Objectives
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Learning Outcomes
The program for Master of Electronics and ICT Engineering Technology forms Industrial Engineers who apply scientific and technological knowledge to solve practical problems in electronics, informatics and telecommunication.
This Master program follows after the Bachelor of Engineering Technology program and aims to develop intensive academic competences in the specializations ‘Embedded Systems’ and ‘Networks’.
Both specializations have a common part where a few advanced concepts are treated such as digital signal processing, automation and simulation, computer architecture, transmission techniques and mobile networks and multimedia. The graduate will master the following generic electronics-ICT related competences:
· Advanced application oriented knowledge, insight and skills in automation with attention for the current state of the art
· Knowledge about the standard industrial bus systems, the industrial sensors and actuators and the ability to evaluate their application domain for a given issue
· Programming and testing interconnected automation components
· Advanced application oriented knowledge, insight and skills in digital signal processing with attention to the current state of the art
· The graduate knows the standard design techniques and implementation techniques of FIR filters and IIR Filters and can apply them to design, calculate and dimension such filters
· Can design and apply digital filters for audio and multimedia applications
· Advanced application oriented knowledge, insight and skills in transmission techniques and mobile networks with attention to the current state of the art
· Knows the properties of the physic layer for wireless communication and puts it into use
· Knows the different multiplexing systems and their application in contemporary wireless and wired telecommunication networks
· Knows the different encryption systems and their applications
· Knows the organizational structure of wireless telephony/multimedia networks
In addition to this, you get a series of fundamental courses within the chosen specialization.
The specialization embedded systems foresees courses that will teach you the hardware design methods for an embedded DSP system, efficient software design techniques for embedded systems, the role of multi processors and reconfigurable architectures in the embedded world and team-based design techniques for complex embedded systems. Those courses give the graduate the following in-depth competences:
· Has practical insight in the tools and methods for multicore FPGA and microcontroller based embedded systems.
· Knows the interfacing techniques for mixed analog digital systems and can apply those techniques.
· Knows the software and hardware techniques for low power electronic design and can apply those techniques.
· Has practical insight in advanced computer architectures including reconfigurable and multicore architectures.
· Knows the design and programming techniques for multicore systems and can apply them.
· Knows VHDL and a high level synthesis language for hardware design and can apply them.
The specialization Networks includes courses who familiarize the student with the fast evolving world of mobile communication, web technology, the ‘Internet of Things’, sensor networks and optical communication techniques. Through projects and extensive lab sessions you get the chance to apply and explore the acquired knowledge. With that the graduate will master the following in-depth competences:
· Can analyze, execute and interpret the performance of (new) protocols by means of network simulation software.
· Can model and interpret (new) protocols by means of network simulation software.
· Can set up an advanced web application as an element in a communication system.
· Can set up and operate heterogeneous multimedia networks (mobile and fixed) and masters the operation of different protocols including session layer protocols.
· Understands and applies complex IP based network techniques and can integrate embedded network components like sensor nodes in ‘The web of things’.
Finally your development and research skills are further improved in a master thesis that you carry out in a company or a research center. You will solve a technological or scientific problem by using creativity and scientifically sound methods while taking into account the economical and managerial aspects of the problem.
The academically educated graduate in Industrial Engineering Electronics-ICT has the following general competences besides the specific competences:
1. To possess advanced application-specific knowledge, understanding and skills in the specialty with attention to the latest developments in technology.
2. To possess advanced application-specific understanding of advanced theories and methods for the schematisation and modelling of processes and systems and their use in solving problems within the specialty.
3. To independently integrate and deepen previously acquired knowledge with attention for the opportunities for innovating practical implementations, whilst being aware of the limits of one's own competencies.
4. To formulate and analyse complex problems within the specialty, and if necessary reduce them to manageable sub-problems, and to develop implementation-oriented design solutions with attention to the specific context.
5. To independently conceive an engineering project, to plan and execute at the level of junior researching professional. To perform a literature study and to critically interpret the results following scientific standards and this in view of the opportunities for practical applications.
6. Starting from the acquired discipline-specific and interdisciplinary insights, to select, adapt or if necessary develop, and adequately apply advanced research, design and solution methods. To scientifically process the results, to motivate the adopted choices based on application-oriented knowledge and the demands of the business context.
7. To act from a research attitude: creativity, accuracy, critical reflection, curiosity, justification of choices on the basis of solution-oriented arguments.
8. To design systems, products, services and processes, with focus on innovation and operations. To interpolate and experiment in the business context.
9. To master system complexity using quantitative methods. To possess sufficient knowledge, insight and experience with the relevant real-life situation to be able to critically test results.
10. To act with an engineering attitude in a predominantly discipline-specific context: result-driven, with attention to planning and technical, economic and societal boundary conditions such as sustainability, assessment of risks and feasibility of the proposed approach or solution, focus on results and achieving effective solutions, innovative thinking.
11. To work on a project in a primarily subject-specific context: to set goals, to monitor the goals and progress of the project. To function as a member of an (inter- and multidisciplinary) team, to start to lead, to be a bridge between management and workplace, to operate in an international or intercultural environment. To report effectively.
12. To have business-administrative and economic insight in order to situate the contribution to a process or to the solution of a problem in the broader context.
13. To weigh specifications and constraints and convert them into a high-quality system, product, service or process. To extract useful information from incomplete, contradictory or redundant data.
14. To communicate orally and in writing about one's field in the language or languages relevant to the specialty.
15. To present and communicate, both in language and graphics, information about the field to colleagues and laymen.
16. To act in an ethically, professionally and socially responsible manner with attention to technical, economic, human and sustainability aspects.
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Academic plans
In the context of this programme, the following academic plans are offered:
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