NEWS (July 25th 2022): The Catalan Government has published the decree of public prices for master degrees for the 2022-23 course (including the Autumn 2022 and the Spring 2023 semesters). The credit fees are 27.67€ per credit for European Union nationals, and 69.17€ per credit for non-EU nationals). Find here (in English and in Spanish) the official UPC notification. Note that MASTEAM is a non-qualifying master's degree of 60 ECTS with semestral organisation. You can see more details and examples of how to calculate the total cost of your master in the Fees section below.

NEWS (January 26th 2022): The information about the Spring 2022 semester (academic calendar, course schedules) has been published in this website - scroll down to the bottom of the page. UPC has asked us to plan the Spring 2022 semester as 100% face-to-face (lectures and lab sessions), although masks and some social distance measures will possibly be required. More details at the UPC COVID-19 portal.

NEWS (June 18th 2021): UPC has asked us to plan the Autumn 2021 semester as 100% face-to-face (lectures and lab sessions), although masks and some social distance measures will possibly be required. Stay tuned for updated at the UPC COVID-19 portal.

NEWS (February 1st 2021): The Spring 2020 semester of MASTEAM will start as the Autumn 2020 semester ended: lectures will be delivered on-line, while lab sessions and exams will be face-to-face activities. We expect to go back to 100% face-to-face modality by mid-April. More information at the UPC COVID-19 portal.

NEWS (September 15th 2020): The Autumn 2020 semester of MASTEAM will be delivered face-to-face, following the UPC rectorate recommendations and sanitary measures: social distance, use of masks, ventilation of classrooms, etc. Should the authorities decide to, all courses are prepared to swicth to an on-line mode. More information at the UPC COVID-19 portal. UPDATE: by mid-October, and following the advice from health autohorities, the master changed again to the on-line modality for the lectures, although lab sessions and exams will still be allowed as face-to-face activities.

NEWS (March 5th 2020): Prof Salvatore Spadaro, a member of MASTEAM faculty, has been appointed a Full Professor position at UPC. Congratulations!

NEWS (June 28th 2019): Prof Salvatore Spadaro, a member of MASTEAM faculty, is co-winner of the 2019 IEEE Communications Society Charles Kao Award, which recognizes the Best Optical Communications & Networking paper from the past three years (2016-2018) published on the IEEE/OSA Journal on Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN). Prof. Spadaro is member of the Optical Communications Group (GCO) of the Signal Theory and Communications Department (TSC) of UPC.

NEWS (May 20th 2019): MASTEAM has been awarded, for the 9th year in a row, a grant for the newly admitted student (Autumn 2019) with the best academic records. The grant amount is 5.000 euros, covering tuition fees, plus a stipend, and is offered by the Fundació Catalunya-La Pedrera, in the ninth edition of the Scholarship Program for Masters of Excellence. This initiative aims to recognize talent, promote excellence and impulse postgraduate quality, MASTEAM is one of the few masters considered excellent in the field of Engineering. More information here. 

NEWS (December 19th 2018): Our MASTEAM talks weekly program of conference will end the semester with a presentation of the 5GBarcelona initiative by Dr Sergi Figuerola, CEO of the i2Cat Foundation, one of the institutions (together with UPC and other research centers) that is impulsing 5GBarcelona. Many of the MASTEAM instructors are actively taking part in the 5G trials in Barcelona, and some of our students are also involved through internships, master thesis, or job contracts. More information about 5GBarcelona here (5GBarcelona website) and in this article by El Pais newspaper: Barcelona será un laboratorio de pruebas del 5G durante el Mobile.

NEWS (December 5th 2018): This article provides a very good summary of the activities related to Smart Cities and Internet of Things that are becoming a reality in Barcelona. These are the topics that our MASTEAM students see in the classroom and also practice in the projects with local governments and companies not only in the city itself, but also in the Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area. It is worth reading! 

A city reinvented: How Barcelona is leading the smart city revolution, by G.Ogleby (edie)

edie's insight editor George Ogleby travels to Barcelona to uncover how a technological revolution has enabled the city to unlock the benefits of a smart-city transition for its citizens.

