The Telecommunications Engineering program provides a comprehensive education that blends a strong foundation in Science and Engineering with insights into Humanities, Social Sciences, and Economics. This multidisciplinary approach equips students with the skills to design and support telecommunications systems and prepares them to excel in the technological business landscape of the sector.
Mission
Our mission is to educate outstanding professionals, leaders with research and innovation capabilities, and entrepreneurs in the field of Telecommunications, who uphold strong moral and ethical values that contribute to the development of the nation.
Core Components of the Program
The curriculum is structured around several professional components, which include:
- Analog/Digital Electronics
- Programmable Systems for Telecommunications Applications
- Radiocommunication
- Data Networks/Optical Fibers
The program unfolds in three distinct phases: foundational, specialized, and advanced. In the foundational phase, students are introduced to basic knowledge and skills in networks and telecommunications systems. The specialized phase delves into topics such as basic electricity, programming, and telecommunications networks, complemented by advanced studies in signal processing. The advanced phase emphasizes project management, analog and digital electronics, and radiofrequency and telecommunications infrastructures.
* Undergraduate tuition/fees:
The Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador in its Article 356, among other principles, establishes that third-level public higher education will be tuition/fees free. Zero cost education is linked to the academic responsibility of the students.
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The Telecommunications Engineering program has been accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET since 2018 and has held the EUR-ACE label, awarded by the European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education, since 2023.
International Accreditation Coordinator
Verónica Soto, M. Sc.
Applicants to the Telecommunications Engineering program should have basic knowledge of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, and have a great interest in technology, projecting their professional career in innovation and leadership in the development of telecommunications in Ecuador.
Objectives
Within 3 to 5 years after graduation, graduates of the Telecommunications Engineering program should be able to:
- Solve professional challenges at a global level, both in the elaboration and execution of projects, as well as in the operation and maintenance of telecommunications systems, considering the social, economic and environmental aspects, framed in ethical and moral aspects.
- Successfully propose and lead the development and implementation of telecommunications solutions for the well-being of society, improving the quality of people´s lives, whether as an entrepreneur or providing their professional services in a company.
- Acquire and improve humanistic, scientific and technological skills and knowledge that allow to develop themselves in the area of telecommunications, throughout their professional life, in accordance with the requirements of society.
- Show communication abilities in the Spanish and English languages and collaboration skills to inspire, motivate, guide and interact in groups or work teams within a professional environment in order to bring ideas to action. Recognize and promote values and attitudes that consider human rights and multicultural aspects in order to participate as a responsible citizen and support the creation of a fairer society.
Student Outcomes
The following learning outcomes (SO) outline the path of the Telecommunications Engineering program:
SO 1. An ability to identify, formulate and solve complex telecommunications engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics.
SO 2. An ability to apply telecommunications engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors.
SO 3.a. Ability to communicate effectively in Spanish with diverse audiences.
SO 3.b. Ability to communicate effectively in English with diverse audiences.
SO 4. An ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in telecommunications engineering situations and make informed judgements, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts.
SO 5. An ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives.
SO 6. An ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze, and interpret data, and use telecommunications engineering judgement to draw conclusions.
SO 7. An ability to acquire and apply new knowledge in telecommunications engineering as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.
SO 8. Design real solutions in telecommunications engineering that propose unique value as a response to specific needs, taking into consideration the perspectives of those involved.
First Year
Description:
It is a core course for Engineering, Natural Sciences, Exact Sciences, and Social Sciences and Humanities, students. Topics, such as, topological notions, limits and continuity of real variable functions, derivatives and their applications, antiderivatives and integration techniques, and the definite integral with its applications, are examined. This course is aimed to the development of student’s skills and know-how in the derivation and integration processes, as a fundamental basis for the following upper level courses in its academic training process
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Physics: Mechanics is a basic, theoretical-practical training course aimed at engineering students, with laboratory experimentation activities, which provides the fundamentals of particle mechanics, rigid bodies and fluid mechanics, in an environment of active learning.
