Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, Electronic Engineering and Robotics
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School of Systems Engineering Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, Electronic Engineering and Robotics at Reading As a professional engineer, you will be at the forefront of technology, working on the latest inventions. 1 Undergraduate Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, Electronic Engineering and Robotics Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, Electronic Engineering and Robotics Contents In today’s high technology society, we are dependent upon a great variety of complex systems 4 Course overview for manufacturing, entertainment, transport, security, 6 Teaching healthcare. These can be intelligent electronic systems, robotic systems, or systems where machines enhance 6 Facilities humans significantly. 7 Support Engineers are the driving force behind such technology. In Systems Engineering 7 Campus life ‘Really enjoyed we offer degrees in Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, Electronic Engineering and Robotics to help train the people who will take these systems to the next Programme structure the sheer scope of level. 8 Artificial Intelligence Future innovation presents a real Because of this, we have a dedicated the course – from the challenge: how do we make different Placements Team who assist students 8 Cybernetics physics of electrons in technologies work seamlessly as one? in finding placements, and visit every 9 Electronic Engineering For example, a robot is the sum of its placement student in their place of transistors to the ethics parts, requiring power electronics, work. Our Placements Team also helps 9 Robotics sensors, wireless communications, students with writing CVs, interview of bio-mechanics.’ control loops and software that skills and the psychometric tests used 10 Projects produces intelligent decision by many employers. Richard Thomas, MEng Finalist 2013 making. We are set up to tackle All courses are available as three- this challenge. Within the School of year, full-time bachelor degrees (BSc 12 Placements Systems Engineering at Reading, we or BEng) and as four-year, full-time bring together artificial intelligence, MEng) degrees. There is the possibility cybernetics, electronic engineering 13 Employability to transfer from a BSc/BEng to an and robotics, allowing you to focus on MEng and vice-versa should you meet your subject in a unique environment the requirements. All our bachelor 15 Student Profile for cross-disciplinary learning and courses also have the option of an research. extra year in industry after the 16 A career in research There is a strong emphasis on practical second year and these courses have and laboratory work in all our courses. specific UCAS codes. Our degrees lead 20 How to apply Every student undertakes at least one to a large variety of jobs in industry major project during their degree that and business as the skills you will 20 Come and visit us provides an exciting opportunity to learn are transferable. put all the theory into practice. All of our degree programmes are Students can choose their own fully accredited by the relevant projects, with advice from academics, professional bodies, including the and often our industrial partners Institution of Engineering and get involved as well. Our MEng Technology (IET), the Institute of programmes include a major Measurement and Control, and/or project in the third year and then the British Computer Society (BCS). a six-month industrial placement or a research project in the fourth year. We recognise the importance of industrial experience to employers. 2 3 Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, Electronic Engineering and Robotics Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, Electronic Engineering and Robotics Artificial Intelligence Cybernetics Electronic Engineering Robotics Have you ever wanted to make intelligent machines Our cybernetics degree is one of only a handful of Electronic engineering is a vast and exciting discipline Robotics is about designing, building, operating and or explore human intelligence? We offer a practical such degrees in the UK. Its unique nature and strong and is behind many modern inventions: from mobile controlling embedded autonomous agents or robots. artificial intelligence course teaching modern techniques focus on systems and their control will enable you to telephones to digital television, from active suspension These can be ‘real world’ mechanical devices or virtual and naturally inspired algorithms, such as evolutionary learn a diverse range of skills that are crucial to industry. units in Formula 1 cars to supercomputers, from media entities and can mimic humans or particular tasks. computation, neural networks, swarm intelligence and Cybernetics would suit you if you want to control the players to industrial robots, from virtual reality games Our robotics degrees emphasise the technological aspects artificial life. These are used to solve real world complex future! Its principles can be applied in many contexts to healthcare devices. All of these systems require of cybernetics, and take into consideration the design of problems beneficial to science, business and industry, and have a major impact on life. Cybernetics can help intelligent embedded systems to perform complicated robotic systems, their control, communication, relevant which may be too difficult to accurately express or solve to create autonomous vehicles, to understand brain and often innovative tasks. artificial intelligence and virtual reality. The degrees also analytically. rhythms, to design intelligent control systems, to provide The Electronic Engineering degree programme enables include key topics in computing, such as programming, The course aims to provide you with valuable skills better interfaces between humans and technology and to you to learn the skills necessary to pursue a successful algorithms, computer vision and networking. Appropriate that can be used in Electronics and Computing industries assess our impact on the environment. career as a professional electronic engineer, whilst also topics from electronic engineering, such as circuit theory, as well as in Robotics, Pattern Recognition and Signal sensors and signal processing, are also incorporated. What is particularly useful about studying Cybernetics allowing you the flexibility of branching towards other Processing disciplines. They may also be applicable is that its fundamental principles are applicable to very topics such as computer science or robotics through As with all our degrees, robotics includes substantial to the Biological sciences (e.g. motif identification in many systems, technological, biological, electronic, a wide range of optional modules. At Reading, the practical and project work, where students can design, genomic sequences) and Medicine as well as to model environmental, economic or a mixture of such systems. Electronic Engineering degree programme has a specific build and test practical robotic systems. Environmental processes. Principles used in one system can be readily applied to focus on embedded systems and communications. While Students choose this subject at Reading because of You will also learn to develop machine-learning systems other systems. learning a broad range of fundamental electronic topics, the unique cross- disciplinary focus we place on robotics for the next generation computer games, and we the exciting research at Reading enables us to deliver Real understanding and innovation often come from as well as the world-renowned nature of our research emphasise the animal side of intelligence, including teaching on the state of the art in embedded electronics. experimentation and so the design, build and test of into the subject and the quality of industrial support psychology and cognition. The programme focuses on wireless communications, practical systems is an essential part of the course. The microprocessors, programmable logic, computer we receive. interdisciplinary nature of the subject suits students with architecture, embedded systems in C/C++ and linux and wide interests. Students choose cybernetics at Reading programming different languages on many types of because of the unique focus we place on the subject, our systems, enabling students to be highly employable. world-renowned research and the wide range of cutting- edge technologies you can learn. 4 5 Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, Electronic Engineering and Robotics Teaching Facilities Support Our staff are friendly and passionate The School provides its own dedicated As a research-intensive School, It is important to us that whilst about their subject. We are a centre of computing laboratories, solely for use Systems Engineering has a number studying at Reading, support is educational distinction at the heart of by its students. The workstations run of research platforms which some available for your health, social and the UK’s high-tech and IT industries. both Windows and Linux operating undergraduate students access as part study needs. systems and host a range of software of advanced teaching or project work. Our hands-on approach to teaching All students have a Personal Tutor packages supporting the computing/ These include a virtual reality CAVE, engineering has been internationally and within the School there is a engineering curriculum. These include a haptic laboratory and a sixteen recognised and our graduates have a Student Information Centre, where tools for software/apps development, node research computing cluster. reputation for excellence. students can get help, support and systems modelling, Computer Assisted There is