The objective of the Master’s Degree in Telecommunication Engineering is that students acquire the knowledge, abilities and competences that allow them to exercise the regulated profession of telecommunication engineering (Order CIN/355/2009, in BOE 9/2/2009), as well as to have a successful professional career in a world where telecommunication engineering covers its own fields and enters transversally in any social and industrial sector.
The master’s degree provides a complete technical and academic training, together with the acquisition of communication skills and the experience of working in multidisciplinary teams.
General Learning Outcomes
- RAG01- COMP01: Design, calculate, and develop products, processes, and installations in all fields of telecommunication engineering.
- RAG02- HAB01: Manage the necessary tools to supervise works and installations of telecommunication systems, complying with current regulations and ensuring service quality.
- RAG03- HAB02: Manage the necessary tools to lead, plan, and supervise multidisciplinary teams.
- RAG04- HAB03: Carry out mathematical modeling, calculation, and simulation in technological and corporate engineering centers, particularly in research, development, and innovation tasks across all areas related to Telecommunication Engineering and related multidisciplinary fields.
- RAG05- HAB04: Apply methodologies for drafting, strategic planning, management, coordination, and technical and economic management of projects in all fields of Telecommunication Engineering following quality and environmental criteria.
- RAG06- HAB05: Use tools specific to general management, technical management, and management of research, development, and innovation projects in companies and technology centers.
- RAG07- CON01: Understand the mechanisms for launching, managing, and supervising manufacturing processes of electronic and telecommunication equipment, ensuring safety for people and property, final product quality, and compliance certification.
- RAG08- HAB06: Apply acquired knowledge and solve problems in new or unfamiliar environments within broader and multidisciplinary contexts, being able to integrate knowledge.
- RAG09- CON02: Understand the ethical responsibility and professional deontology of the Telecommunications Engineer’s professional activity.
- RAG10- HAB07: Apply principles of economics and management of human resources and projects, as well as legislation, regulation, and standardization of telecommunications.
- RAG11- HAB08: Communicate (both orally and in writing) conclusions—and the knowledge and reasoning underpinning them—to specialized and non-specialized audiences clearly and unambiguously.
- RAG12- HAB09: Engage in continuous, self-directed, and autonomous learning.
- RAG13- CON03: Know, understand, and apply the necessary legislation in the exercise of the profession of Telecommunications Engineer.
Transversal Learning Outcomes
- RAT01- HAB10: Predict and control the evolution of complex situations through the development of new and innovative work methodologies adapted to the specific scientific/research, technological, or professional field, generally multidisciplinary, in which the activity is carried out.
- RAT02- COMP02: Develop sufficient autonomy to participate in research projects and scientific or technological collaborations within their thematic area, in interdisciplinary contexts, and, where applicable, with a strong knowledge transfer component.
- RAT03- CON04: Conceive Engineering within a framework of sustainable development.
- RAT04- HAB11: Develop awareness of the need for high-quality continuous training and improvement, fostering values inherent to the dynamics of scientific thinking, showing a flexible, open, and ethical attitude towards diverse opinions or situations, particularly in matters of non-discrimination based on gender, race, or religion, respect for fundamental rights, accessibility, etc.
- RAT05- HAB12: Foster cooperative work, communication skills, organization, planning, and acceptance of responsibilities in a multilingual and multidisciplinary work environment that promotes education for equality, peace, and respect for fundamental rights.
- RAT06- CON05: Acquire advanced knowledge and demonstrate, in a context of scientific and technological research or highly specialized settings, a detailed and well-founded understanding of theoretical and practical aspects and working methodologies in one or more fields of study.
- RAT07- CON06: Possess and understand knowledge that provides a foundation or opportunity for originality in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context.
- RAT08- COMP03: Integrate knowledge and deal with the complexity of making judgments based on information that, although incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of knowledge and judgments.
- RAT09- CON07: Know the procedures to innovate and manage ideas and creativity.
- RAT10- HAB13: Be capable of using Generative AI in an ethical, critical, and responsible way.
- RAT11- CON08: Understand the limitations, risks, and implications of using Generative AI.
Specific Learning Outcomes
- RA01- HAB14: Apply methods from information theory, adaptive modulation, and channel coding, as well as advanced digital signal processing techniques to communication and audiovisual systems.
- RA02- HAB15: Develop radio communication systems: design antennas, equipment and subsystems, channel modeling, link calculation, and planning.
- RA03- HAB16: Implement systems via cable, line, or satellite in fixed and mobile communication environments.
- RA04- COMP04: Design and size transport, broadcast, and distribution networks for multimedia signals.
- RA05- COMP05: Design radionavigation and positioning systems, as well as radar systems.