Description:
In this course, students apply the Design Thinking methodology to identify, analyze real-life problems or needs, to design innovative solutions. Students work in multidisciplinary teams to present solution proposals that add value to customers/users from private companies, public organizations and non-profit organizations.
Description:
This basic and general education subject presents grammatical structures to produce a simple paragraph based on a writing program. Additionally, it allows the identification of a specific argument in oral and written communication. It also considers learners’ personal opinions about different topics related to social, academic, and professional aspects. It includes the necessary vocabulary to make comparisons between present and past, books or movies description, creation of simple students’ profile, opinions about inventions, formal apologies and tell past events.
Description:
General Chemistry is a theoretical-practical course aimed at the basic training of professionals in the areas of Engineering and Natural Sciences, which provides a scientific basis of the matter and its interactions, and seeks to develop in students the ability to solve problems related to the content of the subject. It begins with an Introduction to Thermochemistry, then the analysis of the physicochemical properties derived from the state of aggregation of matter: liquids, solids and solutions, the study of the Kinetics and Equilibrium of reactions and solubility.
Description:
This subject of basic instruction is a theoretical-practical course that contributes to the learning of concepts of electricity and magnetism in an environment of active learning.
Description:
Vector calculus is a course aimed at the basic training of professionals in the areas of Engineering, Exact Sciences and Natural Sciences who developed problem-solving and problem-solving skills in the n-dimensional context. For this purpose, the course consists of 5 general themes: three-dimensional analytic geometry and functions of several variables, differential calculus of scalar and vector fields, optimization of scalar functions of several variables, line integrals and multiple integration, surface integrals and theorems of the vector theory; being the main applications of this course: the optimization of functions of several variables applied to practical problems, the calculation of lengths, area, volumes, work and flow, using objects of the plane and space.
Description:
The course presents students with strategies to solve common problems in various professional fields through the design and implementation of solutions based on the use of a programming language. It covers the basic principles so that the student can read and write programs; emphasizing the design and analysis of algorithms. In addition, it introduces students to the use of development and debugging tools.
Description:
This is a basic training course for engineering and science students, in which the study of matrices, systems of linear equations, vector spaces, linear transformations, spaces with inner product, eigenvalues and eigenvectors. The main purpose of the course is to contribute to the integral formation of the future professional allowing later, to take care of conceptual, social and technological necessities in the solution of problems and development of the abstract thought.
Description:
This subject of basic formation and general education presents the grammatical structures for the production of an academic paragraph, through the development of the writing program in a transversal way. In addition, it allows the identification of specific arguments in oral and written communication, considering the production of one's own criteria on different topics of a social, academic or professional nature. The necessary vocabulary is also applied to refer to the different forms of communication, share work experiences and the use of digitl technology, tell short stories about interpersoanl relationship and personalities, and comment on the future of the environment.
Second Year
Description:
This course describes the transmission elements and physical environment that are important parts of telecommunications. Also, it approaches the common topologies of interconnected devices, standards and protocols acts during the process of transmitting information and transporting data. Finally, the operation of home Internet access is analyzed using simulation, monitoring and problems resolution.
Description:
This course presents an introduction to the general concepts of signals and systems, starting with the representation of basic signals in discreet and continious domains ,both in time and frequence.Furthermore, we analyze the properties of lineal systems invariant on time (LTI), by using block diagrams and their response to the impulse, using mathematical tools such as convolution, Laplace ,Z and Fourier transforms and series. Complementary to this, we make use of computing tools for the representation of the signals , the simulation of continious and discrete systems and response filters to a finite impulse uising methods such as differential equations, impulse response , block diagrams and transfer functions.
Description:
In this subject, we study the development of the academic prosumer profile of the students, which should be consolidated throughout each individual's life, based on the processing of complex, holistic, and critical thinking. We aim to foster understanding and the production of academic knowledge through rigorous analysis of realities and readings from various academic/scientific sources.
