MSc(Eng) Avionic Systems

About the course

Train for an industrial or academic career in this rapidly developing field. You'll learn new skills, develop your knowledge and understanding, and conduct a compact research project. This is the only course in the UK that focuses on advanced avionics and the issues related to the future of 'more-electric' aircraft.

Core modules

• Introduction to Avionics
• Reliability and Failure
• Power Electronics
• Motion Control and Servo Drive Systems
• Electromagnetic Compatibility
• Antennas, Radar and Navigation
• Flight Dynamics and Control
• Multi-Sensor Data Fusion Distributed Real-time Control Systems
• Advanced Instrumentation
• Safety Critical Software Systems
• Research Techniques and Thesis Preparation
• Substantial industry-relevant individual research project leading to a dissertation

Teaching

Teaching is research-led from the EEE, Automatic Control and Systems Engineering and Computer Science departments. You'll carry out an individual research project with supervision throughout the project and during preparation of your dissertation.

Assessment

• Examinations
• Coursework assessments
• A project dissertation with oral examination

Our graduates are in demand

Many go to work in industry as engineers for large national and international companies, including Rolls-Royce, Vodafone and Intel. Others continue to a research degree and an academic career.

Real-world applications

This is a research environment. What we teach is based on the latest ideas. The work you do on your course is directly connected to real-world applications.

We work with government research laboratories, industrial companies and other prestigious universities. Significant funding from UK research councils, the European Union and industry means you have access to the best facilities.

First-class facilities

Our state-of-the-art semiconductor growth and processing equipment is housed in an extensive clean room complex as part of the EPSRC’s National Centre for III-V Technologies.

Semiconductor Materials and Devices

• Laser photodetectors and transistor design
• A high-tech field-emission gun transmission electron microscope (FEGTEM)
• A focused ion beam (FIB) milling facility
• Electron beam lithographic equipment

Electrical Machines and Drives

• Specialist facilities for the design and manufacture of electromagnetic machines
• Dynamometer test cells
• A high-speed motor test pit
• Environmental test chambers
• Electronic packaging and EMC testing facilities
• Rolls Royce University Technology Centre for Advanced Electrical Machines and Drives

Communications

• Advanced anechoic chambers for antenna design and materials characterisation
• Outdoor free-field range facility at the Buxton site
• A lab for calibrated RF dosimetry of tissue to assess pathogenic effects of electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones
• Extensive CAD electromagnetic analysis tools

Vision and Information Engineering

• Wide ranging area of 'information' from numerically generated holograms for lithographic applications to image processing, computer vision, and machine learning.

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