5G Mobile Communications and Intelligent Embedded Systems (with an industrial placement year)
Position Details (Master's)
It’s for newly qualified or practising engineers who’d like to extend their knowledge and practical skills in the growth areas of mobile communications and intelligent embedded systems. This MSc offers you the opportunity, and the support, to go on an industrial placement at a UK company. This means you’ll gain industry experience, ready for your future career.
5G mobile communications and intelligent embedded systems lie at the heart of many emerging applications. These include:
- the internet-of-things
- connected and driverless cars
- smart cities
- eHealth
- virtual reality
- robotics
- smart manufacturing.
You’ll study in a dedicated MSc laboratory with the latest hardware and software. And you’ll learn from experts in their fields.We host the 5G Research Centre, theIndustrial Informatics and Signal Processing Research Group, theCentre of Advanced Communications, Mobile Technology and IoTand theSensor Technology Research Centre.
Careers
- As a 5G Mobile Communications and Intelligent Embedded Systems (with an industrial placement year) graduate at University of Sussex , you’ll have the skills for a career in areas such as:
- mobile and satellite telecommunications (where large industry players include Samsung, Vodafone, Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia, Cobham, British Telecom, Telefonica)
- aerospace (where large industry players include Airbus, Rolls-Royce and GE)
- automotive and transport (where large industry players include Jaguar, BMW, Continental, Network rail)
- defence and security (where large industry players include BAE Systems, QinetiQ and Thales)
Courses include:
- Internet-of-Things
- Mobile Communications
- Real Time Embedded Systems
- Reconfigurable System on Chip
- Topics in Wireless Communications
- Wearable Technologies
University of Sussex
On Campus (Full Time)
2 years
Aug 2026