- RA06- COMP06: Model, design, implement, manage, operate, administer, and maintain networks, services, and content.
- RA07- HAB17: Plan, make decisions, and package networks, services, and applications considering service quality, direct and operational costs, implementation plans, supervision, security procedures, scaling, and maintenance, as well as manage and ensure quality in the development process.
- RA08- CON09: Understand and apply the functioning and organization of the Internet, next-generation Internet technologies and protocols, component models, middleware, and services.
- RA09- HAB18: Solve convergence, interoperability, and design of heterogeneous networks with local, access, and backbone networks, as well as the integration of telephony, data, television, and interactive services.
- RA10- COMP07: Design and manufacture integrated circuits.
- RA11- CON10: Understand hardware description languages for high-complexity circuits.
- RA12- HAB19: Use programmable logic devices and design advanced electronic systems, both analog and digital. Design communication components such as routers, switches, hubs, transmitters, and receivers across different bands.
- RA13- HAB20: Apply advanced knowledge of photonics and optoelectronics, as well as high-frequency electronics.
- RA14- HAB21: Develop electronic instrumentation, transducers, actuators, and sensors.
- RA15- HAB22: Integrate technologies and systems of Telecommunication Engineering with a generalist approach in broader and multidisciplinary contexts, such as bioengineering, photovoltaic conversion, nanotechnology, telemedicine.
- RA16- HAB23: Apply methodologies for drafting, managing, coordinating, and the technical and economic management of projects on systems, networks, infrastructures, and telecommunication services, including the supervision and coordination of partial projects; common telecommunication infrastructures in buildings or residential areas, including digital home projects; telecommunication infrastructures in transport and environment; with their corresponding energy supply installations and evaluation of electromagnetic emissions and compatibility.
- RA17- COMP08: Conduct, present, and defend, once all study credits are obtained, an original individual project before a university tribunal, consisting of a comprehensive engineering project.
- RA18- HAB24: Draft, strategically plan, lead, coordinate, and technically and economically manage space projects in terrestrial and deep space environments, applying Space Systems Engineering standards and understanding satellite operation processes.
- RA19- HAB25: Apply statistical signal processing methods to communication and audiovisual systems.
- RA20- HAB26: Manage the acquisition, structuring, analysis, and visualization of data, extracting underlying information and knowledge, critically evaluating results, and applying them to innovation and strategic decision-making in different fields.
- RA21- CON11: Understand and leverage the processes of information creation and dissemination in social networks, applying them to improve the Internet.
- RA22- COMP09: Design and manage distributed systems based on learning and incentives.
- RA23- HAB27: Integrate photovoltaic conversion technologies to power systems in Telecommunication Engineering.
- RA24- HAB28: Build a measurement system for a physical variable from the transducer to the user interface, including metrology knowledge, basic signal conditioning topologies, and instrumentation software.
- RA25- HAB29: Apply different numerical methods, their programming and/or use, to obtain approximate solutions to mathematical models of real problems.
- RA26- HAB30: Apply numerical optimization algorithms to problems related to the telecommunications industry.
- RA27- HAB31: Model, operate, administer, and manage the complete cycle and packaging of networks, services, and applications considering service quality, direct and operational costs, implementation plans, supervision, security, scaling, and maintenance, ensuring quality management in the development process.
- RA28- HAB32: Understand, design, configure, manage, maintain, diagnose, troubleshoot, and implement security policies in a corporate network (equipment, protocols, and services).
- RA29- CON12: Know the main standards in the field of audio and video encoding.
- RA30- CON13: Understand the main challenges posed by multimedia content transmission.
- RA31- CON14: Understand transport and signaling protocols used by multimedia applications.
- RA32- CON15: Know the main techniques for efficient multimedia content distribution.
- RA33- HAB33: Configure and deploy streaming and VoIP services.
- RA34- CON16: Know the main network technologies for multimedia distribution in access networks.
- RA35- HAB34: Efficiently search and filter resources on the Web, use various collaborative work tools, and produce content on the Social Web to communicate with others to create shared knowledge and build a personal learning network suited to one’s profile.
- RA36- HAB35: Identify the concept of competitive advantage and properly handle some indicators that approximate value creation in the company, as well as the role strategy plays in this process. In particular, identify the different levels within a company strategy and the most relevant decisions in each.
- RA37- HAB36: Assess the potential benefits offered by a given industrial sector based on the analysis of a set of basic dimensions.
- RA38- HAB37: Conduct a diagnosis of a company’s internal reality, detect both weaknesses and strengths, and identify those resources and capabilities that could be the source of a sustainable competitive advantage.
- RA39- CON17: Explain the basic generic strategies, identify their sources, and describe how value generation occurs through their execution.