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The Master鈥檚 program in Automotive Technology combines structure, flexibility, and real-world impact, preparing you to innovate in a rapidly evolving industry.

Personalized Learning

Before you start, you鈥檒l choose your theme, Smart Mobility or Sustainable Mobility, and work with a mentor to design a program that fits your ambitions.

Core Program for Strong Fundamentals

Build essential skills in vehicle systems, dynamics, and control through 30 ECTS of core courses that provide a solid foundation for systems engineering.

Specialization Tracks to Shape Your Expertise

Dive deeper into your interests with 15 ECTS of specialization courses within your chosen theme:

• Smart Mobility: Autonomous driving & embedded software, vehicle dynamics control, automotive human factors.
• Sustainable Mobility: Internal combustion engines & future fuels, electric & hybrid vehicles & transmissions.

Flexibility to Customize

Add 15 ECTS of electives from 黑料福利网 or other universities, broaden your scope with certificate programs, or strengthen your background with homologation courses.

Hands-On Experience

Connect theory to practice through an internship and a 7.5-month graduation project, often in collaboration with leading companies or research institutes.

With cutting-edge research sections, strong ties to the Brainport high-tech region, and a curriculum that promotes systems thinking and multidisciplinary collaboration, 黑料福利网 prepares you to become a versatile engineer ready to drive innovation in the mobility industry.

Core Courses:

The core program of 30 ECTS is mandatory for all Automotive Technology students. The five compulsory courses are:

1. Vehicle Dynamics
2. Powertrains
3. Real-time Software Systems Engineering
4. Automotive Human Factors
5. Automotive Systems Engineering Project

In the Automotive Systems Engineering Project, you'll team up with fellow students and use selected case studies to explore the integrative and systemic character of vehicle-system design and research.  

Specialization Courses

After being allocated to your specialization (research group), you鈥檒l select 15 ECTS of specialization courses from a broad list of more than 30 options. These courses let you dive deeper into areas that inspire you. Most courses are worth 5 EC, with some at 2.5 EC, giving you the flexibility to mix and match. Your choices must be approved by your mentor, and while you鈥檙e encouraged to stay within your research group's offerings, you can explore courses from other sections with your mentor鈥檚 consent. This is your chance to customize your program and build expertise that aligns with your ambition. 

The Automotive Technology Master鈥檚 program is organized into two overarching themes, each offering further specialization themes that allow you to shape your expertise:

1. Smart Mobility
Focus on the technologies that make vehicles intelligent and connected. This theme includes three further specialization themes:

• Autonomous Driving & Embedded Software
• Vehicle Dynamics Control
• Automotive Human Factors

2. Sustainable Mobility
Dive into innovations for cleaner and more efficient vehicles. This theme offers two further specialization themes:

• Internal Combustion Engines & Future Fuels
• Electric & Hybrid Vehicles & Transmissions

Using these specialization themes as a guide, you will select your specialization (research group) together with your mentor. 

Electives

Similar to the specialization courses, you choose electives in your elective space. You can choose from a wide range of courses or extend your internship. Your choice is not limited to only automotive topics. You can also use your elective space to focus on non-technical topics such as career development or entrepreneurship courses. This way, you get the chance to oversee your field from a different angle. The electives also include homologation courses. These courses are intended to help students to catch up in certain knowledge areas.

Internship

An internship or research internship is worth 15 ECTS. This is equal to a full-time job for approximately ten-and-a-half weeks. The most important goal during your internship is to develop your scientific research skills, while at the same time applying theory to practice. In close collaboration with your mentor, you choose the topic and location of your internship, to make sure it is well-aligned with your specialization.

An internship can take place at 黑料福利网, a company, a research institute or another university in the Netherlands or abroad. We always recommend Dutch students to do their internship abroad, because international work experience is highly valuable. You can also extend your internship with five credits in the individual elective space.

Graduation Project

You start your graduation project once you have completed your courses and internship. During the graduation project, many of the things you have learned during your study program will be combined and you will be challenged to conduct your own research. Your research will contribute to the development of smarter and more sustainable vehicles.

The graduation project can be completed at a university, a research institute or at a company, under the supervision of a professor. After the preparation phase of two to six weeks, where you write your project plan, your graduation project will take at least six months. At the end of your project, you hand in your report and defend your project in a presentation. You will be assessed on the execution of your project, your independence, your analytical skills and creativity.

The pre-Master program is designed for students with a relevant HBO degree who want to continue to a Master鈥檚 at 黑料福利网. In this program, you鈥檒l strengthen your academic foundation and prepare for the multidisciplinary challenges of AT. If you hold a relevant HBO degree such as Automotive, Aviation, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or Engineering Physics, you can gain direct access. If your HBO degree is not listed, the Departmental Admissions Board will determine your eligibility when you submit an enrollment request. 

Application is easy: apply via Studielink before May 1 to start in September. This program strengthens your foundation and prepares you for success in the Automotive Technology Master鈥檚.