NEWS (October 17th 2018): The Fundació Catalunya-La Pedrera has celebrated the ceremony of the Excellence Grants program, in which Mr Albert Toro, a graduate in Computer Networks and Network Engineering from UPC who has initiated his MASTEAM studies in September 2018, has been awarded one of the 5000 euro grants offered by the Foundation. This initiative aims to recognize talent, promote excellence and impulse postgraduate quality, MASTEAM is one of the few masters considered excellent in the field of Engineering. More information about the ceremony here and about the grants program here.

NEWS (May 16th 2018): MASTEAM has been awarded, for the 8th year in a row, a grant for the newly admitted student (Autumn 2018) with the best academic records. The grant amount is 5.000 euros, covering tuition fees, plus a stipend, and is offered by the Fundació Catalunya-La Pedrera, in the seventh edition of the Scholarship Program for Masters of Excellence. This initiative aims to recognize talent, promote excellence and impulse postgraduate quality, MASTEAM is one of the few masters considered excellent in the field of Engineering. More information here.

NEWS (April 6th 2017): Dr Carles Gómez, coordinator and professor of the "Ubiquitous IP and Internet of Things" MASTEAM course, has recently co-authored RFC 8352 (an Internet standard document) on "Energy-Efficient Features of Internet of Things Protocols". You can access the RFC here and other publications (including some more RFCs) from Dr Gómez here.

NEWS (February 22nd 2018): The Collider entrepeneurship project from Mobile World Capital (you might remember the talk they gave at MASTEAM last October) invites our students to attend both the 4YFN (any of the 3 days) and MWC events (only on Thursday 1st). Go to http://thecollider.tech/4yfn in order to register and obtain your free ticket. Please use your institutional @estudiant.upc.edu e-mail address to prove you are a UPC student.And do not miss the 5GBarcelona presentation! 

NEWS (January 25th 2018): Three UPC research groups involved in MASTEAM (namely the Wireless Networking Group - WNG, the Broadband Networks and Services group - BAMPLA, and the Optical Communications group - GCO) are also partners of the 5GBarcelona initiative, which in collaboration with other partners such as CTTC and i2Cat (research institutes, both also involved in our weekly seminar talk program, and also offering Master Thesis and internships for MASTEAM students), the Barcelona City Council, the Mobile World Capital (MWC) and companies such as ATOS, Huawei, Cellnex and others, and partners in Bristol, London, Munich and Berlin are also participating in the 5GTrial proposal for the Horizon 2020 5G PPP (Public-Private Partnership program of the European Union. More information in the following links:

• CTTC - Barcelona aspires to be an European Open Lab of 5G
• Barcinno - Barcelona Sets Its Sights On Becoming a European 5G Open Lab
• Press and media (selection, in Spanish):
• El Mundo - Así se prepara el activo que hará de Cataluña un polo global en 5G
• El País - Barcelona se postula como candidata a ser un laboratorio europeo del 5G - La ciudad crea un consorcio para aprovechar la capitalidad del móvil y atraer fondos europeos para el despliegue de esta tecnología
• El Mundo - La futura red 5G se testa en Barcelona

NEWS (January 4th 2018): Marc Hernández Urrea, a MASTEAM student, has recently received a grant from the Instrumentation, Sensors and Interfaces Group, one of the UPC research groups involved in MASTEAM, in order to work on his Master Thesis on a multichannel bioimpedance measurement device based only on surface contacts with the limbs. His work will develop two international UPC patents whose implementation can be a breakthrough in cardiovascular measurements in m-health scenarios.

In a similar situation, Andrés Sánchez Ramos, another MASTEAM student, is currently being funded by a grant of the Broadband Networks and Services research group in order to assist the research activities related to softwarization of networks and services: Network Funcrions Virtualization (NFV), Software Defined Networking (SDN), service function chaining (SFC), and orchestration (MANO), in the context of the development of 5G networks.

NEWS (December 27th 2017): For those students wishing to start their studies in September 2018 (Autumn 2018 semester), the pre-enrolment period will be open from January 8th 2018 to July 6th 2018.  Foreign students should apply as soon as possible, in order to obtain admission soon enough to proceed with the visa request at the Spanish consulates in their countries. More details of the academic calendar can be found here. 

NEWS (December 23rd 2017): The course schedules for the Spring 2018 semester can be found here. They will not be officially published (because our Bachelor Degrees are still having changes), but we don't expect any change in the master. Recall that the academic calendar of course 2017-18 can be found here. You can also find the exams for 1A1 and 1B1 courses here (April 2018) and for 1A2 and 1B2 courses here (June 2018). In both cases, select MU MASTEAM 2015 in order to filter the exam list.