Description:
This is a training basic course training and provides the knowledge to the engineering and science student can convert data into information, associate everyday situations with statistical processes, and determine scientific conclusions through experimental observations, applying descriptive statistics, notions of probability, models of random variables and inferential analysis.
Description:
This core subject of basic formation in the engineering degrees begins with the study of convergence criteria for numerical series and power series, providing methods for obtaining the latter. Next, analytical solving methods of ordinary differential equations of first and superior order are examined, including solutions in power series. Then, the Laplace transform is defined and used as a solving method of linear ordinary differential equations. As a final part, solving methods for solving linear ordinary differential equation systems are studied. The subject examines application problems of engineering and sciences modelled by ordinary differential equations and series and includes the use of software in a part of each practical session.
Description:
This subject of basic instruction and general education presents grammatical topics for the elaboration of an outline and a structured composition, through the development of the writing program in a transversal way. In addition, it allows the identification of arguments in oral and written communication on contemporary and academic topics. Additionally, appropriate vocabulary is applied to discuss issues related to different cultures, places where we live, everyday news, entertainment media, and past and future opportunities.
Description:
This professional level course introduces the concept of Digital Signal Processing (DSP), as well as the analysis and simulation of discrete time systems in time and frequency domains with emphasis on the design and characteristics of digital filters FIR and IIR. Additionaly, this course introduces the analisys of the Fast Fourier Transform, ending with DSP application case treatment. With this, the student understands how to design DSP using programmable processors for digital audio, video, software defined radios and a variety of technological applications.
Description:
In this class, that belongs to the profesional formative section, it is analyzed the basic concepts of the random processes and baseband digital and analog modulation systems, both in noiseless and noisy channels. Each method is studied in the time and frequency domain, acomplishing a comparison of their performance and applications. Finally, channel multiplexing among various users is reviewed.
Description:
The Electromagnetic Theory course is a professional training course taken by students of the electricity and telecommunications majors, the course addresses the study of electrostatic and magnetostatic fields, applying the different methodologies and laws for the calculation of electric fields, potential difference, capacitance. , electrical resistance, magnetic fields, magnetic flux, their own and mutual inductances, induction phenomenon, all this associated with systems with different configurations and varied symmetry, formed by various means.
Description:
This subject of basic formation and general education, presents the grammar structures to produce a persuasive essay, through the transversal development of the writing programme. In addition, it allows students to identify specific arguments in the oral and written communication, as well as, to express their own opinions about different topics of social, academic, or professional fields. It also includes the necessary vocabulary to stablish a conversation, narrate situations of their environment, activities to reach their goals, analyze cause and effect and personal and professional opportunities.
Third Year
Description:
Electronic Applications is a professional training courseabout analysis and design criteria of electronic circuits (discrete or integrated elements) applied to engineering. The frequency response of electronic circuits, power amplifiers, signal conditioners, waveform generators, nonlinear circuits and basic microelectronics are described. In addition, some applications are presented in such a way that the student acquires the ability for analog electronic design.
Description:
This course describes the behavior of electromagnetic waves that propagate at high frequencies through different media and interfaces, using circuit models and Maxwell equations. Furthermore, variations in the behavior of circuit components at high frequencies are reviewed. Finally, the ideal design of filters and their coupling to sources and loads, as well as the design of coupling circuits for high frequency amplifiers, are explored.
Description:
This course describes the elements that are part of a switched network communication infrastructure. Theoretical concepts such as: monitoring, scalability, segmentation, redundancy, survival, security and traffic differentiation, are detailed with the implementation of the main network protocols through laboratory practices and project design of business networks.
Description:
In this subject of Professional Training of the Telecommunications program, it is described the fundamentals of digital communication systems and its behavior under the effect of the noise. In addition, the operation and design of optimal receivers is studied by applying mathematical, probabilistic and random process concepts, and representing the signals through the vector-space scheme. Additionally, basic digital modulation techniques and their performance in the presence of Gaussian additive white noise are analyzed. Finally, the concepts of information theory, and the impact of coding techniques in a digital communication system are evaluated.
