JUNIOR COMPUTER ENGINEER
Main functions:
- Responsible for the design and building of software applications.
Carrying out research, developing methods for resolving problems of medium complexity, promoting the use of modern languages and modelling tools oriented towards the development of applications, perfecting operating techniques and working on the consequences arising from application in practice, creating, testing and maintaining databases and distributed information systems in conformity with the specific predetermined functions and project guide-lines. The professional positions of such graduates are typically:
- Systems analyst;
- Analyst of computer procedures;
- Analyst and programmer of information systems;
- Designer of WEB infrastructures;
- Software developer;
- Technical expert in multi-media systems.
- Responsible for the design of hardware for computational infrastructures.
Applying the relevant skills to the organisation of modern electronic computers as regards functioning, structure and technology for the design of both general-purpose computational platforms and embedded systems that respond to specific application requirements. The professional positions of such graduates are typically:
- Architectures and networks designer;
- Specialist in communication interfaces and protocols;
- Designer of embedded systems;
- Specialist in programmable electronic components and systems with a high level of integration
- Responsible for the administration of computer systems and networks.
Taking part in all the stages connected to the building and management of complex infrastructures for programming and communication, such as the planning of the resources necessary, the installation, setting up and maintenance of apparatus, the personalisation of WEB applications, the introduction of adequate safety precautions and monitoring of performance, as well as availability and quality of services. The professional positions of such graduates are typically:
- Systems Administrator;
- Network Administrator;
- Specialist in computer safety of networks;
- Web designer;
- Web master.
Career opportunities:
The degree programme aims to offer an academic programme that is coherent with the professional role as identified in the category of paragraph 2.1.1.4 “Highly specialised intellectual and scientific professions – computer and telematic specialists” of ISTAT - Italian Central Statistics Office. The combination of course units in the degree programme provides graduates with the specific skills that enable them to find employment easily in very different working environments, operating as a systems experts and/or designer for hardware and software in any context of application where computer technologies are important. The specific technical skills of the sector can easily combine with other skills (managerial, economic, legal, etc.), to create professionals qualified to work in the new roles that are ever more in demand.
Graduates may work in any area of the current modern technological society, particularly in manufacturing or service firms, companies operating in the area of industrial automation, process industries, public administration, schools and training centres, or freelance and use skills to enhance the process of innovation and development that is occurring in all organisations that have to update by introducing advanced information technologies. Specifically, graduate qualifications are most suited to the following main career opportunities:
- companies that produce and/or use components and computer systems ;
- firms and centres offering services in the sector of information systems ;
- firms that supply structures and services for computer systems and networks;
- firms that supply services related to Internet computing and Web infrastructures;
- software engineering firms;
- firms operating in the sector of industrial automation and robotics;
- process industries in the mechanical, electrical, electromagnetic, energy and chemical sectors;
- industrial laboratories for research and development;
- technical offices in public administration that use computer infrastructures for the management both of internal services and services dedicated to users;
- schools and training centres;
- research institutes.
As regards the type of firms active in the Emilia-Romagna region, it should be noted that the job opportunities of considerable interest to graduates in Computer engineering are to be found in the area of industrial automation, and particularly in the sector of firms that build automatic machines for packaging (which have earned the area the name of “Packaging Valley” at an international level). The opportunities in computer consultancy and software engineering firms are equally interesting, as are opportunities in local government, service industries, public and private data processing organisations and process industries working in the areas of electromechanical, energy, chemical and civil sectors.
The degree programme project has been submitted to selected external stakeholders in order to receive their opinions and feedbacks on the learning outcomes and the professional profiles.
