Innovative Microwave Electronics and Optics

The EMIMEO Masters offers a programme centred on microwave engineering and photonic technologies which ensures that students acquire advanced and cross-disciplinary expertise. In a context of increasing demand of research and industrial applications around these topics, EMIMEO Masters is a concrete solution to improve the number of highly qualified students for feeding the research labs and for meeting the demand of industry. EMIMEO is a thoroughly integrated programme with a jointly developed curriculum. Areas covered range from the fundamentals of microwave electronics and photonics to their implementations with new technologies in wired and wireless communications, moving from components to system architectures for communication systems and networks. The programmes partners are: The University of Limoges (UNILIM, France), the University of Brescia (UNIBS, Italy), Aston University (UK), and the University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU, Spain). The associate partner University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania) will also contribute to the learning programme. A panel of 15 industrial Associated Partners, including SMEs, large accompanies and associations, will support the EMIMEO programme through concrete contributions and will constitute an effective network for Master’s theses with the prospect for future career development. The Master study programme is divided into four semesters of 30 ECTS each. The first three semesters are based on lectures, lab exercises and laboratory sessions, while the last one is based on independent work related to the Master thesis. The first-year programme combines the contributions of modules of Masters of UNILIM and of UNIBS: with a first placement period in France and then in Italy the mobility scheme offers a synergic programme of fundamentals in analogue and nonlinear electronics and photonics. Students in the second year will move to one of the four partner institutions intensifying their study around one of the four paths and the associated and dedicated lab equipment for the third semester (S3): Active Management of Power Waves (AMPW) at UNILIM, Remote Sensing (RS) at UNIBS, Communication Systems and Networking (CSN) at ASTON, Instrumentation and Control Systems (ICS) at UPV/EHU. The mobility at this point can widen the student’s choice with respect to the offer of each single university. Finally, the Master thesis (fourth semester) can be carried out in any of the partner institutions or associate partners, under the guidance of a professor from one of the partner universities. English will be the official language of the Masters programme.