Electrical and Electronic Engineering for England (HTQ)

This two-year full-time Higher National Diploma course with Higher Technical Qualification (HTQ) status will give you the skills and knowledge needed to progress your career in the fascinating, challenging world of electrical and electronic engineering.

About the course

Electrical engineers are sought after worldwide across the private and public sector, from transport to healthcare, and education to construction.

We’ll develop your knowledge across a range of core and more specialist units. The course will suit you if you’ve completed relevant studies at an advanced level (A Level or equivalent) or have relevant industry experience and want to pursue a career in electrical and/or electronic engineering.

The course contains significant project-based learning including: laboratory investigations, design work, projects, case studies and tutorials.

You’ll undertake independent study and practical problem-solving alongside more traditional methods such as tutorials. You will develop your communication skills and the application of computers in engineering.

Level 4 /Year One core units:

-Engineering Design
-Engineering Maths
-Managing a Professional Engineering Project

Level 4 /Year One specialist units:

-Automation, Robotics and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)
-Electrical and Electronic Principles
-Electrical Machines
-Production Engineering for Manufacture
-Quality and Process Improvement

Level 5 /Year Two core units:

-Professional Engineering Management
-Further Mathematics

Level 5 /Year Two specialist units:

-Further Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)
-Further Electrical Machines and Drives
-Industrial Power, Electronics and Storage
-Embedded Systems
-Further Electrical, Electronic and Digital Principles
-Utilisation of Electrical Power

Assessment

Assessment is through assignments.

What are HTQs?
Higher Technical Qualifications are new or redesigned Level 4 and 5 qualifications (such as HNCs and HNDs) that have been approved against occupational standards in their sector. These qualifications have been developed by UK awarding bodies, working with employers and businesses to make sure that students get the specific training, knowledge and skills they need for their chosen career.

Bursaries

We want our courses to be accessible to students from any background, so we’ve put together a cash support package in the form of non-repayable bursaries to provide financial help where it’s really needed. Details for 2025-26 will be advertised once approved by the university regulator – the Office for Students (OfS). Please check our website - www.nottinghamcollege.ac.uk - for more information.

Your career and progression

The Level 5 HND qualification with HTQ status is widely-recognized in its own right and provides students with the skills required for employment in a broad range of industries with either a managerial or technical bias.

After successfully completing the Higher National Certificate, you could top-up your qualification to the planned BEng (Hons) here at Nottingham College, or progress to an Honours degree at a wide range of higher education providers.

Alternatively, you could pursue a career in research and development, design, technical sales and production.

engineering science
• electrical and electronic principles
• managing a professional engineering project
• engineering maths
• engineering design
• industrial power, electronics and storage
• research project
• professional engineering management
• further maths
• industrial systems

Assessed through a variety of individual assignments

To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:

• Course does not award QTS