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2012-2013
Bachelor
Electrical Engineering
Bachelor
Automotive
More information on Electrical Engineering Study information Electrical Engineering tel. +31 (0) 40 247 3713Dear student,
Welcome to the Electrical Engineering department.
The importance of our field to society has not only increased enormously in the past 100 years but will continue to do so in the years ahead. This is evident in the societal challenges we are facing in healthcare, telecommunication, mobility and energy supplies. Just look at road vehicles, an area in which electrical engineering is becoming an increasingly dominant component. Hence the reason for TU/e to incorporate the automotive curriculum within our department.
This study guide provides valuable information about the Electrical Engineering and Automotive Bachelor at Eindhoven University of Technology. It contains information about the structure of the three-year program and how the study is organized within our department as well as all kinds of practical study information.
In addition to the information provided here, you are strongly urged to consult the general study information on the TU/e website for current timetables, examination dates and details of specific subjects.
This study guide has been compiled with great care. If you have any questions, then drop in to the “Education office” (PT 1.26), the student counselor (CR 1.04) or me (PT 1.29).
I wish you an enjoyable and fascinating study!
Foreword 2
---1. The Bachelor College 6
1.1 Major in Electrical Engineering 9
1.2 Major in Automotive 15
---2. Practical study information 20
2.1 Forms of study 22
2.2 Examinations 25
2.3 Honors program 27
2.4 OASE, the digital learning and work environment 28 2.5 Study supervision / binding study recommendation 28 2.6 Propaedeutic and Bachelor examinations 31
---3. Program of previous generations (before 2012) 32
3.1 Electrical Engineering 34 3.2 Automotive 38 ---4. General information 40 4.1 Educational institute 42 4.2 Departmental Board 43 4.3 Departmental Council 43 4.4 Examination Committee 44 4.5 Curriculum Committee 44 4.6 Research programs 45
4.7 Communication and information 45
4.8 Connecthor 46
4.9 Study facilities 46
4.10 Besides your studies 47
8 | The Bachelor College
You have chosen to study Electrical Engineering at the TU/e Bachelor College.
Half of this three-year Bachelor program is devoted to your major (Electrical Engineering or Automotive), a study that will prepare you for a job as an engineer in your particular field. All first-year TU/e students follow a number of basic subjects like mathematics, physics and modeling, which are more or less the same for every study. In your first year you are already able to choose a number of subjects and so shape your study right from the beginning. Of course, you also get non-engineering subjects because engineers are concerned with more than engineering alone. So the study curriculum comprises the following four components:
• Major (90 credits). The major is, in fact, the main direction you choose to study. Electrical Engineering and Automotive are examples and both are taught within our department.
• Basic subjects (30 credits). The basic subjects are followed by all TU/e students and include mathematics, physics, design and modeling. • Elective subjects (45 credits). Each student can
(within certain norms and in consultation with the coach) compile an elective package. The elective subjects are spread throughout the entire program of Bachelor studies.
• User, Society & Enterprise (USE, 15 credits). This part also concerns elective subjects, but not engineering ones. Examples of USE subjects are entrepreneurship, ethics and sustainability. There is also an introductory basic subject USE. All subjects in the Bachelor College are worth 5 credits each.
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Detailed information about the Bachelor College and the subjects can be found at
http://w3.tue.nl/en/education/1 It is advisable to consult this study page regularly to get the latest information.
The Bachelor program will help you develop the skills you need in industry and you will learn to translate you knowledge of technology into applications that are relevant for society. You will train your analytical, problems as well as cooperate in teams. A Bachelor study at TU/e is often a preparatory phase to a Master’s. TU/e has many options in this respect but your TU/e Bachelor degree will enable you to do a Master’s at many other places throughout the world. The relevant information in this Bachelor phase is outlined below. For the Electrical Engineering major see 1.1 and for the Automotive major see 1.2 (page 15). Section 2 contains useful information on matters like the forms of study we offer and how to enroll for examinations.
1.1
Major in Electrical Engineering
---1.1.1 Definition
The study of Electrical Engineering focuses on the app lications of electricity and magnetism, which in clude renewable energy systems, telecommunica-tion, robotics, medical equipment and computers. Electrical engineering has been the fastest growing field over the past fifty years, having an enormous impact on society. Just think of the tumultuous rise of computers, the introduction of mobile telephony and key medical innovations, like the MRI scanner. The field embraces both analog and digital systems in which hardware and software are equally important. More specifically, Electrical Engineering comprises the following sub-fields:
• Energy Technology. This covers the whole chain from electricity supply and generation to the transport and consumption of electricity in equipment by both consumers and industry. The incorporation of renewable energy sources in the system and
intelligent network management (“Smart grids”) are currently the key research themes. In addition, the electrical circuits and materials that are able to resist and switch high voltages and flows are important. Vice versa, use can be made of the high voltages to influence processes, for example with pulsed power. • Electronics. This is geared to the analysis and design of electronic circuits and systems whereby the emphasis lies on extensive system integration in IC’s (Integrated Circuits), or ‘chips’. The system requirements and properties of IC manufacturing determine how systems are subdivided into basic functions and then translated into circuits with optimum properties like circuit speed, output power and precision, all at minimum cost in terms of the IC surface area and power dissipation. At the lowest level, IC’s consist of active non-linear components (transistors and other semiconductor components) and passive components (resistors, capacitors, coils). • Photonics or opto-electronics. This scientific and engineering discipline focuses on the interaction between light (photons) and electrons (electronics). ■ Major
■ Basic subjects
■ Elective subjects
■ USE: User, Society and Enterprise
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This concerns elements that convert electrical power into light (light source), elements that concert light into electric (light detector), and elements that enable the processing of optical signals using electrical or optical control signals (modulators, filters, circuits, etc.). Given the vast bandwidth available in the optical domain, photonic circuits are suitable for use in systems with a very large information transmission or processing capacity.
• Electronic Systems. These highly structured design strategies are used to create digital electronic circuits and systems, like microprocessors
and video-processors. Applications are very diverse, varying from household (from washing machine to Xbox) to industrial use (professional printers and wafersteppers).
• Control Engineering. This has strong interfaces with pneumatics, hydraulics and process engineering. It focuses on the measurement and control of units in industrial processes such as level, temperature, pH, flow and pressure. In its simplest form control is exercised by a controller that compares a set value (setpoint) with a value measured in a process and then sends a corrected value to the correcting device (like a control valve). In modern computerized control engineering systems, controllers can be implemented in software.
• Electrical Mechanics. This describes the energy conversion between the electrical and mechanical world, as evident in electrical machines and actuators. Applications can be found in hybrid and electric vehicles, wind turbines, DVD players and electron microscopes. The control of these machines always contains electronics (power electronics) with electrical currents exceeding several amperes. Power electronics is essential as soon as any form of
electrical energy has to be converted, such as 220 V AC to 12V DC current. The power range varies from milliwatts (for a cell phone for example) to hundreds of megawatts to connect an offshore wind farm to the land grid via a sea cable. A key feature of a power converter is, therefore, electrical efficiency.
