Overview
Duration: 1 year full-time (taught)
Application deadline: 30 June (international) / 31 August (home/EU)
Entry requirements: First degree (UK 1st or 2:1 or international equivalent ) in Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications, Physics or Maths
Language requirements: IELTS 6.5 (at least 6.0 in each of the four components) OR TOEFL (internet): 92 overall, Writing 21, Listening 21, Reading 22, Speaking 23.
MSc Electrical Power Systems
The MSc Electrical Power Systems will give you the skills and specialist experience required to significantly enhance your career in the electrical power industry.
The programme builds on a long-term involvement with the power industry, the education of power engineers and extensive research work and expertise within the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering.
Learning outcomes
The MSc will equip you with the ability to make an immediate engineering contribution to industry in electrical power systems analysis, planning, operation and management.
You will be able to perform in-depth engineering work on defined tasks requiring research, personal project management and innovative thinking.
The programme provides its graduates with the underpinning knowledge of business operation and project team working that leads to maximised impact within the industrial setting.
Collaborative working
The programme includes traditionally taught subject-specific units and business and group-orientated modular work. These offer you the chance to gain experience in design, project management and creativity, while working with students from other subjects.
— Paris Hadjiodysseus
Further details
Group project work
In semester 2 you undertake a cross-disciplinary group activity for your professional development, simulating a typical industrial work situation.
Individual project work
In the final semester, you undertake an individual research project directly related to key current research at the University, often commissioned by industry.
See programme catalogue for more detail on individual units.
Semester 1 (October-January)
- Five taught units in chosen MSc subject
- Includes coursework involving laboratory or small project sessions
- Typically each unit consists of 22 hours of lectures, may involve a number of hours of tutorials/exercises and laboratory activity and approximately 70 hours of private study (report writing, laboratory results processing and revision for examinations)
Semester 2 (February-May)
The second semester offers a distinctive project-based learning environment, focusing on your development as an engineering professional in a research and design context. You will gain analytical and team working skills to enable you to deal with the open-ended tasks that typically arise in practice in present-day engineering.
- The semester aims to develop your professional understanding of engineering in a business environment and is taught by academic staff with extensive experience in industry
- Engineering Project Management and Research Methods modules
- Group projects in which students work in a multi-disciplinary team to solve a conceptual structural engineering design problem, just as an industrial design team would operate
- Individual project preliminary work
Summer/Dissertation Period (June-September)
- Individual project leading to MSc dissertation
- Depending on the chosen area of interest, the individual project may involve theoretical and/or experimental activities; for both such activities students can use the department computer suites and well-equipped and newly refurbished laboratories for experimental work. The individual projects are generally carried out under the supervision of a member of academic staff. A number of industrially-based projects are available to students
- Computational intelligence
- Electrical energy systems and analysis
- Energy management systems
- Fundamentals of electromagnetic compatibility
- Power electronics and machines
- Power System Protection
- Guam Power Authority
- Scottish and Southern Energy
- Central Electricity Board
- Barbados Light & Power Co. Ltd.
- First Hydro
- National Grid
- British Power International
- Buro Happold
We also encourage the best of our MSc students to continue their studies with us to PhD level.
