PDEng trainee positions (TOIO) 'Mechatronic Systems Design'

The TU/e High Tech Systems Center (HTSC) aims to understand, teach and innovate system synthesis and design of complex equipment, instruments, robotic and manufacturing systems and systems-of-systems. The HTSC employs in-depth understanding of the classical engineering fields, together with model-based systems engineering to conceive, predict and verify cutting-edge system functionalities and architecture.

In 2015 HTSC initiated a new post-master (PDEng) program to educate highly skilled design engineers for the high-tech systems industry. The program focuses on system engineering in a mechatronics context and is known as Mechatronic Systems Design (MSD). Administratively MSD is positioned as a track of the PDEng program Automotive Systems Design (ASD). Working with industry is an essential ingredient of the program. It is organized with close links to and cooperation with other successful PDEng programs such as Software Technology (ST).

2-year post-master PDEng program ASD - Track: Mechatronic Systems Design

The next round of this 2-year program, accredited by the Dutch Ministry of Education, starts on October 26, 2020. This program focuses on systems design and architecture in a high-tech systems context and trains graduates from related disciplines to become the professional system designers and architects that the industry needs to conceive its new, innovative products and who can participate in and/or lead the multidisciplinary teams that realize these.

The program is devoted to deepening, broadening and reinforcing Mechatronics related technological knowledge and competencies, as well as personal and professional skills. This program with a unique structure consists of 4 educational blocks followed by a 1 year individual design project in industry. In the first 4 blocks about half the time is spent on lectures, workshops and training, and the other half on projects, solving a real-life problem from one of the industrial partners. The lecturers, who mostly have an extensive experience in industry and who cover the theory on topics such as systems architecture, design, and problem solving, return as coach during the projects to help translate the theory to practical solutions. Projects are selected from different domains and address various technological areas to both provide multidisciplinary exposure and enhance cross-domain thinking. The lectures are in part general, in part tailored to the problem domain coming up. In this set-up the trainee gets the opportunity to experience the different roles that make a good team.

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PDEng trainee positions (TOIO) 'Mechatronic Systems Design'