MEng Computing (International Programme)

Year 1

Compulsory

• Presentation Skills
• Discrete Mathematics
• Databases I
• Programming I
• Architecture
• Mathematical Methods
• Logic
• Ethics in Computing 1
• Programming II
• Computing Topics
• Laboratory 1
• Reasoning about Programs
• Hardware
• Programming III

Extracurricular

• Advanced Programming
• Programming Competition Training
• Tools for Program Reasoning

Year 2

Compulsory

• Networks and Communications
• Software Engineering Design
• Concurrency
• Models of Computation
• Laboratory 2
• Statistics
• Introduction to Prolog
• Operating Systems
• 2nd Year Group Projects
• C++ Introduction
• Compilers
• Team Skills Development
• Software Engineering - Algorithms
• Human-Centred Design

Selective - two from this list

• Computational Techniques
• Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
• Computer Architecture

Optional

• Foreign Language II

Extracurricular

• Programming Competition Training

Year 3

Compulsory

• Technical Presentations Skills
• Software Engineering Practice
• 3rd Year Group Projects
• Management and Business for Computing Engineers

Selective - five or six from this list

• Machine Learning
• Operations Research
• Complex Systems
• Distributed Systems
• Introduction to Bioinformatics
• Graphics
• Advanced Computer Architecture
• Advanced Databases
• Simulation and Modelling
• Robotics
• Custom Computing
• Software Engineering - Systems Verification
• Pervasive Computing
• Type Systems for Programming Languages
• Network Security

Optional

• External Course

Extracurricular

• Programming Competition Training

Year 4

Compulsory

• Individual Project MEng
• Industrial Placement - Presentation and Report

Selective - six to eight from this list

• Computational Neurodynamics
• Parallel Algorithms
• Performance Analysis
• Modal and Temporal Logic
• Advanced Computer Graphics
• Computing for Optimal Decisions
• Quantum Computing
• Program Analysis
• Knowledge Representation
• Multi-agent Systems
• Advanced Issues in Object Oriented Programming
• Automated Reasoning
• Models of Concurrent Computation
• Distributed Algorithms
• Intelligent Data and Probabilistic Inference
• Computer Vision
• Computational Finance
• Software Reliability
• Machine Learning and Neural Computation
• Complexity
• Software Engineering for Industry

Optional - at most two from this list

• External Course 4II
• European History 1870-1989
• External Course 4I

Extracurricular

• Programming Competition Training