General outline

The two-year basis programme

The programme is organized in semesters. Each semester contains 20 weeks, and is subdivided in quartiles. The unit of credit is the European Credit (EC). One EC stands for 28 hours of study load. An academic year is 60 EC. The master’s programme of Electrical Engineering takes 120 EC of study load.

The curriculum consists of the following elements:

The Electrical Engineering master’s programme does not contain fixed courses that must be followed by all students. Instead, from the elements mentioned above, you assemble your personal programme in consultation with the supervisor of your master’s thesis project. This supervisor will be a full professor in one of the research groups (chairs), mentioned below. You choose the elective courses. The supervisor decides which compulsory courses should be taken. More detailed guidelines and procedures regarding the programme are given in section 1.5: Programme Guidelines.

Homologation courses and Premaster programme

Students, entering the Electrical Engineering master’s programme may have missed some courses during their bachelor’s programme which are important as prior knowledge for the master’s programme. To gain this knowledge homologation or bridging courses may be included to their course programme instead of one or more elective courses. The total study load of the programme will be kept at 120 EC.

For students from professional Universities (mainly Dutch HBO-universities) a premaster programme has been created to add knowledge in Math and some introductory parts of Electrical Engineering. This premaster programme will take 30EC that should be added to the master’s programme.