Audiovisual and Multimedia Systems Engineering

What knowledge will I acquire with this Degree?

Students who choose to take the Degree in Engineering in Audiovisual and Multimedia Systems They will begin by studying the fundamentals of Information and Communication Technologies, to later specialize in audiovisual and multimedia information, rigorously and systematically studying their generación, (audio and video equipment, recording studio design, coding formats –mp3, jpeg, …–), transmission (communications networks, digital television and radio broadcasting, internet services for multimedia information) and storage (CD's and DVD's technology, storage servers,...), as well as its integration with the rest of telecommunications technologies. This will ensure that the professionals who obtain the degree in Engineering in Audiovisual and Multimedia Systems constitute in the future a necessary basis for the operation of all institutions, either from within them or as part of companies that generate or offer advanced services. communication and digital multimedia content.

It should be noted that, as this new degree is framed in the EHEA, in the planned training plan:

• introduces innovations in the programming, execution and evaluation of teaching;
• pursues the acquisition of skills and the development of attitudes such as initiative, teamwork or critical capacity;
• encourages laboratory practices (the School of Telecommunications Engineering has more than 20 specialized laboratories in the areas of computer networks, communications simulation, circuit analysis, multimedia information, biomedical signals, radiofrequency, digital information processing , measurement and design of antennas, photonics and optical communications, computer architecture, operating systems and free software, robotics, communications terminals, acoustics)
• encourages internships in companies (for this purpose the School of Telecommunications Engineering has signed dozens of agreements with Spanish and multinational companies where students, during their last year, will have to take 18 credits).

The proposal of this degree by the Rey Juan Carlos University is justified from several perspectives: from the academic point of view (where the concepts taught represent a fusion of those that had been taught in the degrees of Telecommunication Engineering and Technical Engineering of Telecommunications in Sound and Image); from the government point of view (unlike the vast majority of titles adapted to the EHEA, the government has approved a specific regulation that regulates 75% of the content of the title); from the social point of view (where, as has already been mentioned, the role of ICT is increasingly relevant) and from an economic and labor point of view (currently more than 99% of Higher Engineers and Telecommunications Technicians are employed, the period of incorporation into the labor market is less than three months, the average remuneration is more than double the average salary and different studies carried out in the national and European context indicate a shortage of professionals in this field).
Finally, it should be noted that this is a degree that enables access to the exercise of a regulated professional activity in Spain, therefore:

• in its design, the requirements established in Order CIN/355/2009, of February 9, 2009, which establishes the requirements for the verification of official university degrees that qualify for the exercise of the profession of Engineer, have been rigorously fulfilled. Telecommunications Technician.
• Graduates of this title will have the professional attributions established in the Current Legislation for "Technical Telecommunications Engineer", specializing in "Sound and Image".
• Graduates of this degree will have direct access to the Official Master's Degree in Telecommunications Engineering.

Where will I be able to work when I graduate?

In the first place, it is important to point out that practically 100% of current Telecommunications Engineers and Technical Engineers are employed in a period of less than one year after finishing their studies. A high percentage of this employment occurs in entities closely linked to the content 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.

By way of example, the growth in recent years of the demand for professionals in the field of development in the provision of multimedia services can be highlighted. The encoding and dissemination of content through telecommunication systems are a very active field of scientific development. Active research in the field of new MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 coding systems that use the metadata included in multimedia content to facilitate their search and classification serves as evidence.

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.
The final verification report turned out FAVORABLE

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What subject areas will I address in this grade?

The information that appears on the urjc website (in the title presentation section) is basically correct. It could be complemented by saying that "Among the areas of knowledge that make up the degree are: signal analysis and treatment, fundamentals of programming, fundamentals of electronics, electromagnetic propagation, fundamentals of computers, fundamentals of networks and communication systems, multimedia data processing. , fundamentals of acoustic engineering and audio and video equipment."

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 Audiovisual and Multimedia Systems 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 provides the graduate with:

• Ability to draft, develop and sign projects in the field of telecommunications engineering whose purpose is the conception and development or exploitation of telecommunications and electronic networks, services and applications.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Knowledge for carrying out measurements, calculations, valuations, appraisals, expert reports, studies, reports, task planning and other similar work in its specific field of telecommunications.
• Ability to analyze and assess the social and environmental impact of technical solutions.
• Know and apply basic elements of economics and human resource management, project organization and planning, as well as legislation, regulation and standardization in telecommunications.
• 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.

In addition to the above training objectives, a common objective for all URJC degrees is to promote mobility, especially international mobility.

Competences 

As this is a degree with professional attributions, the competences are established in the ministerial order CIN/352/2009, of February 9, which regulates the studies of the Telecommunications Engineering degrees. On the urjc website there is a summary by category of the competences, and details are provided exclusively for those corresponding to the specialty of Sound and Image (corresponding to Audiovisual and Multimedia Systems). It seems good to us that this information is maintained, however, if you wish to make the complete list of competencies public, they are attached below:

BASIC TRAINING

• 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 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.

OF SPECIFIC TECHNOLOGY IN 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 analyze, specify, create and maintain television, audio and video systems, equipment, headends and installations, both in fixed and mobile environments.
• E.SI.3: Ability to carry out projects for premises and facilities for the production and recording of audio and video signals.
• E.SI.4: Ability to carry out acoustic engineering projects on: Insulation and acoustic conditioning of premises; public address installations; specification, analysis and selection of electroacoustic transducers; noise and vibration measurement, analysis and control systems; environmental acoustics; underwater acoustic systems.
• E.SI.5: Ability to create, encode, manage, broadcast and distribute multimedia content, according to criteria of usability and accessibility of audiovisual, broadcast and interactive services.

COMPLEMENTARY TRAINING AND OTHER SPECIALTIES IN THE FIELD OF TELECOMMUNICATION:

• FC.1: Ability to communicate effectively in the relevant professional language.
• FC.2: Adequate knowledge of the concepts of macroeconomics, microeconomics, financial mathematics and capital markets
• 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.4: Capacity for the selection of circuits, subsystems and systems of radiofrequency, microwaves, radio broadcasting, radio links and radio determination.
• E.ST.6: Ability to analyze, encode, process and transmit multimedia information using analog and digital signal processing techniques.
• ET7: Programming capacity for telematic services and applications, on the network and distributed.

professional qualification

The design of this degree is based on the provisions of Order CIN/352/2009 (of February 9, BOE of February 20, 2009) and qualifies for the profession of Technical Telecommunications Engineer with a specialty in Image and Sound regulated in the 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 the Master's Degree in Telecommunications Engineering (master's degree that qualifies for the exercise of the regulated profession of Telecommunications Engineer according to collected 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