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Pubblicato il 15 Luglio 2008

I Master universitari del Politecnico

Master on Navigation and Related Applications

The second level specializing Master on Navigation and Related Applications is a joint initiative of Politecnico di Torino (III Faculty, School of Information Technologies) and Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB) with the collaboration of Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale Galileo Ferraris (IEN) and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UN-OOSA).

Motivation and overview

Innovative, added-value services and applications strictly related to user positioning information are acquiring more and more importance due to the potential benefits for the world-wide community.
Nowadays, civil users are able to fix their position on the basis of ranging signals broadcast by GPS satellites, but the problem is that GPS remains a military system and this fact limits the diffusion of potential services (with particular reference to critical and safety-of-life applications).
For this reason, the Galileo system which represents the European initiative in the field of GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) will be a real boost for the introduction of navigation and positioning applications in the worldwide wireless mass-market. In addition, it has to be remarked that terrestrial locating systems based on wireless communication networks and the integration of GNSS signals with communication signals (e.g., WLAN and Galileo) will represent a natural way for the diffusion of navigation-related services.
In the next future, a substantial amount of skilled personnel will be engaged in production and management of innovative navigation-oriented applications (Location Based Services - LBS).
At the same time, short time-to-market is becoming a must for companies engaged in the development of navigation hardware, services and applications, which require advanced technical skills as well as a broad vision of the navigation/localization technologies at large.
The Master in Navigation and Related Applications is an effective answer to the work market demands in terms of high level technicians endowed with a broad vision of the navigation/localization world but also with specific skills.

Admission requirements

The Master program is addressed to graduate students having completed a Master Degree (typically a 5 years curriculum after the high school) or an equivalent title in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Communication Engineering, Information Technology or related subjects.
Other degrees in different technological fields could be taken into account by the Master Commission.
Written and spoken English is required (English is the official language of the Master), together with basic notions in communication theory and electronics.

Cultural prerequisites

To profitably follow the Master program, candidates should have some background in the following areas:

Principles of digital communications and signal processing
Basics of electromagnetic wave propagation
Basics of software tools (e.g. Matlab) and programming languages (e.g. C)

No basic knowledge in navigation is required.

Course schedule and syllabus

The duration of the Master program is 12 months including a period ranging from 3 to 6 months for pilot projects (internships).
The program includes 80 Educational European Credits (ECTS), 50 corresponding to courses and 30 to an internship in a lab or a company operating in the field of navigation (or in the production of navigation-related applications) and/or in the technical laboratories of ISMB and IEN.

Politecnico di Torino
corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24 Torino