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Bachelor Graduation Assignment

In the bachelor programs UT & VU Mechanical Engineering, students do a research assignment for graduation. Students can do the graduation assignment in cooperation with a company: a valuable opportunity to experience a particular field in professional practice and to build connections. 

Mechanical Engineering assignment with a company

One of the goals of the Mechanical Engineering bachelor graduation assignment is that the student learns to conduct research. After an intensive introduction at the university, students work on an issue presented by a company, the UT or the VU. The assignment and the execution of the research are formulated according to the conditions and professional learning targets of the UT. The stages of the three months assignment are: education on research skills, writing a research proposal, conducting research and writing a journal paper about the research that has been carried out. 
Students work on the assignment individually or as a duo: if as a duo, they write the research proposal together and each student writes an individual research paper, students can for example work on a variation of the same research question or work on different sub-questions. The students can conduct (parts of) the research at the company in mutual consultation. Supervision is by a university teacher and a company supervisor. For further information read the 'manual for companies'. 

  • Focus: small research or a research-based design;
  • Content & level: feasible for third-year bachelor ME students doing research for the first time: conducting the research cycle, formulating a research question, writing a proposal and a paper;
  • Facilities: if an experimental set-up or e.g. model is needed, this should be available at start, so students can focus right away on the analysis and interpretation of results;
  • Period & location: 12 weeks of which 8-9 weeks research - the tasks and time at the company's location are in consultation;
  • Region: companies located in the regions around University of Twente and Vrije Universiteit.

Submit your assignment proposal

Submit your idea or suggestion for an assignment. On the topic, a university supervisor will be involved and be in touch with the company’s engineer. Together you finetune the assignment, to fit the company's ideas and educational requirements.

E-mail us your proposal via bsc-assignment-ME-ET@utwente.nl 
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