• Telecommunication. This concerns transmitting information from one place to another using connections like fiber-optic cable or radio waves. In the past 20 years this field has seen huge development with familiar applications like fiber-to-the-home, fiber-optic networks spanning the globe, our mobile telephone network and (wireless) internet connections. Key to this is the design of very high-capacity fiber-optic connections that use rapid optical signal processing for the signal routing. Other aspects in this field are the design of radio-over-fiber systems, antenna systems with corresponding radio transmitters/receivers, modeling communication channels and the development of new signal modulation methods.
• Signal Processing. This field concerns the description of signals and the analysis and design of signal-processing systems, including discrete as well as single and multi dimensional signals and systems. The signals are described in deterministic or stochastic terms. Research in the field focuses on the fundamentals of signal processing in terms of mathematical and theoretical physics notions, methods and models as well as on their application (as in medical systems), whereby the design, simulation and implementation of signal-processing systems play a central role.
• Electromagnetism. Many electrical engineering concepts can be derived from electromagnetism. Electromagnetic fields and applications are all around
us; just think of microwaves, the antenna of your cell phone, traffic radar or an MRI scanner in a
hospital. Electromagnetic waves are also used in the hyperthermal treatment of tumors.
Within our own Electrical Engineering department research focuses on three themes:
• Connected World • Care and Cure
• Smart and Sustainable Society
During your study you will come into contact with each of these themes, in projects or in your final Bachelor project. For more information about the themes, go to the website http://www.tue.nl/en/ university/departments/electrical-engineering/1
1.1.2 Aim of the study
This study aims to bring you up to the level of engineering-science Bachelor as an electrical engineer. To this end the following objectives are central to the study:
1. To give the student a broad knowledge base to enable him/her to accommodate to the sub-fields of the subject through:
a. insight into the physics and related electrical engineering applications.
b. deductive skills, learned through the study of mathematical analysis, algebra and probability theory, for rigorous analysis and derivation of new facts and programs.
c. representative knowledge of electrical engineering disciplines and methods, with an accent on mathematical modeling and a system approach.
d. an operational understanding of system engineering such as translating a societal need
into a specification of requirements and subsequent translation to a system configuration.
2. To provide the student with skills to optimize cooperation in a multidisciplinary team through: a. the ability to recognize, place, formulate and
communicate about engineering-science issues from practice.
b. the ability to analyze electrical engineering issues and provide a suitable solution, taking account of a variety of aspects that may emerge or be brought in by others.
c. an awareness of the place in and impact on the life cycle of the product in terms of design. d. the ability to report competently in
straight-forward language and terminology, both written and verbal, on engineering-science results and methods.
3. To prepare the Bachelor properly for an engineering-science Master in Electrical Engineering.
1.1.3 Electrical Engineering Curriculum
The Bachelor phase lasts three years and is completed with a final Bachelor project. Each year is worth 60 credits, with each credit equivalent to 28 hours of study. A year is therefore 1680 hours of study, or 42 weeks of 40 hours.The first year, the propaedeutic year, is designed to give the student insight into the contents of the rest of the study, subsequent studies and professional practice. It comprises basic subjects (including mathematics and physics) and various electrical engineering subjects. There is also plenty of scope for “Design Based Learning” (OGO in Dutch). For the entire first semester you will be working on the “Rock-your-Baby” design assignment. Our
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department also offers a number of other fascinating OGO assignments in the first year in which you will learn to solve electrical engineering problems through working in project teams.
In the second and third years you will explore Electrical Engineering in more depth and more room becomes available for elective subjects.
Both the propaedeutic year and the Bachelor phase close with an examination, the propaedeutic exam and the Bachelor exam. To be able to sit the Bachelor exam, you must have passed the propaedeutic exam.
First year
The chart below shows the Electrical Engineering Bachelor curriculum for the first year, split into semester A and B. Each semester comprises two quartiles of ten weeks. So for each quartile you have three subjects, each worth 5 credits. Beside the name of the subject the subject code is also shown in the chart. The first year has four basic subjects, six major subjects and two elective subjects.
Semester 1a
2WBB0 Calculus 3NBB0 Physics (general course) (general course) 5ECA0 Circuits Elective I (incl. OGO)
5EIA0 Computation I 5ESA0 Signals I (incl. OGO) (incl. OGO) Semester 1b
0LAB0 Modelling 0SAU0 USE (general course) (general course) 5ECB0 Electronic Elective I Circuits I
2DE20 Math 1 5ESB0 Systems
Chart: Bachelor program year 1, Electrical Engineering course. Elective subjects in the first year
This coming year the department offers two very interesting elective subjects in the form of design assignments:
• OGO Automotive (5XIA0). In a project team of 6-8 students you will develop a sophisticated system to enable a car to complete a trajectory with the highest possible energy efficiency. You will actually implement this design in a scale model car. The project closes with a race on a real (model) circuit to find out which team has come up with the best design.
• OGO Venus Exploration (5XIB0). The aim of this OGO is to design and build a system to map the planet Venus. Your project team will develop the sensor-laden Venus rovers, including the wireless communication to a satellite and terrestrial station. For the terrestrial station you will also develop software to visualize the planet’s surface. You can choose for other electives as well. An overview can be found on http://w3.tue.nl/en/ education/tue_bachelor_college/study_structure/ electives/1
Professional skills in the first year
In the first year the professional skills (social and communication skills) are integrated in the major subjects, supplemented by separate training. More details on the professional skills are explained in section 2. The following page provides a summary of which professional skills are linked to which subjects.
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5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Semester A - quartile 1
Circuits 1 Training in Cooperation Training in Project-based work/
project planning Computation 1 Training in Reporting Signals 1 Feedback on (sub)reporting
(individual)
Peer review
Reflective report Semester B - quartile 4
Systems Training in Presenting
Assessment (group) presentation Library instruction with application
Chart: professional skills
Remedial English course
The study Electrical Engineering along with all the course material and teaching – especially if there are foreign students enrolled – are in English. If you are concerned about your proficiency in English, then you can take part in a course. This is not compulsory but facultative and is offered only in quartile 1. The subject code is 9ST17.
Second and third years
The general structure of the second and third years of your Bachelor College studies differs little from the first year although there is more scope for elective subjects. The chart below shows the subjects in the second and third years.
Semester 2A
Design Elective IV
(general course)
Elective III Electromechanics
(incl. OGO)
Electromagnetism I Electrical power
systems (incl. OGO)
Semester 2B
Elective V Elective VI Computation II Mathematics EE II Intro Telecom Electromagnetism II
incl. T-lines
Semester 3A
Elective VII Elective VIII Signals II Communication
(incl. OGO) Theory
Control systems Electronic Circuits II (incl. OGO)
Semester 3B
Elective IX Elective XI
Elective X BEP
BEP BEP
Chart: Bachelor program for years 2 and 3, Electrical Engineering.
