EECS Student Handbook 2023/24: 3.3 EECS Aims and Objectives

EECS AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

The School’s overall aims are:

To continue to innovate in the provision of undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes in response to subject area developments and market demand;
To equip our students with cutting-edge knowledge and principles appropriate to their chosen discipline;
To foster the employability skills our students will need in the workplace, developed through contact with research active staff and leading-edge industrial practice;
To ensure high-quality resources for teaching, learning and research.

More specific aims for students:

To ensure that when you graduate you have the skills most likely to be useful to you and your employers. These Graduate Attributes include the ability to apply logical and analytical thinking, creativity, design and programming skills to come up with innovative solutions;
To foster practical and industrially-relevant skills relating to techniques and practices in the field with the aim of enabling you to develop rapidly into engineering and computing professionals;
To help you build up more general skills and sound habits. These include the ability to plan your work, to work independently and in groups, to explain your work to others and to use computers and the Internet effectively and responsibly;
To challenge and encourage you, within a friendly, stimulating and responsive environment;
To deliver sound assessment of your work in order to keep you informed of your progress during your studies and in order to reflect your overall achievements in your class of degree;
An additional aim for the master’s degree is to provide domain-specific knowledge of current state-of-the-art and the ability to critically assess design, evaluation and research methodologies with the aim of preparing you for specialised employment in a variety of fields, or for research study.

The Objectives of EECS

All graduates will be wanting to achieve sustainable solutions to problems and have strategies for being creative and innovative and be able to overcome any difficulties by employing their knowledge in a flexible manner;
All graduates will be able to provide an awareness of the environmental, social, legal, economic and regulatory contexts within which engineers operate;
All graduates will have the competency to develop a variety of electronic, computer and software systems;
Graduates of the MSc programmes should also develop knowledge of a range of modelling, evaluation and design methods used in research. Additionally, these students gain skills in applying these critical and analytical abilities in a research-oriented project embedded in the specific domain of study.