NEWS (December 21st 2017): Fundació Catalunya-La Pedrera (FCLP) celebrated on October 2017, the ceremony of the the seventh edition of the Scholarship Program for Masters of Excellence. One of their grants has been assigned, for the 7th year in a row, to the MASTEAM candidate with the best CV. This course the MASTEAM student awarded with 5000 euros is Juan Luís de la Cruz, one of the new students admitted to MASTEAM to begin his studies in September 2017. Congratulations to Juan Luis, and our gratitude to the FCLP for its continued support to our Master students. You can see the pictures and details of the ceremony here.

NEWS (September 16th 2017): Pre-enrolment for students wishing to start their studies in February 2018 (Spring 2018 semester), will be open from October 16th, 2017 to December 15th, 2017. Foreign students should apply as soon as possible, in order to obtain admission soon enough to proceed with the visa request at the Spanish consulates in their countries. For those students wishing to start their studies in September 2018 (Autumn 2018 semester), the pre-enrolment period will be open from January 8th 2018 to July 6th 2018. 

NEWS (July 3rd 2017): Yet another University ranking has been published: the ShanghaiRank, from the Academic Ranking of World Universities, considers UPC as the 24th best global University in Telecommunications Engineering, and the 4th best in Europe. More details here.

NEWS (June 9th 2017): Prof. Ramon Pallàs, a renowned expert in Sensors and coordinator of two of the MASTEAM courses, is one of the speakers invited to the 2nd Workshop in Smart Cities: Challenges and Opportunities (SCCaOS 2017) to be celebrated on June 14-15 2017 at Barcelona UPC School of Nautical Studies (FNB), as part of the commemorations of the 5th anniversary of the Sino Spanish Campus, an international alliance among the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), and Tongji University (TU, China). The workshop topics include Sensors and Artificial Intelligence for Hospitals/Well Aging, Architecture and Future Cities, Urban Vehicles for future cities, Smart Drone applications and City Sensoring - aligned with the topics studied at MASTEAM. More information: http://www.upc.edu/zh/en/SCCAOS_2017/program

NEWS (June 8th 2017): UPC has appeared as well positioned in several University rankings published during the last weeks:

• UPC is among the 51-100 best universities worldwide in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Telecommunications) fields, among the the 101-150 university worldwide with the best Graduate Employability ranking, and the 32nd best University worldwide of those founded less than 50 years ago (QS World Ranking 2018)
  
• Best Spanish University in the field of Innovation and Technology (U-Ranking 2017)
  

NEWS (June 1st 2017): MASTEAM has been awarded, for the 7th year in a row, a grant for the newly admitted student (Autumn 2017) with the best academic records. The grant amount is 5.000 euros, covering tuition fees, plus a stipend, and is offered by the Fundació Catalunya-La Pedrera, in the seventh edition of the Scholarship Program for Masters of Excellence. This initiative aims to recognize talent, promote excellence and impulse postgraduate quality, MASTEAM is one of the few masters considered excellent in the field of Engineering. More information here.

NEWS (March 2nd 2017): Dr Carles Gómez, coordinator and professor of the "Ubiquitous IP and Internet of Things" MASTEAM course, has co-authored a draft of an IETF RFC related to header compression of IPv6 and UDP in LPWAN (Low Power Wide Area Networks). You can access the draft here and other publications from Dr Gómez here.

NEWS (February 27th 2017): Researchers of the UPC’s Instrumentation, Sensors and Interfaces (ISI) Group, led by Prof. Ramon Pallàs, who teaches two of MASTEAM's courses, have patented CardioSense, an electrocardiograph that provides a cardiovascular pre-diagnosis in less than 60 seconds. The results are more accurate than those offered by existing devices and can be communicated to medical professionals from any place where there is mobile phone coverage. The device will be presented at this year’s Mobile World Congress. More information here.

NEWS (January 21st 2017): In the last months media is reporting about a shortage of IT engineers (Telecommunications, Computer Science) in Spain (and specifically in Barcelona). La Vanguardia newspaper has run a story about it (in Spanish). Although it can be argued if the salaries are really that high, what is true is that the IT sector is in urgent need of IT professionals due to the high volume of technology-based start-ups and the fact that big companies have established or are opening R&D divisions in Barcelona.

