Graduated engineers of the Master's degree program Systems and Control can take up a broad range of positions. There is a strong demand for them, both in the Eindhoven region and further afield. Especially in Eindhoven and the surrounding area there are numerous large and small high-tech companies working in the field of positioning systems and vehicle subsystems. In addition, many graduates of this Master's degree program will find employment in the automotive, energy and process industry, in engineering companies, in research institutes and in the software industry.
PhD student Tijs Donkers explains
"I was the first Systems and Controls graduate, and now I'm doing a PhD at TU/e in the new Hybrid and Networked Systems group. The level of education at TU/e in general is very high: you're challenged by an enthusiastic team of lecturers to get the best out of yourself. Another plus point is that there are relatively few students, so you get a lot of attention. I graduated in Iterative Learning Control (ILC), a control strategy that can by itself improve the performance of the system under control. I'm always surprised by the wide applicability of the theory. It isn't limited to modeling of mechanical and chemical processes - you can also model processes in biology and even traffic congestion using system theory. As well as that, I find it an enrichment of my job as a control technologist that you work together with other specialists a lot."
