Student Guidance

Coaching in the first year is focused on finding your way in the university, on discovering your optimal learning strategy, on choosing your electives. Your coach will be a senior student mentor, who went through that process him/herself. Later on, we challenge you to reflect on the kind of engineer you want to be, your professional identity. And on what it takes, next to disciplinary knowledge and skills, to become such engineer. What will you need for such a career? Which skills do you want to (further) develop during your studies?

Many different activities are offered TUe-wide that allow you to explore and improve your talents and your career opportunities, see myfuture.tue.nl for a complete overview. These activities range from company lunch meetings at study association GEWIS to a training in public speaking or writing application letters.

For students from generation 2023 and later, the Study & Career Orientation Program (SCOP/e) will also help you in developing your skills and in your career orientation.

You are assigned a student mentor who will organize bi-weekly group meetings in the first two quarters. Here, you can raise all kinds of issues concerning your study. If you have not been assigned a student mentor, please contact your academic advisor.

You are assigned a teacher coach as well, as of Q4. The teacher coach will help you in choosing electives, will discuss your ideas about your choices for the (near) future with you and will discuss your skills in Mathematics.

The information sessions hosted by the academic advisors provide you with important information you need at that point of time. Next to that, you can reach them via email, plan a meeting with them or come by during their weekly drop-in advising hours. Their contact details are linked here.

As an applied mathematician, it will not be difficult to find a job, but will it be the best job? Employers love people that take responsibility for their own development, that are equipped for life-long learning, that are confident with their professional identity.  

In principle, it is up to you how much you want to invest in exploring your future career and improving your talents, but to stimulate you doing so, we connect career orientation and coaching with some of the professional skills elements that are mandatory in each bachelor program at the TU/e. In particular, the assignments regarding the skill Reflecting serve as vehicles for career orientation and coaching by external parties.