NEWS (January 20th 2017): The official list of students admitted to start their studies in the Spring 2017 semester has been published here.

NEWS (January 9th 2017): The pre-enrolment period for starting your studies in the Autumn 2017 semester is already open. Check details in the Summary and Admission sections below. 

NEWS (December 20th 2016): The course schedule for the Spring 2017 semester has been published. Check the bottom of this page.

NEWS (December 16th 2016): MASTEAM students have visited two companies hosted in our campus: HEMAV (drones - very related to ICT and IoT, for example in sensor data collection by drones, or in image processing) and BCN3D (3D printing). If you wonder how 3D printing is related to Internet and Things and Smart Cities, take a look at these links: Telefonica's R&D blog, Could 3D printing revolutionize the Internet of Things? MASTEAM students had a lot of fun and apart from the technical aspects they were able to see how two small companies are organized (kanban and lean techniques in BCN3D, a very flexible organization of a startup such as HEMAV). Both companies offered our students the possibility of doing internships and master thesis.

NEWS (November 3rd 2016): On Tuesday November 22, 13:00h, at the Main Hall (C4-001), we will host an informative talk on the existing opportunities that our Master students have to complete their studies abroad. We will also inform you about the new agreements recently signed for the double degrees program.

During this talk we will provide you with general information that you may need for your mobility to a foreign country, including the deadlines, administrative stuff, necessary documents, application for grants, and so on.

We please ask you to confirm your participation by sending an email with your name, surname and the current Master degree in which you are enrolled to eetac.mobilitat.estudiants@upc.edu. Please, use MASTER TALK as the subject of your email.

NEWS (November 2nd 2016): Fundació Catalunya-La Pedrera (FCLP) celebrated on October 26th the ceremony of the the sixth edition of the Scholarship Program for Masters of Excellence. One of their grants has been assigned, for 6 years in a row, to the MASTEAM candidate with the best CV. This course the MASTEAM student awarded with 5000 euros is David Sesto, one of the new students admitted to MASTEAM to begin his studies in September 2016. Congratulations to David, and our gratitude to the FCLP for its continued support to our Master students. You can see the pictures and details of the ceremony here.

NEWS (October 26th 2016): We are happy to have hosted a talk from Dr Diego López (Telefónica I+D), on Software networks, SDN, NFV and 5G. October 26th, classroom 130G, Building C4, Campus Castelldefels UPC, 13:00h (note the change in the usual place and time). 

You can find here the slides of this inspiring talk.

NEWS (October 25th 2016): MASTEAM has signed a Double Degree agreeement with Cranfield University (UK), that includes 8 different master programs. This will allow Cranfield and UPC students to obtain 2 master degrees in just 2 years (1 year in each country). More information here.

NEWS (October 24th 2016): We are happy to host a talk from Mr Vicent Ferrándiz (Idneo-Ficosa), Breaking myths about entrepreneurship in the IoT sector. October 24th, classroom 128B, Building C4, Campus Castelldefels UPC, 17:30h.

NEWS (October 19th 2016): MASTEAM students visit the CTTC (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya), and specifically the laboratories and testbeds related to Internet of Things and Smart Cities, the main topics of the master.

The CTTC researchers and engineers will describe the equipment, testbeds and architectures that they are developing.

The visit will consist in going through 4 different laboratories, which are:

M2M Lab.: http://technologies.cttc.es/m2m/lab-facilities/

Mobile Networks Lab.: http://www.cttc.es/mobile-networks-lab/

Optical Networks and Systems Lab.: http://www.cttc.es/optical-networks-and-systems-lab/

Digital Networks and Systems Lab.: http://www.cttc.es/digital-signal-processing-lab/

NEWS (October 10th 2016): MASTEAM has signed a Double Degree agreeement with the Master in Telecommunications Engineering of Università dell'Aquila (UNIVAQ, Italy). This will allow UNIVAQ and UPC students to obtain both master degrees in just 2 years (1 year in each country). We already have an italian student, Federico Vincenzo Fiordigigli, following this joint program. More information here.

