BEng (Hons) ELECTRONIC AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (WITH FOUNDATION YEAR)

Please note: this course is currently being revalidated for September 2025 entry.

We're updating our foundation year to create a shared programme across the College of Technology and Environment. You'll gain a broader experience, with new content on sustainability, AI, and a hands-on group project where you’ll tackle real-world tech challenges. The structure remains the same – three modules per semester – and all assessment is through coursework.

If you've already applied, we'll be in touch with more details soon. In the meantime, if you have any questions please contact Ben Lishman, Associate Dean for Students, at ben.lishman@lsbu.ac.uk.

Integrated foundation year

The integrated foundation year is distinctive in the way students are prepared with the specific knowledge and skills required to progress onto the BEng programme at LSBU. The foundation year is designed to respond to the differing needs of students, particularly those from local areas in accordance with the policies and practice of equal opportunities.

The content is designed to help students to develop academic, study and practical skills needed at foundation level, including a combination of core engineering modules associated with the provision of study and laboratory skills, mathematics, engineering science and scientific principles and with the specialist engineering subject enabling students to progress to BSc and BEng courses offered by the Division of Engineering they wish to pursue.

Why Electrical and Electronic Engineering at LSBU?

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4th in London for Student Satisfaction for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Complete University Guide by subject, 2025).

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Top 10 in the UK for Engineering teaching (National Student Survey 2023).

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From AI machine learning boot camp to silent film processing, there is a range of extracurricular activities for Engineering students to get involved in.

Entry Level Requirements

Careers

Employability Service

At LSBU, we want to set you up for a successful career. During your studies – and for two years after you graduate – you’ll have access to our Employability Service, which includes:

• An online board where you can see a wide range of placements: part-time, full-time or voluntary. You can also drop in to see our Job Shop advisers, who are always available to help you take the next step in your search.
• Our Careers Gym offering group workshops on CVs, interview techniques and finding work experience, as well as regular presentations from employers across a range of sectors.

Our Student Enterprise team can also help you start your own business and develop valuable entrepreneurial skills.

With computers now an essential part of our lives, the demand and opportunities for those who can design computer hardware and develop software applications, manage and service computer systems is only going to continue to grow. Our societies and utilities are driven and controlled by electronic and computer-based systems that could not function without large, professional hardware and software systems - put simply the world cannot function without computers.

Electronic and computer systems engineers work in most industries, including computing and computer programming, automobile, aerospace, telecommunications, networking and network security power production, manufacturing, transport, defence and electronics, embedded systems, health and medicine, research and development, educational sectors. You could design high-tech devices ranging from tiny integrated-circuit chips, to powerful systems that utilise those chips and efficient telecommunication systems.

Likely jobs for graduates include computer network administration under Windows and Unix/Linux, as well as software engineering and design using Java and C++. You could also work independently as a developer, tester or evaluator of any kind of hardware and software application. You'll be able to develop operating systems, compilers, computer games, business applications, computer programs, analyse data and constructing and managing computer systems. In short, you’ll be highly employable in a wide variety of sectors.

LSBU has an enviable reputation for employability and entrepreneurship. Our graduates find opportunities across the world and make an impact wherever they go. The combination of Engineering and LSBU’s focus on high quality teaching and skills development with a vocational drive is key to the success of our graduates. Study with us and doors will open as you embark on the journey that is your career. This course program ensures that graduates have the capacity to meet the needs of employers. This course is producing graduates who are prepared to move into employment with skills and expectations that benefit their employers.

Members of staff in the Division of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) and in the School of engineering have well-established external links with industry (i.e. IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Cisco – as an example we run the Cisco Academy) and external research links in collaboration with the existing research centres operating under the School of engineering. We offer research-informed approach to teaching. The School of Engineering has three Research Themes and all academic staff subscribe to at least one of three Research Centres; two research centres are led by EEE members of staff.

An industrial advisory board operates both at school level and division level and feeds into the curriculum design. Membership of the board is drawn from industry, research and distinguished alumni who lend their expertise and advise which shapes our offering.

The programme has been designed to give maximum opportunity to demonstrate the skills required for a full career using the techniques learned on the course.

This degree is accredited by the Institute of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) on behalf of the Engineering Council for the purposes of fully meeting the academic requirement for registration as a Chartered Engineer.

The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) is the global professional membership organisation for people with relevant experience in chemical engineering. Having this accreditation helps progression towards Chartered Engineer status, which is an internationally recognised qualification.

Accreditation is a mark of assurance that the degree meets the standards set by the Engineering Council in the UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence (UK-SPEC).

An accredited degree will provide you with some or all of the underpinning knowledge, understanding and skills for eventual registration as an Incorporated (IEng) or Chartered Engineer (CEng).

Some employers recruit preferentially from accredited degrees, and an accredited degree is likely to be recognised by other countries that are signatories to international accords.

IChemE is the global professional membership organisation for people with relevant experience in chemical engineering. Having this accreditation helps progression towards Chartered Engineer status, which is an internationally recognised qualification.