Thanks to TU/e’s central position in the Brainport region, this track – and the Operations Management and Logistics master’s program as a whole – features unique opportunities to interact with a world-renowned high-tech and deep-tech innovation ecosystem. TU/e Innovation Space, for instance, provides a community for students to practice challenge-based learning and entrepreneurship via complex societal and industrial challenges with researchers, businesses and over 40 student teams. In fact, TU/e is globally renowned for scoring the best on collaborations with the top 500 most innovative companies in the world. By the time you graduate, you will have therefore built up a strong network through which to seek out career options.
As a fresh graduate of Smart Industry, you will be well prepared for a broad range of positions. Past experience shows that graduates access the job market easily, attributable to the fact that their profile and skills are highly valued: specialists in operations management and logistics in general and smart industry specifically are in high demand. Many of our graduates have gone on to work for multinational, high-tech or service companies, such as ASML, Vanderlande, NXP, ProDrive, MSD, Omron, KMWE, Marel, Canon, VDL and members of Brainport Industries. Actual examples of jobs that our recent graduates have found include:
- Production and maintenance manager
- Service product manager
- Business process expert on manufacturing/supply chains
- Business consultant on digital transformation
- Manager
Other options include the possibility to start one’s own company or set out on a career in research.