Master of Science in Electromechanical Engineering

Multidisciplinary training with an in-depth specialization

The two-year Master of Science in Electromechanical Engineering integrates the study of electrical and mechanical engineering and research. This unique combination encourages a wide perspective, offering you the ability to bridge the gap between these two fields later on in your professional career. The multidisciplinary program is complemented by in-depth specialization in one of four majors: Aeronautics, Energy, Robotics, and Mechanical Construction or Sustainable Transport and Automotive Engineering.

The specialization in one of these disciplines starts in the first year, setting you off with a strong set of skills in the chosen field. As a graduate of this program, you benefit from a compromise between a broad electromechanical engineering education that prepares you for work in design and management and a specialization in a particular discipline. The program guarantees a high level of education thanks to the well-qualified academic staff and their link with specialists from research institutes and the industry. As a result, our graduates are known for their immediate wide-ranging employability.

Scientific and technological efficiency is key in the Master of Science in Electromechanical Engineering. It’s an academic program, which implies a close link with scientific research in related fields. The program offers a balance between scientific and technological knowledge, skills that are useful for both professional use and scientific research. And, the program provides you with plenty of other skills, from management techniques to communication and social skills. In all situations, we foster independence, creativity, inventiveness, and critical reflection. These skills will help you shape the technology of tomorrow. The program offers the opportunity to put these skills into practice through a two- or three-month internship at the beginning of the second year. It’s non-compulsory, but the internship gives you a good opportunity to make contact with the industry in a national or international context.

Four majors

1. Aeronautics

This program studies the versatile aspects of state-of-the-art technology in aeronautics and spin-off possibilities in other industries. The goal is to give students insight into all aspects of the design, construction, exploitation, and maintenance of space and aircraft.

2. Energy

This major focuses on the current and future issues associated with sustainable energy supplies. It covers all aspects from the primary energy sources to the smart energy carriers being used in industry, transportation, and domestic applications. By the end of this program, students will be able not only to understand the main challenges in the energy supply and renewable energy sources but also to see the important links between energy policies and energy savings.

3. Robotics and Mechanical Construction

This major aims to provide students with the necessary tools for developing integrated electromechanical systems and stand-alone machines (sensors, actuators, controllers, and mechanical systems). It enables students to become familiar with methods for designing and constructing machines and structures, as well as with modern design and manufacturing techniques, including micro-manufacturing and micro-systems.

4. Sustainable Transport and Automotive Engineering

Transportation systems, whether they’re designed for humans or goods, require specialized engineers for their design, control, and maintenance. This option is devoted to the different aspects of land-based means of transportation: structure, materials, sources of energy, propulsion, electronics, and lighting. There are also courses devoted to rail infrastructure and logistics, with a focus on sustainable mobility.

Learning outcomes:

• A polyvalent technical insight into various construction and manufacturing techniques and the performance use and maintenance of tools;
• Mathematically formulating and solving practical problems of design and operation of technical systems;
• Understanding algorithms and numerical codes used in the field of study;
• Additional knowledge acquired in diverse aspects of technology, such as insight into management, business administration, economics, quality control, environmental protection, safety, and hygiene;
• Having skills such as reasoning and spatial awareness, logical, abstract, and critical thinking, learning skills in communication, reporting and presentation, teamwork, and mastery of English for engineering purposes;
• Having a sense of responsibility, creativity, and entrepreneurship;
• Showing willingness for lifelong learning.

Course-specific objectives:

• Knowledge of the basic principles of a selected set of Electromechanical and mechanical machinery and a selected set of power electronic devices and of how they can be measured dimensioned and diagnosed in the case of a faulty operation;
• Understanding of the operation and construction of piston engines and turbomachinery and the relation of the components with the performance of the systems;
• Knowledge of the properties and uses of the different materials used in mechanical engineering;
• Knowledge of different kinematic, dynamic, hydraulic, aerodynamic, thermodynamic, heat transfer, and mass transfer phenomena occurring in mechanisms, machines, and equipment;
• The ability to identify, calculate and predict these phenomena;
• Knowledge of a selection of frequently used principles and techniques for measuring and controlling physical quantities in industrial processes;
• The ability to indicate and illustrate consistency between the various disciplines given above (e.g. in view of the operation of an electrical power plant);
• Knowledge on the design process of a (new) product (including marketing, organizational, economical, and technical aspects of product design).

These overarching course-specific requirements are supplemented with specific goals for each specialization (Mechatronics-Construction, Aeronautics, Vehicle Technology, and Transport and Energy).

Per specialization:

• Mechatronics-Construction: the program aims a delivering Electromechanical Engineers (MSc) who can design, optimize, produce, maintain and apply complex mechanical systems for industry and society.
• Aeronautics: engineers must be familiar with the versatile aspects of state-of-the-art technology in aeronautics and spin-off possibilities in other industries. The goal is to give students insight into all aspects of the construction, exploitation, and maintenance of aircraft and spacecraft.
• Vehicle Technology and Transport: engineers must be able to design, control, and maintain transportation systems (for humans and goods), with special attention for innovative sustainable vehicle technologies.
• Energy: engineers take part in the design and production activities of current and more advanced systems for the production and exploitation of energy.

After graduation students can continue their academic careers as a Ph.D. researchers.

• Machine construction
• Mechatronics
• Automobile industry
• Thermal installations
• Aircraft construction
• Maintenance in every industrial sector (e.g. chemical and nuclear)
• Companies
• Electrical energy (production, transport, distribution, renewable energy, electrical
• Drives, power electronics)
• Energy management and policy, rational use of energy
• Terrestrial transports
• Consulting firms