Support and facilities

The School has excellent student support teams. These teams are located close to where you will study, ensuring personalised and direct contact. They can help you with:

- Scholarships & Bursaries
- Registration & Module Enrolment
- Coursework/Project submission
- Staff contact details
- Mitigating circumstances
- Results and Progression requirements
- Examinations
- Peer Mentoring
- Timetabling
- Absence & Attendance Monitoring
- Engineering Study Zone bookings
- Maps and directions

Our personal tutorial system will help you to integrate quickly and settle down easily into university life. You will also be assigned to a tutorial group and you’ll have one-to-one time with your personal tutor.

The School has an enviable range of multimillion pound facilities equipped with the latest technology which provides you with a creative and stimulating learning environment. Specialist facilities include:

• New Agilent Technologies Wireless Communications Laboratory, equipped with the very latest state-of-the-art electronic teaching equipment comprising of Agilent’s bench top spectrum analysers, signal generators and 6000 series Scopes. You will also have the opportunity to work on communications systems up to 3 GHz and use the Agilent’s leading edge Vector Signal Analysis software package for learning about modern standards such as Zigbee, WiMAX, GSM, WiFi
• New embedded systems laboratory equipped with the latest embedded system development tools sponsored by Farnell First-class
facilities
• Home to one of the most high-resolution electron-beam lithography systems in Europe
• You will also have access to a range of research facilities for your final year projects, such as the best Terahertz Electronics facility in Europe and a cleanroom for nanotechnology research. You’ll also enjoy excellent teaching facilities and resources, with modern, well-equipped lecture theatres and our new Embedded Systems laboratory with specialist design and modelling software
• Our internationally-renowned library is one of the largest in the country offering you access to over 3 million items including electronic resources to assist with your studies.