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Photonics Science and Engineering – (M.Sc.)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Faculty of Engineering
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| Application Deadline: | April 1st | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 578 | ||
| Location: | Brussels / Belgium / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 24 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 120 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel offers the Master of Photonics Science and Engineering jointly with Ghent University (UGent). When you enroll in this English taught master, you will follow the courses at UGent during the first semester of the first master year and at VUB during the second semester. During the second year, you will study where you do your master thesis.
Objectives
During the two master years students are able to continue to build on the broad ranging basic scientific knowledge acquired as part of the Bachelor programme, combining a multidisciplinary engineering training with an in-depth specialisation in photonics.
Although photonic systems are the core of the Master programme, this programme is broadbased in nature as it offers students the opportunity to enroll in a broad package of optional courses in ICT, electronics, physics, biomedical techniques or business administration.
The `Master of Applied Sciences and Engineering: Photonics Engineering´ has the following objectives:
- To train engineers who are duly capable - both on a self-reliant basis and as a member of a team - to build, in a duly efficient and methodical manner, complex photonics systems, ranging from their conception, analysis, design, implementation right up to the testing of such systems;
- To train engineers who have the required research attitudes and skills to contribute to the innovation in industry or scientific research in this discipline and who are capable of doing so by embracing a lifelong learning attitude;
- To train engineers who have the necessary social skills to assume people management positions.
Final objectives
In order to comply with the profile set out for Master of Photonics Science and Engineering students are expected:
- To have the scientific foundations required for the modelling, analysis, design and optimisation of complex photonics materials, components and systems;
- To have a due command of the methods and technologies for the analysis, conception, design, development, testing and production of photonics materials, components and systems;
- To be duly able to formulate the requirements (functional as well as non-functional) that are made of photonics materials, components and systems, as well as being duly capable of realising such materials, components and systems. These abilities involve both technical/technological and business/social aspects;
- To have acquired the necessary research attitudes and social skills to assume people management positions at various echelons in industry or research.
Contents
1st Year Master of Electronics and Information Technology Engineering
Compulsory
- Measurement and Identification
- Design and Implementation of Digital Circuits
- Signal Theory
- Digital Signal Processing
- Electronic Devices 2
- Photonics
- Integrated Electronic Systems
- Sensors and Microsystem Electronics
- High-frequency Electronics and Antennes
- Image Processing
- Pattern Recognition
- Software Engineering
- Analog Electronics
Students with a full-time registration in the 2nd year of the master programme (MT = 2) have to complete 60 credits of which:
- one compulsory course (3 credits)
- the Master Thesis (24 credits)
- courses from one of the options (24 SP)
- free electives (9 credits)
The student has to choose one of the five electives packages
- Option Measuring, modelling and simulating
- Option Multimedia
- Option Telecom
- Option Informatics
- Option Photonics
and has to accumulate at least 24 credits of courses within it, according to the rules and requirements of the elective package that he/she has chosen. Some options are composed of compulsory and elective courses, other options of elective courses only.
- Option Measuring, modelling and simating (20 credits specific courses + 4 credits of free electives)
- Option Multimedia (21 credits compulsory + 3 credits specific courses)
- Option Telecom (3 credits compulsory + 21 credits specific courses)
- Option Informatica (24 credits specific courses)
- Option Photonics (24 credtis specific courses)
As free elective courses (9 credits) the student can take courses from the curriculum of the VUB, the ULB or the other Flemish Universities. The student can also take the Internship: Electrical Engineering and/or courses from the option Entrepreneurship.
Or the student can take a combination of both.
The student’s choice must always be approved by the Curriculum Council of Electronics and Information Technology (ORE).
Prerequisites for taking the Master Thesis Electronics and IT-Engineering and the optional Internship: Electrical Engineering:
1. The student must hold the diploma that is required for admission to this master. Students with a combined inscription bachelor-master, are not allowed to take the Master Thesis; and
2. The student must have been awarded at least 45 credits of courses belonging to this master programme (exemptions included).
