Online/Digital track

English
VUB Photonics Campus Gooik
120
 ECTS
2 years

Master of Science in Photonics Engineering: online/digital track

Compulsory courses

Compulsory courses: year 1

Business Management and Entrepreneurship
3
Optical Materials
6
Photonics
4
Mathematics in Photonics
4
Business Aspects of Technology: Micro-electronics and Photonics
3
Optical Communication Systems
6
Physics of Semiconductor Technologies and Devices
4
Microphotonics
6
Lasers
4

Compulsory courses: year 2

Recent trends in Photonics
4
Laboratories in Photonics Research
4
Sensors, Actuators and Microsystem Electronics
6

Master Thesis Project

Master Thesis Project
30

Electives

Optional Internships

You can select one of the optional internships as an elective.

Long Internship in Photonics
10
Short Internship in Photonics
5

Advanced Photonics Electives

You choose a total of 16 credits of courses from the following options

Introduction to Quantum Physics for Electrical Engineering
4
Micro- and nanophotonic semiconductor devices
4
Optical Sensors
4
Photovoltaic Energy Conversion
4
Quantum optics
4
Photonic Integrated Circuits
4
Lighting Technology
4
Research in Photonics
6
Technological processes for photonics and electronics: Laboratory
4
Biophotonics
4
Display Technology
4
High Speed Photonic Components
4
Non-linear optics
4
Optical Spectroscopy of Materials
4
Design of Refractive and Diffractive Optical Imaging Systems
4
Optical Design of Non-Imaging Systems with Ray-tracing software
4

Multidisciplinary Engineering Electives

You select at least 20 ECTS OR 10 ECTS + 'Long Internship in Photonics' OR 15 ECTS + 'Short Internship in Photonics'. 4 ECTS of the total of 20 ECTS of multidisciplinary electives must be selected in the 1st year of the online/digital track.

Optimization-based Control Design
4
Model-Based and Data Driven Fault Detection and Isolation
3
Selected Topics in Nonlinear System Identification
3
Identification of Dynamical Systems
4
High-frequency Electronics and Antennas
6
Advanced Measurement and Data Driven Modeling
4

Module Electronics and Information Technology

Machine Learning and Big Data Processing
5
Computer Vision
4
Digital Communications
4
Wireless Communication Channels
4
Mobile and Wireless Networks
4
Image and Video Technology
3
Voice, Image, Coding, Media and Systems
6

Module Physics and Materials

Computational Physics
6
Quantum Field Theory
6
General Relativity
6
Physics and Chemistry of Nanostructures
6

Module Life Sciences

Modelling of Physiological Systems
6
From Genome to Organism
6
Quantitative Cell Biology
3
Biomechanics
6
Medical Imaging
6

Module Business Engineering

Innovation Strategy
5
Marketing
6
Technological Business Development Project - EUTOPIA Learning Unit
3
Technological Business Development Project - EUTOPIA Learning Unit
6
IP Management and Technology Transfer (Chaire Solvay)
5
Supply Chain Management
6
Total number of ECTS
120