Automation prepares applied senior engineers in automatic control, information processing, electronics, power electronics and computer applications. The programme suits work in industrial electrification, automation, information processing and computing.
Students study circuit principles, digital and analogue electronics, microcomputer principles and interfaces, electric machines and drives, power electronics, sensors and detection, automatic control theory, modern control theory, computer control, PLC-based electrical control, process control and motion control systems.
Graduates can design, analyse, run and maintain systems, develop products, carry out research, and take management and decision roles in fields such as motion control, industrial process control, robot control, computer control and instrumentation.
The admissions page for this major does not list tuition, programme length or credit totals, so applicants should confirm those details with the university admissions office.
