Employment opportunities
Technician with multidisciplinary ICT skills.
Roles
In terms of professional fields common to graduates of degrees in the Information Technology Engineering class, the typical functions of the graduate in Computer Systems, Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering are: collaboration and support in assisted design, production engineering activities, production management and organisation, installation and management of systems, providing assistance to technical-commercial structures, in the area of services and infrastructures for the generation, transmission and processing of information.
These functions can be performed by the graduate either as an employee or as a self-employed professional (subject to passing the state examination and registration on the Register of Engineers, Section B, Information Technology Engineering sector).
Skills
The Computer, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering graduate from Parma has the multidisciplinary ICT skills grafted onto a solid educational and professional base that is typical of the Italian engineer; in fact, the training offered by the degree course has always been appreciated by companies and the world of work in general.
The graduate acquires ICT-specific competences that enable him/her to participate and collaborate in activities involving the use of standardised methodologies in the design, project management and testing of individual organs or components of electronic, automation and information generation, transmission and processing plants and systems.
Partly depending on the programme of study, the student is provided with:
- specific skills on computer systems used in all fields. The graduate who acquires these skills is able to work in the IT and manufacturing industries in the fields of automation and robotics. He/she deals with the integration of services in companies and public administration, information systems and their interaction with distributed Internet environments. In particular, these skills consist in the ability to contribute to the design and implementation of information processing and management systems such as: business information systems and databases, Internet and Web-based systems and services, multimedia systems, robotic systems, production process control systems, etc.
- specific expertise in electronic technologies in all their most diverse and pervasive applications: from industrial automation to energy, from microelectronics to power electronics, from autotronics to home automation, from assistive technologies to sensor technology. In particular, these competences consist in the ability to contribute to the design of electronic circuits, systems, machines and equipment for electronic, electrical and energy conversion systems, as well as to perform procedures and measurements and apply appropriate techniques to design, install and modify the equipment required for these systems.
- specific expertise in the technologies, networks, and equipment on which all types of current communications are based, from smartphones to the Internet, from multimedia systems to fibre optics, which are, and increasingly will be, the technologies underpinning economic and social development in all countries of the world. In particular, these skills include the ability to contribute to the design of electronic information systems for the transmission of data and images, computer and telematic networks in cable, fibre optic and radio (cellular networks, Wi-Fi, satellite, etc.) and systems for digital signal processing, as well as the ability to install, assemble, commission, calibrate and use the electronic equipment and systems required for these systems.
Employment opportunities
Computer Systems, Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering graduates will be able to find employment within:
- companies that design and produce equipment and systems, manufacturing industries, public administration sectors and service companies that use information technology and infrastructure for data processing;
- companies that design, produce and market electronic and optoelectronic components, equipment and systems;
- companies that design, produce and operate equipment, systems and infrastructures for the acquisition, transport and distribution of information;
- companies that design and produce IT products and systems (software and hardware);
- manufacturing industries that use electronic systems and instrumentation for the acquisition, measurement and processing of data, and automation in the various phases of the production process;
- public administration sectors and service companies that use electronic technologies and infrastructures in the processing, transmission and storage of information;
- companies that design, produce and operate equipment, systems and infrastructures for the acquisition, transport and distribution of information;
- companies that produce, manage and distribute telecommunications services;
- service companies and public administrations that develop and use IT systems, including distributed and mobile ones;
- companies that design, integrate and manage telematic networks;
- companies that use signal processing for applications such as sound or image processing, sensor technology, robotics, biomedical engineering, etc.;
- companies that implement integrated systems with significant IT components (e.g. in the fields of electronics and telecommunications);
- industries that use IT tools in production processes;
- remote sensing, remote surveillance and air, sea and land traffic control enterprises;
- regulatory bodies supervising and controlling activities in the telecommunications sector;
- manufacturing companies in which the functions of dimensioning and realisation of complex architectures, automatic systems, processes and plants for automation and robotics integrating IT components, measurement, transmission and implementation equipment are developed;
- companies working on the design, production and operation of equipment, systems and infrastructures concerning the acquisition and transporting of information and its use in telematic applications;
- companies providing services for the procurement and management of materials, for business and production organisation, for the organisation and automation of production systems, and for logistics.
- manufacturing companies in which the functions of dimensioning and realisation of complex architectures, automatic systems, processes and plants for automation and robotics integrating IT components, measurement, transmission and implementation equipment are developed;
- companies working on the design, production and operation of equipment, systems and infrastructures concerning the acquisition and transport of information and its use in telematic applications;
- companies providing services for the procurement and management of materials, for business and production organisation, for the organisation and automation of production systems and for logistics.