Wireless Communication Technologies – (M.Sc.)

With the growing demand and implementation of wireless communication systems, there is a developing need to educate engineers and specialists to provide the knowledge and expertise to underpin and understand these technologies and anticipate future technological trends.

The MSc provides an integrates approach to understanding and evaluating the design, and implementation of, end-to-end wireless communication systems. This integrative approach includes digital encoding/decoding techniques and algorithms; wireless communication system architectures; infrastructures and hardware; the design of mobile transmitting and receiving antennas; transmission and signal paths and propagation environments; and the use of digital signal processing techniques.

Students will have the opportunity to broaden individual and particular interests of relevance at Master's Level, for example Ethics and Technology and Technology and Environmental Management. This programme is also designed to meet the educational requirements for Chartered Engineers as specified by the professional engineering bodies.

In the third trimester, students will undertake a major project within the area of wireless communications. Projects can be industrially-based or chosen from a selection of research and consultancy activities. Graduates should be able to pursue careers within a wide range of industrial and technology sectors such as telecommunications, networking, communication systems, remote instrumentation, remote data logging, signal processing and software development.

The programme content will also benefit those in industry, commence and management who wish to gain skills in wireless systems to help them better implement, advise, purchase, sell and manufacture wireless system technologies.