Program

When you just start studying, performing real work tasks might feel like something that’s in the distant future - but it’s not! Starting from year 1, you’ll frequently be in the labs to work on practical assignments. Your courses:

Electrical Engineering Fundamentals 

• Mathematics
• Electrical Circuits
• Measuring Lab

Electrical Design

• Sustainable Electricity Grid
• Magnetism and Transformers
• Mechanics and Electrical Machines

Electronic Design

• Electronic Semiconductor Components
• Microcontroller Programming

Projects

• Variety of interesting assignments
• Workshops: Network Simulation
• Workshops: Printed Circuit Board design and Realization
• Workshops: Research Methods
• Professional Skills

The academic year runs from September to August. In that time you have 42 weeks of education. The rest of the time you have holidays.

Are you missing home? Are your classes too challenging? Want advice about your internship? Your study coach is there to help you with such issues. Or you can discuss them with your learning team. This is a group of 6-8 Electrical and Electronic Engineering students, supported by a learning team coach (teacher). The team meets at set times throughout the year. 

HAN uses the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). This system is part of the bachelor-master structure. ECTS credits are a measure of the workload of a degree program.  

In your 1st year, you’ll meet with your study coach a few times to talk about how you’re doing—both personally and in your studies. At the end of the year, you’ll receive Personal Study Advice. This advice helps you decide whether this program is the right fit for you. When giving this advice, we don’t only look at the credits you’ve earned. We also consider your motivation, engagement, effort, attitude, attendance, and any personal circumstances. Are you in the right place? Does this program suit you?  

The Personal Study Advice is not binding. So, whatever the advice is, you decide whether you want to continue with the program. 

Electronics Design, Systems and Signals

• Electronics
• Control Systems 
• Data Communication 

Power Systems

• Power Electronics and Inverters
• Electrical Drives and Machines 
• Distribution and Low Voltage Grid

Working on real company projects is the best way to discover your strengths and improve your skills. Together with your fellow students, you work on a company project 3 days a week.

For example, you could be working on a:

• Bicycle Simulator
• Small Hydrogen Vehicle
• Self-driving trolley
• Baby Patient Simulator
• Activating Parkinson Patients with sensoring

Industrial Control Systems

• Systems Modelling
• Advanced & Servo Control
• Discrete Event Systems
• Industry 4.0

Your Electrical Engineering internship gets you ready for the international job market. Where you go? That depends on your specialization. You could go to TenneT. That’s one of Europe’s top 5 electricity transmission operators. Or you could go to Prodrive. That’s an electronic and mechatronic solutions firm. Before you start your internship, you get a thorough preparation program. 

Throughout your studies you work on real-life research projects. The projects are for companies and organizations in the energy sector. How’s that possible? Your program is linked to HAN’s research center SEECE. SEECE develops and shares knowledge about innovations in electrical energy. Your role? To work on electrical engineering projects alongside lecturers and researchers. For example, on topics like solar power and wind energy. 

HAN offers great minors for Electrical and Electronic Engineering students. For example, you can sign up for Embedded Vision Design or Power Minor. Or what about broadening your experiences even further? You could study at another university, for example. Or even go abroad. Perhaps you want to continue with the Master in Engineering Systems. Then a pre-master program is a smart option for your minor. 

Your final challenge in Electrical and Electronic Engineering: the graduation assignment. Here you research an issue for a company or organization. Which company? That could be a large international firm, like Océ (part of Canon). Or Liander, the largest grid operator in the Netherlands. Or a smaller, innovative company in the region. Your research results will help solve an issue they are facing. 

After 4 years of study you have earned your Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Congratulations! The program you've completed is accredited by the Accreditation Organization of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO). That means you now have an internationally recognized degree. Ready to join an international company? Or further your studies with a master?