Elective subjects in the second and third years In the second and third years, too, the department will offer you various elective subjects within the Electrical Engineering domain in which you can further your knowledge. Of course, you can also opt for elective subjects or packages from other
departments. In any case, at least one of the three coherent elective packages of 15 credits must be chosen from our department. You don’t need to make your choice until the second year of your study and you can choose from the following themes:
• Connected World, where you follow three in-depth subjects in the field of Telecommunication.
• Care and Cure, which offers you in-depth subjects in Electrical Engineering that relate to medical applications.
• Smart & Sustainable Society, where subjects include smart electricity grids.
Your Bachelor study is completed with the Bachelor-End-Project (BEP) worth a maximum of 15 credits and concerning a topic that relates to one of the three paths you have chosen for your coherent elective package at EE.
1.2
Major in Automotive
---1.2.1. Definition
Smart mobility has been designated one of the university’s three strategic areas. Automotive is a field that fully complements the technological and societal challenges facing the automotive industry. Future developments in the industry will be geared to: • Smart mobility: how can smart automotive
technology help reduce the number of traffic jams? • Clean vehicles: how can new methods make the
car even more fuel-efficient and clean?
TU/e is collaborating with the international business world on intelligent, productive mobility and transport as well as on safe, clean and efficient vehicles.
More specifically the Automotive field concerns the following sub-fields and subjects:
• Thinking in terms of systems. This is central to Automotive. To get the highest level of efficiency from the technology, the design of vehicles requires a full system analysis and optimization of the parts/ disciplines that work together in the vehicle. In new cars 50% of the added value comes from
microprocessors, electrical, electromechanical and network components. This percentage continues to rise. The challenge to the car industry is to ensure that the integration of sub-systems in the car does not compromise performance, reliability, safety and profitability. This demands a lot of large-scale innovation research.
• In the area of mobility, energy supplies and the
environment, automotive research and development
can make a valuable (societal) contribution. With the increasing focus on the environmental impact of our mobility, the automotive sector is compelled to make more sustainable cars from an environmental perspective: CO2-neutral or emission-free. European legislation stipulates that CO2 vehicle emissions must be 20% lower within a number of years. For this reason a range of new technologies are being tested, like (plug-in) hybrid and fully electric cars. By using electricity as a flexible and easy-to-regulate energy source, the efficiency of driving can be significantly improved, emissions reduced and government requirements observed.
• Vehicle communication. This is becoming more and more important. A car or truck of the future can be regarded as a computer on wheels that shares data with the (logistics) infrastructure, with other vehicles and with their drivers through all kinds of communication technologies. The core of intelligent
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systems is cooperative mobility in which the traffic is seen as a variable network of vehicles that record and share information, respond to and are influenced by each other. The development of cooperative mobility comprises communication from car to infrastructure (car-to-infra) and from car to car (car-to-car) to boost safety, traffic flow and fuel efficiency.
The Dutch Automotive sector wants to excel in several areas of automotive innovation since this will be attractive in terms of the international market as well as tie in with Dutch expertise and international competitiveness. These areas of innovation, which are evident in the Automotive study, are:
• Reduction of traffic jams. The amount of traffic jams represents considerable losses for the Dutch economy, hence the reason for the government to encourage the most efficient use of the road infrastructure and cooperative mobility initiatives. The A270 highway section between Eindhoven and Helmond has been designated as a national test track for research into car-to-car and car-to-infra innovations.
• Cooperative mobility. This involves designing and testing a system that integrates automotive technology and infrastructure via research into communication/ connectivity and traffic management. Cooperative mobility is one of the keys to maintaining and improving traffic efficiency.
• Vehicle efficiency. This focuses on improving combustion-engine vehicles to reduce fuel consumption through research into fuel-saving powertrains, bodywork and chassis. Despite highly promising developments in alternative powertrains, the majority of new vehicles in 2020 will still be
powered by combustion engines, so vehicle efficiency remains an important area of innovation. • Electric vehicles. Problems specific to electric vehicles need to be solved through research into electric powertrains, system design, peripheral systems and energy management. For the long term electric vehicles are regarded as the best alternative to combustion-engine vehicles. Technological and market developments will create opportunities in the Netherlands to open niches in the electric vehicle market.
• Platform electrification. This is geared to building fundamental technologies to enable intelligent electronics applications through research into software, mechatronics, embedded systems and nano-electronics. Electrification of platforms enables applications in other innovative fields. • Vehicle optimization. This concentrates on developing technology in vehicles to improve safety, user convenience and comfort for the occupants, and includes research into driver assistance systems, vehicle dynamics and human-technology interaction.
1.2.2 Aim of the study
The study aims to bring you up to the level of Bachelor as an all-round automotive engineer. To this end the following objectives are central to the study:
1. To give the student a broad knowledge base to enable him/her to accommodate to the sub-fields of the subject through:
a. insight into the physics and related automotive applications.
b. deductive skills, learned through the study of mathematical analysis, algebra and probability
theory, for rigorous analysis and derivation of new facts and programs.
c. representative knowledge of automotive disciplines and methods, with an accent on mathematical modeling and a system approach.
d. an operational understanding of system engineering such as translating a societal need into a specification of requirements and subsequent translation to a system configuration.
2. To provide the student with skills to optimize cooperation in a multidisciplinary team through: a. the ability to recognize, place, formulate and
communicate about engineering-science issues from practice.
b. the ability to analyze automotive problems and provide a suitable solution, taking account of a variety of aspects that may emerge or be brought in by others.
c. an awareness of the place in and impact on the life cycle of the product in terms of design. d. the ability to report competently in
straightforward language and terminology, both written and verbal, on engineering-science results and methods.
3. To prepare the Bachelor properly for an engineering-science Master in Automotive Technology or related discipline.
1.2.3 Automotive Curriculum
The Bachelor phase lasts three years and is completed with a final Bachelor project. Each year is worth 60 credits, with each credit equivalent to 28 hours of study. A year is therefore 1680 hours of study, or 42 weeks of 40 hours.
The first year, the propaedeutic year, is designed to
give the student insight into the contents of the rest of the study, subsequent studies and professional practice. It comprises basic subjects (automotive, mathematics, dynamics, physics and electrical engineering subjects). There will also be two OGO assignments in which you will learn to solve auto-technology problems through working in project teams.
In the second year you will extend the basic knowledge built up in the first year. Depending on your preferences, you can broaden or deepen your knowledge by opting to choose specific elective subjects. In the third year, you will probe deeper in one of areas of the Automotive through the electives (50%) that are available in both the A and B semesters of the third year, which is completed with the Bachelor end project.
Professional skills (social and communicative skills) are largely integrated in the design assignments, supplemented by separate training.
