The European Master on Embedded Intelligence Nanosystems Engineering – EMINENT (Erasmus Mundus master’s programme) provides students with such a holistic education in embedded intelligence nanosystems engineering. It combines advanced training starting from the nanoscale material and device technology to the computing architectures of intelligent sensing elements, including the perspectives of macroscale integrated systems and meaningful IoT application areas.
Future ubiquitous digital technologies are a keystone in the global efforts in advanced automatization, environmental monitoring, and climate protection, driven by the overarching Green Deal vision. The underlying demand in cross-sectional “sensing” and “sense-making” intelligent technologies result in a continuous convergence of the fields of nanotechnology, edge intelligence and smart perceptive sensor systems, merging them into embedded intelligence nanosystems. As a consequence, there is an increasing demand at industrial and academic level for human talents with a corresponding broader, more generalist educational background. This demand is further amplified by the envisioned transition of Europe, from presently predominantly being a consumer of digital hardware towards a global leader and provider of IoT and CPS technologies.
EMINENT joins excellent research and innovation oriented educational expertise across Europe, extending from Portugal in the West to Lithuania in the East. This approach is unique on the European level and thereby provides benefits and opportunities for the students enrolled in the programme:
The EMINENT programme is designed to prepare graduates for the full range of professional role in the developing sector of embedded intelligence nanosystems engineering, such as:
Sectors:
Each applicant will automatically be considered for a scholarship. The EMINENT scholarship has a maximum duration of 2 years and covers travel and subsistence expenses through a monthly payment of 1400 euros. Students accepted into the Erasmus Mundus “EMINENT” program, with a scholarship, benefit from tuition fees exemption.
To maintain a scholarship, the student must complete the curricular units of the first two semester modules with an average grade of 2,7 (in the German grading system).
Students who are accepted into the program, but do not receive a scholarship, are invited to join the program at their own expense. Please contact: eminent@uni-siegen.de
Vacancies for 2024/2025:
25
Admission rules:
Applicants must hold a Bachelor’s (BSc) degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Material Science, Computer Science or equivalent programmes (Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Engineering or equivalent) with at least 180 ECTS. The final grade will be translated to the German grading system using the modified Bavarian formula. The translated grade should be at least a 2.0 (“gut”). The BSc must have
been obtained by a nationally recognised university and be recognised by all partner institutions’ national legislation. If proof of qualification (bachelor’s degree) is not available at the time of application, students can be admitted conditionally. In this case, they need to submit an official statement from their university stating the expected graduation date and the missing courses in the application form. The final degree certificate and transcript of academic records have to be submitted until the 1st of August in the respective year to finalize the admission procedure. If the original language in the document is not English, an authorized translation has to be submitted as well.
Good command of English language skills: B2 level validated by a certification e.g., TOEFL iBT (minimum score 93) or IELTS Academic (minimum score 6.5 with no individual score under 6). The result of the test should be valid at least 14 days after the application deadline. Candidates that have obtained their bachelor’s (or master’s) degree in a study course taught in the English language in an EU country or in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the USA, or Switzerland do not require an English test result. For nationals of countries where English is the ONLY native language, proof of English language skills is also not required.
Ranking:
Applications from eligible students will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
To allow a more accurate assessment of the knowledge level and motivation, the best applicants will be invited to participate in a 10-15-minute online interview.
DGES
Registration number R/A-Cr 203/2022 on 30/08/2022
A3ES
Publication date of the accreditation decision: 28/07/2022
Period of validity of the accreditation:
6 years from 31/07/2022
The Department of Materials Science (DCM), NOVA School of Science and Technology, was the first to be created nationally in 1976 at the initiative of its first president, Prof. Leopoldo Guimarães. The initial aim was to create university extension courses in the field of materials leading to the creation of a root degree covering a wide range of scientific areas, including metallurgy, semiconductor materials, polymeric materials and mesomorph, ceramic materials and crystals, crystal chemistry and quality control.
Since then the Department of Materials Science has grown and diversified its activities, mainly due to the efforts of its faculty and staff, embodied in a large number of projects (academic and industrial) funded by National, European and International authorities. This allowed its modern adaptation to new technologies, providing for such a unique laboratory infrastructure in Portugal, for teaching and research, internationally recognized and that has allowed to form Material Science Engineers of high scientific quality , able to respond to current society's demands.
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