Educational and Professional Program of Infocommunication Engineering
Students learn:
- multi-level architecture and the design theory of modern and advanced infocommunication systems and networks;
- methods of planning, self-organization and optimization of wireless networks (Li-Fi, Wi-Fi, WiMax, LTE), including sensor networks (Bluetooth, Zigbee, UWB standards), 2G/3G/4G mobile networks;
- modern principles, methods and algorithms for functioning of network and server equipment;
- network protocol stacks and traffic management mechanisms;
- terminal software, network software for cloud platforms and service-oriented architectures;
- international and corporate standards and hardware and software for network security and counter attacks;
- modern software for modeling infocommunication systems, methods of using network simulators and load testing packages;
- methods of conducting engineering experiments.
Description of the educational program of Infocommunication Engineering.
Training in this educational program is carried out by the Department of Infocommunication Engineering, which also implements training of students in the specialty 125 Cybersecurity, the educational program «Information Security Management» as well as in the educational program «Telecommunication Systems and Networks» in the specialty 172 Telecommunications and Radio Engineering. This allowed the department to create a full system cycle of training specialists in the design, administration and operation of infocommunication systems and networks to ensure their cybersecurity. There are 49 lecturers and 15 laboratory technicians among the staff of the department. The department has 11 Doctors of Sciences, Professors, as well as more than 20 Candidates of Sciences, Associate Professors. The teaching staff is constantly updated with young lecturers and specialists – graduates of postgraduate and doctoral studies of the department.
The educational and laboratory base of the department includes network, terminal and server equipment of academies, centers and laboratories of such companies as Cisco, D-link, Fortinet, which cover all segments of infocommunication systems and networks: Next Generation Networks, Software-Defined Networks, wireless networks and mobile networks of 2G/3G/4G communication standards, access networks, transport networks, software and technical information protection and network security.
Students studying at the ICE department have the opportunity to study abroad at educational institutions in Sweden, Germany, Poland, etc. according to double degree programs.
Basic courses of the educational program
- Fundamentals of computer simulation and design of infocomminications (IC)
- Fundamentals of information and communication technologies
- Fundamentals of the theory of systems
- IP fundamentals (IP Networking Basics);
- Infocommunication transmission systems. Corporate networks.
- Unix-like systems
- Fundamentals of the theory of infocommunication systems
- Switching and distribution systems
- Mobile communication systems
- Information protection in infocommunication systems
- Information systems and the Internet
- Management and optimization in IC
- Network programming of IC
- Methods of access to IC
- Fundamentals of television and radio broadcasting
- SDN and SDR technologies
- Routing in IC
- Methods of monitoring radio frequency resource in IC
Skills and competencies, which a Bachelor’s degree student of the educational program in Infocommunication Engineering will acquire:
- Knowledge of analytical and simulation tools for infocommunication systems Matlab/Simulink, MathCad, Maple; Packet Tracer 7.x, Graphical Network Simulator (GNS) v.3; Network Simulator (NS v.2 and v.3), OPNET, OMNET, load testing packages IxChariot D-ITG (Distributed Internet Traffic Generator).
- Planning, designing and administering network hardware and software: developing web applications on the .Net platform, Java Programming, javascript, HTML5, CSS3, BootStrap, etc.).
- Configuring technologies and control systems of infocommunications, network protocols; creation and configuration of network services, their support; setting up systems for monitoring and managing the state of information and communication networks (SNMP/CMIP/TMN).
- Knowledge of the operating systems of modern switches and routers, network configuration and service equipment to ensure their efficient and uninterrupted operation.
- Administration of infocommunication networks and setting up protocol overload protection tools and ensuring a given level of Quality of Service (QoS/QoE): routing protocols (RIP/IGRP/EIGRP/OSPF/BGP), resource reservation (RSVP/LDP), queue management (CQ/PQ/WFQ/LLQ/WRR/WRED), traffic profiling, etc.
- Creation and modification of software and firmware modules for ensuring network security using access authentication and traffic filtering tools.
- Knowledge of methods, engineering techniques and software for designing and optimizing access networks, transport networks (IP/MPLS), wireless (including sensor) networks of IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16 (Wi-MAX), 3GPP LTE standards.
A graduate in the educational program of «Infocommunication engineering» can work as:
- DevOps;
- System Administrator;
- System Engineer;
- Network Engineer;
- Network Administrator;
- Network Security Manager;
- Security Engineer;
- System Analyst;
- Business Analyst;
- Security Auditor;
- CyberOps;
- Security Operations Center, SOC;
- Project Manager;
- Technical Product Manager / Product Lead / Product Director / Group Product Manager;
- QA engineer.
Our graduates are successfully employed and work as engineers and managers at infocommunication firms and companies in Ukraine, such as Ukrtelecom, Ukrchastotnadzor, Lifecell, Vodafone, Kyivstar, Velton Telecom and others; design engineers in companies and enterprises for the design, development, operation and maintenance of electronic and computer equipment, network and server equipment. Our best graduates work in Cisco, Google, Oracle and Facebook in different parts of our planet.