Both the propaedeutic year and the Bachelor phase close with an examination, the propaedeutic exam and the Bachelor exam. To be able to sit the Bachelor exam, you must have passed the propaedeutic exam.
First year
The chart below shows the Automotive Bachelor curriculum for the first year, divided by semester A and B. Each semester comprises two quartiles of ten weeks. So for each quartile you have three subjects, each worth 5 credits. Beside the name of the subject the subject code is also shown in the chart. The first year has four basic subjects, six major subjects and two elective subjects.
5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Semester 1A 2WBB0 Calculus 3NBB0 Physics (general course) (general course) 0ATA0 Automotive Elective I trends I
5AIA0 Computation 4DA00 Dynamics +
for AU math
Semester 1B
0LAB0 Modelling 0SAU0 USE (general course) (general course) 5AMA0 Auto mobility Elective II 2DE30 Signals+ 5ESB0 Systems Math
Chart: Bachelor program year 1, Automotive Major.
Elective subjects in the first year
This coming year the department offers two very interesting elective subjects in the form of design assignments:
• OGO Automotive (5XIA0). In a project team of 6-8 students you will develop a sophisticated system to enable a car to complete a trajectory with the highest possible energy efficiency. You will actually implement this design in a scale model car. The project closes with a race on a real (model) circuit to find out which team has come up with the best design.
• OGO Venus Exploration (5XIB0). The aim of this OGO is to design and build a system to map the planet Venus. Your project team will develop the sensor-laden Venus rovers, including the wireless communication to a satellite and terrestrial station. For the terrestrial station you will also develop software to visualize the planet’s surface. You can choose for other electives as well. An overview can be found on http://w3.tue.nl/en/ education/tue_bachelor_college/study_structure/ electives/1
Professional skills in the first year
In the first year the professional skills (social and communication skills) are integrated in the major subjects. For more details, see section 2. Professional skills for the first-year subjects are shown in the chart below.
Semester A, quartile 1
Automotive Training in Cooperation Trends 1 Peer review
Training in Reporting Feedback on (sub)report
(individual) Reflective report Semester B, quartile 4
Auto mobility Training in Project-based work/ project planning
Library instruction with application Systems Training in Presenting
Assessment (group) presentation
Chart: professional skills
Remedial English course
This course along with all the course material and teaching – especially if there are foreign students enrolled – are in English. If you are concerned about your proficiency in English, then you can take part in a course. This is not compulsory but facultative and is offered only in quartile 1. The subject code is 9ST17.
Second and third years
The general structure of the second and third years of your Bachelor College studies differs little from the first year although there is more scope for elective subjects. The chart below shows the subjects in the second and third years.
Semester 2A
Design Elective IV
(general course)
Elective III Electromechanics
(incl. OGO)
EM Fields and Circuits OGO Crash test
Semester 2B
Elective V Elective VI
Power Electronics Sensing, computing, (incl. OGO) Actuating
Automotive Powertrains and trends II (incl. OGO) Car dynamics Semester 3A
Elective VII Elective VIII
Car Automotive
Networking Software Eng. Control Eng. Driver-centric
Innovation (incl. OGO)
Semester 3B Elective IX Elective XI Elective X BEP BEP BEP
Chart: Bachelor program for years 2 and 3, Automotive major.
Elective subjects in the second and third years In the second and third years, too, the department will offer you various elective subjects within the Automotive domain in which you can further your knowledge. Of course, you can also opt for elective subjects or packages from other departments. In any case, at least one of the three coherent elective packages of 15 credits must be chosen from our department. You don’t need to make your choice until the second year of your study and you can choose from one of these packages.
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2. Practical
study
2.1
Types of Education
---During your study you will encounter various didactical ways of education. These are described below.Lectures
During a lecture the lecturer deals with the theory and corresponding applications of a subject with the aim of transferring knowledge and insight to the student, often using a presentation (“slides”) that you can also review after the lecture in the digital OASE learning environment. For more on OASE see section 2.4 and http://w3.tue.nl/en/education/.1 Lectures also require an effort from students who must study the material beforehand. It is also important to make notes of the key issues and examples during the lecture. You will have to do assigned tasks.
Exercise Sessions
Many lectures have related instruction sessions whose aim is to apply the theory through exercises that you will tend to do individually. The instruction groups are smaller, so the lecturer has more opportunity to deal with individual questions. So use this opportunity! Don’t forget to prepare the instruction sessions well. This has proven to be a successful way of completing a subject.
Tutorials
A tutorial (“colstruction”) is a blend of lecture and instruction where a piece of theory alternates with doing a number of tasks.
Video-lectures
Most lectures are video-recorded so that you can follow or review a lecture at any time.
Design assignments
The design assignments are essential components of 'Design Based Learning’ (OGO in Dutch) that aims to boost the design competence of students. Communicative, social skills and project-based work play a key role in this. You are also expected to take initiative and responsibility.
In the first year you are automatically enrolled for the design assignments and in the second year you must do this in OASE, see section 2.4.
Experience Mathness
To help your transition from high school to
TU/e the Pre University College of TU/e has created a supervision program, Experience Mathness, with a focus on mathematics and study skills. The program comprises three components: practice mathematical skills, making a threshold test and a follow-up program for those students who have not passed the threshold test.
You will already have practiced via the website. The entry test is compulsory and is part of the first mathematics subject Calculus. The entry test takes place at the end of the first academic week and lasts an hour. If you fail the entry test, you will then do a follow-up program in which you practice the material one hour a week supervised by a lecturer and student mentors. You have one further opportunity to pass the entry test in the first eight weeks. For more information, see www.tue.nl/en/education/tue- bachelor-college/education-structure/experience-mathness/2 or contact the student counselor, ir. Sjoerd Hulshof (CR 1.04) via [email protected] of 040 247 3713.
Engineering skills
Engineering skills training is part of specific subjects within the Bachelor College in which you learn to apply theory to practice. These skills are structured and timetabled such that they also provide preparation for the design assignments. Other general skills are also taught:
• Measuring quantities, units, standards, measuring instruments, measurement circuits, measurement methods, automated measurement systems like LabView, errors and inaccuracies.
• Simulation and analysis using MATLAB, C++, SPICE and Simulink, among other programs.
The structure of engineering skills during the Bachelor study reveals clear learning paths: 1. from highly prescriptive to sensible individual
choice;
2. from “trial and error” to a systematic approach; 3. from simple and straightforward to complex; 4. from practicing and doing to a qualitative test of
problem approach and problem solution; 5. from implementation report to account of work
and results.
Many engineering skills training sessions are held in central competency labs or in the specialized laboratories of the research programs.
24 | Practical study information Professional skills
The modern engineer not only has to be proficient within his own field but must also have a number of other skills. In industry the work is often project based whereby various disciplines cooperate in teams. In this context, it is important to have the necessary skills to communicate, report in writing, present verbally, cooperate in a project group, have contact with customers and principals, interview, negotiate and acquire information.
