Telecommunications Technology Engineering

What knowledge will I acquire with this Degree?

Students who choose to take the Degree in Telecommunications Technology Engineering will get a transversal training in the different specialties of this field (Telecommunications, Telematics, Electronics and Sound and Image Systems) without focusing exclusively on any of them, which was precisely what was being done in Higher Telecommunications Engineering, which within the new EHEA disappears as a degree title . This training is not only interesting from a professional point of view, where it is possible to train an all-terrain graduate who has a broad vision of the field of telecommunications, but also from an academic point of view, since those students interested in studying The Official Master's Degree in Telecommunications Engineering will find in this degree an ideal basis for it.

Where will I be able to work when I graduate?

The professionals who obtain the Degree in Engineering in Telecommunications Technologies will constitute in the future a fundamental base necessary for the operation of all institutions, either from within them or as part of companies that generate or offer advanced communications services. and digital content. The sectors where a Graduate in Telecommunications Technology Engineering can find work are really varied, and include the telecommunications and information technology sector, advice and consultancy, banking, finance and insurance, the media, teaching and research, industry or the public administration.

In this regard, it is important to point out that practically 100% of current Telecommunication Engineers and Technical Engineers are employed for less than a year after finishing their studies. In a high percentage, this employment occurs in entities closely linked to the contents of the degrees. The number of these graduates employed in Spain is estimated at 40.000, who work mainly in the areas of Teaching, Research and Development, Project Development, Production, Marketing, Services and Management and Administration. The activity they carry out in the indicated sectors generally begins with aspects strongly linked to technology and moves in increasingly shorter periods of time to other aspects more related to the technical and organizational management of products, processes and services, and to commercial aspects. . Various studies carried out in the European context for the coming years (EICTA, Career-Space, AETIC, PAFET) indicate a shortage of professionals in this field.

Is this Degree official according to the regulations required by the European Higher Education Area?

Yes (final verification report is attached), the implementation of the degree will be done progressively, starting the first year in the academic year 2009-10.
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What subject areas will I address in this grade?

Students who choose to study the Degree in Telecommunications Technology Engineering will obtain transversal training in the different specialties of this field (Telecommunication Systems, Telematics, Electronics and Sound and Image) without focusing exclusively on any of them, which It was precisely what was being done in the Superior Telecommunications Engineering that within the new EHEA disappears as a degree title. This training is not only interesting from a professional point of view, where it is possible to train an all-terrain graduate who has a broad vision of the field of telecommunications, but also from an academic point of view, since those students interested in studying The Official Master's Degree in Telecommunications Engineering will find in this degree an ideal basis for it.

Recommended Income Profile

It is convenient for students to show a willingness to work individually, ability to concentrate, facility for autonomous learning, ability to organize time and study, responsibility in teamwork. Likewise, it is positive that the student has an interest in the field of technology and science and especially in information and communication technologies. Finally, from a training point of view, it is recommended that the student has a good background in the fields of mathematics, physics and statistics.

Objectives 

The studies leading to degrees in the field of Telecommunications Engineering and, specifically, the Graduate in Engineering in Telecommunications Technologies from the Rey Juan Carlos University, have as their fundamental objective scientific, technological and socioeconomic training and preparation for professional practice in the development and application of information and communication technologies in the field of telecommunications. The training provided by these studies allows the graduate to:

• OG.1: Ability to draft, develop and sign projects in the field of telecommunications engineering whose purpose, in accordance with the knowledge acquired as established in section 5 of this order, is the conception and development or exploitation telecommunications and electronic networks, services and applications.
• OG.2: Knowledge, understanding and ability to apply the necessary legislation during the development of the profession of Technical Telecommunications Engineer and facility for handling specifications, regulations and mandatory standards.
• OG.3: Knowledge of basic subjects and technologies, which enables them to learn new methods and technologies, as well as giving them great versatility to adapt to new situations.
• OG.4: Ability to solve problems with initiative, decision-making, creativity, and to communicate and transmit knowledge, abilities and skills, understanding the ethical and professional responsibility of the activity of the Telecommunications Technical Engineer.
• OG.5: Knowledge to carry out measurements, calculations, assessments, appraisals, expert reports, studies, reports, task planning and other similar work in their specific field of telecommunications.
• OG.6: Ease of handling specifications, regulations and mandatory standards.
• OG.7: Ability to analyze and assess the social and environmental impact of technical solutions.
• OG.8: Know and apply basic elements of economics and human resource management, project organization and planning, as well as legislation, regulation and standardization in telecommunications.
• OG.9: Ability to work in a multidisciplinary group and in a multilingual environment and to communicate, both in writing and orally, knowledge, procedures, results and ideas related to telecommunications and electronics.

