CSIM is a 1 year program awarding 60ECTS (official European credits). It is essentially a research oriented program.

The final practical project or Master Thesis is integrated with the research and development activities of the different academic and industrial partners of the program and/or oriented towards public events and exhibition installations. This project oriented approach expresses the goal of translating basic understanding into the construction of state of the art CSIMs (please refer to Projects description), to generate a continuous forward-looking drive onto the basic research and development and to express in a concrete way the adherence to a synthetic methodology in the investigation and realization of CSIMs.

This master program calls students from different backgrounds to an interdisciplinary context. However, all students must be aware they need to have a minimum technological knowledge before they enter the master. As a basic essential requirement, students must have a medium level of programming. In other words, they must have programmed before in one of the following languages: C++, Java, Python, Processing, or any other similar language.

Themaster is devided into 40ECTS of courses and 20ECTS of project work. The Syllabus section describes which courses are available and how they are to be structured.

FULL-TIME Programe:

It is important to note that the master is designed as a full-timemaster since it demands quite a lot of work from the student. It is a master for hard-workers and people with enthusiasm.

Specifically, for every ECTS of a course, the student will have to attend to 5 hours of class with the professor and will have to invest 20 hours of her own work outside the class:

1ECTS = 5hours class + 20 hours student work out of class

Therefore, a normal course of 5ECTS will demand 25 hours of class + 100 hours of own work. This means that in a normal trimester lasting for 10 weeks, the student will have around 75 hours of class and will have to do work worth 300 hours.

Moreover, the Master Thesis represents around 500hours of work which are distributed throughout the second and third trimester (January to June) and added to the hours of work related to courses of those trimesters.

Finally, although classes are usually placed in the schedule in the afternoons and evenings, some courses need to be in the mornings because of several restrictions associated to external invited professors and classroom availability.

There exists a possibility of doing the master in a part-time regime by doing splitting the one year 60ECTS into two years of 30ECTS each.