Some professional skills take the form of training, and some training sessions you do with your project group at a specific moment in the timetable during your first two years when you are scheduled for other training. When you have actively taken part in training and completed all the tasks satisfactorily, the training is signed as completed and registered in your dossier. For other professional skills you perform your tasks in the design assignment (OGO) group. These may include minute-taking, active participations in discussions and debate in the OGO group and finding information on the subject you are working on. These activities are assessed by your project leader,
a lecturer who is involved or the skills lecturer. You cannot always complete these professional skills in one OGO; the lecturer will keep track of the activities of a particular professional skill you have completed. Once you have finished the required number of activities to a sufficient level, the respective skill is noted and initialed as completed (GN) or assigned a grade. The professional skills are subdivided into five clusters that include the following relevant sub-skills:
1. Communicate: write and present, 2. Cooperate,
3. Reflect,
4. Plan and organize,
5. Find and process (scientific) information. The information on your own study/curriculum describes in which subjects the various professional skills are integrated.
Training by STU
As part of the professional skills you will also follow a number of training sessions, such as “presenting”, given by the central STU organization. During the training you are expected to be active by giving a presentation during the presentation training. Preparatory tasks are part of all training. Students who do not complete these tasks or do so unsatisfactorily or too late will not be allowed to participate in the training.
Bachelor End Project (BEP)
The student completes the Bachelor phase with the Bachelor End Project (BEP), the aim of which is to gain experience in doing an individual project in het electrical engineering/automotive field selecting a subject that fits in with your chosen theme (Connected World, Care and Cure, Smart & Sustainable Society or Automotive). You do this assignment in one of the capacity groups and thus experience real research for the first time. The BEP begins with a kick-off meeting at the start of semester B of the third year of your study. During these sessions you select a subject on which you will work an average of two days a week.
At the end of the semester you will have to give a presentation and hand in a report in the form of a paper.
2.2
Examinations
---Types of examination
The Bachelor study contains different types of examination. For most theory subjects a written exam applies in which you can make supplementary use of sub-tests while so-called observation examinations apply to skills where, for example, the quality of a written report of an engineering skill is assessed. In the subject descriptions in OASE the
type of examination employed is stated per subject. (http://w3.tue.nl/en/education/) 1
Procedure
The examination timetable can be found on the study website (http://w3.tue.nl/en/education/) 1. A written examination lasts a maximum of three hours. You have at least two moments per year to
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Marking period for written exams
Lecturers must have marked the examination within three weeks. This applies across the board throughout the university. In the fourth quartile and the interim period, the marking period is a week, given the binding study recommendation for first-year students. So this applies only to first-year subjects.
2.3
Honors program
---Eindhoven University of Technology offers Honors programs for Bachelor students who want and are able to do more than just the normal curriculum. If you are up to an extra challenge in addition to your normal studies, perhaps the Honors program is something for you. We like to encourage talent. The Honors program consists of two parts: • Honors Star program(specializing, starts in the 1st year) • Honors Horizon program
(broadening, starts in the 2nd year)
The first year of Honors Star is free of obligations (and is free of charge) for every student, which let you find out whether the program may be something for you. In the second year you will have to make a choice about the Honors program.
Honors Star program
If you want to probe deeper into your own field and see extra challenge in your studies, then you can participate in the Honors Star program. This will involve things like more probing questions in your exams or challenging OGO projects. This program is part of the regular study, runs throughout the whole Bachelor program and does not take up any extra time.
Honors Horizon program
Are you the kind of student who wants to squeeze out get every drop you can? Do you regularly long to find out more about a subject or related aspects, and are keen to go beyond the borders of your own subject? Then this Honors Horizon program will suit you.
Participation in the Honors Horizon program is not free of obligation and you will need to have an active attitude. Together with students from other studies at TU/e you will follow extra subjects, lectures, discussions and excursions as well as participate in a research team along with top TU/e lecturers. The Honors Horizon program is wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, a program that pioneers and explores horizons. It is supplementary to the second and third years of your Bachelor study, which means that you will have to spend about ten hours a week in addition to your normal workload.
Honors Star and Honors Horizon Program You can also follow both the Honors Star and Honors Horizon program, preferably in parallel but you can also opt for one of the two. For both parts you will be selected in terms of talent, motivation and drive. do a written exam for a specific subject. The first is
in the examination period following the quartile in which the subject is taught and then (the re-sit) one quartile later. For a subject ending in quartile 4, the re-sit is in a week (interim week) in August. You must report in good time for a written examination. The engineering and professional skills, the design assignments and the Bachelor end project are completed by an assignment that has to be submitted by a certain moment as specified by the lecturer, who will also state when your assignment will have been reviewed and can be discussed. OER
More details on the regulations for sub-tests and examinations can be found in the education and examination regulations (OER) and the examination regulations on the intranet.
Examination registration and cancellation You must register yourself for an examination via OASE 1 where you can also see the date by which you must register. You can cancel your registration up to
five working days before the examination. If you don’t do this, you will be registered as a no-show (NV). After three failed examinations, you will be blocked from further study for a subject. You then report to the student counselor who will look at the examination attempts with you. If the student counselor considers the three attempts to have been serious (in other words, you appeared and scored approximately higher than a 2), then the respective lecturer will decide whether to give you another chance.
For less than three serious attempts you first must have completed all the non-blocked Bachelor propaedeutic examinations. Only then can the block be lifted and the ‘final’ subject re-sat. If you prefer not to wait till this moment, you can have a further attempt by paying 25 euros, an amount that may be exempted once only per subject.
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2.4
OASE, the digital learning and
work environment
---OASE is the digital learning and work environment of TU/e. It enables you to:• Get information on studies, subjects, examinations and timetables.
• Register for examinations, subjects and groups. • Compile a personal lecture timetable.
• Access subject and group classes for subjects. • Consult results.
• Consult a study package. • Manage email and agenda. Log in
The digital learning and work environment can be found via http://w3.tue.nl/en/education/1. You can log in using the same user name and password as for your TU/e email.
How to use
In the upper left of the page you see several tabs: News, Activities, Sources, People and Search. Once logged in, you will see five personal tabs at the bottom of the page: Profile, E-mail, Agenda, Results and Timetable. These tabs contain relevant information for you.
News contains news items of the university and of the subjects for which you are registered. You can personalize the news channels you want to see. The Activities tab contains information on subjects. Here you can register for subjects and examinations. When logged in, you can see a summary of all subjects for which you are registered. The folder containing documents and notices as well subject timetables can be accessed via this tab.
The Sources tab shows your library loan and reservation data. Using the Search tab you can find information within the OASE.
The personal Profile tab allows you to see and change your personal details. The E-mail and Agenda tabs bring you to the Outlook Web Access, from which you can manage your email and agenda.
