Biological & Chemical Engineering
Biological & Chemical Engineering — reflects the rising importance of pharmaceutical, food supply, and biological research along with cutting edge chemical and alternative energy development. Biological & Chemical Engineering is one of the fastest growing engineering disciplines, attracting doctors, medical researchers, prosthetics experts, artificial organ developers, and more.
Electrical & Electronics Engineering
From computers, mp3 players, phones, and PDAs to power lines, transformers, hybrid vehicles, and better batteries, electrical and computer engineers keep the lights on, the power flowing, the music playing, and the calls clear.
Electronics and Communication Engineering
The availability of affordable means of communication has been one of electronics’ greatest contributions to human society.
- The telephone, radio, satellite communications, the internet, mobile phones – each new development has revolutionised the way we live and the way we think about our world.
- New technologies continuously emerge, with 4G mobile phones offering the possibility of real-time high quality video.
- DSL and broadband wireless systems provide many times the capacity of modems bringing increased amounts of information into our homes.
- Other examples include advanced wavelength-division multiplexing schemes, promising vast reductions in the cost of long-distance data transmission.
- Soon fourth generation systems will unify all these technologies and users will be able to receive and transmit anything, at anytime, from anywhere.
All these developments have been fuelled by advances in communications technology. Constantly emerging new protocols and coding schemes, new ways to represent video, images and speech as data, new means of delivering this information to users via cable, fibre, and increasingly via radio. These developments are, in turn, based on sound engineering principles.
The Communications Group in the Department has a very well established reputation in many areas of communications, particularly mobile and satellite communications.
These courses aim to prepare students to play a leading role in the continuing adventure of modern communications – researching, designing, building and marketing the next generation of products.
Computer Science and Engineering
More than just programming, computer science brings out the why and how of computer software, focusing on the theory behind algorithms and programming language to best prepare students for an ever-changing industry, with the flexibility to specialize in a particular area of computer science, or pair the background in computer science with another discipline and its information systems.
Information Technology
The Information Technology program provides a blend of theoretical content and practical application that utilizes a hands-on, reality-based approach to education. This allows students to apply what they learn in class to solve real-life problems. Students learn about new and emerging information and communication technologies and the application, and integration practices of technologies. The program provides an innovative experience where students work on cutting-edge, industry-sponsored projects. This teaching philosophy prepares students to become technology innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders of the future.
