Master of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering (Electronics)

at University of Southampton - Highfield Campus United Kingdom

Think differently about business, experience work first-hand, and learn to inspire change within organisations and society. This Business Management degree with placement draws from economics, history and the social sciences. It offers an interdisciplinary approach you won’t find on similar courses elsewhere. You'll complete a year's paid work placement to give you practical experience.

Your A level results will determine which core or compulsory modules you'll need to take.

This comprehensive and flexible Business Management degree will prepare you for a career in a wide range of organisations, including:

• Start-ups
• Large corporations
• Social enterprises
• The not-for-profit sector

This degree will suit you if you want to drive change and initiatives, and make business and society work better.

You'll spend your third year on an approved, paid industry placement in a business organisation. This will give you vital experience to boost your future career.

Our research-focused academics are leaders in their field and keep the course current. You'll benefit from our Business School’s close links with industry.

In this course, you can:

• Explore current business and management challenges
• Learn directly from people in inspiring jobs - we regularly invite guest speakers from industry
• Choose optional modules to develop your business management skills in areas such as strategic marketing or operational management
• Study interdisciplinary modules to learn practical skills such as programming and web design

BSc Business Management with placement is accredited by:

• CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants)
• AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business)

Prepare for a career as an expert actuary with our actuary master's degree at the University of Southampton.

You'll have an early advantage in your career with a professional actuary degree that is recognised by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.

By the end of your studies, you’ll be able to assess and manage risk using advanced actuarial science methods. You can apply what you’ve learned to work as an analyst, or to many other careers that need quantitative skills.

You’ll learn how to become an actuary – a specialist who identifies, analyses and manages risks with long-term financial consequences. This expertise is vital in many businesses across the financial services industry.

This degree covers a broad collection of topics including:

• Actuarial maths
• Statistics and probability
• Economics
• Accounting and finance
• Survival models and analysis

The course is flexible and will cater to students both with and without actuarial education. When you start, we’ll advise you on module choices to meet your specific needs.

Develop specialist knowledge of mechanical engineering materials on this master's degree in engineering materials. Explore material properties and how they are transforming the aviation, aerospace and manufacturing industries.  

Our MSc Advanced Mechanical Engineering pathways combine the traditional aspects of mechanical engineering with interdisciplinary subjects, so you can specialise to suit your career plans. Our international centre for research and teaching has a global reputation for excellence.

Our MSc Engineering Materials degree explores the latest techniques and methods in this growing area of advanced mechanical engineering. You’ll study different material properties and discover their limitations and use in engineering.  

New materials are transforming industry with their strong, lightweight and flexible properties. Materials engineers are needed in the aviation, aerospace and manufacturing industries to continue important research into composites.  

On this master's programme you’ll learn about microstructural and surface characterisation and investigate the performance of structural materials in application.  

You’ll explore key topics and choose specialist modules on subjects like biomaterials, fuel cells and photovoltaic systems. You’ll also study materials manufacture, design and their use in transport applications in the following industries:

• Aerospace
• Marine
• Automotive

As part of this materials science and engineering course, you’ll need to complete a research project. You’ll be able to use our facilities, including a 3D computed tomography imaging lab, used to study internal structures of materials.

You’ll learn from academics at the forefront of their fields, they teach the latest in technology advancements. Studying at Southampton gives you access to a global network of companies, shared facilities and specialist expertise to enhance your learning.

Gain the expertise to manage the movement of goods, people, data or money across a supply chain on this master’s degree course at the University of Southampton. You’ll develop advanced management and analytical skills, and have the chance to work on a real business project during a 3-month industry placement. You’ll be taught by academics from one of the country’s leading analytics research groups, and graduate with the skills and knowledge for a successful career in logistics.

On this MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Analytics degree, you'll learn advanced management skills and the ability to use data to make good business decisions. You'll gain a thorough grounding in:

• Integrated and international logistics supply chain management
• Software and programming skills
• Quantitative, qualitative and technical skills

You'll graduate from the course knowing how to:

• Formulate a hypothesis and use data to test it
• Use analytical techniques to support decision making
• Develop computer-based decision support systems to gain insight from data

We'll give you plenty of support before and during the project, including seminars and workshops, to help you get the most from your placement.

The course is taught in association with the University's cross-disciplinary Centre of Operational Research, Management Sciences and Information Systems (CORMSIS), one of the largest groups of its kind in the UK. This means you'll benefit from a wider choice of optional modules which you can use to pursue your own interests or career plans.

Learn how to prevent and manage communicable and non-communicable diseases around the world. This broad and practical Public Health Master’s focuses on vocational learning, to prepare you for work in real-world scenarios. You’ll be able to tailor this degree to your interests.

This master's will give you the skills for a career that makes a difference. Graduates have gone onto to public health careers for government and public bodies in the UK and abroad, including the Medical Research Council, Public Health England, local government, ministries of health, universities and charities.

Through this course you’ll learn how to:

• Develop, plan and evaluate public health programmes
• Initiate health behaviour change using social media, community engagement and advocacy
• Apply quantitative and qualitative analytical techniques
• Use the spss statistics software programme

You can personalise this course to your interests through optional modules and your dissertation. In previous years students have worked closely with real-world partners on dissertation projects, including the Ministry of Defence, Age UK and city councils.

