Please note that this is a double degree programme implemented through international collaboration which is why its structure may deviate from the regular structure of the Master’s Degree Programme in Computer, Communication and Information Sciences.

Programme website: www.masterschool.eitictlabs.eu
Into:  https://into.aalto.fi/display/eneitictinno/
Administration: Study Coordinator Aino Roms, Study Affairs Secretary Stefanie Schulz (student affairs)
Head of the programme: Prof. Heikki Saikkonen

Master’s Programme in ICT Innovation is a European double degree programme for students who want to know both the technical and entrepreneurial aspects of information and communications technology. The ICT Innovation programme follows the general structure of the EIT ICT Labs Master School. It is a full-time two-year 120 ECTS  master’s  programme,  combining  a  90  ECTS  technical  part  with  a  30  ECTS standardised module on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E). The programme is completed by studying at two different universities in two countries. Graduates will receive a Master’s degree from both of these universities. Aalto University offers five majors within the ICT Innovation programme.

A degree equivalent to a Bachelors degree of 180 ECTS credits. The specific admission requirements vary for each major. The language of instruction of the programme is English. The applicants must have an excellent command of English. For further information on    admission,    application    deadline    and    English    language    proficiency    please see www.masterschool.eitictlabs.eu.

Language courses for all majors

According to the degree regulations at Aalto University, students must take at least 3 ECTS of foreign language studies for the degree. In Master’s Programme in ICT Innovation the students have the option to choose between an English course, fulfilling both oral and written requirements (o,w) or at least 3 ECTS of Finnish courses. We recommend the English course LC-1310  Academic Communication for everyone. Taking the Finnish course(s) as part of the degree requires an application for exemption from the foreign language course requirement. Please contact your study affairs secretary for more information.

Mobility of students

The table below describes the study track options currently available in EIT ICT Labs Master School in the five majors where Aalto University is involved. First year universities are called entry universities and second year universities are exit universities. Some universities are only available as exit points.

Professors of the major

Entry points:

• AALTO
• TU Berlin
• TU Delft
• U Rennes 1

Exit points with specializations:

• AALTO: Mobile Services
• KTH: Data Intensive Computing
• TU Berlin: Cloud operation
• TU Delft: Distributed Data Processing
• UPS: Distributed Information Management
• U Rennes 1: Cloud Infrastructures

Objectives of the programme

The program objective is to educate engineers who will be able to design, implement and maintain distributed software systems for a wide range of applications including peer-to-peer, cloud computing, web-services provision and internet-based applications. The program will provide students with a system of knowledge both in formal foundations, technological platforms and practical skills in implementing distributed software applications. The program will also provide an insight into current and future directions of the distributed software development.

Graduates of the programme are able to

• analyse and design a complex distributed IT-system  based on network,  storage,  and processing components
• describe a service-based system using dedicated description languages
• calculate and assess the necessary quantitative capacities of the system components to achieve specified performance goals
• can apply up-to-date technology in fault tolerance and security to achieve privacy and dependability goals in complex distributed systems
• identify business opportunities in the area of cloud computing and to turn them into operation
• communicate technical issues to professionals and non-professionals
• work in multidisciplinary and multinational teams and take over responsibilities
• have business skills to understand and execute a business development process, and have insight in legal and societal aspects of products and services

First year at Aalto

First autumn 2015

Compulsory courses (23 ECTS)

^{(*) See ‘Language courses for all majors’ above.}

Compulsory I&E Courses (8 ECTS)

First spring 2016

Compulsory courses (5 ECTS)

Compulsory I&E Courses (16 ECTS)

Optional courses - select 8 ECTS of over two semesters

Total for the whole year: 60 ECTS

Second year at Aalto

Aalto specialization – Mobile Services

The courses cover the theoretical and practical aspects of designing mobile distributed systems and services. In the seminar the students learn to read technical and research literature on selected thematic topics and mobile computing, as well as scientific writing and presentation. In the Master’s thesis project, the students can focus on problems arising from the thematic research projects in the Helsinki Node of EIT ICT Labs.

Second autumn 2015

Compulsory courses (19 ECTS)

^{(*) See ‘Language courses for all majors’ above.}

Compulsory I&E Courses (6 ECTS)

Optional Courses (11 ECTS)

Total 30 ECTS

Second spring 2016 

Total for the whole year: 60 ECTS

Professors of the major:

Entry points:

• KTH
• TU Delft

Exit points with specializations:

• AALTO: Hypermedia
• KTH: Media Processing and Communications
• TU Delft: Medical Imaging
• BME: Media Communications Services
• UCL: Virtual Environments

Objectives of the programme

The main focus of the Digital Media Technology (DMT) technical major is on the enabling technologies for digital media systems, including technologies for generation of (interactive) media, processing and coding of media and for wired and wireless transfer and storage of media content.

Applications that use these technologies include teleconferencing, interactive multimedia applications, entertainment, computer games, telemedicine and surveillance etc. The master will be based on a systems engineering approach in order to successfully integrate media technologies in  applications such as “smart  spaces”, “health and well-being”,  and “smart cities”, thematic areas of EIT ICT Labs.