NEWS (October 1st 2016): MASTEAM has opened the pre-enrolment period for students who want to start their studies in February 2017. Pre-enrolment will be open until 16th December. More information and links below, in the Admission section. 

NEWS (September 29th 2016): We are proud to announce a talk from Dr Cristina Cano (UOC), EETAC-UPC alumni, on Coexistence of Scheduled and Random Access: On Fairness and Implications of Heterogeneity Oct 5th, classroom 128B, 17:30h.

NEWS (September 28th 2016): MASTEAM has initiated a collaboration with the organizers of IoT World Solutions congress, held at Fira de Barcelona. This includes free expo passes for MASTEAM students and professors, and a talk about the current status of the IoT market and its future in November (date to be confirmed).

NEWS (September 27th 2016): The talk program starts again, with an inspiring talk from Dr Jesús Alonso-Zárate, researcher and head of the M2M Communications dept at CTTC. "The Internet of Things: A Brave New World", Sept 28th, classroom 128B, 17:30h.

NEWS (September 1st 2016): The academic calendar, course schedule, and exam schedule of the Autumn 2016 semester have been published - check the links at the bottom of this page.

NEWS (July 29th 2016): MASTEAM ranks as the 5th Best Engineering master in Spain, according to El Mundo newspaper. See the ranking here  (in Spanish).

NEWS (July 28th 2016): The official list of students admitted to MASTEAM to begin their studies in September 2016 is published here  (in Catalan, Spanish and English).

NEWS (July 20th 2016): David Sesto, one of the new students admitted to MASTEAM  to begin his studies in September 2016, has been awarded the grant of 5.000 euros offered by the Fundació Catalunya-La Pedrera, in the sixth edition of the Scholarship Program for Masters of Excellence. More information here.

NEWS (May 18th 2016): MASTEAM has been awarded, for the 6th year in a row, a grant for the newly admitted student (Autumn 2016) with the best academic records. The grant amount is 5.000 euros, covering tuition fees, plus a stipend, and is offered by the Fundació Catalunya-La Pedrera, in the sixth edition of the Scholarship Program for Masters of Excellence. This initiative aims to recognize talent, promote excellence and impulse postgraduate quality, MASTEAM is one of the only six masters considered excellent in the field of Engineering. More information here.

NEWS (April 13th 2016): As an activity of the Big Data and Data Mining course of the MASTEAM, past Tuesday March 29th the students and the lecturer of the course went to visit the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. The visit lasted for 1 hour during which the group was authorized to walk around and above the glass box that contains the MareNostrum, to see one of its more than 24,000 processing boards, and to visit the museum of the historical supercomputers of the center. More information here.

NEWS (April 1st 2016): Two MASTEAM students, Xavier Narváez and Rodrigo Sampedro, have been awarded a Catalan Government grant to collaborate in undergraduate teaching activities during three months. The selection was made based on the academic records of the candidates, and the two grants assigned to EETAC have been awarded to MASTEAM students. More information here.

NEWS (February 22nd 2016): Guillem Xercavins Torregrosa (MASTEAM) has received a grant from theInstrumentation, Sensors and Interfaces Group, one of the UPC research groups based in EETAC premises, in order to work on his Master Thesis on bioimpedance measurements using only surface contacts with the limbs. His work will develop several UPC patents which implementation can be a breakthrough in cardiovascular measurements in e-health scenarios.

NEWS (December 15th 2015): A team of four EETAC-UPC students, including three MASTEAM alumni (Sergio Aguilar Romero, Rafael Montero Herrera, David José Quiroz Martiña, Luis Alonso Villatoro Quiroz), has won the SDN Open Contrail Hackathon organized by the i2CAT Foundation and Juniper Networks. The contest consisted on developing a proof-of-concept of a SDN/NFV application, taking advantage of the flexibility of the current trend of software-defined and virtualized networking. The team won a prize of 3000$ or a ticket to the 4-day Imagine Express Barcelona-Paris-London trip. More information here.

NEWS (October 13th 2015): Two of our students receive a 5000 euros Excellent Grant covering tuition fees, plus a stipend. Ana Cristina Fernández and Rodrigo Sampedro are among the 50 students who received a grant from Fundació Catalunya-La Pedrera, in the fifth edition of the Scolarship Program for Masters of Excellence. This initiative aims to recognize talent, promote excellence and impulse postgraduate quality. More information here.