Educating the (microwave) engineer of the future

Author

Smolders, A.B. ; Vleeshouwers, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol. (TU/e), Eindhoven, Netherlands

fYear

2012

fDate

Oct. 29 2012-Nov. 1 2012

Firstpage

506

Lastpage

509

Abstract

The interest of secondary school students in science and engineering was investigated in the Netherlands. The outcome of this study shows that the technical universities are currently not very attractive for a large group of young people. Together with the requirements for the engineer of the future, a new bachelor structure was developed at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). This new set-up provides a solid base in engineering, broadening with social and management subjects and provides the flexibility for the student to (partly) design his own study by means of electives. In this way we expect to educate more (microwave) engineers of the future.

Keywords

educational courses; educational institutions; electrical engineering education; Eindhoven University of Technology; Netherlands; bachelor structure; electrical engineering; management subjects; microwave engineer; secondary school students; social subjects; technical universities; Educational institutions; Electrical engineering; Electromagnetics; Engineering profession; Microwave technology; Solids; Education; electrical engineering; engineer of the future;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference (EuMC), 2012 42nd European

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2215-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-2-87487-026-2

Type

conf

Filename

6459072