Why study Computer Systems Engineering at Cardiff?
Cardiff University is part of the Russell Group of elite UK universities and is ranked 7th out of 106 in the UK for the quality of its research. Since world-class researchers will educate you, your degree schemes are kept modern and relevant. Engineering research income is currently over £10M per year, and part of this is used to enhance our teaching facilities and employ additional teaching staff, thus reducing our student:staff ratio (currently 13:1). You will be based in the modern £30M Queen's Buildings complex, right in the heart of the city centre. Our unique links with industry, developed over many decades, provide state-of-the-art research facilities for you to undertake your project work. We also have industrially-sponsored teaching laboratories: for example, the Agilent Laboratory for Electronics was established in 2001, the first of its kind in the UK, containing industry-standard test and measurement equipment and simulation software (ADS) for electronics teaching in all years of the degree schemes.
What will we teach you?
In the first two years, we teach you the fundamentals of computer science, electronics, communication systems, mathematics and basic systems modelling. During your final year you may divide your time between the hardware and software aspects of the degree, or bias your studies towards the software elements. Teaching in the final year is research-led, with specialist options including programming, databases, knowledge based systems, multimedia, digital communications and microelectronics. Everyone undertakes an individual project under the supervision of an expert in computer science or engineering. MEng students also undertake an industrially-linked group project in their fourth year.