Profile
We are looking for technical talents who:
- Have a clear ambition in an industrial career, and an inclination towards the design and development of innovative, complex products, transforming academic research results into practical solutions.
- Are highly motivated and ambitious;
- Want to learn more technically as well as professionally;
- Want to further accelerate their career while helping their colleagues to further develop;
- Can think critically, and on various levels of abstraction;
- Want to learn how to communicate their ideas and thoughts effectively and efficiently to a broad, varied audience.
Eligibility
The Eng program Automotive Systems Design is open to engineers with a university Master degree (or similar level) in the field of automotive technology, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, embedded systems, systems & control, aerospace engineering, applied physics, or similar. Furthermore, the candidate is expected to have:
- Affinity with technology, keen interest in and good awareness of the current technological developments; knowledge of and affinity with the automotive field; experience with Matlab/Simulink or similar; preferably knowledge of vehicle dynamics, and classical feedback control theory (or extended knowledge of other fields that are in high demand in the automotive sector, such as sensors, vision, machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, advanced driver assistant systems, automated driving, and electric vehicles);
- An academic, critical attitude and a good awareness of the state of the art in engineering design for high tech systems, most notable in the area of the Master thesis project;
- The ability to choose and apply methods, tools, and techniques to solve actual, practical problems;
- The ability to stay abreast of current developments in the field of automotive;
- Better than average social and communicative competencies, including an excellent English proficiency in writing, speaking, reading, and understanding;
- Interest in being part of an international program with various cultures including the Dutch culture (and language).