Master’s degree in Automation Engineering and Control of Complex Systems, – University of Catania
Location: Catania
Department: Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering
Teaching language of the course: English
Course delivery online: Yes (for academic years 2019-20 and 2020-21)
Link to the course: http://www.dieei.unict.it/it/corsi/lm-25/presentazione-del-corso
The master degree course in Automation Engineering and Control of Complex Systems is a two-years course, organised into 4 semesters. It is finalised to prepare high level professionals able to pursue technological innovation within industries as well as in public/private research laboratories.
The course is held in English.
EDUCATIONAL AIMS
It aims to provide students a deep knowledge of the fundamentals of technical as well as scientific aspects of the disciplines which characterise the field of Automation Engineering, enabling them to easily follow technological innovation in the industries as well as in public and/or private research institutes. Besides, the course will provide both a suitable design ability devoted to the development of traditional techniques and a capability to face with novel problems in emergent scenarios.
Automation Engineer is unique for a deeper understanding of the problems in Industrial Engineering. These are finalised to the analysis, design of the automation system, of its components and of the related control laws.
Thus, the course aims at the deepening of the processes and methodologies concurring to the modelling and design of control and automation systems and to their components through the acquisition of knowledge of technological processes, of the advanced design techniques, of the computer aided design.
The Automation Engineer will therefore find professional employment in enterprises dealing with automatic or robotic systems, and in those ones developing products with high technological contents, integrating computing devices, measurement, transmission and actuation components.
The overall teaching objectives of the course are to provide enough flexibility to the students to allow re-conversion among the multiple application sectors where Automation is involved, even following the peculiar technological process or the changed working conditions. To this purpose the course endows the students with analysis and design capabilities in the most innovative fields, based on the most updated instruments.
The teaching path develops giving large importance to the characterising disciplines (Automation; Converters, Electrical Machines and Electrical Drives, Mechanics Applied to Machines). The student learns and improves his knowledge on automatic systems, control, dynamic system modelling in general and in particular for electric, complex, environmental, economic systems, biologic systems and industrial processes.
Particular emphasis is given to the study abd design of mechatronic systems and industrial and service robotics. The teaching path contains a large contribution of non-characterising activities, allowing from the one side the dialog with other affine sectors (Electronics, Measurements, Computer Science) and from the other side the enlargement of the knowledge towards relevant or even emerging field (ex. Bioengineering, Biorobotics Complex Systems).
For several subjects a significant part of time is devoted to practical and laboratory experiences (above all for the subjects with high design content) in such a way as to allow the student to consolidate on the field the theoretical knowledge acquired.
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
The Automation Engineer will find professional employment in enterprises dealing with automatic or robotic systems, and in those ones developing products with high technological contents, integrating computing devices, measurement, transmission and actuation components.
Professional outlets
Electrical and industrial automation Engineers
Computer systems and peripherals designer
Biomedical engineers and Bioengineers