The Results tab lets you see all the assessments you have had while the Timetable tab reveals your timetable according to the subjects for which you are registered.
2.5
Study supervision /
binding study recommendation
---2.5.1 Study supervision in the first year
The study programs of the Electrical Engineering department train you for autonomous, independent professional practice. This is why the study supervision is concentrated in the first year and gradually wound down in the second and third years. Apart from direct intrinsic supervision by lecturers, the supervision comprises:• coaching; • the mentorate; • course study skills;
• first-year study recommendations (pre-Christmas and end of the academic year);
• study planning in the 2nd year.
More specialist supervision is provided via the STU.
Coaching
The supervision by lecturer coaches, in order to help you in making choices, is a key component of the Bachelor College. Throughout your Bachelor studies you will be coupled to a coach with whom you will discuss issues at various moments during the academic year. These discussions will center on the process of the choices you have to make throughout your study, with the first choices concerning the elective subject choices in quartile 2 and quartile 3/4. The nature of the discussions with your coach is reflective, which means that your coach encourages you to think about the choices you have to make as a Bachelor undergraduate and giving you specific feedback on them. More details about the coaching can be found on the intranet of the Bachelor College. Mentorate
For a number of years senior third or fourth-year students have acted as mentors to first-year students, supervising them from the introduction week for a semester. Student mentors assist in the instruction sessions of a number of first-year subjects. They ensure that first-year students quickly find their way in their studies and in the department, that they feel at home and point out their responsibilities for their studies. The mentor acts as a safety net. Mentors also enable the department to respond quickly in the event that there is a threat of something going wrong. To ensure structural contact with the mentor, a weekly mentor hour is timetabled in the first quartile. The student counselor takes care of the coordination of the mentorate and offers support where needed.
Course in Study skills
First-year students are offered a study skills course in the first quartile to help them adjust to the kind of study routine required of university studies. The course comprises eight sessions of about an hour and is given by the department’s student assistants. The advantage of this is that these students are familiar with the lecturers and the contents of the subjects. The student assistants are supervised by a student counselor from the STU.
Study recommendation
After each semester the first-year students receive an individual study advice, based on their study results, among other things. Just before Christmas students receive an initial recommendation based on interim results and observations by their lecturers. Experience reveals that these recommendations tend to be a good indication for the successful completion of studies. At the end of the first-year each student receive the compulsory official first years recommendation. This recommendation is binding, which means that the university can prevent a student from re-enrolling in the second year. The department does all it can to avoid such a situation: if the department considers someone unsuitable, the student is informed early on in the first year and then properly supervised towards a suitable study. There are agreements in place with the Fontys Electrical Engineering curriculum for a student to transfer in January to a HBO (higher vocational education) program for a further three and a half years.
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Study planning for the second year
At the end of the first year of study students that have significant arrears in their studies are charged to draw up a study plan and discuss this with the student counselor. Only after this plan has been approved can the student be given permission to study in the second year. This prevents students becoming even further adrift and enables the department to monitor progress.
2.5.2 Binding recommendation for
continuation of studies
Students are subject to a binding study recommendation (BSA) composed of:
• A written pre-recommendation concerning the study progress of a student within fifteen days at most after the examination period in the second quartile for the academic year in which the student first enrolled for a Bachelor curriculum. This pre-recommendation is a warning sign in the event of insufficient study progress. • At the end of the first year of enrollment for the
propaedeutic phase of the Bachelor study,
a decision on continuation is determined by: • the student having gained at least 30 credits
in the propaedeutic phase of the program, in which case the student may continue; • the student having gained 25 (must be a multiple
of 5) credits or less in the propaedeutic phase of the program, in which case the student may not continue and will not be allowed to enroll for the study for the next three years.
The lesson of the experience of recent years teaches that it is the exception that students must be rejected on the basis of the BSA. The structure of the propaedeutic year (see 1.2 and 1.3) is such that students for whom the study is not suitable are made aware of this well before the end of the academic year (normally around Christmas) and draw conclusions. The student counselor of the department is geared to helping these students subsequently find a suitable study.
2.5.3 Study recommendation in second and
third years
If you successfully complete the propaedeutic year, you can still ask the student counselor for a recommendation, the difference being that the initiative for this more frequently has to come from the student. The supervision differs per person. In almost every case, the planning for the rest of the study is a central thread.
The student counselor checks the progress of all Electrical Engineering students twice a year and may initiate discussions now and then with the students based on this analysis.
The STU also offers students who are at an advanced stage of their study various kinds of study supervision. At the end of the study you can call on the STU for training to apply for a job, for example. Consult the STU for more information.
2.6
Propaedeutic and Bachelor
examinations
---There is a propaedeutic (P) and Bachelor (B) award ceremony twice a year, in November and in April. You have to enroll for an examination date, and the registration deadline for the P or B examination is stated on OASE 1. Choose the timetable and then the examination timetable. The rest is self-explanatory. There are several examination dates but only two award ceremonies per academic year.32 | Program of previous generations (before 2012)
3. Program of
previous
generations
3 3 4 4 3 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 3 3 3 3 3 2 3
This part of the study guide describes the program for students that began their studies in 2011 or earlier.
3.1
Electrical Engineering
---3.1.1 Second and third years
The second and third years of your study comprise 14 compulsory theory subjects, two projects and various engineering and professional skills. The second year is worth 60 credits. The chart below shows the curriculum for the Bachelor of Electrical Engineering for the second year, subdivided into semester 2A and 2B, each of which contains two quartiles. The subject code and the number of credits each subject is worth are also shown.
Semester 2A
Signalen II Probability/stochastics
5CC36 processes 2DE18
Intro. electricity Electronics: Transistor supply 5EE20 circuits 5GG10 Fields 5EE60 Electromechanics
5EE10
Design of computer systems 5JJ30 00 2.1 Design assignment 5AF34 Technical skills 5ABx2 Professional skills 5BBx2
Semester 2B
Control engineering Optimization E
5CC50 5DD05
Electronic Basic Electromagnetism Basic circuit 5GG20 5LL00
Intro Telecom Comm. Theory
5LL90 5JK10
Learning to reason OL863 00 2.2 Design assignment 5AF44 Technical skills 5ABx2
Professional skills 5BBx2
You make the study choices in your third year. In the first semester you choose a minor worth 30 credits from the following list:
• Biomedical Instrumentation Engineering (department of Biomedical Engineering)
• Engineering for Health (department of Biomedical Engineering)
• Climatic Design (department of Architecture, Building and Planning)
• Automotive Systems (department of Electrical Engineering)
• Connecting Intelligence (department of Electrical Engineering)
• Electrical Engineering 2 (department of Electrical Engineering)
• Polymers (department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry)
• Applied Physics (department of Applied Physics)
• Computer Science and Engineering (department of Mathematics & Computer Science)
You enroll for a minor via OASE 1 and automatically receive an email containing instructions. To do a
so-called free minor you need to have submitted an application for approval to the examinations committee before 1 May. A special minors market is organized in the spring each year. More information about the minors can be found on the intranet. In the second semester you choose from three tracks:
Connected World, Care & Cure and Sustainable Society. Each track has a number of compulsory subjects, a number of elective subjects and the Bachelor End Project (5AF94). The total is 30 credits. The figure below shows the tracks with compulsory subjects.