Competences 

The skills developed are of four types: basic training (in engineering), common in the field of telecommunications, specific technology (in telecommunications systems, telematics, sound and image, and electronic systems) and complementary training skills.

BASIC TRAINING COMPETENCES

• B.1: Ability to solve mathematical problems that may arise in engineering. Ability to apply knowledge of: linear algebra; geometry; differential geometry; differential and integral calculus; differential and partial derivative equations; numerical methods; numerical algorithmic; statistics and optimization.
• B.2: Basic knowledge of the use and programming of computers, operating systems, databases and computer programs with application in engineering.
• B.3: Understanding and command of the basic concepts of the general laws of mechanics, thermodynamics, fields and waves and electromagnetism and their application to solve engineering problems.
• B.4: Understanding and command of the basic concepts of linear systems and related functions and transforms, electric circuit theory, electronic circuits, physical principle of semiconductors and logic families, electronic and photonic devices, materials technology and its application to solving engineering problems.
• B.5: Adequate knowledge of the concept of company, institutional and legal framework of the company. Business organization and management.

COMMON COMPETENCES TELECOMMUNICATION BRANCH

• C.1: Ability to autonomously learn new knowledge and techniques suitable for the design, development or operation of telecommunication systems and services.
• C.2: Ability to use communication and computer applications (office automation, databases, advanced calculation, project management, visualization, etc.) to support the development and operation of telecommunications and electronic networks, services and applications.
• C.3: Ability to use computer tools to search for bibliographic resources or information related to telecommunications and electronics.
• C.4: Ability to analyze and specify the fundamental parameters of a communications system.
• C.5: Ability to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of different technological alternatives for the deployment or implementation of communication systems, from the point of view of the signal space, disturbances and noise, and analog and digital modulation systems.
• C.6: Ability to conceive, deploy, organize and manage telecommunications networks, systems, services and infrastructures in residential (home, city and digital communities), business or institutional contexts, taking responsibility for their implementation and continuous improvement, as well as knowing its economic and social impact.
• C.7: Knowledge and use of the fundamentals of programming in telecommunications networks, systems and services.
• C.8: Ability to understand the propagation and transmission mechanisms of electromagnetic and acoustic waves, and their corresponding emitting and receiving devices.
• C.9: Ability to analyze and design combinational and sequential, synchronous and asynchronous circuits, and the use of microprocessors and integrated circuits.
• C.10: Knowledge and application of the fundamentals of hardware device description languages.
• C.11: Ability to use different energy sources, especially photovoltaic and thermal solar, as well as the fundamentals of electrical engineering and power electronics.
• C.12: Knowledge and use of the concepts of network architecture, protocols and communication interfaces.
• C.13: Ability to differentiate the concepts of access and transport networks, circuit and packet switching networks, fixed and mobile networks, as well as distributed network systems and applications, voice, data, audio, video and interactive and multimedia services.
• C.14: Knowledge of the methods of network interconnection and routing, as well as the fundamentals of planning, network dimensioning based on traffic parameters.
• C.15: Knowledge of the rules and regulations of telecommunications at the national, European and international levels.

SPECIFIC TECHNOLOGY COMPETENCES:

Telecommunication Systems

• E.ST.1: Ability to build, operate and manage telecommunications networks, services, processes and applications, understood as systems for capturing, transporting, representing, processing, storing, managing and presenting multimedia information, from the point of view of view of the transmission systems.
• E.ST.2: Ability to apply the techniques on which telecommunications networks, services and applications are based both in fixed and mobile, personal, local or long-distance environments, with different bandwidths, including telephony, radio broadcasting, television and data, from the point of view of transmission systems.
• E.ST.3: Capacity for the selection of circuits, subsystems and systems of radiofrequency, microwaves, radio broadcasting, radio links and radio determination.
• E.ST.4: Capacity for the selection of antennas, equipment and transmission systems, propagation of guided and unguided waves, by electromagnetic, radiofrequency or optical means and the corresponding management of the radioelectric space and allocation of frequencies.
• E.ST.5: Ability to analyze, encode, process and transmit multimedia information using analog and digital signal processing techniques.

