Electric Vehicle Engineering MSc

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Overview

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Degree

  • MSc Electric Vehicle Engineering, home applicant, full time

    • Home Applicant
    • Full time, 1 year
    • Pound 10800 per year. Year 2 Industrial Placement Fee - £3,500
  • MSc Electric Vehicle Engineering, home applicant, part time

    • Home Applicant
    • Part time, 2 years
    • Pound 1800 per 30 credit module

Degree with Placement Year

  • MSc Electric Vehicle Engineering, home applicant, full time

    • Home Applicant
    • Full time, 2 years
    • Pound 10800 per year. Year 2 Industrial Placement Fee - £3,500
  • MSc Electric Vehicle Engineering, home applicant, part time

    • Home Applicant
    • Part time
    • Pound 1800 per 30 credit module

Degree

  • MSc Electric Vehicle Engineering, home applicant, full time

    • Home Applicant
    • Full time, 1 year
    • Pound 10800 per year. Year 2 Industrial Placement Fee - £3,500
  • MSc Electric Vehicle Engineering, international applicant, full time

    • International Applicant
    • Full time, 1 year
    • Pound 15960 per year. Year 2 Industrial Placement Fee - £3,500

Degree with Placement Year

  • MSc Electric Vehicle Engineering, home applicant, full time

    • Home Applicant
    • Full time, 2 years
    • Pound 10800 per year. Year 2 Industrial Placement Fee - £3,500
  • MSc Electric Vehicle Engineering, international applicant, full time

    • International Applicant
    • Full time, 2 years
    • Pound 15960 per year. Year 2 Industrial Placement Fee - £3,500

What makes this course different

Industry 4.0 alignment

This programme combines principles from electrics, electronics, control, power, automation and robotics to design, manufacture and test smart mobile vehicles/ devices, powered by green electricity.

Sustainability oriented

The aim of this course is to provide a deep and comprehensive understanding of the current and evolving electric/ hybrid electric vehicles technology, concepts and challenges.

Unique geography

Our Docklands campus is ideally placed next to Ford (Dagenham), one of our partners, who we collaborate closely on a number of academic and industrial projects in automotive and mechanical engineering.

Course modules

NOTE: Modules are subject to change. For those studying part time courses the modules may vary.

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Your future career

Your future career

An MSc qualification in electrical vehicle engineering will give you a practical ability as the discipline overlaps with a number of engineering professions (i.e. automation and robotics, mechatronics, batteries, mechanical and automotive engineering). There are many career paths available, ranging from hard-core engineering to consultancy, once you have completed this course.

Many graduates choose to pursue a professional high-flying career in the expansive engineering sector, in roles such as consultants, designers, field engineers, project managers or senior managers.

Explore the different career options you can pursue with this degree and see the median salaries of the sector on our Career Coach portal.

How we support your career ambitions

We offer dedicated careers support, further opportunities to thrive, such as volunteering and industry networking. our courses are created in collaboration with employers and industry to ensure they accurately reflect the real-life practices of your future career and provide you with the essential skills needed. You can focus on building interpersonal skills through group work and benefit from our investment in the latest cutting edge technologies and facilities.

Career Zone

Our dedicated and award-winning team provide you with careers and employability resources, including:

  • Online jobs board for internships, placements, graduate opportunities, flexible part-time work.
  • Mentoring programmes for insight with industry experts 
  • 1-2-1 career coaching services 
  • Careers workshops and employer events 
  • Learning pathways to gain new skills and industry insight

Mental Wealth programme

Our Professional Fitness and Mental Wealth programme which issues you with a Careers Passport to track the skills you’ve mastered. Some of these are externally validated by corporations like Amazon and Microsoft.

Our Mental Wealth programme

We are careers first

Our teaching methods and geographical location put us right up top

  • Enterprise and entrepreneurship support 
  • We are ranked 6th for graduate start-ups 
  • Networking and visits to leading organisations 
  • Support in starting a new business, freelancing and self-employment 
  • London on our doorstep

What you'll learn

Through studying MSc Electric Vehicle Engineering, you will learn knowledge and skills to design, develop and deploy electrification of conventional mobility solutions. This new course addresses the demands of the industry and the rapid shift towards electrically or electronically controlled autonomous digital systems, smart communication devices, automation and robotics, and also machines that are controlled remotely via smart technology using green energy resources.

At the heart of your studies will be mechanisms of smart electronics that are fed with data from sensors to detect position, orientation, and visual or audio signals. The systems that you will learn to design extend to electrical machines and drives, power electronics and batteries, and all aspects of the vehicle's powertrain.

How you'll learn

All modules include coursework, for which you will have opportunities to apply your knowledge to engineering projects based on real-life scenarios. The coursework will include analysis and design projects, research reports, group and seminar presentations and a research dissertation project.

You will also attend lectures, seminars and tutorials and you will work both individually and in groups.

To support the hands-on nature of this course, we have an impressive range of facilities. Our modern, well-equipped laboratories are open to students all day and include dedicated labs. We also have superb computer facilities and the very latest design and key software.

Expert feedback and support are always on offer from our dedicated team of academics, all experts in their particular disciplines.

Our MSc courses are some of the most flexible around. Engineers employed in the industry have found that the part-time model can easily be tailored to suit their personal requirements.

About the industrial placement year

This course is also available as a two-year master's with an industrial placement year. The industrial placement is designed to address the demands of the profession and give students a competitive edge when it comes to their careers. The industrial placement component is for a duration of an academic year, i.e., normally 30 weeks including a minimum of  24 weeks of delivery time. It starts after students have successfully completed the first year of study, i.e., all the taught modules and the dissertation component of the MSc course which together form 180 credits. Please refer to the course specification for the summary of the course structure and further information.

Students on the MSc with Placement courses must pass all taught modules of their respective course plus dissertation to gain 180 credits before they become eligible to progress to the next stage and undertake an industrial placement. Students on the MSc course with placement will also normally be required to fulfil the 80% attendance requirement (on all modules) to be eligible to progress to the industrial placement. Students unable to meet the above requirements to progress successfully will normally be moved to the one-year full-time version of the course and their student visa, if any, will be curtailed accordingly.

It is ultimately your responsibility to secure your placement and the University cannot guarantee placements. The University will offer guidance and support and recommend students to many of our industrial partners who have expressed strong support and interest in the programme.

During the industrial placement period, you will undertake an internship within a partner organisation (or by means of alternative arrangements such as projects led by industry and carried out on campus) and complete a zero-credit Industrial Placement Module.

There are additional fees for the placement module (in the second year of the course), in addition to the fees for the taught modules and dissertation paid in the first year.

How you will be assessed

We assess you through a mixture of coursework, design drawings, oral examinations, your research dissertation and an end of term exam. You will be supported throughout your journey by timely feedback and support from your academic advisor and other support structure.

Campus and facilities

Docklands Campus, London, E16 2RD