Electrophysiology 5L130 Electromechanical waves and
radiation 5GG40 elective 1 elective 2 elective 3 BEP (incl. BV/TV) Care and Cure
Telecomm. Systems 5LL91 elective 1 elective 2 elective 3 elective 4 BEP (incl. BV/TV) Connected World
Power electronics 5EE30 Power system analysis 5P645 elective 1
elective 2 elective 3 BEP (incl. BV/TV)
Smart&Sustainable Society
Below is a list of the elective subjects that can be followed within all three tracks.
Subject code Quartile Elective Credits
5L130 3 Electrophysiology 3
5GG40 3 Electromagnetic waves and radiation 3
5LL91 3 Telecom Systems 3
5P645 3 Power System Analysis 3
5JJ50 3 Calculation networks 3
5JJ90 3 Computer networks 3
5LL85 3 Photonics 3
5GG15 4 Fundaments of electrical engineering building blocks 3
5EE30 4 Power electronics 3
5GG75 4 Communication Electronics 3
5CC60 4 Signals III 3
5CC70 4 Adaptive systems 3
5CC80 4 Verification and performance analysis 3
5LL70 4 Intro. medical imaging 3
5K019 4 Information theory 3
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3.1.2 Bachelor End Project (5AF94)
You finish your Bachelor studies with the Bachelor End Project (BEP) that includes a number of professional skills such as presenting, reporting and acquiring information. These basic subjects are therefore not accounted for separately in the third year. The BEP assignment must be carried out during quartiles 3 and 4 of the 3rd year with a start session in week 1 of quartile 3 and a closing session in week 7 of quartile 4. The hours for this subject will be timetabled in for you. You choose a track and select an assignment within that track. There are around 15 assignment options per track, divided evenly across the capacity groups involved in the respective track. In the first week of quartile 3 there is a kick-off meeting to:
- explain the structure and organization of the BEP - allow track coordinators to introduce each track - present an overview of the assignments per track Students will have a couple of days after the kick-off to indicate their first and second assignment preferences. This will serve as the basis to designate the assignments to the students. If any assignment is oversubscribed, the students’ study results will be the deciding factor.
The assignments correspond to the theme of the tracks and the ongoing research activities within one of the capacity groups. Once you have selected an assignment, you will carry it out in a capacity group, spending an average of 20 hours per week on it. The assignment is completed with a paper (maximum 4 pages) and a presentation during the joint panel session.
The will be a closing panel session for each track attended by the BEP coordinators, the supervisors and the students. Each student will have the floor for 10 minutes. The final grade will be decided after the panel session.
3.1.3 Engineering and Professional skills
Professional skills are divided into training and individual assignments. The training is centrally planned and followed as a group while individual assignments are your own responsibility, which means that you must ensure that you make room for these in your study and take the initiative to enroll via OASE 1.Engineering skills 2nd year
Study
Year/ Subject Description Conditions of Completion unit
semester code semester admission for credits
2.A 5V203 Use of Simplorer 5V101 t/m 115 +5V204/205 OO2.1 2.A 5V204 Asynchronous machine measurements 5V101 t/m 115 OO2.1 2.A 5V205 Synchronous machine measurements 5V101 t/m 115 +5V204 OO 2.1 2.A 5V206 Synchronous machine simulation 5V101 t/m 115 +5V203/204 OO2.1 2.A 5V207 Use of MOSFETs power as circuits 5V101 t/m 115 OO2.1 2.A 5V208 Visualization of measurement data 5V203 t/m 205
Tot. 2.A 5AC02/12/22 3
2.B 5V214 Analysis and real-time realization of a
time-discrete signal-processing system 5V101 t/m 115 OO2.2 2.B 5V215 Modeling and measuring an
ultrasonic sensor. 5V101 t/m 115 OO2.2
2.B 5V216 Design and realization of a
time-constant control system 5V101 t/m 115 OO2.2
2.B 5V217 Design and realization of a 5V101 t/m 115
time-discrete control system +5V216 OO2.2
Tot. 2.B 5AC32/42/52 3
Professional skills Study load (hours)
2.A BV2 Reporting 2 18
2.A BV11 Continuation of training in Presenting 10
2.A BV35 Team role evaluation 3 4
2.A + B BV12 Presenting 3 14
2.A + B BV23 Active discussion of Engineering 2 8
2.A + B BV25 Course in Technical Writing in English 34
2.B BV5 Group report 2 20
2.B BV16 Training in Negotiating 1 20
2.B BV36 Team role evaluation 4 3
2.B BV24 Training in team roles 8
One credit is automatically awarded for every registered 28 study hours of professional skills.
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4 4 3 3 3 1 6 6 4 3 3 4 3 3 3 2 4
3.2
Automotive
---3.2.1 Second and third years
The second year of the study comprises 13 compulsory theory subjects, two projects (including practicals) and diverse professional skills, amounting to 60 credits. The chart below shows the Automotive Bachelor for the second year by semester 2A and 2B. Each semester consists of two quartiles. The subject code and number of credits are also stated. Semester 2A
Automotive Trends II
0AU02
Modeling computer systems 5JJ30
Car networking Mechanical vibrations
5JJ75 4A460
Fields 5EE60 Electromechanical
conversion 5EE10
OGO Automotive
5AU34 (electronic differential, with URE) (incl. practicals)
Professional skills 5BBx2
Semester 2B
Control engineering Optimization E
5CC50 5DD05
Learning to reason OL863
Car mechanics Driver-centric
4AU10 innovation 5AU25
Powertrains Power electronics
4AU20 5EE30
OGO Automotive
5AU44 (Sensing, Computing and Actuating) (incl. practicals)
Professional skills 5BBx2
You make the study choices in your third year. In the first semester you choose a minor worth 30 credits from the following list:
• Biomedical Instrumentation Engineering (department of Biomedical Engineering) • Engineering for Health
(department of Biomedical Engineering) • Climatic Design (department of Architecture,
Building and Planning) • Automotive Systems
(department of Electrical Engineering) • Connecting Intelligence
(department of Electrical Engineering) • Electrical Engineering 2
(department of Electrical Engineering)
• Polymers (department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry)
• Applied Physics (department of Applied Physics) • Computer Science and Engineering (department of
Mathematics & Computer Science)
You enroll for a minor via OASE 1 and automatically receive an email containing instructions. To do a
so-called free minor you need to have submitted an application for approval to the examinations committee before 1 May. A special minors market is organized in the spring each year. More information about the minors can be found on the intranet. In the second semester you choose from a number of tracks, selecting in consultation with your supervisor a specific Automotive topic or an Electrical
Engineering track like Connected World, Care & Cure or Sustainable Society. Each track has a number of compulsory subjects, a number of elective subjects and the Bachelor End Project (5AF94). The total is 30 credits.
