Electronic Engineering at Trinity College Dublin

Students who wish to study Electronic Engineering apply to the Engineering degree (TR032). The first two years are common to all

Engineering students and at the end of the second-year students select Electronic Engineering as their specialist area.

Do you enjoy…

• Understanding how complex systems work? E.g. mobile phone networks or YouTube?
• Mathematical analysis of problems and formulating solutions?
• Interpreting data to automate sophisticated tasks? E.g. Building an automated speech recogniser, or predicting trends on the stock market?

What is Electronic Engineering?

Electronic Engineering involves the use of electricity to perform a wide range of functions and the application of these functions to improve the quality of our lives.

Electronic Engineering is a continuously evolving profession and is the driving force behind the development of the world’s information technology. Electronic engineers create, design and develop everyday devices like the mobile phone, tablets, game engines and computers.

The department now includes courses specifically in information engineering and machine learning taught by experts in the field with close links to Google. We also include a good grounding in software engineering since all engineers now exploit software design to implement ideas and prototypes.

Graduate skills and career opportunities

The careers open to graduates in electronic engineering range from circuit design in semiconductor companies, through network design and management in telecommunications companies, media engineering in Netflix, YouTube and the entire cinema postproduction industry. There are opportunities in business and financial management, where the analytic and problem-solving skills of electronic engineers have long been appreciated.

Companies employing Electronic Engineering graduates include Netflix, YouTube, Disney, Technicolor, Intel, Ericsson, Analog Devices, Google, Eirgrid and Accenture.