Postgraduate Prospectus

www.essex.ac.uk/csee | Electronics and Telecommunications
Why study electronics
and telecommunications
at Essex?
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One of the UK’s leading Schools of
Computer Science and Electronic
Engineering
Ranked eleventh in the UK in the
most recent Research Assessment
Exercise (RAE, December 2008)
Long-standing reputation
for telecommunications and a
centre of excellence in networking
Cutting-edge research in
photonic networks, network
services, pervasive computing,
multimedia and optoelectronics
Thriving academic community
with staff from over eleven
countries and students from
all over the world
Career prospects
Studying within our School
provides both the recent graduate
and the practising engineer with
the opportunity to gain new
skills or enhance existing ones.
Our MSc courses, in addition
to providing advanced training,
also form a natural progression
to postgraduate research.
Our graduates have progressed
to a variety of senior positions in
industry and academia. Some of
the companies and organisations
where our former graduates are
now employed include: Alcatel
Submarine, BT Group, QinetiQ,
Dolby Laboratories, Fujitsu,
Royal Air Forces, and within
our University and Imperial
College, London.
About our School
We have an international reputation
for outstanding quality research and
postgraduate training. Our teaching
and research is supported by extensive
networked computer facilities and
software aids, together with a wide range
of test and instrumentation equipment.
Our research activity is concentrated in
the following principal research areas:
audio and video networking, multimedia
architectures and applications, photonics,
and RF engineering and propagation.
Cross-disciplinary projects draw on the
expertise of our electronic engineers,
computer scientists, mathematicians,
physicists and psychologists.
Our impressive external research funding
stands at over £4 million. We participate in
a number of EU initiatives and undertake
projects under contract to many outside
bodies, including government and industrial
organisations. For example, Professor Martin
Henson has recently secured a £400,000
grant to investigate how intelligent inhabited
environments can be adapted for different
types of buildings.
In addition, Professor Dimitra Simeonidou,
along with other partners, has been
awarded Engineering and Physical
Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
funding of £7.2 million to pioneer
technologies that will transform the internet,
as growing demands are stretching the
original network to its limits. This major
project aims to radically transform the
infrastructure underpinning today’s
over-stretched network.
Alongside this, Dr Martin Reed has
secured a PMI2 (Prime Minister’s Initiative
for International Education) Connect award
to build links between Essex and
Northwestern University in the United
States. His project explores high
performance network testbeds and will
provide mobility for our students, through
internships, placements and exchanges.
Taught courses
All our MSc courses have Institution
of Engineering and Technology (IET)
accreditation which is recognised worldwide.
Our taught courses provide a thorough
and up-to-date knowledge of the theory,
methods and applications of electronics
and telecommunications, while allowing
you to specialise in the fields of your choice.
Each course has a set of core components,
that can be combined with optional modules,
to enable you to gain either in-depth
specialisation or a breadth of understanding
across several topics.
MSc Computer and Information Networks•
This course gives you in-depth knowledge
of the principles and practice of computer
networking, covering topics like current
and future internet protocols, programming
network services and so on. We offer a
strong practical element through laboratory
programmes in software engineering and in
computer networking.
Graduates typically find work in network
management, both in the UK and overseas.
MSc Computer Engineering•
For more information and course modules
for our MSc Computer Engineering, please
see our Computer Science entry.
MSc Computer Security•
This course allows you to explore
security issues in the modern, networked
environment in which we live and work.
Our modules give you in-depth knowledge
of the issues involved in securing computer
systems, both stand-alone and networked,
looking at the types of attack, how one
hardens systems, detects intruders, and
so on. Topics such as cryptography, secure
communication and virtual private networks
are also explored.
Graduates with the skills obtained on
our MSc Computer Security are typically
employed as computer security specialists
in large financial institutions.
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