At undergraduate level we offer the BSc (Hons) Engineering Systems course, which builds on a traditional engineering foundation and develops knowledge in the integration of computing and smart technologies for engineering systems applications. Demand for such knowledge and skills is increasing rapidly in all manufacturing industries, the oil and gas sector and the process industry.
Companies are looking for engineers, particularly with CAD/CAM skills and a background in control and instrumentation, to develop advanced manufacturing systems and to design innovative ways of remotely monitoring and controlling equipment. At Abertay we are training students to fill the national and international shortage of engineers with knowledge of integrated intelligent systems.
Abertay's postgraduate engineering systems course is MSc Adaptive Systems Engineering, which is focussed on building geographically distributed computing systems with the ability to adapt to their users, and to the data they receive. This could involve remotely managing a huge agricultural plant or network of weather stations from a mobile phone.
As these systems do not yet naturally evolve, skilled programmers are needed to develop ways of simply managing large quantities of data. This course also teaches smart systems skills, so you can learn to automatically control a network of devices – for a home’s heating, biometric authentication of a security system, or many, many other applications.
Graduates of our engineering systems courses are well placed to enter a broad range of industries, and to develop the next generation of computer systems. Graduates of the BSc (Hons) Engineering Systems course can lead new work in the engineering sector, particularly on control, instrumentation and design. The oil and gas sector is one big employer.
For students completing our MSc Adaptive Systems Engineering, the possibilities are enormous – from complex software development for public or private clients, to working with financial institutions, in communications, healthcare or at government level. As an Abertay graduate you will have distributed systems skills that are in great demand.
The engineering systems courses on offer at Abertay are:
BSc (Hons) Engineering Systems
MSc/PGDip Adaptive Systems Engineering
