Competences

In the educational model of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) the true protagonist of learning is the student.

This learning model implies the creation of an open educational space, characterised by the development of a series of skills:

• Basic and General competences. They include a set of skills, instrumental knowledge and attitudes of great value for the society of knowledge.
• Cross-curricular competences . They are related to the training of a university student who will be recognised in the world of work when faced with a situation as a professional or as a researcher.
• Specific  competences. They encompass knowledge related to the area of ​​study and resulting from learning. They are different according to speciality:
• Specialisation in Information and Communication Technologies
• Specialisation in Graphic and Construction Engineering

Basic and General Competences

Basic competences

• To possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context.
• To know how to apply the acquired knowledge and their ability to solve problems in new or little known environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of ​​study.
• To be able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of making judgements from information that, incomplete or limited, includes reflections on social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of knowledge and judgements.
• To know how to communicate their conclusions, present projects, results, plans, the latest knowledge and reasons that support them to specialised and non-specialised audiences in a clear and unambiguous way.
• To possess the learning abilities that allow them to continue studying in a way that to a great extent will have to be self-directed or autonomous.

General Competences

• Handling of tools (bibliographical, computer, laboratory, ...) to develop with confidence his/her research in a research group of the Engineering and Architecture field.
• Understanding the scientific literature in some field of study of the Engineering and Architecture field.
• Drafting of scientific papers in some field of study of the Engineering and Architecture Branch.
• Knowledge of the scientific method and scientific-technological systems in Extremadura, Spanish and European.
• Development of educational methodologies for the transmission of scientific knowledge and debate on them.
• Knowledge of the lines of research in areas of strong implementation in the Engineering and Architecture field and capacity for research interaction with them.

Cross-curricular competences

• Mastery of ICT
• To encourage the use of a foreign language.
• To provide teaching-learning knowledge and methodologies at different levels: collect and analyse existing information.
• Capacity for critical reasoning, analysis and synthesis.
• Ability to manage effectively and efficiently with entrepreneurship, initiative, creativity, organisation, planning, control, decision making and negotiation.
• Knowledge of the principles and methods of scientific and technical research.
• Ability to solve problems, demonstrating principles of originality and self-direction.
• Ability to learn independently and concern for knowledge and lifelong learning.
• Ability to work in a team.
• Consistent concern for quality and the environment, prevention of occupational risks and social and corporate responsibility.
• Ability to communicate their conclusions (and the ultimate knowledge and reasons behind them) to specialised and non-specialised audiences in a clear and unambiguous way.

SPECIFIC COMPETENCES

Specialisation in Information and Communication Technologies

• Advanced expertise in ICT concepts that, based on the training received in a degree with extensive ICT content, make it possible to provide original contributions in at least one of the following areas: software engineering, multimedia information systems, data mining, advanced computer and computer systems, neural computing, grid computing, super-computing and parallelism, parallel architectures for image processing, signal theory and communications.
• Ability to write, scientific interpretation and oral communication to specialised audiences of ICT documents - specialised journal articles, doctoral theses, books or parts of specialisation books, etc.- of a complexity of postgraduate level in at least one of the areas related in the competence CETIC1.
• Knowledge of the main multidisciplinary scientific journals of ICT, as well as some specialisation in certain areas mentioned in the first competence, of the standard levels of articles usually published in them and of some research groups and national or foreign congresses more related to the research lines that are developed in the UEx in that area.
• Ability to solve practical cases of ICT of a level of complexity of second cycle mainly related to his/her area of ​​study.
• Ability to communicate knowledge and ICT skills at undergraduate and graduate level to postgraduate students in ICT or other specialities of the MUI in Engineering and Architecture or Secondary Education.
• Acquisition of specialised computer tools useful in ICT research and its dissemination.
• The completion of ICT training obtained in the degree.
• Capacity to initiate research in: modelling of line and wireless communications systems and radar systems, modelling and design of passive and active communications devices (microwave and optical), and localisation and navigation systems for autonomous platforms mobile
• Ability to use business process modelling and model driven software development, by specifying BPMN using ontologies. Also to incorporate knowledge in multi-layer architectures in J2EE, along with architectures for the web.
• Ability to use retrieval and search systems for similarity of multimedia documents, introducing data mining techniques and relating them to pattern recognition and image analysis. To add related multimedia capabilities, and multimedia document processing with information system architectures.

Speciality in Graphic and Construction Engineering

• Advanced mastery of Construction concepts that, based on the training received in a degree with extensive contents of Civil Engineering or Building, make it possible to provide original contributions in at least one of the following areas: cartographic, geodetic engineering and photogrammetry, architectural graphic expression, architectural constructions, infrastructures, territorial organisation, transport.
• Advanced expertise in Graphic Engineering concepts that, based on the training received in a degree, put the student in a position to make original contributions in at least one of the following areas: Graphic Expression and Communication, Creation of virtual scenarios for the taking Computer Assisted Engineering (CAE), Computer Assisted Manufacturing (CAM), Dynamic models for the simulation of space processes, Spatial data models, Spatial data infrastructure.
• Ability to write, scientific interpretation and oral communication to specialised audiences of ICT documents - specialised journal articles, doctoral theses, books or parts of specialisation books, etc.- of a complexity of postgraduate level in at least one of the areas related in the competence CETIC1.
• Knowledge of the main multidisciplinary scientific journals of ICT, as well as some specialisation in certain areas mentioned in the first competence, of the standard levels of articles usually published in them and of some research groups and national or foreign congresses more related to the research lines that are developed in the Uex in that area.
• Ability to solve practical cases of Graphic Engineering at postgraduate level, which are fundamentally related to his/her area of ​​study.
• Ability to transmit knowledge and techniques in Graphic Engineering of undergraduate and master degree level to postgraduate students in Graphic Engineering or other specialities of the MUI in Technology or of Secondary Education.
• Ability to start research and/or teaching career in the areas mentioned in the first competence knowing the main lines of appropriate research.