Description:
This basic training and general education subject presents the necessary structures for the production of a persuasive essay, through the development of the writing program in a transversal way. It also allows the identification of specific arguments both in oral and written communication, in order to issue students' criteria on social, academic, or professional issues. They also apply the necessary vocabulary to engage in discussions about choices to make, changes in daily life and home, financial problems as well as moral dilemmas and achievements in the course of their personal, student, and professional lives.
Description:
This transversal course addresses the conditions required to innovate and the process associated with developing an innovation from an entrepreneurial point of view. Subsequently, topics such as the identification of opportunities, value creation, and prototyping and validation of products/services proposals are reviewed, as well as the elements of the business toghether with tools for the evaluation of a budget/financial management plan and the interpretation of financial data. Considerations that are essential for the feasibility and adoption of an innovation. Finally, entrepreneurial competences and process associated with the development and adoption of an innovation are studied.
Description:
This course of Vocational Training studies the fundamentals of management, reviewing the phases of planning and development of telecommunication projects. In addition, it studies aspects related to the management of processes and the application of tools that eases the execution of the project. Finally, it analyzes the national and international legal framework that regulates the field of telecommunications.
Description:
This Vocational Training subject studies the design and analysis of wireless links in different environments, using techniques that allow the characterization of the electromagnetic wave, using signal propagation models and the modeling of the wave alteration factors. Additionally, communication quality criteria are addressed by analyzing the behavior of the channels based on measurements and fundamental security aspects used during the design and operation of the links.
Description:
In this course, network systems are studied from the telecommunications service provider perspective for the traffic behavior estimation and a stable network design. In addition, the concepts of network domain or autonomous system, the main characteristics of the intra-domain and inter-domain routing protocols and the label-switching protocol are analyzed. Finally, a synthesis of the service and management policies used in the contemporary Internet network system is performed.
Description:
Digital Systems I is a professional training course that presents basic concepts of design, implementation, and analysis of digital electronic circuits. Initially, binary numbers, codes and their applications are studied; then, basic digital components and others of larger-scale integration, necessary for building digital systems, are presented. Additionally, the fundamentals of combinatorial circuits and synchronous sequential machines are reviewed. The implementation of digital systems is carried out by using discrete elements and hardware description language (VHDL), making tests of functioning in a laboratory.
Description:
This transversal training course for all students of the institution has five chapters. It introduces the key principles of sustainability and the path to sustainable development. Addresses ecological principles by deepen into biodiversity, ecosystems, human population and ecosystem services. Study the fundamentals of renewable and non-renewable resources as well as the alternatives for sustainable use. Analyzes environmental quality specifically in the air, water and soil components, delving into issues such as climate change, eutrophication and deforestation. Finally, it emphasizes on the economic axis with topics such as circular economy and on the social axis on topics such as governance and urban planning.
Fourth Year
Description:
This professional oriented course describes the evolution of mobile communication networks and the characteristics of the wireless medium. In addition, the coverage of the wireless systems is evaluated through propagation models using distance-power gradient characteristic for different environments. Finally, the physical layer of wireless networks is studied for the design and implementation of wireless communication systems: single input and single output (SISO), multiple inputs and multiple outputs (MIMO), using single or multiple carriers.
Description:
This Vocational Training course analyzes the implementation of various applications in telecommunications, focusing on the fundamentals and architectures of embedded systems. Applications comprise low power and wide area wireless networks, as well as personal area networks, including the physical characteristics of the sensors used within them. Similarly, localization and radio frequency identification techniques are studied.
Description:
This professional level course introduces the technology of fiber optics communication systems which enable long distance and high capacity information transmission. It includes the study of light in single-mode and multi-mode propagation. Then, optical passive and active devices are addressed in the context of an optical communication system, as well as technical specifications, standards and basic measurement techniques for link design. The course ends with topics related to optical multiplexing and optical access networks.
