Master of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology (Electrical Engineering)
The Electrical Engineering Technology programme has two main subjects. The main subject on Electrical Engineering studies mastering electrical energy and renewable energy sources (as well as energy production and energy transmission). The main subject on Automation connects technology and the software behind that technology (mostly production automation and process management).
What
The Master of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology offers two main subjects. The main subject on Electrical Engineering studies mastering electrical energy and renewable energy sources, energy production and transport, as well as electrical engines, generators and power electronics as they are used in industrial electric motors, wind turbines and electric vehicles.
You learn to design and implement production lines that are as human- and environment-friendly as they are economically viable. The curriculum also contains course units on the production of electricity, its transport via high and medium voltage connections, renewable energy and data acquisition. In our labs for power transmission, PLC control systems, energy control and electrical measuring equipment you will experience the interplay between your creative solutions and the practical hardware. We cover various aspects of modern electrical grids, like power quality and the impact of PV modules, wind turbines and cogeneration on the power grid. Our multimedia showroom offers various didactic and computer-supported possibilities. Doctoral research on electrical power transmission brings you into contact with high-tech drive trains for the electric vehicles and wind turbines of the future.
For whom
The admission requirements vary. Depending on your prior education, you are either able to enrol directly, or there are additional requirements.
Structure
Our Master's programme in Electrical Engineering Technology is a continuation of the main subject Electrical Engineering in the Engineering Technology Bachelor’s programme (an academic Bachelor’s programme).
The Master's dissertation is the bridge between your education and your career as an engineer: it involves a technical-scientific assignment in line with the specialization you chose. You conduct your Master's dissertation embedded in our research group and one of its research lines, or at the service of the industry. Your Master's dissertation is research-oriented and always contains a specific and in-depth review of the literature. It can cover the following aspects: a technical-scientific preliminary study and an exploration of technology, product innovation, technical-scientific development, optimization, materials research, prototype realization, a feasibility study and/or safety analysis.
Labour Market
Thanks to your versatile and multidisciplinary training with a focus on industrial practice, you can find employment as a generalist who is able to combine several specialities and techniques in an efficient manner. This multidisciplinarity guarantees a strong position on the labour market.
You have access to technical positions, management or commercial positions in a wide range of branches of industry: engineering firms, the electrical and electronic industry, lighting, heating, cooling, computer and information processing companies, the metalworking and mechanical industry, chemical industry, energy production and distribution, the aviation, space or shipping industry, inspection bodies, public agencies, education, semi-public organizations, banks, and the tertiary sector.
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Quality Assurance
At Ghent University, we strive to educate people who dare to think about the challenges of tomorrow. For that purpose, we provide education that is embedded in six strategic objectives: Think Broadly, Keep Researching, Cultivate Talent, Contribute, Extend Horizons, Opt for Quality.
Ghent University continuously focuses on quality assurance and quality culture. The Ghent University's quality assurance system offers information on each study programme’s unique selling points, and on its strengths and weaknesses with regard to quality assurance.
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Unique Selling Points
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Multiperspectivism: We train our students into becoming engineers with both technical and academic-scientific knowledge, theoretical as well as practical skills and attitudes, a broad polyvalent base (first and second year) and a clear specialization (third and fourth year).
- Profile: In the third-year and fourth-year curriculum, we focus on specific key aspects based on our own on-campus research and long-standing collaboration with the industry.
- Talent Development: We aim to strengthen our students’ knowledge of specific technical-scientific matters, while also focusing on those generic skills that are indispensable for future engineers, like communication and project management. In addition, we also cover aspects of economics, sustainability and safety during projects.
- Integration of theory and practice: Our curriculum contains many hours of tutorials and practicals, during which we apply the theoretical knowledge covered in the lectures.
Strengths
- Curriculum: We have recently implemented a thorough curricular review, including clearly defined learning pathways of increasing complexity.
- Dedicated team of lecturers: Our programme boasts a team of highly motivated and approachable lecturers.
- Interdependence of education, research and the industry. At Ardoyen Campus we have at our disposal a number of state-of-the-art laboratories in which our students, lecturers and industrial partners can collaborate closely for the purpose of optimal knowledge and expertise sharing.
- Electives:We offer a wide range of electives, allowing students to specialize according to their own interests.
- Stakeholder Involvement: We involve the professional field through an industrial advisory board. Our lecturers each have personal contacts with the industry. The Programme Committee ensures an open dialogue with its lecturers and student representatives. Our student representatives are our first point of contact to keep abreast of what is going on in the larger student group, and to make adjustments if necessary.
Challenges
- Quality Culture:Quality monitoring and promotion is the responsibility of the entire study programme and is integrated into the Programme Committee’s day-to-day business. Ghent University’s quality cycle, including the Study Programme Feedback by Students as yardstick, are our guiding principles in this matter. In so doing, we determine specific acts in our annual quality improvement plan.
- Internationalization:There is room for improvement when it comes to student and staff mobility. The opportunities to spend a term abroad are currently rather limited. We work towards an integration of various I@H opportunities in the curriculum.
- Student Involvement: We offer our students ample opportunities to express their concerns and to help optimize our programme on a continuous basis. In addition, it is important for the study programme to work together with the student representatives to inform the broader student group of important decisions related to the programme and its quality assurance.ng;
- International Programme Review: We want to broaden the external perspective on our programme by consulting with comparable (international) study programmes. The involvement of a broad range of external perspectives at home and abroad in shaping and organizing our curriculum is an undeniable asset. We can count on the various international contacts of our lecturers.
- Assessment: Clear information on the form and contents of assessments is highly important. While studying for the exams, students must know clearly what we expect of them. In addition, we need to provide sufficient feedback in the context of continuous as well as end-of-term assessment.
This study programme is accredited by the Accreditation Organization of the Netherlands and Flanders (Dutch: NVAO). Accreditation was extended following the positive outcome of the institutional review in 2022. Programme quality was validated by a quality review, i.e. a screening of the Education Monitor by the Education Quality Board. The Quality Assurance Resolution (in Dutch) can be found here.
This information was last updated on 14/02/2023.
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