Compulsory Courses
- Business Information Systems
Master Thesis
- Master Thesis Electronics and Information Technology Engineering
Option Measuring, Modelling and Simulating: 20 credits from this list and 4 credits of free electives
- CAE-tools for the Design of Analog Electronic Circuits
- Design and Characterisation of RF and Microwave Nonlinear Systems
- Identification of Dynamical Systems
- Industrial Measurement Environments
- Measuring and Modelling of Nonlinear Systems
- RF/Microwave Design Techniques: from Datasheet to Product
- Advanced Control Theory
- Bioinformatics and Datamining
Option Multimedia: 21 credits of compulsory coures
- Image and Video Technology
- Computer Graphics & Computer Vision
- Digital Speech and Audio Processing
- Physical Communication
Option Multimedia: 3 credits from this list
- Digital Video Broadcasting
- Multimedia Seminar
- Spectrum Estimation Methods
- Telecommunication Networks
- Capita Selecta Multimedia
- Distributed Systems
- Bioinformatics and Datamining
Option Telecom: 3 credits of compulsory courses
Option Telecom: 21 credits from this list
- Communication Protocols
- Operating Systems and Security
- Physical Communication
- Telecom Seminar
- Voice, Image Coding, Media and Systems
- Capita Selecta Telecom
- Cryptography
- Digital Techniques in Telephony
- Distributed Systems
Option Informatics: 24 credits from this list
- Communication Protocols
- Advanced Computer Architecture
- Computer Graphics & Computer Vision
- Image and Video Technology
- Java Programming: the Language
- Operating Systems and Security
- Software for Embedded Systems
- Compilers
- Cryptography
- Databases
- Java Programming: Advanced Concepts
- Distributed Systems
- Project Computer Engineering
- Bioinformatics and Datamining
- Code Generation for Embedded Systems
- Multiprocessors and Reconfigurable Architectures
- Project Embedded Systems
- Techniques of Artificial Intelligence
Option Photonics: 24 credits from this list
- Lasers
- Microphotonics
- Optical Materials
- Design of Refractive and Diffractive Optical Systems
- Optical Communication Systems
- Optical design with ray tracing software: Laboratory
- Photonics Laboratory
- Photonic Semiconductor Devices and Technology
- Technological processes for photonics and electronics: Laboratoy
Free electives on Entrepreneurship
- Introduction to Business
- Business Aspects of Micro-electronics and Photonics
- Business Aspects of Software Industry
- Entrepreneurship and business aspects of Technology
- Technological Business Development Project
- Technological Business Development Project
Free elective: Internship
- Internship Electrical Engineering
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Requirements
Belgian students holding one of the following degrees can enroll in the programme:
- bachelor in de ingenieurswetenschappen afstudeerrichting elektronika en informatietechnologie
- bachelor in de ingenieurswetenschappen: elektrotechniek
- bachelor in de ingenieurswetenschappen: toegepaste natuurkunde
- master in de biochemie
- master in de biochemie en de biotechnologie
- master in de bio-ingenieurswetenschappen: biosysteemtechniek
- master in de bio-ingenieurswetenschappen: land- en waterbeheer
- master in de bio-ingenieurswetenschappen: bos en natuurbeheer
- master in de bio-ingenieurswetenschappen: cel- en genbiotechnologie
- master in de bio-ingenieurswetenschappen: chemie en bioprocestechnologie
- master in de bio-ingenieurswetenschappen: katalytische technologie
- master in de bio-ingenieurswetenschappen: land- en bosbeheer
- master in de bio-ingenieurswetenschappen: landbouwkunde
- master in de bio-ingenieurswetenschappen: levensmiddelentechnologie
- master in de bio-ingenieurswetenschappen: levensmiddelentechnologie en voeding
- master in de bio-ingenieurswetenschappen: milieutechnologie
- master in de chemie
- master in de fysica
- master in de fysica en de sterrenkunde
- master in de industriële wetenschappen: chemie
- master in de industriële wetenschappen: elektromechanica
- master in de industriële wetenschappen: elektronica-ICT
- master in de industriële wetenschappen: kunststofverwerking
- master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: bedrijfskudige systeemtechnieken en operationeel onderzoek
- master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: biomedische ingenieurstechnieken
- master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: biomedische technologie
- master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: bouwkunde
- master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: chemie en materialen
- master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: chemische technologie
- master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: computerwetenschappen
- master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: elektronica en informatietechnologie
- master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: elektrotechniek
- master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: elektrotechniek (ICT)
- master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: energie
- master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: fotonica
- master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: geotechniek en mijnbouwkunde
- master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: materiaalkunde
- master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: toegepaste computerwetenschappen
- master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: toegepaste natuurkunde
- master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: verkeerskunde
- master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: werktuigkunde
- master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: werktuigkunde - elektrotechniek
- master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: wiskundige ingenieurstechnieken
- master in de nanowetenschappen en de nanotechnologie
- master of engineering: materials engineering
- master of nanoscience and nanotechnology
- master of nuclear engineering
- master of nanophysics
For foreign students, the applicant needs to be in possession of a bachelor degree in Electrical engineering, in (Applied) Physics, Materials Science or an equivalent of this to be directly admitted to the program. Students in their last year of such a programme will however also be considered.
Students in possession of another bachelor degree might need to follow a preparatory program. The educational board will make the final decision whether to accept the application or not.
Language requirements
Students belonging to the EEA (European Economic Area): no proof of language proficiency required.
Proof of English proficiency is compulsory for foreign students and can be documented by the following certificates (provided by the institution):
- A document attesting that at least 1 year of secondary education has been completed in English;
- A diploma of primary education stating that English was the language of instruction;
- A document attesting that English is the language of instruction for several courses followed (at least 15 ECTS);
- A language test: only TOEFL, TOEIC, IELTS, CPE, CAE are accepted. The minimum requirements are TOEFL: paper-based: 550, computer-based: 213, internet-based: 80; TOEIC: 860; IELTS-academic module: Band 6.5; CPE: Grade C; CAE: Grade B. Some programmes do require higher scores. Please check with the programme director for the requested score. Scores should be sent directly by the examination centre to the VUB under sealed envelope. Officially authenticated copies are not accepted. Taking a test (language or GMAT) after the deadline of application will delay the screening of your file.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 550 |
| TOEFL Computer-based: | 213 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 80 |
Accreditation
All degree programs are accredited by NVAO.
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