5G Mobile Communications and Intelligent Embedded Systems MSc

Key information

We’ve designed this MSc course to give you the up-to-date knowledge and skills needed in modern digital technologies. It's for newly qualified or practising engineers who’d like to extend their knowledge and practical skills in these rapidly growing areas of mobile communications and intelligent embedded systems.

This MSc offers you the opportunity, and the support, to go on an industrial placement at a UK company. This means you’ll gain industry experience, ready for your future career. 5G mobile communications and intelligent embedded systems lie at the heart of many emerging applications. These include:

• the internet-of-things
• connected and driverless cars
• smart cities
• eHealth
• virtual reality
• robotics
• smart manufacturing.

We also offer this course without the industrial placement year.

Careers

As a graduate, you’ll have the skills for a career in areas such as:

• mobile and satellite telecommunications (where large industry players include Samsung, Vodafone, Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia, Cobham, British Telecom, Telefonica)
• aerospace (where large industry players include Airbus, Rolls-Royce and GE)
• automotive and transport (where large industry players include Jaguar, BMW, Continental, Network rail)
• defence and security (where large industry players include BAE Systems, QinetiQ and Thales)
• healthcare (where large industry players include Siemens and GE).

The MSc is also an ideal entry point for doctoral research in the fields of telecommunications and embedded systems.