Public health is an interdisciplinary profession, and this is reflected in your learning. Your lecturers are academics who are actively involved in research or are working in the sector. They’re experts from across the University, in Medicine, Health Geography, Demography, Social Science and Management.

Develop the skills to design and develop future energy networks. This MSc power engineering degree looks at all aspects of sustainable energy generation, transmission and distribution engineering.

If you’re considering a career in the electrical power industry, this course will give you the skills in high demand from employers.

Through this master's in electrical power engineering you’ll gain an advanced understanding of the relationships between core types of energy, work, force, power and efficiency.  

You’ll learn about:

• The design and management of power systems
• Bulk electrical energy transport issues  
• The design and operation of electricity transmission and distribution networks  
• How to specify equipment through tools such as eracs and powerworld  
• The fundamentals and impact of current and future energy/power production methods

You'll get to personalise this master of electronic and energy engineering course to your interests and career aims, through a choice of modules and an individual project. You’ll also have access to research facilities, including our high-voltage laboratory and interdisciplinary clean room.

This chemical engineering degree focuses on sustainability. On completion, you’ll have the skills to help the world transition to a more sustainable future. Demand is high for chemical engineering graduates. You’ll have excellent job prospects in sectors such as food, energy, pharmaceuticals and biochemicals.

Chemical engineering is a multi-disciplinary branch of engineering, focused on using chemicals and materials to design sustainable processes and giving them practical applications in the real world. This course focuses particularly on employability, sustainability and design.

The skills you’ll gain include:

• Computational methods
• Reaction engineering
• Thermofluids

On this Chemical Engineering BEng degree you’ll be able to:

• Take part in a challenging group design project
• Complete an optional extra year on a paid industrial placement
• Learn real-world skills with our dedicated computer suite and simulation software
• Use our virtual control room to gain experience working in a chemical plant
• Select from a range of specialist modules

You’ll work in our brand new, bespoke chemical engineering laboratories, which are part of our £12m chemistry building renovation. You’ll also have access to our engineering facilities, which consist of over 10,000m² of specialist workshops, laboratories and testing services.

This business entrepreneurship degree will give you a business management education, with a focus on entrepreneurship and its role in the economy and society. Practical components provide the skills to plan, promote, finance and grow your business venture. You'll graduate with the ability to start your own business or bring entrepreneurial thinking to an established organisation.

Your A level results will determine which core or compulsory modules you'll need to take.

With this course you can:

• Learn about digital business models, technological innovation or digital marketing
• Learn business fundamentals such as financial and management accounting
• Benefit from hands-on experience of preparing business plans and presenting pitches to industry experts
• Take a year on an industrial placement to improve your skills
• Choose optional modules that will help you to develop your business management skills in areas such as strategic marketing, project management, finance and accounting, or operational management
• Study interdisciplinary modules to learn practical skills such as programming and web design

Our expert research-led academics are well connected. Through them you'll gain insights from the best and most innovative London-based companies, as well as Southampton's entrepreneurial community.

All of our Business courses include the option to spend a year studying abroad, at one of our partners in Europe, North America, Australia or Asia. It is a unique opportunity to experience another culture, improve your language skills and enhance your CV.

You'll graduate with a business and entrepreneurship degree accredited by:

• CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants)
• AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business)

Graduates have started their own businesses, and worked for consultancies such as PwC and Deloitte.

Master the skills required for the new generation of chemical industries. You’ll learn how to use computational modelling, artificial intelligence and the analysis of big data to solve complex chemistry problems.

The chemical industries of today are being revolutionised by big data, automation and machine learning.

This one-year MSc programme will position you at the forefront of these developments, giving you the skills required to succeed within a rapidly evolving sector.

You’ll explore topics like:

• The theory and application of data science
• Computational modelling techniques
• AI and machine learning approaches to modern chemical problems

You’ll also develop skills in:

• Programming in python  
• Software development
• Analysing large and complex data sets

You'll work with academic staff who are at the cutting edge of research in computational chemistry.  

This programme includes hands-on experience in modern facilities, which may include the University’s supercomputer Iridis 5, which can perform over a quadrillion calculations per second.

Working with state of the art computational software and hardware is central to this programme, giving you the ability to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of modern approaches applicable to your own research or advanced scholarship.

Discover how automobiles are designed, built and tested. Learn the specialist science and engineering behind the industry, then design and create your own. You'll have the chance to specialise in areas of motor vehicle engineering that interest you, from race cars to vehicle electronics. This degree will prepare you for a career in automotive mechanical engineering.

This course provides a solid foundation in mechanical engineering and you'll learn the core principles of:

• Vehicle dynamics
• Structural design
• Propulsion
• Automotive electronics

Then you can specialise in subjects, including composite engineering.

As part of this course you can:

• Use our range of engineering facilities and gain practical experience with our design workshops and studios.
• Get a solid introduction to relevant subjects such as mathematics and mechanics
• Take a work placement to boost your academic performance and career prospects
• Showcase your work in our annual Engineering Design Show
• Study management modules to explore a variety of career paths
• Go on site visits to experience engineering in practice

You can also join our Formula Student team. You'll help design, build and race a car in competitions.

You can take this course with an additional year-long, paid placement. Apply with UCAS code H3H3 for the Industrial Placement Year option.

We're a designated university for the Defence Technical Undergraduate Scheme (DTUS).