Returning to university after my placement year
Life in EEE 10th December 2018
Roberta explains what it’s like to be returning to university after completing her placement year at Arup in London, earning a salary and not having to worry about homework!
Meet a member of our Student Support team – Sam Ward
Meet the Department 9th October 2018
Meet Sam, our Student Welfare Officer, who explains the best parts of her job and what it’s like to work in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Manchester.
Meet an EEE Tutor – Dr Ogi Marjanovic
Meet the Department 1st August 2018
Dr Ogi Marjanovic teaches the first year Circuit Analysis Unit in Year 1 Semester 1 and has been the Undergraduate Admission Tutor for the past ten years. If you have attended a University Open day or a School Visit Day over this time you may recognise him!
Meet an EEE Tutor – Dr Siniša Djurović
Meet the Department 27th July 2018
”I firmly believe that this area combines many strands of science in a creative and fun manner to allow for creation of intelligent systems that drive our future, from robotics to wind turbines, electrical cars and planes to supercomputers”.
Meet a PhD student – Ananya Gupta
Meet the Department 9th July 2018
Please can you describe your research, for the layman, in ten sentences or less? I am working on autonomous robots for my PhD (think self-driving cars). More specifically, I am working on vision systems for mobile robots so that if a robot enters an unknown area it can scan its surroundings and recognise the […]
Evolving into an Engineer : Part 2
Student experience 9th July 2018
In this post Harry talks about developing his microcontroller project and includes some links to see the National Instruments lab and the Buggy Race day last year.
Snap Shot : Student life
Life in EEE 4th June 2018
Haseeb is currently in the second year of his Electronic Engineering degree at Manchester. He has created a video to show a typical day on the course which will show his timetable, a lecture and our computer lab.
In this post he also explains his reasons for deciding to study Electronic Engineering and why Manchester.
Meet a EEE Tutor – Prof William Heath
Meet the Department 1st May 2018
Prof William Heath is the Director of Teaching and Learning and also teaches on the third year Numerical Analysis unit which is an optional unit in all three undergraduate courses in our School.
Embarrassing moments
EEE in the real world 26th April 2018
I am five months in to my placement and I think I’ve got a good grip on this ‘adult work life’ thing. I’ve been working on a deep underground rail station that’s being built in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Super cool, I know! And I’ve had the opportunity to use lots of new software and some software I learnt to use in university too.
Meet a Phd Student – Liam Brown
Meet the Department 13th April 2018
Liam Brown is in the final year of his PhD study working on robotics applications in hazardous environments, his supervisor is Dr Joaquin Carrasco. Liam has been heavily involved in the UCAS visit days for the past two years so you may recognise him from the mechatronics activity.