Mart Grooten

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Welcome
Mart Grooten Master Student Mechanical
Engineering, Thermo Fluids Engineering TU
Eindhoven
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Located in the south, the technological heart of
the Netherlands
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Outline of presentation

• Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
• Mechanical Engineering department
• Bachelor / Master system
• Setup of curriculum
• Example of the system
• Financial matters
• Student life in Eindhoven

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Figures

• Founded in 1956
• 11 bachelor programs
• 28 master programs
• 8 postgraduate design programs
• 3000 employees
• 7,000 students
• 200 postmaster Design Engineering students
• 500 PhD students
• 50 student associations (including sports)

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Studying at TU/e

• Design oriented Education
• Notebook
• Personal tutoring
• Internationalization

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Bachelors programs

• Biomedical Engineering
• Architecture Building and Planning
• Electrical Engineering
• Chemical Engineering and Chemistry
• Technology and Society
• Industrial Engineering and Management Science
• Computer Science
• Applied Physics
• Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Mechanical Engineering
• Industrial Design

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Masters Programs

• Biomedical Engineering
• Medical Engineering
• Architecture, Building and Planning
• Building Services
• Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
• Industrial Design
• Chemical Engineering
• Chemistry Education
• Technology and Policy
• Human Technology Interaction

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Master Programs (continued)

• Operations Management
• Innovation Management
• Computer Science and Engineering
• Business Information Systems
• Applied Physics
• Physics Education
• Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Mathematics Education
• Mechanical Engineering

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Special programs

• Fluid and Solid Mechanics
• Polymers
• Systems and Control
• Sustainable Energy Technology
• Information Security Technology
• Nano-engineering
• Physics Education
• Chemistry Education
• Mathematics Education

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Educational Innovation

• Bachelor Master model (since 2 years)
• Major Minor (planned introduction)
• Cooperation with other universities

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Lectures
Practical training
Instructions
Self-study
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Research

• Two top research graduate schools
  
• Photonics and Catalysis
• Leading role in top technology institute
  
• Dutch Polymer Institute
• Participation in top technology institute
• Netherlands Institute of Metal Research

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Research Innovation

• 7 research profiles
• Biomedical Engineering Sciences
• Broadband Telecommunications Technologies
• Catalysis and Process Engineering
• Dynamics of Fluids and Solids
• Nano-Engineering of Functional Materials and
  Devices
• Polymer Sciences and Technology
• Science and Engineering of Embedded Systems

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Design engineer programs

• Two-year postgraduate programs
• Title Professional Doctorate in Engineering
  (PDEng)
• In cooperation with the trading industry

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Market share held by technical programmes
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Mechanical Engineering

• 800 students
• 100 graduates a year

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Mechanical Engineering

• Change from old system to BaMa
• ST to ECTS (42 ST to 60 ECTS / year)
• 1 ST was 40 hours
• 1 course, 2 ST 80 hours, now 3 ECTS
• 1 course 10 x 2 hours lecture, 10 x 2 hours
  excercises, 40 hours self study
• One 5 year degree (ir.) to 3 year B.Sc and 2 year
  M.Sc
• Role of HBO (Higher Education, ing. to B.Sc)

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Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor)

• Enter after VWO (Atheneum / Gymnasium), with math
  and physics
• 3 year program (180 ECTS)
• Trimester system
• Every trimester 4 courses (a 3 ECTS) design
  oriented education (8 ECTS)
• Written exams and reports / presentations
• Lectures and exercise hours
• All courses obligatory and in Dutch

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Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor)

• 1st year design oriented education
• 4 small assignments per trimester
• 8 students per group
• 2 weekly meetings with a tutor
• Finish assignment with report
• Examples measure damping of sportshoes, design
  heating system for lab, steelconstruction game

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Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor)

• Promotion to 2nd year
• Study advice
• At least ½ of all ECTS
• All design oriented education cases

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Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor)

• 2nd year design oriented education
• 2 assignments per trimester
• 4 students per group
• 1 weekly meeting with a tutor
• Finish assignment with report or presentation
• Examples measuring diesel engine specifications,
  design and manufacturing with Unigraphics,
  dynamical tuning of an inkjetprinter

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Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor)

• Promotion to 3rd year
• At least 18 courses
• All design oriented education cases
• No restrictions to take courses
• Not sufficient for promotion No application for
  design oriented education cases

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Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor)

• 3rd year design oriented education
• 1 assignments per trimester, choose assignment
• 4 students per group, choose colleagues
• No obligatory meetings, consulting professors,
  one supervisor
• Finish assignment with report and presentation
• Examples modelling and testing of a
  suncollector, design and test a controller for a
  generator

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Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor)

• Finish Bachelor Degree after 3 years
• 36 courses
• Design oriented education assignments
• 6 week internal traineeship
• Take part in research of a Ph.D. at own
  university
• Write report and give presentation

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Mechanical Engineering (Master)

