“During orientation and information days, people often ask whether Electrical Engineering isn’t a difficult subject. Well, it’s tough. But you have a lot of contact hours (with a lecturer) at the beginning of the first year, so you soon get used to studying. You organize your homework yourself. If you’re not so good at one subject but find another subject really easy, you can decide to spend more time on the first subject than the second. The programme itself is an interesting mix of maths, information technology, physics and of course electrical engineering. Many of the subjects involve practical lessons so that you can see the theory you learn in the lessons working in practice.

Some people are put off by the amount of maths in the Electrical Engineering programme. Like all technical programmes, the maths that you learn is the tool you need to solve technical problems. If you - in spite of the effort – barely pass math at school you will have a hard time. At the university math is not so much an isolated business but you actually need and apply it in analysis and design and in understanding technology. For example, integrals are a huge part of the Electromagnetic Field Theory module at the end of the first year. You suddenly realize that you can use abstract maths to describe the things you see around you!

I’m happy that this is such a broad-based programme. You don’t just learn how to make an amplifier like the one in your stereo (which you can do within six months), but also how the internet works, for example. So once you’ve graduated, the world’s your oyster!”