Course Overview
This course is primarily concerned with providing graduates with the specialist skills associated with next generation digital telecommunications such as WiMAX and Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless broadband communication systems, IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), MIMO systems, space-time coding, software defined radio, and reconfigurable analogue and digital RF systems. It also provides knowledge and skills in the general use of DSP techniques in many different areas including robotics and autonomous systems, hi-fi and domestic electronic equipment, medical systems, geophysical and underwater, sensor networks, aerospace, and automotive and environmental systems.
Graduates from this course are actively sought after by employers in high technology industries. The course is delivered through taught modules, each with focused teaching, followed by laboratory assignments and a research led or industrially driven dissertation, in which you are supported by a member of academic staff or linked to an industry partner.
Compulsory Modules:
- Digital Communications
- Digital Signal Processing
- Secure Communications and DRM
- A Research or Industrial Focused Dissertation
Optional Modules:
(May vary from year to year)
- Error Protection
- Speech/Audio and Image/Video Coding
- Wireless Broadband, WiMAX, and LTE
- Intelligent Systems
- Estimation in Navigation, Positioning and Communications
- Sensor Networks
Key Information
Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 months part-time
Entry Requirements: Second class honours degree, or its equivalent, in Electronic/Electrical Engineering, Physics or Mathematics. Relevant industry experience may be considered
IELTS: 6.5 or equivalent
Assessment: Coursework, exams and dissertation
Funding: All applicants should consult www.lancs.ac.uk/pgfunding/
Fees: View details of our current Postgraduate Research fees or Postgraduate Taught fees.