Undergraduate
studies

Upon completion of the course students will be able to:
• Understand basic security concepts at all levels of computer networks with an emphasis on TCP/IP networks.
• Identify vulnerabilities in these systems.
• Assess any weaknesses and failures
• Explore ways to manage the reduction of network vulnerabilities
• To design methodologies and techniques for network security, taking into account the analysis of the data.
• To set up and implement network security systems, with an emphasis on the use of free software / open source software.

Upon completion, the students are expected to:
• Understand the theoretical foundations and practical framework of e-business and e-commerce
• Describe the fundamental elements of e-Commerce and e-Business
• Understand the main elements of the e-Environment
• Have a better understanding of the e-Business strategy, Supply Chain Management, e-Marketing and Customer Relationships Management
• Design new and apply existing methods to optimize e-Business services
• Be aware of modern e-Business approaches adopted by leading companies at the national and international level.

With the successful completion of the course the student will be able to:
• Be aware of the new technological trends related to internet-based information systems
• Describe the role of net-centric information systems in the current business environment kai in the networked economy
• Have a knowledge of the applications of net-centric information systems in the e-business kai e-commerce
• Know and use the technologies used in network computing
• Identify the changes, perspectives and risks brought up by the recent developments in mobile computing, cloud computing and ubiquitous computing in the net-centric information systems in particular and in the business processes in general.
• Have a working knowledge of the required infrastructure for the functioning and further enhancement of net-centric information systems
• Use the Javascript libraries (e.g. jQuery, Underscore.js)
• Develop micro-applications (Java applets/servlets) using the Java programming language
• Develop webpages with dynamic content using Java Server Pages (JSP)
• Utilize modern web programming techniques, such as the frameworks Struts and Spring
• Know the usefulness of web services, and of the SOAP protocol, the descriptive language WDSL and of the service-oriented architecture (SOA)
• Elaborate the functional requirements required for the development of a net-centric information system and suggest the development methodology to be adopted
• Utilize the tools and the techniques covered in the course to develop integrated web based applications understand the basic features of internet applications, their structure, their objectives as well as their interconnection.

By the end of this course students will be able to:
1. Understand the basic concepts and distinguish the characteristics of projects and functions.
2. Understand the structure and the framework of IT project.
3. Classify the stages that will describe the basic features of an IT project management.
4. Define the subject and analyze the features of a project.
5. Identify the techniques and methods of IT project management.
6. Focus on the ways of applying the strategic principles that are provided by project management.
7. Evaluate and select the most suitable of the available ways for making possible the application of the strategic principles.

In this course the student will briefly review the learning theories and their connection to ICT teaching. The main objective is to present the techniques and methods that allow their use in the design and development of Educational Software. Functional specifications and tools are presented and analyzed through which the Educational Software is organized. Models of smart teaching systems based on educational software are presented and studied.

Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
1. Describe the functional parts of an educational software
2. Design and implement an educational software
3. Apply standard smart teaching approaches with software
4. Evaluate an educational software in terms of its completeness

With the successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:
• Possess specialized knowledge of: sampling/recording methods for speech and audio signals, sound perception theory and psychoacoustics, spectral analysis, coding/compression, recognition and synthesis techniques for speech and audio signals.
• Understand how signal processing theory, psychoacoustics and machine learning are combined and interoperated to design and implement various speech and audio processing and analysis systems, like speech/audio enhancement, compression and recognition/synthesis systems.
• Possess the skills to solve problems involving real-world data (of open-source nature), for which it is requested to design and develop speech and audio processing/analysis systems, perform feasibility studies, select the most appropriate algorithms each time and assess the comparative performance of systems under study.
• Deal with the computational burden and complexity imposed by data stemming from real-world problems in a team environment.
• Possess advanced Python/Matlab/GNU Octave programming skills for the implementation of algorithms, techniques and methods for the processing of speech and audio content.
• Identify and re-use existing open-source implementations related to multimedia content processing, like the librosa library of functions.
• Understand how the field of speech and audio processing is related to other neighboring disciplines, like the fields of image and video processing.

By the end of this course students will be able to:
1. Know the basic concepts of enterprise activities
2. Identify the methods of completing the management of information systems
3. Understand the range of possibilities of ERP and CRM systems.
4. Identify the methodologies of application of an ERP system within a business/organization.
5. Looking for data and information for identifying and solving problems
6. Analyze and compose data and information taking advantage the most suitable in every occasion technologies
7. Compare and evaluate the modern trends in enterprise resource planning

With the successful completion of the course, the student should be able to:

1. Design, develop, deploy and maintain Cellular Network Infrastructures (GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, LTE).
2. Design, develop, deploy and maintain Wireless Access Networks (WMAN).
3. Design, develop, deploy and maintain Wireless Local Networks (WLANs).
4. Design, develop, deploy and maintain Wireless Personal Networks (WPAN).
5. Design, develop, deploy and maintain Ad-hoc networks.
6. Design, develop, deploy and maintain satellite communication systems.
7. Design, develop, deploy and maintain wireless communication networks services.
8. Understand the basic principles and architecture of management systems.
9. Deal with modern management techniques/methodologies.
10. Deal with network virtualization issues,
11. Recognize distributed application management techniques and their impact on network performance, SDN and NFV in 5G.
12. Knows the integrated distributed application management platforms
13. Understand issues relating to the regulation of modern telecommunications markets
14. Design and operate systems
15. Evaluate the operation of systems
16. Solve system errors and failures.
17. Use advanced management tools
18. Analyze, evaluate and propose broad solutions for a series of systems and network management scenarios.

Upon completion of the course, the students will be able to:
• Describe key concepts of quality, quality control, quality assurance and total quality management.
• Recognize the total quality management models.
• Report the certification bodies of quality assurance systems.
• Determine which standard corresponds to each business activity.
• Report the most important ISO standards for IT products and services.
• Determine the process of developing and implementing a quality assurance system.
• Describe the requirements and steps for certifying a quality assurance system.
• Employ tools to prevent, monitor and analyze the causes of low quality.
• Use statistical quality control techniques.
• Detect quality problems in business processes.
• Calculate the cost of management actions to improve quality as well as the cost of poor quality.
• Utilize the appropriate tools to improve quality.
• Create questionnaires and apply methodologies for measuring customer satisfaction.
• Analyze the data resulting from the surveys.
• Suggest appropriate actions for improving the quality.

Upon completion, the students:
• Will have familiarized themselves with cutting-edge technologies
• Will have experience in using Distributed Ledger Technologies to solve selected business problems in particular areas of interest
• Will be able to describe and analyze the basic features of blockchain technology (origin, individual specifications, architectures),
• Will be able to implement and make use of Smart Contracts
• They will be exposed to blockchain's relevant applications while focusing on various business problems in key areas such as health, economy, governance, data management/security, supply chain management, etc.
• They will learn the Solidity programming language and use it in the creation of Smart Contracts in Ethereum blockchains and the development of related applications.
• Will select the appropriate blockchain configuration for addressing real-life business problems.