School of Electronic Engineering
Why Electronic Engineering?
So why choose Electronic Engineering? It’s a competitive jobs market – the higher your skill level, the more valuable you become. See the bullet points below on how studying electronic engineering can benefit you:
- Staff with engineering degrees are extremely valuable to employers. It’s a highly skilled area of expertise, training students to analyse, problem solve, and hone their technical abilities.
- The term electronic engineering covers a wide range of topics and technologies at the convergence of physics, maths, applied maths and software, and in particular includes all aspects of systems and signals.
- In spite of the well-publicised downturn in the employment market, we are consistently receiving notification of employment opportunities in companies looking for EE graduates, either specifically, or more generally for employment in the ICT area. The ESB, for example, will be employing 250 new engineers over the next five years - a significant fraction of these will be electronic engineering graduates.
- 31% of Irish Chief Executive Officers have an engineering background. This is not a coincidence and not just in technology companies. Engineering prepares people to be problem-solvers and to stay at the forefront of new developments, whether in technology or business processes.
Why Electronic Engineering @ DCU?
- DCU is a vibrant, state of the art University, which prides itself on community atmosphere.
- We aim to give our graduates the foundation to go and make employment for themselves, if that is their inclination. Innovation is about turning knowledge into practical and useful systems, devices, products or services. Innovation is core to our mission in EE in DCU.
- Electronic engineering is not just about electronics - actually in DCU much of our research is in areas such as medical applications of image processing, retrieving and integrating information, developing the software to control the next generation of networks and network applications, modelling and simulation of RF propagation, circuits and devices, audio and speech analysis. Electronic engineering is not just about electronics - actually in DCU much of our research is in areas such as medical applications of image processing, retrieving and integrating information, developing the software to control the next generation of networks and network applications, modelling and simulation of RF propagation, circuits and devices, audio and speech analysis.
- In EE in DCU there are also world-class research labs working in new technolgies for future broadband photonic communication systems and in nanomaterials.
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So you're interested in Engineering?
If you fall in to one of the categories below, follow the link to find out more information.
- I am taking Higher Level Mathematics and expect to get a HC3 or better. I know what type of Engineering I am interested in!* (Faculty Link)
- I am taking Higher Level Mathematics and expect to get a HC3 or better. I'm not sure which type of Engineering to choose!* (Faculty Link)
- I am taking Ordinary Level Mathematics and expect to get an A2 or better* (Faculty Link)
- I have an undergraduate qualification - I am interested in further studies
- I am a Mature Student (Registry Link)
- I am an International Student (International Office Link)
- I am student wishing to transfer from another Institution (Registry Link)
* - These are subject to the General Entry Requirements for the University
