Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Electrical and Electronic Engineering is an increasingly demanded discipline which covers everything from nano scale to power generation. This degree is offered at theUniversity of Canterbury.

The University of Canterbury has Electrical and Electronic Engineering postgraduate students spanning several research disciplines, including power systems, materials and nanotechnology, communications, acoustics, computational imaging, neural engineering, power electronics, and radio frequency engineering.

Career opportunities

Postgraduate study can bring many career benefits eg, specialist skills and enhanced knowledge, entry into specific occupations, higher starting salary/progression rates, research capability/achievement, and evidence of high academic attainment/self-discipline.

Research:

• Research and teaching activities are supported by excellent laboratory facilities and technical staff. Several of the facilities are not available at any other university in Aotearoa New Zealand.
• These include some of the nanofabrication facilities and analysis instruments which are part of the MacDiarmid Institute, the High Voltage Laboratory, and the Electrical Machines Laboratory.