Advanced manufacturing plays a key role in a broad spectrum of industries – such as automotive, semiconductor, material- and food-processing, health, and energy. After you graduate as a Mechanical Engineer in the AMS Master’s track, you can choose from a range of opportunities, including:
Design/Process Engineer: using experimental, numerical, and theoretical tools, you design, analyze, and optimize systems that involve manufacturing processes. You work together in a team of experts, applying your knowledge of computer aided design and engineering principles to the challenge at hand.
Energy/Sustainability Engineer: similar to the Design/Process Engineer, but your specific focus is on energy- and sustainability-related problems. For example, you investigate how a battery can be made as energy efficient as possible, or how to recycle materials from old devices in a cradle-to-cradle approach. Other jobs in this area focus on environmental and renewable energy technologies, such as solar cells, fuel cells, catalytic membranes, and filtration devices.
Numerical Methods Engineer: you use your knowledge to design novel numerical methods, develop simulation software and/or analyze simulation results related to manufacturing processes. Your results are used to optimize existing processes and design new processes in the most efficient way, saving on time and energy-intensive testing campaigns.
Research Scientist: you work at the forefront of science in the field of microsystems, materials, and mechanics on cutting-edge technologies, such as organ-on-a-chip, energy storage systems, new additive manufacturing techniques and next generation computational devices. Your work can involve the development of new experimental and numerical methods for fabrication technologies. You work at a company, a research institute, or a university, where the latter generally also involves teaching the new generations of engineers.
…and many more jobs that involve manufacturing!
The AMS Master’s track…
- …offers a unique mix of experimental/numerical/theoretical mechanics, covering the whole range from fundamentals all the way up to industrial applications
- …is well-embedded in Brainport Eindhoven, including the industries located in this impactful high-tech region of the Netherlands
- …places the students center-stage, with close connections to the tutors, other students, the department, the university, and partner research institutes in the Netherlands and abroad.