The course is the MSc in Communications and Information Engineering.
It gives the fundamentals in communication systems, communication networks,
as well as the protocols used for transmitting large amounts of data reliably and effectively.
What this course will cover is the entire spectrum of technologies that go behind building
today's communication systems and also give you directions in which the industry
is going to go in the next 5 to 10 years.
We find society today that we're getting more and more connected.
We have many, many more devices.
Big data, artificial intelligence, A.I.,
and by having the knowledge and the tools, students taking this course will develop the skills that they need to engage
with industry to help develop these applications.
A good engineer is somebody who's willing to learn.
Somebody who can admit that perhaps they don't know something, but they're willing to try and find it out
And I think that's something that the campus environment of Warwick affords.
You get the chance to be in a tight knit community
and you get to speak with loads of people that you otherwise wouldn't meet.
The course is offered as part of the research that's done by the Connected Systems Group here in our department,
and we have a wide range of expertise in communication systems,
optical networks, machine vision, data analytics.
So projects that do have links with industry really are at the forefront of technological developments
and they give students a good experience in working with a company,
working on a state of the art problem that's of some kind of commercial interest.
And this could also help lead to an employment opportunity afterwards
I've done topics such as network planning,
so I've written a really advanced piece of software, which I'm really proud of,
which manages to allocate power to different cells in a 4G network, for example.
By having research included as part of the course, so the individual research projects that the students do,
that really gets them up to date on the state of the art of different applications that they could be working on,
and this can help prepare them for an interesting and exciting career.
The kinds of careers that students will be prepared for from doing this course include obviously,
telecommunications and lots of other wide reaching sectors such as oil and gas,
banking and finance and other industries that deal with large amounts of data and information.
The next steps for me are working in a small company, trying to make a difference to businesses by protecting their cybersecurity.
The course allows you to hone your interests, whatever they may be.
I'm going to take the skills I've learned. I really want to make a difference to the world,