Master of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology (Automation)

The Master of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology offers two main subjects. The main subject on Automation studies the correlation between well-built technology and the software behind that technology, with a focus on product automation and process management.

You learn to solve all types of automation problems with electromechanics and applied analogous and digital techniques. You learn to use computer networks to enable information flows between processes, and you automate industrial processes over the internet. Because you are trained in using programmable logical controllers you can integrate automation to detail level. Our practical lab boasts industrial process set-ups that are unique in Flanders. You learn to organize and realize production processes by means of simulation equipment, computer simulation programs and a wide range of measuring and data communication instruments. You experience hands-on how technical software and practical hardware come together.

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.

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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