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.
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Specialisation courses | 30 EC |
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Elective courses You can choose courses of the Master’s in Mechanical Engineering, but you can also choose (a maximum of three) courses offered by other programmes at UT. Of course, you can also choose more of the specialisation courses listed above. | 30 EC | Examples of electives that perfectly fit this specialisation:
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Internship | 15 EC | In the first quartile of your second year, you will do an internship, as preparation for the professional field. If you are a student entering from a university of applied science (Dutch HBO), you will follow 15 EC master’s courses, instead of doing an internship. |
Master’s thesis | 45 EC | You will finish your Master’s in ME with your master’s thesis. |
Total EC | 120 EC | |
Internship
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. If you are a student entering from a university of applied science (Dutch HBO), you will follow 15 EC master’s courses, instead of doing an internship.
Examples of internships our students took on:
- Designing an attachment method for a precision motion tracking sensor technology at XSens
- Conducting a competitor analysis for a steerable guidewire at Demcon
Master's thesis
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.