Description:
In this Vocational Training subject, multimedia service transmission systems are studied: telephony (voice) and television (audio and video). In the first case, quality assurance mechanisms in telephony over internet protocol (IP) are analyzed. Complementarily, a general description of the next generation network architectures (NGN) and the IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) is made. For the second case, the telecommunications systems inherent to the generation, transmission and reception of digital television signals are addressed, both open and encoded audio and video by subscription, which are transmitted via cable, satellite or internet networks. Finally, the provision of digital cable television, over-the-top media services (OTT), and video on demand (VoD) under the IP protocol are detailed.
Description:
In this end-of-degree subjet, the student carries out a project where the application of the declared profiles in his career is evident, developing processes of creativity, organization and relevance that involve him in a professional design experience. In the first part of the course, the needs of the client, user or public are identified, the problem or opportunity is defined, data is collected and critical factors are analyzed. In the second part, alternative solutions are created framed in the regulations and restrictions of each user. It is concluded with the design and / or prototype implementation of the more feasible solution and finish making analysis and validation of results.
Additional
ARTS, SPORTS AND LANGUAGES ELECTIVE COURSES
1 credits - 1.9 ECTS
HUMANITIES ELECTIVE COURSES
1 credits - 1.9 ECTS
SELECTED ELECTIVE COURSE
3 credits - 5.8 ECTS
SELECTED ELECTIVE COURSE
3 credits - 5.8 ECTS
Upon graduation, you will be able to:
Design and implement digital telephony and television networks, data and internet networks, and short and long-range wireless communication systems.
Plan, execute, and lead projects for the implementation and expansion of fiber optic communications.
Design analog and digital electronic systems based on programmable platforms for applications such as IoT and robotics.
Plan and assess telecommunications network system projects.
Contribute to scientific research projects aimed at developing telecommunications network systems.
Occupational Profile
The Polytechnic Telecommunications Engineer can work as:
- Entrepreneur Engineering Manager in companies that provide telecommunications services and industries that use electronic systems.
- Engineer of design and implementation of structured cabling, data and internet networks, outside plant and telecommunications infrastructure.
- Technical Support in Operation and Maintenance services of a communications network. Communications: Cellular Telephony, Digital Television, LAN, WAN networks, etc.
- Design manager, consultant and advisor in the implementation of ICT technologies.
- Student of Postgraduate Programs (Technical, Scientific or Administrative) at national or international level.
In order to obtain the degree in Telecommunications Engineering, students must fulfill the following requirements:
- Complete a minimum of 46 credits in Professional Unit courses.
- Complete a minimum of 23 credits in General Education courses.
- Complete a minimum of 27 credits in Mathematics and Basic Science courses.
- Complete a minimum of 6 credits in Selected Elective courses.
- Complete a minimum of 2 credits in Elective courses.
- Accumulate a minimum of 336 hours of Internship Experience, distributed as follows:
- 240 hours of Pre-professional Business Internships (equivalent to 5 credits).
- 96 hours of Community Service Internships (equivalent to 2 credits).
- Successfully complete the Curricular Integration Unit, which includes a capstone course (3 credits) and project (5 credits).
The Capstone Project is a culminating requirement for graduation. These projects provide students with the experience of applying acquired knowledge and skills to the needs of society, with a focus on sustainability.
The IDEAR Fair showcases all Capstone projects, offering students a valuable opportunity to showcase their work and hone soft skills such as communication and teamwork. It is also a space for students to network with potential clients and future employers.
Explore all of the Capstone projects completed by the Telecommunications Engineering program.
DID YOU KNOW?
A graduate from our Telecommunications program leads one of the foremost companies in the telecommunications sector, spearheading the rollout of the national fiber optic network. This company also specializes in producing and exporting fiber optics. Telecommunications are essential in our daily lives, enabling high-speed internet, voice and video transmissions, and advancements in home automation (domotics) and both residential and industrial IoT solutions.
