GNSS algorithms and hardware
Enrollment status: full-time
Duration: 2 years
Qualification: Master Degree
Price: 122 000 RUB per year
Samara University offers this master program for students, who want to become experts in GNSS area. Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) penetrates into many important elements of contemporary human's life. Being an expert in GNSS means, that you are on the edge of state-of-art technologies of electronics and computer science.
Brief characterisation of the programme
This program is implemented within the framework of radio engineering. The program allows to educate highly qualified professionals, capable to develop hardware and software of GNSS receivers, to adapt standard solutions for specific purposes, to apply new technologies and elements in GNSS. Development of state-of-art elements, like FPGAs and DSPs provides an opportunity to create GNSS receivers with completely new features.
Features (advantages) of the programme
Practical competencies: experience with Matlab simulation of GNSS signals and hardware/software, using FPGA and DSPs for the development of GNSS receivers, efficient implementation of SDR technique, implementation of specific positioning algorithms.
The graduates will obtain following professional skills:
- Development of state-of-art GNSS receivers;
- Using GNSS technologies for positioning tasks and other applications;
- Development of dedicated software for solving positioning tasks;
- Development of hardware for various applications;
- Development of complex GNSS.
Admission path
Required background: Theory of signals, Fundamentals of DSP, Fundamentals of antennas and signal’s propagation, fundamentals of digital electronics and microprocessors, basics of circuitry engineering, basic MATLAB programming. This program starts in October, that is convenient for students from some countries, issuing undegraduate diplomas too late for entering programs starting in September.
All necessary information about admission rules is placed on the site of Samara University: http://priem.ssau.ru/sites/default/files/Pravila_priema_Samara_University_30.09.2016.pdf
Foreign students may contact Ekaterina Stepanova from International Office by e-mail: admission@ssau.ru to have detailed information about admission rules and ask questions.
Academic programme structure (curriculum features)
The curriculum includes a set of basic courses like fundamentals of GNSS, positioning technique, mathematical methods of signal processing, state-of-art circuitry engineering, as well as specialized courses like implementation of radio receivers, SDR technology, antennas, DSP processors and algorithms, techniques for acquisition and tracking of GNSS signals, micro- and nanoelectronics, and MATLAB.
The curriculum includes courses in electronic applications, software development, dedicated courses in GNSS technology. Many courses are delivered by lecturers, invited from the leading centres, well-known in the world of GNSS technologies. General supervision is performed by the expert in GNSS technologies professor Kai Borre who has comprehensive experience in GNSS technologies.
Future profession
The field of professional activity of graduates includes science, engineering and technologies related to research, design, and manufacturing of the electronic systems used in positioning applications.
Graduating from this program you are prepared for the following professional activities:
- Electronic engineering;
- Software engineering;
- Scientific research.
Job placement opportunities
After graduation students can work in research centres, universities, and enterprises using positioning applications or developing GNSS.
