Major technological advances and the unstoppable digital and energy transformation have also reached the urban landscape. As we've seen in previous posts, the cities of the future are closer than we think…
In fact, funding for projects focused on areas related to smart cities is currently on the rise: the improvements to infrastructure and transportation, the comprehensive management of your buildings or the efficient and sustainable management energy resources, among others. These investments also include less visible critical infrastructure, such as components of the sewer system, which must adapt to digital and sustainable water management within the framework of urban transformation.
All of this has led engineers, technicians, and architects to continue specializing in this field to open up career opportunities in other markets. What about you? Do you want to be a cutting-edge professional and shape your future?
1. Smart Cities: Urban Planning and Citizen Participation
Through this program, you'll gain an approach that you can apply to the urban fabric of a smart city. In addition, you'll come to understand the changes that urban innovation cycles are bringing about among citizens by identifying the main innovative economic activities.
2. Smart Cities: Energy and Sustainable Mobility
With this other course, you'll be able to Identify business models based on distributed energy generation and energy efficiency, as well as their integration into smart cities.
Specifically, it consists of a 200-hour MicroMaster’s program that can be completed in four months. The program is divided into four modules: Introduction to Smart Cities, Open Government, Smart Energy, and Smart Mobility and Electric Vehicles.
3. Smart Cities: Intelligent Management of Urban Resources
Do you want to contribute to urban transformation projects? Then this is the MicroMaster's program for you. You'll learn about the operation of smart infrastructure, tools for gathering information and Mobility in a Smart City, as well as the Intelligent and sustainable management of water as a resource.
The program is divided into four modules totaling 200 class hours: Introduction to Smart Cities, Smart Energy Management, Smart Urban Mobility Management, and Smart Water Resources Management.
It is worth noting that all three programs offer the opportunity to earn a university degree from Isabel I University; however, to do so, students must submit and pass a final project, which will be graded by the MicroMaster’s director.
