Master course in
Communications Engineering
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Through a project-based-learning approach with a massive amount of laboratory hours, in the Communications Engineering (CE) MSc degree you will learn how to design and operate any modern communication system, including satellite and radio links, fiber optic networks, computer networks, and wireless networks. You will also learn how to develop and use state-of-the-art tools, such as communication systems simulators and machine learning, as well as how to process signals, images and videos. 
HOW TO APPLY
TOP 5%
EMPLOYABILITY1
93.8%
EMPLOYMENT RATE2 AFTER 1 YEAR FROM GRADUATION
TOP 10
UNIVERSITIES IN EUROPE3
1 QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2022 for Politecnico di Torino
2 AlmaLaurea Survey 2020 for CCNE
3 QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021: Engineering & Technology for Politecnico di Torino
                 WHY COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING
EXPERIMENTAL ACTIVITIES AND LABORATORIES                
Many courses include lab activities in advanced research labs for a strong learning-by-doing approach. Advanced simulators and digital-twins of communications equipment allows for easy access to practical training. More than 300 hours are devoted to practical training on technologies related to wireless and optical communication, networking, signal processing. Summing with 300 hours of thesis activity, about half of the hours in the full degree are devoted to practical skills: 
  • Python and Matlab coding 
  • Programming for software-defined communications 
  • Network management and control 
  • Communications and network simulations 
  • Network measurements 
  • Optical and wireless transmissions 
  • Deep learning, neural networks training and inference 
COURSE CATALOGUE
                FIRST YEAR
 ECTS First semester
12Communication and network systems
12Signal, image and video processing and learning
8 Machine learning for networking
 ECTS Second semester
 12Project: Software-defined communication systems
 6Optical fiber communications  
 6Information and communication theory
 6Wireless access electromagnetics
                SECOND YEAR
 ECTS First semester
12
Project: Applied communication systems and IoT
 6
Network measurement laboratory  OR
Signal processing and optical transmission lab  OR
Signal processing and wireless transmission lab  
6
Open optical networks  OR
Computer system security  OR
5G and next-generation mobile computing
8 Advanced wireless communications  OR
Satellite navigation systems 
 ECTS Second semester
6
Operational research  OR
Cloud computing and data center design lab
 20  Master thesis 
It is also possible to get an Italian double degree and/or a diploma supplement in the field of Smart Infrastructures with Electrical Engineering.
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TOP-QUALITY TEACHING
Dynamic and innovative teaching: opportunities to perform students' workshops, join students' teams and challenges.
A consolidated international dimension: all classes and laboratories are taught in English. This gathers students from all over the world offering a multicultural and dynamic learning environment. Several opportunities for student mobility abroad are offered.
Top teachers who are top researchers: they have an excellent scientific background and they are well known worldwide. Active in research at European and International level trough projects and collaborations, they teach the most up-to-date subjects.
JOB PLACEMENT
Higher salaries, high occupancy: according to official Almalaurea stats, 93.8% of our graduated students is employed in the first year after graduation, and the average net income reaches 2167 Euros in three years (2020 stats for Communications and Computer Networks Engineering). 
A tight link with the industry: many opportunities for theses and internships in companies, as well as an excellent job placement (see some of the current job openings). Seminars from companies on advanced topics and job experiences.
                    STUDYING ABROAD AND DOUBLE DEGREES
The CE degree offers the possibility to study abroad for one semester in foreign Universities that support a mobility program.
Instead, double degree programs require the student to spend one additional semester in the foreign university (2 semesters at Politecnico di Torino + 3 semesters in the hosting university):
  • EURECOM Sophia-Antipolis (France)
  • PARISTECH Paris (France)
  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (Sweden)
  • University of Illinois at Chicago (USA) - TOP-UIC project
CONTACTS
For more information, please contact
the CE Coordinator: 
    
 Prof. Paolo Giaccone
referente.lm.ccne@polito.it

                      
    
Paolo Giaccone
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