Degree subject curriculum

Subjects are divided into semesters. There are two semesters in each academic year.

Bachelor Degree in Computing Engineering

Start date	The Bachelor Degree in Informatics Engineering was introduced during September 2010.
Duration	4 academic years
Study load	240 ECTS credits 132 compulsory credits 48 specialization credits, one subject to be chosen out of the five on offer 42 optional credits 18 credits for the final project on the chosen area of specialization
Specializations	The FIB is among the few schools in Spain that allows students to take the five specializations on the Degree in Informatics Engineering. Specializations are chosen at the end of the second year. Computing Computer Engineering Software Engineering Information Systems Information Technologies Students will be awarded a Bachelor Degree in Computing Engineering in the specialization chosen.
Final Project	In the final year of the course, students take optional subjects and work on their final project. They can choose to spend part or the whole of the year abroad thanks to the mobility agreements the FIB has with prestigious universities in Europe, the United States and Asia. The final project can be completed at a company at home or abroad, and can be combined with work placement. The FIB has a number of educational cooperation agreements with leading companies in the sector that enable students to spend a whole semester in a company.
Employment opportunities	Some of the most common employment opportunities for graduates in Informatics Engineering are listed below: Senior management Information systems managers Development managers Production and operations managers Heads of IT Middle and technical management Project managers Functional analysts Heads of department Consultants Database architects Heads of quality, methods and procedures Systems architects Technical management Database administrators Heads of network systems Heads of information systems security Heads of microcomputing The main tasks involved in these career options are described in more detail at Employment Opportunities. Employment Opportunities..

The curriculum for the bachelor degree in Computing Engineering was approved by the School Board on 21 October 2009 .

There are eight subjects in the first year worth 7.5 ECTS credits each. All other subjects on the Bachelor Degree in Computing Engineering are worth 6 ECTS credits. Twelve credits are awarded in the eighth semester for subjects or seminars and the final project. The figure below shows how the curriculum for the Degree in Informatics Engineering is divided up.

The figure below shows a breakdown of compulsory subjects by semester.

In order to be able to register in a subject is necessary to have carried out some necessaries requisites. There are 4 different types of requisites:

• Prerequisite. If a subject A is prerequisite of another subject B, it means that to be able to register B is necessary to have passed the subject A.
• Corequisite. If a subject A is corequisite of another subject B, it means that to be able to register B is necessary to have passed or to be register in the subject A.
• Precorequisite. If a subject A is precorequisite of another subject B, it means that to be able to register B is necessary to have been register in A.
• Orequisite. If two subject A and B are orequisite of another subject C, it means that to register C is necessary to have passed the subject A or B.
  

Optional subjects are taken in the seventh and eighth semesters. A total of 42 ECTS credits must be obtained from a combination of any of the following activities:

• Taking optional subjects worth 6 ECTS credits each.
• Attending seminars on relevant topics (from 1 to 3 ECTS credits each).
• Going to a university abroad on a mobility programme.
• Taking a double degree at a prestigious university.
• Going on a work placement.
• Taking complementary specialisation subjects (not taken to date) or subjects from another specialisation.

Optional subjects are divided into academic itineraries so that students are able to choose their area of specialisation based on their choice of subjects. However, students are free to choose any subject, without the need to take all the subjects on an itinerary.

Entrepreneurship and innovation

• Finance and human resources
• Methods for the integration of knowledge and information for decision-making
• Viability of business projects

Computer vision and virtual reality

• Design of curves and surfaces
• Computational geometry
• Virtual reality
• Computer vision

Human-Centered Technology

• Medical imaging
• Interfaces and accessibility
• Natural language processing

 

Computing and society

• Social and environmental aspects of computing
• Architecture, repairing and recycling of PCs
• Open source software

 

Quality and reliability of computer systems

• Evidence-based informatics
• Software quality
• Fault-tolerant systems

 

Robotics and systems

• Physical fundamentals of computer technologies
• Robotics
• Computer systems for automation

 

Supercomputing and scientific applications

• Scientific applications of computing
• Quantum computing and cryptography
• Introduction to supercomputing
• Parallel programming models

 

Data processing and security

• Communication devices and protocols
• Data and image compression
• Cryptography

 

Video games and media technologies

• Physics for modelling and realistic animation
• Graphic cards and accelerators
• Video games

 

Technical Communication in Academic and Professional Settings

• Academic Skills for Developing a Project
• Spoken Academic and Professional Skills
• Written Academic Skills for Engineering