Course title: Systems Engineering
Institution: Brunel University
Faculty: School of Engineering and Design
Department: Electronic and Computer Engineering
Level: Postgraduate
Study mode: Part time, Full time

Course content:
Programme includes taught elements over all years which cover generic skills (professional skills, career planning), research methods, and discipline specific modules.

School of Engineering and Design
Brunel University, West London

(Management-related postgraduate courses) 

Do you want enhanced employability by broadening your first degree usually in business or management into engineering or design-based management programmes? We offer the following exciting, industrially relevant postgraduate degree courses in management related programmes some offering part-time and distance leaning modes of study:

• Advanced Manufacturing Systems MSc (full-time and distance learning)
• Building Services Engineering Management MSc (distance learning)
• Building Services Engineering MSc Foundation course by Distance learning (6 months)
• Design & Branding Strategy MA (full-time and part-time) - (this is a Design Management MA)
• Design Strategy & Innovation MA (full-time and part-time) - (this is a Design Management MA)
• Engineering Management MSc (full-time and distance learning) (mini MBA engineering based MSc) 
• Intensive International Pre-Masters course (14 weeks)
• Packaging Technology Management MSc (full-time and distance learning)
• Sustainable Energy - Technologies & Management MSc (full-time)

For more information on the above courses view : www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sed/sedcourse/pg/

Course application Process
Most degree courses commence September each year. All postgraduate applications are by direct application. For a PG e-mail application package please e-mail sed-pg-admissions@brunel.ac.uk 

About the School
The School of Engineering and Design is one of the largest and most successful engineering and design Schools in the UK, providing a wide range of exciting, forward-looking postgraduate courses. Recognised as a centre of excellence in engineering and design with a strong focus on modern science and technology, the School has an international reputation in research and prides itself on high quality teaching supported by excellent research facilities. The School’s high reputation has led to extensive and close collaborative links with industry. These industrial links at the dissertation stage have led to many postgraduate students carrying out their dissertation in industry making the School’s graduates highly sought after as employees.

The School has 5 academic subject areas: Advanced Manufacturing and Enterprise Engineering, Brunel Design, Civil Engineering, Electronic and Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. Teaching and facilities were rated "excellent" in the last independent assessment. Facilities include modern, well-equipped engineering, design and computer laboratories, motorsport workshop and wind tunnels, and for the digital media courses, a broadcast TV studio. For students on the aviation, aeronautics and aerospace courses there is a state of the art flight simulator with a VTOL facility enabling the testing of project and design work in a practical setting. 

Brunel Engineering and Design courses feature high in UK league tables. In The Sunday Times University Guide 2011 Design featured 1st, and in The Guardian University Guide 2011 General Engineering was rated 6th in the UK, out of over 100 universities. In the current Research Assessment Exercise, 95% of research academics in the School achieved international standard, with 100% achieving this level in General Engineering. General Engineering research at Brunel is ranked 5th in the country and Mechanical Engineering is ranked 8th in the country by Research Power.

The School has a thriving student population with approximately 1600 undergraduate students, 1000 postgraduate taught students, 300 research students and fellows and 110 academic staff.

About the University
Brunel University was granted a Royal Charter in 1966, named after the famous Victorian engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the University enjoys a current student population of approximately 14,000.

Excellent location: Brunel is excellently situated 17 miles to the west of Central London and enjoys easy access to the city centre (1 hour on the underground Metropolitan line from the nearest town Uxbridge). The University is close to the London Heathrow Airport (20 minutes by car) and has close motorway links to the rest of the UK (within 15 minutes you have access to the M25, the M40 and the M4) where you might travel to all parts of the UK. At Brunel you have the best of all possible worlds.

Integrated campus: Brunel University has an integrated campus where you can study, eat in the many restaurants, play sports, relax in the student union and finally rest, all within 7 minutes walk. Many universities cannot offer this integrated and safe campus atmosphere.

Sporting facilities: at Brunel you can enjoy almost any sport that you can imagine. Indeed we have been proud to be the host University to many world-class athletics and sportsmen and women in the last 5 years. In respect to sports, we have in the last two years invested millions on sporting facilities including a fitness centre and Olympic indoor running tracks, facilities that helped London secure the 2012 Olympic games. The Sunday Times recently said Brunel University had the best sporting facilities of all London Universities.

A supportive global community: Brunel University is proud that we have students from over 115 overseas countries. Whilst studying at Brunel you can meet students from many different cultures and countries. We also have a dedicated Graduate School with excellent facilities for exclusive use of our many students