Online/Digital track

English
VUB Photonics Campus Gooik
120
 ECTS
2 years

Master of Science in Photonics Engineering: online/digital track

Compulsory courses

ECTS credits

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

ECTS credits

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

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
Machine Learning in Photonics
4
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

ECTS credits

You select at least 20 credits OR 10 credits + 'Long Internship in Photonics' OR 15 credits + 'Short Internship in Photonics'. 4 credits of the total of 20 credits 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