How do you build drones and electronic medical devices? How do you make technology and artificial intelligence fit into the smallest of spaces? How does software and hardware work together?

The Bachelor's degree program in Electronics and Information Technology (ELIT) focuses on learning how the smallest electronic devices are built, how they are networked, how they communicate, and how they process their data. You will learn how to feed them with artificial intelligence and integrate them into larger systems.

Chips, sensors, electrical circuits are your playground and you get to build them, get them to work and transmit the data. You will design new systems and solve the problems we encounter every day when it comes to our smartphones, laptops, cars, etc. in places such as at hospitals and at industry 4.0 companies. Electronics and Information Technology is what creates the basis to evaluate data, initially making everything our modern world possible.

The program is based on broad foundations of principles in engineering and natural sciences: Electrical engineering, computer science, physics, and mathematics.

• Our program structure gives undergraduate students a unique opportunity to work together with experienced colleagues in a laboratory environment to set up measurements and conduct experiments.
• Our faculty members have strong, networking connections with industry representatives from around the world. You actively take part in collaboration efforts with industries to conduct hands-on work and address real-world problems.
• If you have a specific area of interest, we can give you the space you need to pursue your interests. Learn more about different fields such as signal processing, become a big data analyst, discover circuit technology, or design computer chips.
• Joint lectures with classmates in other majors give you an opportunity to build up a cross-disciplinary network at the JKU campus and also provide the corresponding base-knowledge foundations you need in mathematics, computer sciences and physics.
• Start with ELIT and study a variety of options: You start your degree program together with students studying mechatronics and mechanical engineering. This gives you a taste of different fields and areas and after your first year of studies, you can easily switch to mechatronics or mechanical engineering, if you want.

As an engineer in Electronics and Information Technology, you can pursue a career in electronics or in the automotive industry as well as in medical technology or in communications. Your main skills include developing, producing and marketing components as well as systems and software. Here are a few concrete examples:

• Communication: Develop smartphone chips for the next generation of mobile smartphones.
• Medicine and Healthcare: You can develop chips to perform countless chemical operations or develop algorithms for ultrasound devices. You can actively revolutionize medical diagnostics.
• Self-Driving Vehicles: Together with artificial intelligence (AI) experts, you improve safety features in self-driving cars - such as radar sensors, for example - to reliably recognize others on the road.
• Development Engineer: The systems you develop may be able to solve tasks more efficiently and reliably or ensure that a company's products meet all the necessary requirements.
• System Designer: You make sure that a company's products fit well into a higher-level product or that components communicate smoothly with each other. You develop solutions for a customer's particular requests. You make sure that programmers, developers, and other experts work effectively together. 
• Start-Up Company: Take your original idea and run with it by starting your own business.

Admission Requirements

In order to be admitted to the Bachelor's degree program, you must fulfill the following requirements.

• Hold general higher education entrance qualifications (such as an Austrian "Matura" diploma )
• If your first language is not German, you will be required to submit proof of B2 level of language proficiency in German.