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Applications should be made by 31st August (Please note, some popular courses may close earlier due to high demand)

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Entry online application?
Applications should be made by 31st August (Please note, some popular courses may close earlier due to high demand)

You should follow instructions outlined on the CAO website with regard to submitting supporting documentation.

Please make sure to include the Advanced Entry Cover Sheet each time you send documents. This will save significant delays in CAO
uploading your documents to your application.

Failure to supply supporting documentation may result in your application being rejected.

Expand+What is... Computer and Communications Engineering?

The use of mobile telephony and the Internet continues to transform our social and business lives. Global data networks enable us to communicate via text messages, voice or video, to access and e...

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The use of mobile telephony and the Internet continues to transform our social and business lives. Global data networks enable us to communicate via text messages, voice or video, to access and exchange information and to transact business securely. These networks provide the links between computer systems or specialised computing devices. In order to maximise the benefits of this blending of communications and computing technologies, organisations are increasingly reliant on access to a new range of engineering development skills. Given the level of demand, such skills are in short-supply and this programme addresses the need to provide appropriate, key, technical professionals and offers the prospect of valuable career opportunities.

Learning Outcomes: What will I Study?
This programme prepares students for a rewarding professional career as a communications and IT engineering specialist in a very wide range of manufacturing, service and public sector organisations and is accredited by the national professional engineering organisation, Engineers Ireland.

The programme combines elements of electronic, software and communications engineering and associated hardware appropriate to the merging of technologies encountered in today’s ICT systems. Lecture and tutorial material is applied in practical project and laboratory work.

A strong emphasis is placed on the development of application-oriented design and development skills and in-depth knowledge relevant to the needs of both high-tech ICT producers, advanced system providers and operators.

Work Placement Options
Option 1: 6 months continuous placement in a company in Ireland or abroad*, in the second semester of the third year.

*One of our students undertook their placement in CISCO Systems, San Jóse, California.

Option 2: Our new internship programme involves two consecutive days per week placement within industry in the final two years of this programme. INTEL, ESB, AVAYA, VILICOM, HEAnet & Ericsson are all companies participating on the internship.

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Year Two
Mathematics
Communications Networks
Engineering Mechanics & Materials
Regulatory Environment & Engineer in Society
Digital Electronic Design
Software Development
Computer Architecture
Digital Communications
An...

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Year Two
Mathematics
Communications Networks
Engineering Mechanics & Materials
Regulatory Environment & Engineer in Society
Digital Electronic Design
Software Development
Computer Architecture
Digital Communications
Analogue Electronics
Signals & Systems

Year Three
Mathematics
Field Theory & Digital Signal Processing
Digital Communications
Data Communications
Software Engineering
Business & Management
Operating Systems
Project Management
Work Placement /Internship

Year Four
Mathematics
Real Time & Embedded Systems
Data Communications
Distributed Systems
Engineering Project
Computer Architecture
Wireless Communications, Management
Marketing & Law
Advanced Signal Processing
Option Module

The Engineering Project Module is a major engineering project, which runs throughout the second semester of the year.

Expand+What are my career opportunities?

This programme provides graduates with a wide range of satisfying and well-paid professional career opportunities both in industry and in the wider economy. Initially, graduates may typically be expected to take u...

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This programme provides graduates with a wide range of satisfying and well-paid professional career opportunities both in industry and in the wider economy. Initially, graduates may typically be expected to take up employment as communications, network, software or computer engineers.

What other options do I have after completion?

Students who reach an appropriate honours standard may progress to a range of Masters Degrees or Doctorate programmes in TU Dublin or elsewhere in Higher Education. The School offers a Taught Masters programme in Electronic & Communications Engineering (TU203).