3.2.2 Bachelor End Project (5AF94)
You finish your Bachelor studies with the Bachelor End Project (BEP). BEP assignments correspond with ongoing research activities within one of the capacity groups or URE (University Racing Eindhoven). TheBEP includes a number of professional skills such as presenting, reporting and acquiring information. These basic subjects are therefore not accounted for separately in the third year. The BEP assignment must be carried out during quartiles 3 and 4 of the 3rd year with a start session in week 1 of quartile 3 and a closing session in week 7 of quartile 4. The hours for this subject will be timetabled in for you.
3.2.3 Professional skills
Professional skills are divided into training and individual assignments. The training is centrally planned and followed as a group while individual assignments are your own responsibility, which means that you must ensure that you make room for these in your study and take the initiative to enroll via OASE 1.
Professionele vaardigheden
2.A BV2 Reporting 2 18
2.A BV11 Continuation of training in Presenting 10
2.A BV35 Team role evaluation 3 4
2.A + B BV12 Presenting 3 14
2.A + B BV23 Active discussion of Engineering 2 8
2.A + B BV25 Course in Technical Writing in English 34
2.B BV5 Group report 2 20
2.B BV16 Training in Negotiating 1 20
2.B BV36 Team role evaluation 4 3
2.B BV24 Training in Team roles 8
One credit is automatically awarded for every registered 28 study hours of professional skills.
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4. General
4.1
The Educational Institute
---As a student there are various ways that you will come across the board and the organization of study in the department.The education institute organizes the study, comprises the curriculum secretariat, policy and educational support, educational quality assurance, study advice, education desk and coordination of practicals. The education information desk is responsible for the administration and logistics of the studies as well as signals educational bottlenecks, takes care of planning and timetabling, and gives information to students and lecturers.
The student and project administrations are part of the education desk. If you have any questions about routine matters, you can contact student administration (PT 1.26), which processes all the student study data, including results and grades. Enrolment related details must be given to the Student Service Center (STU) in the main building.
Contact: Annelies Meerbach (student administration), PT 1.26, tel. 040 247 3537, email [email protected], Lies Termeer (study information coordinator), PT 1.26, tel. 040 247 4429, email [email protected]
4.1.1 Director of Education, student
counselors
Professor dr.ir. Bart Smolders is the Director of Education of the department and responsible for the structure and implementation of studies, proposing education and examinations regulations (curriculum, including content and forms of study) annually. For the study contents he consults the professors and is
advised by the curriculum committee. Within the agreed budget the Director of Education is responsible for attracting the required lecturers from the most appropriate capacity group. Moreover, the Director of Education is responsible for the quality of the education, informing the curriculum committee of his proposals concerning the curriculum and the quality of the education being provided. The Director of Education advises the research programs on improvements to the quality of the capacity provided.
For automotive matters the Director of Education is assisted by dr.ir. Rob Mestrom who, in his role as Automotive coordinator, supports the Director of Education in shaping the contents of the automotive Bachelor curriculum and other tasks referred to above.
Contact: Rob Mestrom, CR 1.05, tel 040 247 4042, email [email protected]
The student counselors of the department are dr.ir. Jan Vleeshouwers and ir. Sjoerd Hulshof. They inform, advise and supervise students, predominantly in the first years of their study. They signal educational bottlenecks for the department and analyze student data related to study progress.
As advisors they are connected to the examination and curriculum committees.
Contact: Sjoerd Hulshof, CR 1.04, tel. 040 247 3713, email [email protected], Jan Vleeshouwers, PT 1.27, tel. 040 247 3217, email [email protected]
4.1.2 Student Body (Studentenburo)
The Electrical Engineering Student Office (SB) fosters the interests of the students and comprises three students who act as contacts for their fellow students in educational matters. Given their daily contact with students, the Student Office provides early warning of educational bottlenecks as well as organizes various annual councils in which students of the respective year have a seat.
Contact: Studentenburo, PT 2.33, tel. 040 247 3534, email [email protected]
Education Information Desk
You can go there for questions and comments concerning Electrical Engineering studies. The desk is open every Tuesday and Friday from 12.30 to 13.30 and is manned by students and Student Office staff.
Contact:Education Information Desk, PT 1.26, tel. 040 247 4429, email [email protected]
4.2
Departmental Board
---The departmental board comprises three members: the dean (prof. dr.ir. Ton Backx), research portfolio board member (prof.dr.ir. Arthur van Roermund), and operations director (drs. Suzanne Udo). The Director of Education (prof.dr.ir. Bart Smolders) is advisor to the board. There is also a student advisor to the board (Leon van Barschot) who attends the meetings to voice the opinions of the students where appropriate. The members and the student advisor are appointed by the Executive Board.Contact the secretariat: Monique Hunck, PT 1.09, tel. 040 247 5427, email [email protected] Greetje van Gemert, PT 1.09, tel. 040 247 3195, email [email protected]
4.3
Departmental Council
---The departmental council (FR) is the department’s representative body and exercises the right of approval and advice towards the board, which requires this approval in order to make decisions on the department’s regulations and part of the education and examinations regulations. The departmental council is selected from the department’s personnel (every two years) and students (every year). Staff and students have five seats each on the council. For current council members see http://w3.ele.tue.nl/en/organization/1.Contact: dr.ing. Guus Pemen, CR 1.14, tel. 040 247 4492, email [email protected]
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4.4
Examination Committee
---The departmental board proposes an examinations committee to administer organize and coordinate the examinations. The members of this committee, appointed by the departmental board, are responsible for the education within the curriculum.The examinations committee designates examiners to administer the examinations. These personnel are charged with being responsible for the education in the respective subject as well as for experts from outside the institution. The examinations committee sets the regulations and guidelines. Where the regulations are inconclusive, the examinations committee consults with the students and lecturers concerned to arrive at a decision. The composition of the examinations committee is on intranet.
Contact:Annelies Meerbach, PT 1.26, tel. 040 247 3537, email [email protected]
4.5
Curriculum Committee
---The curriculum committee (OC) is appointed by the departmental board and advises, solicited or otherwise, the Director of Education and the departmental board on all educational aspects of Electrical Engineering (including the education and examinations regulations of Bachelor and Master studies). The curriculum committee also assesses how the education and examinations regulations of Bachelor and Master studies are implemented.The OC advises on the study feasibility and graduation success rates of the curriculum among other things. Does one credit actually correspond to 28 hours’ work? Is the curriculum as it should be or are changes needed? Is the teaching good and how do the study mate
