MSc Advanced Control and Systems Engineering with Extended Research

at University of Manchester

Course unit list

The course unit details given below are subject to change, and are the latest example of the curriculum available on this course of study.
 

Title

• Dissertation
• State-Space and Multivariable Control
• Applied Control
• Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Systems
• Optimal & Robust Control
• Process Control & Model Predictive Control
• Control Fundamentals
• Digital Control & System Identification
• Robotics & Autonomous Systems

Academic entry qualification overview
 

We require a good Upper Second Class Honours degree or international equivalent in an electrical and electronic engineering discipline. Candidates from other engineering and scientific disciplines are encouraged to apply, provided they can demonstrate strength in mathematics and other suitable subjects such as dynamics, signals and systems or classical control.
 

When assessing your academic record, we take into account your grade average with particular emphasis on relevant course units and the standing of the institution where you studied your qualification.

English language
 

All applicants to the University (from the UK and Overseas) are required to show evidence of English Language proficiency.  The minimum English Language requirement for this course is either:

• IELTS at least 7.0 overall with no subtest below 6.5, or;

• TOEFL iBT : at least 100 overall with no subtest below 25. We do not accept 'MyBestScore'.

• Pearson PTE (UKVI) : at least 76 overall with no subtest below 70.

• An acceptable equivalent qualification.

• MSc (full-time)
  
  UK students (per annum): £12,500 year 1, £6,000 year 2
  
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £28,000 year 1, £14,000 year 2

In 2018 we celebrated the 50 th anniversary of our MSc course.  In that time graduates of the course have achieved top ranking industrial and academic positions in their home countries, in the UK and around the world.
 

Graduates from the course are employed in a variety of industries, including process and petro-chemical industries, manufacturing, power generation and the automotive and aerospace sectors.  Recently there has been a surge in demand for control engineers in the field of biomedicine.  More generally feedback control and systems engineering skills play an important part in an ever widening range of high tech applications.
 

The MSc can also be used a spring board for postgraduate research.  Approximately 50% of the current PhD students in the Control Systems Group are graduates from the MSc course.