Innovative Communication Technologies and Entrepreneurship, MSc in Engineering

Information- and communication technologies such as the internet, mobile communication and advanced e-services is rapidly evolving, and increasingly influences our daily lives. The technologies are combined in new ways, which results in exciting opportunities for new services and apllications. If you want to learn about this development, understand what's happening "behind the scenes", and learn about how new technologies can help identify user needs and create new business models, then the master's programme Innovative Communication Technologies and Entrepreneuship (ICTE) on Aalborg University is for you. The education will arm you with knowledge about the newest developments within information-, communication- and media technologies in a global perspective, and you will understand the social, market and ethical aspects of their applications.

Presentation of the MSc in icte.
 

You will work with

• The technologies behind interesting applications such as Facebook and YouTube
• Business-related technical subjects and standards that are used in the proffessoinal industry within programming, software architecture and communication technologies
• Relevant technical subjects such as IOT, 5G, machine learning, cloud computing and blockchain
• Business models and business development
• Interaction with technologies
• Communication systems
• Cyber security
• User experience in the real world
• Privacy, ethics and trust

ICTE IS THE PERFECT MATCH

"ICTE contains a nice mixture of theoretical fundamentals and practical implementations of exciting technologies, with a good amount of business and entrepreneurship. A large part of the education is project-based, meaning you have responsibility for your own learning, and you have a large influence in which topics and technologies you want to focus on.

ICTE is a technical education, which lets me be creative and innovative, while i get an engineer-technical introduction to many of the important technologies within the IT industry. The teachers are good at explaining the solutions that are currently used in large corporations, and at the same time they can introduce the newest and best solutions.

The education will give you a proffessional profile that can be used in many different industries, whether you want to work in infrastructure, software, security or business development.

I am aspiring to become an entrepreneur in the IT-sector, so for me ICTE is the perfect match."

Bjørn Aagaard Skalkam, studerende

ARE YOU A TEAM PLAYER?

Group work is an essential element at Aalborg University. Every semester, you will work on a big project together in a group. The semester project is typically around half of the study activity for each semester, so it is important that you can function well in groups and see yourself as a team player.

It can be challenging to work in groups, but the ability to do so is one of the capabilities that make AAU candidates very attractive for recruiters and companies.

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