This degree is highly practical, allowing you to combine your interest in computing science alongside hardware-based subjects such as electronics, embedded devices and networking. Crucially, it will give you the flexibility to deepen your knowledge in specialised areas or explore a broader range of subjects.

You’ll start by mastering computer programming using various languages and on different platforms, giving you a solid grounding in software. You’ll then build on this by focusing on hardware – including looking at computer architectures and networks, not just in PCs but in a range of devices. Underpinning this will be the practical study of electronics, and you’ll develop your skills in circuit design and construction too.

Your final year project will allow you to bring all of this work together to focus on a particular real-world problem.

ABOUT

How do everyday items like cars, mobile phones, games consoles and washing machines work? How can we use computer science to control equipment and machinery in the food and oil industries? On this course you’ll master computer science and discover how to apply it to hardware – including embedded devices, networks and electronics.

If you’re a digital native who already lives and breathes computing, whether it’s through building your own hardware or coding your own apps, this course is for you. You should also be passionate about the contribution computing can and does make to humanity, in everything from arts, culture and entertainment, to business, health, communications, and society as a whole. And you should already avidly follow the exciting developments of the field in the press and on blogs, and be excited about contributing your own ideas and creativity to this always-evolving sector. 

PLACEMENT YEAR AND STUDY ABROAD

We also offer BEng Computer Systems Engineering with a Year in Industry if you are interested in spending a year in an industrial placement.

AFTER THE COURSE

As a graduate in Computer Systems Engineering you can move on to a broad range of exciting careers or on to further study. With your knowledge of hardware you’ll be well suited for the more practical side of computing or careers in the embedded computing and electronics areas.

CAREER DESTINATIONS

Examples of careers that you could enter include:

• Embedded systems developer

• Car engine management designer

• Instrumentation and control engineer

• Network analyst

• Communication systems designer

• Programmer