Key information
- Duration:
- 4 years full time
- Typical A-level offer:
- ABB-BBB
- Contextual A-level offer:
- BBC-BCC
- UCAS code:
- H6F2
- Start date:
- September 2022
- =3rd in the UK for Graduate Prospects – Outcomes in Manufacturing & Production Engineering (Complete University Guide 2022)
- Top 20 in the UK for Engineering and Technology (Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2021)
During this course, you will have the opportunity to develop specific expertise in robotics alongside skills in electrical and electronic engineering; making you employable by various sectors from robot design and development to autonomous cars, robotics, automation, mechatronics, smart systems and renewable energies. The optional placement year also gives you the chance to get real work experience for a year in industry, while still being supported by Sussex.
Our world-class research in robotics, sensors, flexible electronics, medical imaging, dynamics and control and space systems informs our degrees to give you the best start in your career. You’ll study in our £12-million Future Technologies Labs, which provides a new space for building robots, programming embedded systems and digital signal processors, as well as state-of-the-art computer design and modelling suites. In particular, you will have access to our flexible manufacturing system, industrial robotic manipulator, humanoid robots, fleet of drones, autonomous vehicles, and a real-time motion monitoring system.
We have dedicated academic advisers to support you during you time at Sussex, as well as a team of student mentors. You’ll also be welcomed into our active, student-run engineering societies, and benefit from our partnerships with:
- Women’s Engineering Society
- Engineers Without Borders UK
- Engineers in Business Fellowship.
Accreditation
- Accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) on behalf of the Engineering Council for the purposes of fully meeting the academic requirement for registration as an Incorporated Engineer and partially meeting the academic requirement for registration as a Chartered Engineer. Find out more
To help you gain experience and increase your employability, you can apply for an optional placement as part of your course. You’ll be responsible for applying for and securing your placement. Our dedicated careers team can help you:
- find an employer
- draft an application
- prepare for interviews.
Don’t worry if you’re not successful, you’ll simply transfer to a non-placement version of your course.
We’ll make all reasonable efforts to provide you with the courses, services and facilities described in this prospectus. However, we may need to make changes due to significant disruption, for example in response to COVID-19.
MEng or BEng?
We also offer this course as a three-year BEng without the industrial placement year, as a four-year MEng, or as a five-year MEng with an industrial placement year. Find out about the benefits of an integrated Masters year.
Our goal is to close the gender gap in STEM subjects. At a uni as inclusive and diverse as Sussex I believe we can make it happen!”Saloua El Fantroussi
Robogals Society President
@sussexrobogals
Our staff
Dr Elizabeth Rendon-Morales
Senior Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Dr Zhengguo Sheng
Senior Lecturer in Advanced Networks and Communications
Dr Spyros Skarvelis-Kazakos
Senior Lecturer Electrical Engineering