Telematics

• ET1: Ability to build, operate and manage telecommunications networks, services, processes and applications, understood as systems for capturing, transporting, representing, processing, storing, managing and presenting multimedia information, from the point of view of services telematics.
• ET2: Ability to apply the techniques on which telematic networks, services and applications are based, such as management, signaling and switching systems, routing and routing, security (cryptographic protocols, tunneling, firewalls, charging mechanisms, authentication and content protection), traffic engineering (graph theory, queuing theory and teletraffic) charging and reliability and quality of service, both in fixed, mobile, personal, local or long-distance environments, with different bandwidths, including telephony and data.
• ET3: Ability to build, exploit and manage telematic services using analytical planning, dimensioning and analysis tools.
• ET4: Ability to follow the technological progress of transmission, switching and processing to improve telematic networks and services.
• ET5: Ability to design network architectures and telematic services.
• ET6: Programming capacity for telematic services and applications, on the network and distributed.

Sound and Image

• E.SI.1: Ability to build, operate and manage telecommunications services and applications, understood as capture systems, analog and digital processing, coding, transport, representation, processing, storage, reproduction, management and presentation of audiovisual services and media information.
• E.SI.2: Ability to create, encode, manage, broadcast and distribute multimedia content, according to criteria of usability and accessibility of audiovisual, broadcast and interactive services.

Electronic systems

• E.SE.1: Ability to apply electronics as support technology in other fields and activities, and not only in the field of Information and Communication Technologies.
• E.SE.2: Ability to design circuits for analog and digital electronics, analog-digital and digital-analog conversion, radio frequency, power supply and electrical energy conversion for telecommunications and computing applications.

The above competencies and learning outcomes appear in Order CIN/352/2009, of February 9, which establishes the requirements for the verification of official university degrees that qualify for the exercise of the profession of Technical Telecommunications Engineer. . Additionally, it has been decided to reinforce training with the following skills and learning outcomes:

COMPLEMENTARY TRAINING COMPETENCES:

• FC.1: Ability to communicate effectively in the relevant foreign language for professional use.
• FC.2: Ability to understand and implement quality control procedures and to optimally use the results to review production processes.
• FC.3: Ability to understand, use and design operating systems, databases and information systems in the field of telecommunication systems and services
• FC.4: Adequate knowledge of the concepts of macroeconomics, microeconomics, financial mathematics and capital markets.

professional qualification

The design of this degree is based on the provisions of Order CIN/352/2009 and Order CIN/355/2009 (both dated February 9, BOE dated February 20, 2009). Although this degree does not qualify for the profession of Technical Telecommunications Engineer regulated in Order CIN/352/2009, the design of the degree adheres to the modules and skills described in said Order, so that students who complete this degree will be able to access, without the need to take training supplements, the Master's Degree in Telecommunications Engineering (master's degree that enables the exercise of the profession of Telecommunications Engineer regulated in Order CIN/355/2009).

Minimum number of ECTS credits by type of enrollment and course

Full-time students:

Part-time students:

Internal quality assurance system

Manual of the Internal Quality Assurance System

Composition of the commission

Composition of the Commission

Results report

Once the follow-up has been carried out, the quantitative information on the results obtained in the follow-up of said Degree is shown, differentiated by academic year.

Report by course:

• 2022/2023
• 2021/2022
• 2020/2021
• 2019/2020
• 2018/2019
• 2017/2018
• 2016/2017
• 2015/2016
• 2014/2015
• 2013/2014
• 2012/2013
• 2011/2012
• 2010/2011
• 2009/2010 

General information collection plan

• Indicators 2013/14
• Indicators 2014/15
• Indicators 2015/16
• Indicators 2016/17
• Indicators 2017/18
• Indicators 2018/19
• Indicators 2019/20
• Indicators 2020/21
• Indicators 2021/22
• Indicators 2022/23

Improvement actions

The Quality Assurance System of the Rey Juan Carlos University establishes that the degree's Quality Assurance Commission will annually analyze the information derived from the degree's indicators and prepare a report that will include improvement plans if the results so indicate.

• Improvement actions 2022/2023
• Improvement actions 2021/2022
• Improvement actions 2020/2021
• Improvement actions 2019/2020
• Improvement actions 2018/2019
• Improvement actions 2017/2018
• Improvement actions 2016/2017
• Improvement actions 2015/2016
• Improvement actions 2014/2015
• Improvement actions 2013/2014
• Improvement actions 2012/2013
• Improvement actions 2011/2012
• Improvement actions 2010/2011
• Improvement actions 2009/2010

Renewal of accreditation

The renewal of the accreditation represents the culmination of the implementation process of the official Bachelor's and Master's degrees registered in the Register of Universities, Centers and Degrees (RUCT). The renewal of the accreditation of official bachelor's and master's degrees is organized in three phases: self-assessment report, external visit and final assessment.

In the first phase, the university describes and assesses the status of the degree with respect to the established criteria and guidelines. The result is the Self-Assessment Report (IA) that is presented. The second and third phases are carried out by a group of evaluators external to the evaluated title.”

• Final report renewal of accreditation  2023