Official Master's Degree in Telecommunication Engineering

Knowledge

• Identify the functioning and organization of the Internet, next-generation technologies and protocols, component models, middleware, and associated services. Identify the functioning and organization of the Internet, as well as next-generation technologies and protocols, including IPv6, MPLS, software-defined networks (SDN), VPNs, component models, middleware, and associated services.
• Explain the principles of economics and the management of human resources and projects, as well as the legislation, regulation, and standardization of telecommunications, with ethical responsibility and the professional deontology of the Telecommunication Engineer profession.
• Identify the internal functioning, organizational structure, and decision-making processes in companies within the technology and telecommunications sector.
• Relate knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context.
• Identify technological processes and basic structures in the design of integrated circuits.

Skills

• Apply methods from information theory, adaptive modulation and channel coding, as well as advanced digital signal processing techniques to communication and audiovisual systems.
• Design radiocommunication systems: antennas, equipment and subsystems, channel modeling, link calculation and planning.
• Design integrated circuits for communication infrastructures.
• Dimension transport, broadcasting and multimedia signal distribution networks.
• Design radionavigation, positioning and radar systems, optimizing their performance and accuracy for applications in different environments.
• Plan decision-making and network, service and application packaging considering quality of service, direct and operational costs, implementation plan, supervision, security procedures, scaling and maintenance, ensuring quality in the development process.
• Communicate conclusions clearly and unambiguously, as well as the knowledge and foundations that support them, both to specialized and non-specialized audiences, orally and in writing.
• Design communication components, such as routers, switches, hubs, transmitters and receivers, for operation in various frequency bands.
• Plan and design products, processes and installations in telecommunications engineering, ensuring the safety of people and property, the quality of final products and their certification.
• Design networks and services in the field of Telecommunications Engineering and related multidisciplinary areas.
• Apply the functioning and organization of the Internet, next-generation Internet technologies and protocols, component models, middleware and services.

Competences

• Plan heterogeneous local, access and backbone networks, ensuring convergence, interoperability and integration of telephony, data, television and interactive services.
• Build advanced electronic systems, both analog and digital, using programmable logic devices and the associated hardware description language.
• Apply advanced knowledge of photonics and optoelectronics, as well as high-frequency electronics in telecommunication systems.
• Develop electronic instrumentation, as well as transducers, actuators and sensors.
• Manage autonomous and continuous learning in academic and professional contexts.
• Implement cable, line and satellite communication systems in fixed and mobile environments, assessing environmental impact and promoting the adoption of sustainable and energy-efficient technological solutions.
• Direct telecommunication works and installations, complying with regulations and ensuring service quality.
• Integrate telecommunication technologies and systems in multidisciplinary contexts (bioengineering, photovoltaics, nanotechnology, telemedicine).
• Plan and supervise multidisciplinary teams.
• Defend a project developed in the comprehensive field of Telecommunications before a university panel, synthesizing the competencies acquired during the studies.
• Evaluate inequalities based on sex/gender that may arise in different areas due to the use of intelligent systems and machine learning.