Electrical Engineering

This education guide contains study related information about the major Electrical Engineering within the TU/e Bachelor College as well as all kinds of practical study information. The website is updated regularly throughout the academic year.

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You have chosen to study the major Electrical Engineering within the TU/e Bachelor College. 

The program consists of a core program and free electives:

Core program
The core courses take up 75% of your bachelor's program Electrical Engineering, a study that will prepare you for a job as an engineer in electrical engineering. During your core program you will also learn what impact technology can have on society. Within each bachelor’s degree program, you will follow two Impact of Technology (ITEC) courses for this purpose.

Free electives
During your studies, you will have a lot of elective space. Approximately 25% of your time you will spend on the subjects you choose. This could be subjects from your own department or from other departments. With your free electives, you can personalize your development as an engineer. Do you want to specialize in a single field? Or would you rather combine several fields of study to develop as broadly as possible? The choice is yours. 

This study aims to bring you up to the level of engineering-science Bachelor as an electrical engineer. To this end the following objectives are central to the study:

• To give the student a broad knowledge base to enable him/her to accommodate to the subfields of the subject;
• To provide the student with skills to optimize cooperation in a multidisciplinary team;
• To prepare the Bachelor student properly for an engineering-science Master in Electrical Engineering.

The study of Electrical Engineering focuses on the applications of electricity and magnetism, which include renewable energy systems, telecommunication, robotics, medical equipment and computers. Electrical Engineering has been the fastest growing field in engineering over the past fifty years, having an enormous impact on society. Just think of the tumultuous rise of computers, the introduction of mobile telephony and key medical innovations, like the MRI scanner. The field embraces both analog and digital systems in which hardware and software are equally important. 

More specifically, Electrical Engineering comprises the following subfields: 

• Energy technology; 
• Electronics; 
• Photonics or opto-electronics; 
• Electronic systems; 
• Control engineering; 
• Electromechanics and power electronics; 
• Telecommunication; 
• Signal processing; 
• Electromagnetism. 

Want to know more? Contact CSA EE at 040 - 247 6121 or via the contact form below. 

The Center for Student Administration Electrical Engineering (CSA EE) is open by appointment only. Appointments can be made up to 30 days in advance via this bookings page.