During your Master’s in Mechanical Engineering, you will collect a total of 120 EC within two years. You will follow (elective) courses related to the specialisation in Personalised Health Technology, do an internship and you will end your Master’s by writing your master’s thesis. What your curriculum will look like exactly, depends on the choices you make within this specialisation.
Student workload at Dutch universities is expressed in EC, also named ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System), which is widely used throughout the European Union. In the Netherlands, each credit represents 28 hours of work.
Number of EC
Compulsory coursesYou have four compulsory courses.
20 EC
Elective courses
You choose four courses out the Master’s in Mechanical Engineering. Of course, you can also choose more of the specialisation courses listed.
Examples of electives that perfectly fit this specialisation:
Elective space
In addition, students may choose four elective courses. These courses can be taken at any stage of the curriculum, in consultation with the specialisation coordinator and in accordance with the track they wish to pursue within the specialisation.
Internship
15 EC
In the first quartile of your second year, you will do an internship, as preparation for the professional field.
Master’s thesis
45 EC
You will finish your Master’s in ME with your master’s thesis.
Total EC
120 EC
During your Master’s in Mechanical Engineering, you will gain practical experience by doing an internship for approximately three months. Thanks to close ties with clinical partners and the industry, there are many options open to you when it comes to choosing your internship, both in terms of companies and subjects.
Examples of internships our students took on:
You will end your Master’s with your master’s thesis. The choice of your graduation subject is largely up to you. Whether you want to focus more on modelling and computer simulations using numerical techniques (e.g. computational fluid dynamics or mechanobiological modelling) or you are more interested in the design and validation of actual medical devices, from surgical implants to prostheses to medical robotics, there is a wide range of topics you can choose from. You might even work together with clinical partners like the University Medical Centre Groningen, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Medisch Spectrum Twente and Roessingh Rehabilitation Centre.