Master in Connected Industry 4.0

The Master is designed as an official one-year degree, offered entirely in English and presented in such a way as to facilitate its compatibility with the development of professional activities in that period. The contents taught in the Master correspond to 60 ECTS credits, or approximately 400 hours of class and 1,100 hours of activities and work to be done by students.

The Master is structured around five modules: Introduction to the Connected Industry 4.0, Cyber-physical Systems, Intelligent Networks, Industrial Processes and Services and Data Processing and their security. In addition, it will have Seminars of experts, Practices in companies and the accomplishment of the Master's thesis.

The syllabus is made up of 45 compulsory credits, 3 optional credits, 6 internship credits and 6 TFM credits.

C) Compulsory: 45 ECTS

E) Electives: 3 ECTS

Internship: 6 ECTS

TFM) Master Thesis: 6 ECTS

course Programs

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GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION

☛ First year offered: 2019

• Information about Master's Degree
• Verification Report
• External evaluation and Monitoring Reports

QUALITY INDICATORS

☛ Master's Degree indicators

☛ Labour insertion indicators

PROGRAMME’S QUALITY ASSURANCE

The Academic Committee of the Master’s programme complies with the SGIC-UC3M and it is responsible for the follow-up, analysis, review, assessment and quality of the program, it contributes with proposals to improve the program and produces the “Memoria Académica de Titulación” (Programme Report).

• Academic Committee

FACULTY AND COURSE PLAN

☛ Curriculum subjects and their faculty

Graduate Profile and Competences

• Graduate profile and competences

Application

The request is made electronically through our application. Before starting the admission process, please, read the following information:

• Documentation that must be uploaded to the on line application
• Calendar and general information about admission 
• Follow the step-by-step instructions in the application for admission

REQUIREMENTS

The requirements for access to the Master are as follows:

• Bachelor's or Master's degrees from the branches of Industrial Engineering and Telecommunications Engineering (or the old equivalent titles of Higher Engineering), may be admitted without requirement of specific professional experience in the Industrial Engineering or Telecommunication sector.
• Degree holders from the branches of Aeronautical Engineering, Naval Engineering or Computer Engineering (or the old equivalent titles of Higher Engineering), may be admitted if they have a minimum of two years of professional experience in the Industrial or Telecommunication sector.
• Graduates in non-engineering degrees, but considered related, such as Physics and Mathematics, may be admitted if they have a minimum of five years of professional experience in the Industrial or Telecommunication sector.

ADMISSION CRITERIA

Admission will be decided by the Academic Committees of the Master. If necessary, the applicant can be called for a personal interview.

La selección de candidatos se hará sobre la base de los siguientes criterios:

Applications will be considered based on the following criteria:

* Minimum Level of English required: B2.

STUDENT PROFILE

Regarding the entry profile, and given that the Master's degree is technology-oriented, it will focus on Engineers and Graduates in different Engineering, mainly from the branch of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). But also more mechanical profiles are contemplated and even of engineers in industrial organization.

There are two groups of students:

1. 1) students from Spanish (or foreign) universities, and particularly from Madrid, who: a) have completed degrees in the Industrial Engineering branch and have a lack of communication technologies and data analysis; and b) students who have completed degrees in the branch of Telecommunications Engineering and that have deficiencies in industrial technologies and data analysis.
2. 2) professionals related to the industrial and service sectors who need to update their knowledge regarding the implementation of the connected Industry 4.0.

Language requirements

Check the general language requirements required to study a Master’s at UC3M, depending on whether it is in Spanish, English or bilingual.

students with foreign university degrees

Once admitted to the Master’s, students with university degrees issued by a higher education institution belonging to an educational system outside the EHEA, must provide, for enrolment, the diploma, legalized by diplomatic procedures or by means of The Hague Apostille. They must also submit the transcript of records, with the grade point average, duly legalized.

More information about Legalization of Foreign Documents.

If needed, documents must be accompanied by an official sworn translation into Spanish.

TUITION FEES*

Reservation fee: €450 

• it will be paid once the student receives notification of admission to the master’s, and deducted from the first tuition payment
• the reservation fee will only be refunded if the master program is cancelled

60 ECTS in the first academic year:

• EU students: €4,800 (€80/ECTS credit)
• Non EU students: €7,200 (€120/ECTS credit)

✎│Tuition fees
 

NOTE: the indicated public prices do not include in any case, neither the ECTS corresponding to the Formative Complements that the student must take (only master's degrees with previous Formative Complements), nor the cost of issuing the master’s degree certificate.

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* Current fees for the 24/25 academic year, pending approval by the Community of Madrid for the 25/26 academic year.

Additional information

• You may enrol on the master’s degree after completing the admission process and receiving formal confirmation of your acceptance.
• When performing the enrolment you can choose between Full-time enrolment or Part-time enrolment.
• The email address provided upon enrolment will be used for formal communications; students are therefore kindly requested to check their mail regularly.
• Pursuant to the regulations of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, a student failing to pay any part of the fees will not be admitted and the enrolment process will be terminated. In cases of cancellation of enrolment due to non-payment, the University may demand the payment of the pending amounts for enrolment in previous academic courses as a prior condition of enrolment.
  No diploma or certificate will be issued if a student has any outstanding payments.

✎│Enrolment master’s programmes

✎│ECTS credits recognition

Best Practices and Regulations

• Student cohabitation system
• Ethical code
• Enrollment and permanence rules
• Master's degree access rules
• Master's Thesis rules
• Rules for credits recognition

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