Curriculum 

The MSIN curriculum consists of three main components: the core courses, electives, and project. The core courses establish the necessary background and a common competence level, and the elective courses build upon the core.

Students can choose from a wide variety of technical and management elective courses according to their interests and career needs. The MSIN program will be delivered using a hybrid distributed education format with four courses (at least three core) taught from Carnegie Mellon via videoteleconferencing technologies (VTC) and the remaining courses taught locally at the University of Aveiro by its faculty.

Core Course Requirements

72 units

Restricted Electives

48 units

Project and Seminar

39 units

Total

159 units

MSIN Core Courses - 72 unit

Networking and Systems Requirement 48- units

Fundamentals of Embedded Systems

12 units

Packet Switching and Computer Networks

12 units

Distributed Systems

12 units

Advanced Networking or

Advanced Systems Course*

12 units

* Approved Advanced Networking or Advanced Systems Courses

Principles of Broadband Networks
Wireless Networks
Optical Networks
Multimedia Comm., Coding Systems & Networking

Management Requirement - 18 units

Students must take each of the following classes:

Managerial Economics

6 units

Business Management

6 units

Information Systems Modeling

6 units

Database Requirement - 6 units

Database Applications

6 units

Restricted Electives - 48 units (pick 4 12-unit courses)

Possible electives may include:

Telecommunication Technology and Policy

12 units

Introduction to Computer Security

12 units

Wireless Networks

12 units

Optical Networks

12 units

Multimedia Comm., Coding Systems & Networking

12 units

Principles of Broadband Networks

12 units

Introduction to Computer Systems

12 units

Operating Systems Design & Implementation

(Prerequisite for Operating Systems Design & Implementation)

12 units

Graduate Project - 39 units

The graduate project consists of a 39 unit research-based or development-based project, in which students work individually or in teams of two. This includes 3 units for research seminars in the first academic year.