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Students enrolled at Universiteit Gent for the Master of Science in Photonics Science and Engineering must simultaneously enroll as 'guest' student at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), if they have registered for one or more of the compulsory and/or electives courses of the master program, that are taught at the VUB. The different modules with compulsory courses, masterspecific electives and option packages are listed hereunder.


Compulsory courses 1st year MA Photonics Science and Engineering

This module includes the compulsory courses that belong to the 1st year of the full-time standard learning track of the MA in Photonics Science and Engineering, that are taught at the VUB.

6ECTS credits - Laboratories in Photonics Research
3ECTS credits - Business Aspects of Micro-electronics and Photonics
6ECTS credits - Optical Communication Systems
6ECTS credits - Sensors and Microsystem Electronics
4ECTS credits - Physics of Semiconductor Technologies and Devices

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Masterspecific electives 1st year MA Photonics Science and Engineering

This module includes the masterspecific elective courses of the full-time standard learning track of the MA in Photonics Science and Engineering, that are taught at the VUB.

4ECTS credits - Introduction to Quantum Physics for Electrical Engineering
4ECTS credits - Internship in Photonics
4ECTS credits - Technological processes for photonics and electronics: Laboratory
4ECTS credits - Biophotonics
4ECTS credits - High Speed Photonic Components
4ECTS credits - Design of Refractive and Diffractive Optical Imaging Systems
4ECTS credits - Micro- and nanophotonic semiconductor devices
4ECTS credits - Optical Design of Non-Imaging Systems with Ray-tracing software
4ECTS credits - Quantum optics

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Option packages MA Photonics Science and Engineering (VUB)

This module includes the option packages that are taught at the VUB. Students can select one of these option packages. Within the option package, the student has to accumulate 18, 19 or 20 ECTS of courses, depending on the rules and requirements of the option that he/she has chosen. Some options only include compulsory courses, others only elective courses or compulsory and elective courses.
- Option Measuring, modelling and simulating (12 credits compulsory courses + 8 credits electives)
- Option Audiovisual Processing (12 credits compulsory courses + 8 credits electives)
- Option Telecom (16 credits compulsory courses + 4 credits electives)
- Option Computer Engineering (12 credits compulsory courses + 8 credits electives)
- Option Electronics (19 credits compulsory courses)
- Option Enterpreneurship (6 credits compulsory courses + 12 credits electives)

Option Measuring, modelling and simulating (12 ECTS compulsory courses)

Within this option package these 3 compulsory courses must be successfully accomplished.

4ECTS credits - Identification of Dynamical Systems
4ECTS credits - Theory and Practice of Advanced Control
4ECTS credits - Measuring and Modelling of Nonlinear Systems

Option Measuring, modelling and simulating (8 ECTS elective courses)

Within this option package, the student must also select 8 ECTS of elective courses from the following list.

3ECTS credits - CAE-tools for the Design of Analog Electronic Circuits
4ECTS credits - Industrial Measurement Environments

Option Audiovisual Processing (12 ECTS compulsory courses)

Within this option package these 2 compulsory courses must be successfully accomplished.

Option Audiovisual Processing (8 ECTS elective courses)

Within this option package, the student must also select 8 ECTS of elective courses from the following list.

3ECTS credits - Multimedia Seminar
3ECTS credits - Capita Selecta Multimedia
3ECTS credits - Cryptography

Option Telecom (14 ECTS compulsory courses)

Within this option package these 4 compulsory courses must be successfully accomplished.

3ECTS credits - Image and Video Technology

Option Telecom (6 ECTS elective courses)

Within this option package, the student must also select 6 ECTS of elective courses from the following list.

6ECTS credits - Voice, Image, Coding, Media and Systems
3ECTS credits - Capita selecta Telecom
3ECTS credits - Cryptography

Option Computer Engineering (12 ECTS compulsory courses)

Within this option package these 3 compulsory courses must be successfully accomplished.

4ECTS credits - Distributed Computing and Storage Architectures

Option Computer Engineering (8 ECTS elective courses)

Within this option package, the student must also select 8 ECTS of elective courses from the following list.

3ECTS credits - Advanced Programming Concepts
3ECTS credits - Multiprocessors and Reconfigurable Architectures
6ECTS credits - Techniques of Artificial Intelligence
6ECTS credits - Compilers
3ECTS credits - Cryptography

Option Electronics (19 ECTS compulsory courses)

Within this option package these 3 compulsory courses must be successfully accomplished.

7ECTS credits - Digital Signal Processing
6ECTS credits - High-frequency Electronics and Antennas
5ECTS credits - Analog Electronics

Option Technological Entrepreneurship (6 ECTS compulsory courses)

Within this option package this compulsory course must be successfully accomplished.

6ECTS credits - EUTOPIA Learning Unit - Technological Business Development Project

Option Technological Entrepreneurship (12 ECTS elective courses)

Within this option package, the student must also select 12 ECTS of elective courses from the following list.

3ECTS credits - Entrepreneurship
3ECTS credits - Business Aspects of Innovation in Materials
3ECTS credits - Business Aspects of Software Industry
3ECTS credits - Business Aspects of Biotechnology
3ECTS credits - Sustainable Mobility and Logistics

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