BEP in Q3 & Q4

The regular BEP takes place in Q3 and Q4 of the 3rd year. Please read the checklist BEP EE/AT to see which actions are required for you to start a BEP in Q3. You have four options: 

• Choose one of the available projects within the department of EE from the BEP Marketplace (see below); 
• Arrange your own project, a so-called private proposal (see below); 
• Join a BEP at a TU/e student team;  
• Join a BEP at the TU/e Innovation Space, a so called ISBEP. 

Make sure to contact the responsible lecturer of the BEP EE, dr. D. (Dusan) Milosevic, if you have any questions.

The BEP Marketplace is a digital platform where you can find all available BEP projects within EE. Through this platform you submit your top five preferences for projects. An automated ranking system will distribute all projects among the students. Two main criteria are used for ranking a student when multiple students have chosen the same project: 1. generation (youngest generation gets highest priority), and 2. number of gained credits within your study program after Q1 (if generation is the same, highest credit gets highest priority). 2a. Extracurricular credits (in case criterion 1 and 2 give the same ranking).

Note: Make sure that your examination program is approved by the Examination Committee EE when you enroll in the BEP. This ensures that the correct number of credits is available in the BEP Marketplace.  

BEP projects within the EE department correspond with one of the four EE tracks and are carried out within one of the nine EE research groups. BEP projects within the EE department are connected to ongoing research activities. 

The four tracks are: 

• Automotive Technology 

The modern car is an intelligent, super high-tech system. The number of electrical components and systems is rising, especially with the transition to hybrid and electric powertrains and growing autonomous driving capabilities. In addition to the traditional mechanical engineering, the emphasis in automotive technology lies increasingly on disciplines like electronics and software. 

• Smart & Sustainable Society 

Smart and sustainable society aims at designing, realizing and validating technologies to create electrical networks and electro physical devices for transporting and manipulating electrical energy in a flexible, controlled and sustainable way regarding efficiency of costs, power and materials. The focus lies on intelligent power networks, smart actuators and the reduction of pollution and waste.  

• Connected World 

Communication technologies must provide ample telecommunication capacity, both wireless and wired, at affordable costs for the end users, yielding a traffic-jam free communication world. Other communication technologies are more localized and are only carrying traffic over short distances. Connected world focusses on the applications, devices and infrastructure needed for the communication technologies of the future.   

• Care & Cure 

Care & Cure is concerned with the medical side of electrical engineering. Its goal is to help the patient to stay away from the hospital by improving the quality of novel medical technologies and enabling the patient to manage his/her health, in the process lowering the costs of medical healthcare.  For medical technology to support this trend, it should operate reliably in more ambulatory settings, and provide a more continuous and autonomous indication of patient condition, preferably in a wireless fashion. 

It is possible to arrange your own project (within or outside the university) under a few strict conditions: 

• If you want to do your BEP in industry, you need to arrange the contacts yourself. You also need to find a responsible supervisor from the EE department yourself. He or she can be any EE assistant, associate or full professor, or anyone explicitly appointed by the Examination Committee EE. Lastly, you need to set up a suitable project description together with your supervisor(s) who will submit this so called ‘private proposal’ to the BEP Marketplace, where it will be labeled as ‘private’, linked to you. 

• If you want to do your BEP in a specific group with a specific supervisor, you need to find a responsible supervisor from the EE department yourself, come up with your own idea for a project and set up a suitable project description together with your supervisor. Your supervisor can be any EE assistant, associate or full professor, or anyone explicitly appointed by the Examination Committee. He or she will submit this so called ‘private proposal’ to the BEP Marketplace, where it will be labeled as ‘private’, linked to you. 

Students with a private proposal are excluded from the projects database in the BEP Marketplace. 

If you would like to arrange your own project, start with your orientation and arrangements as soon as possible. Private proposals for the BEP in Q3/4 must be submitted in the BEP Marketplace before the kick-off session in week 6 of Q2.