Why choose the School of Computing, Engineering and Creative Industries
Our block delivery course structure gives you year-round entry points and intermediate qualifications so you can tailor your learning to fit around your life.
Enhance your future job prospects with dedicated project management units.
In the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey 2025, the University of Bedfordshire ranks in the UK top 10 for skills development; we rank UK 29th overall.
About the course
This two-year MSc is aimed at graduates with a background in electronics who wish to follow a specialist career in digital electronics or communications; it also adds to your skill set through units focused on building your project management capabilities. Designed in collaboration with professionals at the forefront of the industry, the course advances your technical knowledge and practical expertise while allowing you to explore cutting-edge technologies in a rapidly developing field and apply what you learn to real-world projects.
Course accreditation
Formal accreditation for this programme will be awarded after a successful accreditation visit and subsequent approval from the IET’s Academic Accreditation Committee.
Facilities and specialist equipment
- Purpose-built STEM building with modern facilities and bespoke study spaces
- New electronic engineering lab with state-of-the-art equipment supplied by National Instruments and Rohde & Schwarz
- Access to 3D printers, solder stations and an extensive range of manufacturing tools
- Industry-standard software, such as Multisim and MATLAB, to prepare you for current working practices
Your student experience
Our course is designed in close collaboration with experts across the field, ensuring you gain up-to-the-minute knowledge and keep up with the latest industry breakthroughs.
Study with a team of highly qualified, research-active teaching staff.
Prepare for the workplace through practice-based learning and hands-on sessions so you can apply your theoretical knowledge to real-world situations.
The course’s integrated project management units build your transferable skills and prepare you for the modern workplace in areas such as effective communication; critical thinking; advanced analysis; and innovative problem-solving.
Build knowledge and connections through field trips, interactive seminars and collaborative work opportunities with sector employers.
Explore your specialist interests with an Electrical Engineering MSc project of your choice.
Benefit from your own personal academic tutor.
Course Leader - Dr Vladan Velisavljevic
Professor Vladan Velisavljevic received PhD degree at EPFL, Switzerland, in 2005 and has been with the School CST, University of Bedfordshire, since 2011. He has a rich research background and interest in signal, image and video processing and sensor technologies. Vladan teaches in the field of electronic engineering and coordinates MSc final student projects at the School CST.
Course Leader - Dr Vladan Velisavljevic
Professor Vladan Velisavljevic received PhD degree at EPFL, Switzerland, in 2005 and has been with the School CST, University of Bedfordshire, since 2011. He has a rich research background and interest in signal, image and video processing and sensor technologies. Vladan teaches in the field of electronic engineering and coordinates MSc final student projects at the School CST.
Course Leader - Dr Vladan Velisavljevic
Professor Vladan Velisavljevic received PhD degree at EPFL, Switzerland, in 2005 and has been with the School CST, University of Bedfordshire, since 2011. He has a rich research background and interest in signal, image and video processing and sensor technologies. Vladan teaches in the field of electronic engineering and coordinates MSc final student projects at the School CST.
Course Leader - Dr Vladan Velisavljevic
Professor Vladan Velisavljevic received PhD degree at EPFL, Switzerland, in 2005 and has been with the School CST, University of Bedfordshire, since 2011. He has a rich research background and interest in signal, image and video processing and sensor technologies. Vladan teaches in the field of electronic engineering and coordinates MSc final student projects at the School CST.
Course Leader - Dr Vladan Velisavljevic
Professor Vladan Velisavljevic received PhD degree at EPFL, Switzerland, in 2005 and has been with the School CST, University of Bedfordshire, since 2011. He has a rich research background and interest in signal, image and video processing and sensor technologies. Vladan teaches in the field of electronic engineering and coordinates MSc final student projects at the School CST.
Course Leader - Dr Vladan Velisavljevic
Professor Vladan Velisavljevic received PhD degree at EPFL, Switzerland, in 2005 and has been with the School CST, University of Bedfordshire, since 2011. He has a rich research background and interest in signal, image and video processing and sensor technologies. Vladan teaches in the field of electronic engineering and coordinates MSc final student projects at the School CST.
Studying our Electronic Engineering with Project Management MSc course will equip you with the advanced knowledge and skills in the areas of digital communications, signal processing, electronic circuits and microprocessors with a focus on project management. Through an integrated approach, you will discover how leadership and operations management work closely together in contemporary organisations in our Leading and Managing Organisational Resources unit, while analysing how this impacts financial performance. Based on contemporary research, you will also evaluate the role of Project Management in a business setting as well as analyse key project management approaches and methodologies that will enable you to approach new projects and successfully complete them.
In practical areas of study, you will be provided with the fundamental concepts, principles and applications of electronic system design and optimisation as well as advanced digital signal processing in our Signals and Electronic Systems unit. Here, you will develop the skills to work with real-world problems by applying these advanced theoretical and practical skills. Similarly, you will develop your understanding and applied knowledge of technologies and techniques related to Digital, Microwave and Optical Communications that you will use to design solutions for complex problems with computational and analytical techniques. Furthermore, you will evaluate these methods and techniques in the context of their effectiveness and limitations.
You will also discover important emerging technologies and ideas within wireless, embedded and control systems to develop an in-depth understanding of the embedded system, wireless sensing, automatic control and microprocessor architecture in our Wireless and Embedded Systems unit. Finally, you will complete an MSc Project in Electronic Engineering that will allow you to bring your acquired skills and knowledge together in practice. You can take this opportunity to work on a topic of interest to you that is relevant to your field of study. To help you with this, you will be equipped with the skills and knowledge around Research Methodologies and Project Management that will prepare you to engage with scientific work, data analysis, establishing hypotheses and understanding research.
To add to this, our unit in Developing Independent Research will support you in producing a good research proposal where you will learn to present your critical evaluations conclusions to a professional standard. In addition, to prepare you for your career, our Personal Professional Development unit will support your career progression by enhancing your employability skills as you shape your own professional development journey and goals with help from our scheduled coaching.
You are assessed in a variety of ways. The majority of units are assessed through coursework group and individual projects portfolios essays presentations or exams. Presentations are usually given and assessed in the context of a group seminar. You will also produce software artefacts in the area of your specialism. Constant feedback and advice from a supervisory or unit team will be provided to support you in your work. You will progress from well-defined briefs to more open-ended and challenging assessments which culminate in your major project - the MSc Project - Electronic Engineering where you will be given freedom to choose your area of work. The feedback on your submitted assessments will be provided within 15 working days. The lecturers are expected to take every effort to provide you the feedback as early as possible before the next assessment if any. If you fail an assessment and need to retake or resit the assessment you can do so in the next available opportunity which is normally in the assessment week of the next block. If you fail a unit and need to retake this unit you can do so when the unit is run again.
Careers
The most common career destination will be in industries related to electronic systems such as designing novel solutions for wireless communications, avionics or cars, with a focus on electronic engineering tasks such as microcontrollers, sensors or actuators for final products. You may also work in companies providing solutions for signal processing problems - for example, manufacturing medical imaging tools, healthcare monitoring or for seismology analysis.
As a graduate of this course, you will also have the opportunity for further study at PhD level which can lead to a career in higher education.
