Electrical and Computer Engineering Instituto Superior Técnico

Overview

About this Degree from Instituto Superior Técnico

Electrical and Computer Engineering intervenes in computers, telecommunications, electronics, control and energy, and has a huge impact on the technologies that define modern society and life. An electrical and computer engineer has the skills to design electrical and electronic devices, as well as develop systems involving hardware, software, communication networks, power generation and control of sensors and actuators.

Career Opportunities

Instituto Superior Técnico’s Electrical and Computer Engineers can work in the areas of Telecommunications, Energy, Electronics, Robotics, Computers, Decision and Control, developing activities such as:

• Project, implementation and maintenance of communication systems, and respective terrestrial and satellite networks;
• Development of conventional, solar and wind power generation systems to provide electricity;
• Design and implementation of computer circuits to accelerate communication networks and processors;
• Development of fast and efficient processors;
• Implementation of sensor networks that allow efficient monitoring, and their interconnection with actuators;
• Development of autonomous robots;
• Design, development and programming of systems that allow many devices to behave intelligently;
• Development of image processing algorithms;