Brunel - Electronic & Computer Engineering (Ece)

Electronic and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Brunel University is one of the largest disciplines in the University with almost 50 full-time academic staff and extensive teaching and research portfolios.

The subject area boasts an undergraduate population of 600 and a postgraduate population of over 300 students. Despite our size, we take a relaxed and friendly attitude with both students and staff and show a genuine interest in the success of our students and graduates. Our recent NSS (National Student Satisfaction) survey results have been showing a consistent success in the last 4 years, hence reflecting the positive learning experience of our students’ and the high level of their satisfaction with our academic provision. Our IET accredited teaching provision and research programmes are aimed at developing the expertise, knowledge and skills necessary to match the rapid growth in the need for well qualified scientists and engineers across the full breadth of Electronic, Computer and Multimedia engineering.

Research activities in ECE cover a wide range of topics which have direct compliance with the industry vision and requirements and are carried out in five research centres formed around two broad thematic areas namely Telecommunications and Systems. The department has an extensive research portfolio totalling £7. 5M worth of ongoing research grants and contracts and is a major part of a General Engineering submission that was ranked 5th in UK in the last Research Assessment Exercise (RAE2008). This is in addition to a large set of comprehensive high-quality teaching and learning resources coupled with strong research links with industry and an excellent record of employment amongst our graduates. Electronic and Computer Engineering at Brunel also benefits from geographical proximity to most of the country’s information engineering and telecommunications industry.