Informatics Silesian University of Technology

Overview

In particular, students acquire programming skills, gain deep understanding of the internal functioning of operating systems and compilers, learn aspects of concurrent programming, principles of computer graphics and vision. 

Additionally, they acquire skills in construction, maintenance and usage of system software and applications development, building systems and computer networks and designing and administration of databases that are deployed in various environments and operating systems. 

The courses comprise lectures, tutorials, laboratories and projects, with the emphasis on the latter.

Key Features

Alumni are prepared to work as software developers for standalone and web applications, databases and data warehouses, computer games and mobile applications. 

They can also get the position as computer engineers, network and system maintainers, project managers. With scientific background they gain during studies, they can work in R&D departments of companies and also in science.

• Graduates of the Informatics degree from the Silesian University of Technology have knowledge in the field of developing computer systems and applications as well as the most important IT issues, such as web applications, software engineering or computer control systems.

• Graduates are able to design computer systems of various configurations and to create solutions based on local, wide and industrial networks, including wireless networks. They are also prepared for administering of such systems.

• Graduates of the informatics find employment in companies creating IT systems or dealing with the computerization of industrial processes, in software design houses and in service sections.

• Graduates have qualifications required to work as an analyst, designer and system programmer, as well as the administrator of operating systems.

• Graduates also work as specialists in the field of safety of systems and computer networks. They are able to develop embedded systems and mobile applications.