EuroMISE
European Master in Information Systems Engineering
EuroMISE is a Master degree study in Information Systems Engineering (ISE) and is shared among selected European universities. The entrance requirement of the EuroMISE study program is a 3-year pre-qualifier with specified knowledge contents. The pre-qualifier may either come as a bachelor degree, or may consist of the first three years of a 5-year integrated master study.
The participating universities acknowledge each others study programs with respect to a guaranteed knowledge profile, in coverage (breadth) as well as in quality (depth). Students who are enrolled in one of the participating universities (the home university) are permitted to have courses of up to one full year of studies at one of the participating universities (the visited university) to be included in the study program at their home university. Students are supposed to stay with their visited university for a minimum of one semester.
Students will be granted the appropriate master degree of their home university. In a diploma supplement will be specified that they have followed the EuroMISE study program. All of the participating universities offer an elective study program named EuroMISE or similar in their study catalogue.
All of the participating universities have bilateral agreements on student exchange under the Erasmus student exchange program. EuroMISE students will visit one of the participating universities under the Erasmus agreement.
The participating universities are, as of spring 2009:
| University | Department |
|---|---|
| Delft University of Technology The Netherlands |
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science |
| The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Trondheim, Norway |
Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI) |
| Politecnico di Milano Milano, Italy |
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione (DEI) |
| The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm, Sweden |
School of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) |
| Technical University of Catalonia Barcelona, Spain |
Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB) |
| University of Twente The Netherlands |
Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science |
| University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University Paris, France |
Mathematics and Informatics department |
| Universitat Politècnica de València |
Departament de Sistemes Informàtics i Computaciò (DSIC) |
The study theme
Today's organizations are vitally dependent on their information systems, and the high demands placed on these systems require skilled technical specialists. Information Systems Engineering graduates are experts and can be found at all stages of a distributed information system's lifecycle (requirement analysis, architecture design, realisation and maintenance). The information systems of today's organisations manage large volumes of internal information, including structured data, multimedia data or geographic information. These systems encompass workflow, groupware and e-business processes and are often distributed across organisational units and physical locations. Information system engineers are able to combine and configure basic software components, such as database management systems, transaction processing monitors, workflow management systems and middleware. In short, they know how to define a system on which an organisation can truly depend without giving rise to any vulnerability.
Student exchange arrangements
The EuroMISE study program provides an educational framework that guarantees the overall quality of a shared European MSc in ISE. The educational set-up provides for organized student exchange within a network of European Universities. In Europe there is already a widespread student exchange among universities within the framework of the Erasmus program. The proposed MSc in ISE is an extension of the current exchange arrangements.
Entrance requirements: the pre-qualifier
EuroMISE Students must have a sufficient bachelor level education from one of the participating universities. This can either be a formal BSc, or the first three years of an integrated professional 5-year MSc study in IT, such as found at many technical universities in Europe. The EuroMISE entrance requirements define a transfer-between-universities level of knowledge.
Strict requirements are put on the mathematical proficiency of the students as well as on their ICT-knowledge, while there are no strict requirements for other knowledge areas.
- Students should have at least 30 ECTS credits in mathematical courses. These would include courses in discrete mathematics, logic, analysis, calculus, algebra, statistics, etc.
- Students should have at least 60 ECTS credits in ICT courses. These would include courses in software engineering, programming, data bases, information systems engineering, IT and society, human computer interaction, security, telecommunication, operating systems, etc.
- Students should have at least 120 ECTS credits in total in mathematical and ICT courses.
- Students should have a basic knowledge and competence in analysis, design and implementation of ICT systems.
In addition, it is recommended that students have basic courses in business administration and project management, but this is not a mandatory requirement.
Master studies framework
Total 120 credits.
- Thesis can vary in size between 20-60 ECTS.
- ISE courses 30-60 ECTS.
- Cross competence IT courses 5-30 ECTS.
- Cultural Adaption Courses and others 5-15 ECTS.
Core ISE courses
- ISE Modelling (e.g., titles such as Requirements analysis/engineering, Modelling of information systems).
- Advanced database topics.
- Advanced software engineering (e.g., advanced software engineering, Software architectures).
ISE courses
- ERP Systems Engineering
- Method Engineering & CASE/CAME
- Enterprise Knowledge Modelling & Management
- IS Project Management & Quality Assurance
- Cooperation Technology, Collaborative technologies
- Advanced ISE methods
- Web Databases
- Datawarehouses and data mining
- Web intelligence
- Knowledge management
- Enterprise modelling and enterprise architecture
- IT Management, IT governance, Enterprise Architecture
ICT courses in the subject area
- Interoperability of applications
- Components & Services based Engineering
- Communication services and Networks
- Applications areas like e-commerce, e-government
- Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)
Project work and thesis
The master study may also comprise a group project in practical design of an information system, ranging from 1/4-1/2 semester. Some bachelor level programs also have such projects, and it should therefore not be required that students do these projects twice.
Furthermore all programmes seem to finish with a final project (thesis), however the duration varies from 20 to 60 credits.
English language
A good working knowledge of the English language is required.
Participation in the program, general rules
Those adhering to the following requirements can participate in the proposed joint study program:
- Students who participate in the program are expected to study at another university than their home university (where they are enrolled) for one or two semester (maximum one semester of the two master level years are at another university than their bachelor level university). They are expected to do at least one of their master level years at their home university.
- There are limitations on student movements defined by availability of Erasmus students exchange slots.
Implementation of the EuroMISE study program at the different participating universities
NTNU
NTNU have ERASMUS-agreements with the other participating Universities. We will assure to have agreements with all, pointing to the EUROMISE-arrangement at the appropriate level (e.g. 11.3 Computer Science).
In connection to our main studies, we have established a separate profile in the 4.th year EUROMISE which will enable the exchange. This will have a limited number of places, depending on the number of places we have for the overall exchange program. The profile will to a large degree follow the existing Information Systems/Software Engineering profile.
To also open up for international students to do exchange (half year only, 3. semester), we will prepare a specialization in the international program in Information systems. This will also have limitation in the number of places, and have the same requirements as for the bachelor indicated above. This will also ensure that we have a sufficient number of relevant courses being held in English in each semester. The program is described at the Master of Science in Information Systems web page, which also include an overview of the main courses taught in English.
Contact at NTNU: Professor John Krogstie.
The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm
The courses that can be selected is taken from courses given in English (doc).
University of Twente
An overview of courses provided in English (doc).
University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University
An overview of courses provided in English (doc).
UPValencia
An overview of courses provided in Spanish (doc).
Delft University of Technology
An overview of courses provided in English (doc).
Politecnico di Milano
The local implementation is described at http://home.dei.polimi.it/pernici/euromise/euromise.htm
Several courses are offered in English (doc) in the information systems area and thesis work can also be performed in this area.
Technical University of Catalonia
The appropriate specialization in Barcelona is Software Engineering and Information Systems. The detailed information is shown in: http://www.fib.upc.edu/en/masters/mti/essi.html
