sources

This degree can take you in several interesting career directions – you could find yourself improving the integration of sustainable power sources to the grid or designing next-generation components to upgrade the ageing power infrastructure.

You’ll learn in an electronics lab equipped with the latest technologies. We are also home to the Tony Davies High Voltage Laboratory – a centre for cutting-edge electrical power research and one of just a few labs of its kind in the UK.

We are a partner of the Institution of Engineering and Technology Power Academy, which gives you the chance to apply for a company-led scholarship that provides financial support, paid summer work placements and industry mentors.

This electrical engineering degree is accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology on behalf of the Engineering Council for the purposes of:

• fully meeting the academic requirement for registration as an Incorporated Engineer
• partly meeting the academic requirement for registration as a Chartered Engineer

Gain specialist legal knowledge on this LLM International Commercial and Corporate Law at the University of Southampton. Learn skills in a range of disciplines and develop skills for your professional life. Commercial law plays a key role in global trade giving you access to excellent career opportunities.

Southampton Law School in the UK has a strong reputation for its commercial and corporate law expertise.

This master's develops the practical legal skills you need to advise, litigate and negotiate. It draws on the research strengths of the School’s academic staff who are active at the forefront of international and national legal reform and development.

You'll be able to shape your degree towards your particular interests. For example you could choose to study:

• Insurance law
• Corporate governance
• Intellectual property law in a global world
• International competition law and policy
• Law of the world trade organisation

Our 'LLM Challenge' offers an extra learning experience. Students across all our LLM courses are assigned to a team and given a current topic to debate to compete for a small monetary prize. The LLM Challenge helps you develop your collaborative working and leadership skills.

Mathematics is the fundamental language of physics and underpins the theories that explain our universe. With this master's degree, you’ll develop a profound understanding of the subject and learn how to apply it to solve problems.

The MPhys Physics with Mathematics degree combines robust training in experimental and theoretical physics with in-depth study in related fields of mathematics.

Optional modules enable you to go deeper into areas of mathematics and physics that interest you, such as quantum physics, gravitational waves, general relativity and black holes.

You’ll also master high-level analytical, modelling and computing techniques. This will open up a huge range of career options, or prepare you for continued research with a PhD.

The degree is delivered in partnership with Southampton’s highly regarded Mathematical Sciences department.