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Advances in the micro-electronic, opto-electronic and
integrated circuit manufacturing industries are limited by
the number of engineers available with expertise in solid
state physics and its engineering applications. Graduates
with this degree meet that need by combining a judicious balance
of subjects from the Honours E&EE and Physics courses.
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The Electronic Engineering and Physics degree produces graduates
of high intellectual quality, having a broad range of knowledge
and skills in physical electronics; in particular in relation
to theory and practice in the field of semiconductors and
optoelectronics. Students gain fundamental understanding,
and practical knowledge of electrical circuits, electronic
devices, elementary mechanics, electromagnetics, quantum mechanics
and semiconductor physics, and in later years apply this understanding
to the analysis and design of semiconductor devices such as
field effect transistors, LEDs and semiconductor lasers Ð
and to the systems in computing and communications which use
these devices.
It is expected that students will be able to undertake a
significantly greater mathematical curriculum than that for
Single Honours E&EE, and that students are likely to graduate
with a high Honours Classification which will qualify them
for state-of-the-art research, development, or design laboratories
in academia or industry.
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Note that not all the courses shown in
these lists will necessarily be available in each year;
the choice of a curriculum will be subject to this limitation
and also to that imposed by timetable constraints. The
University Calendar provides the definitive description
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