• Enter after
• Relevant Dutch Bachelor Degree
• Dutch HBO (Higher Education) in Mechanical
  Engineering, with additional courses
• Foreign students
• Relevant Bachelor degree
• Admission committee
• Possibly extra premaster courses
• Sufficient command of English

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Mechanical Engineering (Master)

• 2 year program in total ( 120 ECTS)
• Minimal 11 elective courses
• 1 multidisciplinary assignment (8 ECTS)
• Design project with 4 students of different
  faculties
• Example take part in Robot Wars, design of a
  waste incinerator
• 3 month traineeship (19 ECTS)
• Preferred abroad, in industry or a university
• Experience working environment
• 1 year graduation project (60 ECTS)

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Mechanical Engineering (Master)

• Elective courses (3-4 ECTS each)
• Choice of courses depends on specialization
• After consulting professor of your group
• Other courses of different faculties are optional
• Often oral exam
• All courses in English

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Mechanical Engineering (Master)

• Graduation Project
• thesis
• presentation
• oral defence
• poster of the Graduation Project

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Mechanical Engineering (Master)

• Three Divisions
• Dynamical Systems Design (DSD)
• Computational and Experimental Mechanics (CEM)
• Thermo Fluids Engineering  (TFE)
• Choose one division for Master specialization

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Mechanical Engineering (Master)

• Groups of CEM
• Mechanics of Materials
• Polymer Technology
• Micro- and Nano-Scale Engineering

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Mechanical Engineering (Master)

• Groups of DSD
• Control Systems Technology
• Dynamics and Control
• Systems Engineering

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Mechanical Engineering (Master)

• Groups of TFE
• Process Technology
• Energy Technology
• Combustion Technology

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Mechanical Engineering (Master)

• Choose one of the divisions with a specific
  professor and his group
• Or choose an application specialization
• Automotive (AES)
• Nano technology (µNT)
• Special interfaculty programs
• Sustainable Energy Technology (SET)
• Systems and Control (SC)
• Polymers and Composites (POL)
• Fluid and Solid Mechanics (FSM)

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Mechanical Engineering

• Example

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Mechanical Engineering

• Example of curriculum
• Choices in Mastercourses for TFE

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Mechanical Engineering

• Example of Master in 2005

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Physics Degree

• Possibility to apply
• Usually 4 year contract
• /- 1800 a month
• Cooperation with industry

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Financial matters

• Tuition fee, about 1500 a year
• Buying books
• Renting a student room
• Cost of living
• Grants / scholarships
• Jobs
• Insurances
• Salaries

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Financial matters

• Tuition fee
• Same for all studies and universities
• Determined by the government
• Books
• Depends on study, usually English books
• Often readers from professors

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Financial matters

• Renting a room
• Minimum of 200 a month
• Private in student house (own room, shared
  kitchen and bathroom
• Hospita
• Student Housing Organisation (Vestide)
• No residence at campus
• Special 6 month room for foreigners in Master
  studies
• Hard for men to find room in Eindhoven

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Financial matters

• Cost of living
• Like other western European countries
• About 30 more expensive than Slovenia
• Small beer (0,2 l) about 1,80
• Whole bread about 1,50
• Jeans 40 and up

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Financial matters

• Grants / scholarships
• Dutch students
• Living with parents 70 a month
• Living in student house 220 a month
• Free train / bus card during week or in weekend
• Only if minimum number of ECTS is obtained every
  year
• Payback if diploma is not obtained within 10
  years
• Becomes a loan after 7 years
• Extra loan options at low interest (to about
  400 a month)
• Parents are expected to contribute about 200 a
  month
• If parents income is too low, an extra grant can
  be awarded

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Financial matters

• Grants / scholarships
• Foreign students
• Apply for scholarship
• Huygens programme (www.studyin.nl)
• Netherlands Fellowship Programmes
  (www.studyin.nl)
• International Education Financial Aid
  (www.iefa.org)
• Apply for grant
• For EU students (www.tue.nl/stu, www.ib-groep.nl)
• Traineeships in Erasmusprogram

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Financial matters

• Jobs
• Almost all students have weekend / evening jobs
• Foreign students can work for max. 10 hours/week
  with a work permit
• Insurance
• Healthcare insurance (100/month)
• Liability insurance

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Expected salaries

• M.Sc in Mechanical Engineering
• Good job chances
• About 2400 3300 bruto / month
• B.Sc university
• Unknown, university students start for Master
• B.Sc HBO
• 2000 2500 bruto / month

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Student life in Eindhoven
15,000 polytechnic and 7,000 university students

• 200.000 inhabitants
• 9000 companies
• 50 student associations (sports, culture, social)
• hundreds of cafés, pubs, discos, etc.
• 5 cinemas

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Student life in Eindhoven

• Many student associations
• Sport activities
• Party
• Excursions to companies
• Reduced prices for books
• Also international student organisations
• TU Eindhoven has own sportaccomodations
• Over 50 different sports
• All in one student card for 50