Electronics

What is electronics?

Just look around a typical living room and you will see many electronic devices such as TVs, remote controls, mobile phones, games consoles and sound systems. The electronics apprenticeships offered gives you the fundamentals needed to design and build such products. Electronics is the design and manufacture of machines created from electrons.

Career path

You'll undertake placements across our electronics teams that do everything from design and test simple single board computers, through to the development of software defined radios. You would be designing systems such as single board computers and circuits that enable these computers to connect and control things in our physical environment. This could include building prototypes to test out your new ideas.

What will I learn?

Our electronic apprentices will undertake modules through a university provider* covering areas such as:

• Computer system fundamentals
• Embedded C
• Electronic principles
• Mathematics
• Signals
• Electromagnetic radiation
• Radio frequency systems
• Electronic systems design

*University units are subject to change

End qualification

• Level 6 embedded electronics degree

Entry point

• Level 3

You will have or be predicted to achieve:

• Five GCSEs or equivalent, including English and Maths at grade 4-5/C or above.
• Two A-Levels - Maths and one further STEM subject such as Physics, ICT, Computing or Electronics.

It would be beneficial if you also have one of the following (although these are not essential):
• Relevant practical or hobbyist experience to do with programming, computers and electronics
• At least one further STEM based subject such as Computing, Physics, ICT or Electronics

Duration

• 48 months