Competences

In the educational model of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) the emphasis is placed on the student’s learning.

This learning model involves the creation of an open educational area characterized by the development of generic competences, or cross- curricular, and specific or technical competences, fostering participation, and a dynamic and collaborative environment in and outside the learning context.

All masters and degrees have assumed the development and evaluation of generic competences since they include a set of cognitive and metacognitive abilities, instrumental knowledge and attitudes of great value for the society of knowledge.

Specific or technical competences

• Ability to solve mathematical problems that may be posed in engineering. Ability to apply knowledge about: lineal algebra; geometry; differential geometry; differential and integral calculus; differential equations and in partial derivatives; numeric methods; numeric algorithm; statistics and optimization.
• Basic knowledge about the use and programming of computers, operative systems, database, and software with application in engineering.
• Comprehension and mastery of basic concepts on general laws of mechanics, thermodynamic, fields and waves and electromagnetism and, its application for solving engineering related problems.
• Comprehension and mastery of basic concepts of linear systems and their functions and related transformations, theory of electric circuits, electronic circuits, physical principle of semiconductors and logical families, electronical and photonic gadgets, technology of materials and its application for solving problems of engineering.
• Knowledge of the concept of company, institutional and legal framework of the company. Organization and management of companies.
• Ability to learn new concepts autonomously and techniques to design, develop or exploit telecommunication systems and services.
• Ability to use communication and computer applications (office automation, database, advanced calculus, project management, visualization, etc.) to support the development and exploitation of networks, telecommunication and electronic applications and services.
• Ability to use computer tools to search bibliographical resources or information related to telecommunications and electronics.
• Ability to analyse and specify the fundamental parameters of a communication system.
• Ability to assess the advantages and disadvantages of different technological alternatives of deployment or implementation of communication systems, from the signal space point of view, disturbances and the noise, and analogical and digital modulation systems.
• Ability to conceive, deploy, organize, and manage networks, systems, services and infrastructures of telecommunication in residential (home, city and digital communities), entrepreneurial or institutional contexts taking responsibility of their start-up and continuous improvement, as well as know their economic and social impact.
• Knowledge and use of the fundamentals of programming in telecommunication networks, systems and services.
• Ability to understand the propagation mechanisms and transmission of electromagnetic and acoustic waves, and their corresponding transmitting and receiving devices.
• Analysis ability and design of combinational and sequential circuits, synchronous and asynchronous, and of use   of microprocessors and integrated circuits.
• Knowledge and application of the appropriate language for the description of hardware devices.
• Ability to use different energy sources and particularly photovoltaic and thermal solar energy, as well as to know the fundamentals of electrical engineering and of power electronics.
• Knowledge and use of concepts of networks architecture, protocols and interfaces of communication.
• Ability to differentiate the concepts of access and transport networks, circuits and package switching networks, fixed and mobile networks, as well as distributed networks services and applications, voice services, data, audio, video, and interactive and multimedia services.
• Knowledge of interconnection methods of networks and routing, and other fundamentals of planning, network sizing based on traffic parameters.
• Knowledge of the regulation and particularly Telecommunications standards at national, European and international levels.
• Ability to build, exploit and manage networks, services, communication processes and applications, understood as gathering systems, transport, representation, processing, storage, management and presentation of multimedia information, from the Telematics point of view.
• Ability to apply techniques based on networks, services and telematic applications, such as management systems, signalling and switching, routing, and security (cryptographic protocols, tunnelling, firewalls, mechanisms of billing, authentication and content protection), traffic engineering (graphs theory, queuing and teletraffic theory), and liability and quality of the service, both in fixed, mobile, personal, local and distance environments, with different bandwidths, including telephone and data.
• Ability to build, exploit and manage telematic services using analytic tools of planning, sizing and analysis.
• Ability to describe, programme, validate and optimize protocols and communication interfaces at different levels of a network architecture.
• Ability to continue with the technological process of transmission, switching and process to improve the telematics networks and services.
• Ability to design network architectures and telematic services.
• Ability to programme telematic, network and distributed services and applications.
• Original work to be done and defended individually before a university court, consisting in a project in the field of the specific technologies of Geomatics and Topography Engineering, and professionally competent. The competences acquired during the pedagogy are synthetized and integrated.

Generic or cross-curricular competences

• To plan, and organize personal work.
• Communicate effectively (in expression and comprehension) orally and written, knowledge, procedures, results and ideas related to the ICTs, with special emphasis on the writing of technical documentation.
• To be able to communicate in English effectively.
• To make decisions based on objective criteria (experimental, scientific data or of simulation).
• Self-motivated and determined, providing effective solutions to the problems raised even in situations lacking information and/or with temporal restrictions and/or of resources.
• To show an adequate ability of interpersonal relationship.
• To find, analyse, criticize, connect, organize and summarize information taken from various sources, as well as integrate ideas and knowledge.
• To be able to adapt to new situations and to the organizational or technological changes.
• To lead and be able to influence and motivate others, using the resources available.
• Self-motivated to add or assess possible or new solutions, showing flexibility and professionalism when considering different evaluation criteria.
• To be motivated for quality assurance and the continuous improvement, acting with exactitude, responsibility, and professionalism.

• Ability to argue and defend ideas accepting other viewpoints.
• To integrate oneself easily and work efficiently in unidisciplinary and multidisciplinary teams in the field of the applications, services and computer systems, assuming different roles and responsibilities with respect to the fundamental rights and equality between men and women