Second year at Aalto

Aalto specialization – Hypermedia

Second autumn 2015

Compulsory courses (16 ECTS)

^{(*) See ‘Language courses for all majors’ above.}

Compulsory I&E Courses (6 ECTS)

Optional Courses (8 ECTS)

Total 30 ECTS

Second spring 2016 

Total for the whole year: 60 ECTS

Professor of the major:

Entry points:

• KTH
• TU Berlin
• TU/e

Exit points with specializations:

• KTH: Embedded Platforms and Internet of Things
• AALTO: Mobile Cyber-Physical Systems
• TU Berlin: Embedded Multicore Processing
• UNITN: Real-Time Systems and Design of Cyber-Physical systems
• TU/e: Embedded Networking
• UTU and ÅA: Energy Efficient Computing

Objectives of the programme

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) combine computational and physical elements. A mobile CPS is designed as a network that includes mobile and wireless elements. The technology for mobile CPS forms the corner stone for many novel application areas and businesses, such as augmented and mixed reality systems, infotainment systems, and games. Especially, the rise in popularity of smartphones has increased interest in the area of mobile CPS. The students will acquire skills to develop applications and services that are based on mobile CPS technologies. The topics covered include programming web and multimedia systems, processing of video and audio, designing user interfaces, and mastering the embedded systems design flow.

Second year at Aalto

Aalto specialization – Mobile Cyber-Physical Systems

Second autumn 2015

Compulsory courses

^{(*) See ‘Language courses for all majors’ above.}

Compulsory I&E Courses (6 ECTS)

Optional courses

Total 30 ECTS

Second spring 2016

Total for the whole year: 60 ECTS

Professors of the major

Entry points:

• Aalto
• KTH
• Université Paris-Sud (UPS)
• University of Twente (UT)

Exit points with specializations:

• KTH: Mobile and ubiquitous interaction
• AALTO: User Modeling for advanced human-computer interaction
• TU Berlin: Multi-modal interaction
• UPS: Situated interaction
• UT: Intelligent systems
• UCL: Affective Computing

Objectives of the programme

Human Computer Interaction and Design (HCID) focuses on the study, design, development and evaluation of novel user interfaces and interactive systems taking into account human aspects, at the cognitive and sensory-motor levels, technological aspects, as well as business aspects.

New ICT technologies are transforming our daily lives. Smart devices (mobile phones, PDAs, tablet computers), smart products (car, navigation) and smart environments (ambient intelligence) are enabling new services such as navigation, information providing, learning, making reservations or buying of goods are delivered.

Increasingly, the interaction with these devices is not through simple buttons or keystrokes but with more flexible and intuitive interaction methods such as multi-touch, speech, gestures, and with advanced display systems such as augmented and virtual reality. Smart devices and services are also able to show intelligent behaviour recognizing intentions of the user and anticipating the user’s needs. These technologies are central in Human-Computer Interaction and Design.

The design of intuitive user interfaces, however, is not only a matter of the right technology but also a matter of good interaction design: study user’s social and cognitive behaviour in relation to using technology, taking the user as a central driver for design, designing for the right user experience, andtesting and evaluating the design within context, are keys to understanding and designing successful user experience.

First year at Aalto

First autumn 2015

Compulsory courses (13 ECTS)

^{(*) See ‘Language courses for all majors’ above.}

Compulsory I&E Courses (8 ECTS)

Total 21 ECTS

First spring 2016

Compulsory courses (20 ECTS)

Compulsory I&E Courses (16 ECTS)

Total 36 ECTS

Optional courses - Select at least 3 ECTS over the two semesters:

Total for the whole year: 60 ECTS

Second year at Aalto

Aalto specialization – User Modeling for advanced human-computer interaction

Second autumn 2015

Compulsory courses (8 ECTS)

^{(*) See ‘Language courses for all majors’ above.}

Compulsory I&E Courses (6 ECTS)

Optional courses (16 ECTS)

Total: 30 ECTS

Second spring 2016

Total for the whole year: 60 ECTS

Professor of the major

Entry points:

• AALTO
• UNITN

Exit points and specializations:

• Aalto: Mobile service systems
• TU/e: Service-oriented business process management
• ELTE: Distributed service systems
• UNITN: Service-oriented social informatics

Objectives of the programme

The Aalto academic year is divided into 5 periods with courses running in one or in several periods. Also some courses are run as intensive courses and take only half a period. The  basic  structure  of  the  program  for  the  year  2015-2016  is  shown  below.  The main desideratum for designing the SDE Technical Common Base is to ensure that SDE students, after the first year, have comparable technical understanding of important topics related to SDE.

First year at Aalto

First autumn 2015

Compulsory courses (18 ECTS)

^{(*) See ‘Language courses for all majors’ above.}

Compulsory I&E Courses (8 ECTS)

First spring 2016

Compulsory courses (10 ECTS)

Compulsory I&E Courses (16 ECTS)

Optional courses – Select at least 18 ECTS over the two semesters:

Total for the whole year: 60 ECTS

Second year at Aalto

Aalto specialization – Mobile Service Systems

The starting point for the second year in SDE at Aalto is to create a personal study plan for each student that matches the student’s own interests as well as the needs of the research project that forms the foundation of the student’s Master’s thesis.

Aalto  offers  a  specialization  in  Mobile  service  systems  with  thematic  coupling  to  Smart Spaces. The courses cover the theoretical and practical aspects of designing digital services with a strong mobile focus. In the Master’s thesis project, the students can focus on problems arising from the thematic research projects in the Helsinki Node of EIT ICT Labs.

Second autumn 2015

Compulsory courses (9 ECTS)

^{(*) See ‘Language courses for all majors’ above.}

Compulsory I&E Courses (6 ECTS)

Optional Courses (21 ECTS)

Total 30 ECTS

Second spring 2016

Total for the whole year: 60 ECTS

The  I&E  minor  at Aalto is developed  in  co-operation  with  the  Aalto  Venture  Program (AVP,  http://avp.aalto.fi/). The focus of the Aalto I&E program is on entrepreneurship in ICT. The content of I&E minor is same for all five majors.

Compulsory I&E courses during the entry year 2015-2016 and summer 2016

Compulsory I&E course during the second year 2015-2016