Building of a Telecommunications Engineering Economics Curriculum: A case study from Greece

Abstract

Telecommunications engineering has witnessed tremendous advances in recent years primarily due to progress in network science and engineering and developments in related areas and applications. the business and economic aspects of telecommunications engineering have attracted the scientific interest of academia and industry as another ingredient of telecom, aiming to respond to the economic aspects of telecommunications networks developments. Therefore, the emerging telecom environment assembles people working in science, engineering, economics, business and social sciences, considering telecom developments and challenges. These needs have been accompanied by the development of specialized undergraduate courses world-widely. The development of a curriculum in telecommunications engineering economics as a joint effort of Informatics and Telecommunications and Economics faculties of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens is hereafter discussed and the 15-years experiences are presented.