Lifelong Learning Program / Erasmus

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Dear foreign student,

Welcome to the Erasmus devoted pages of my website at www.ele.tue.nl/erasmus. I am your Erasmus contact person for the Department of Electrical Engineering. If the Electrical Engineering department is not the one that you are looking for, please contact the Erasmus coordinator of the other department. I can be reached by email.

If you consider to enroll for a complete bachelor or master programme and you are looking for information, I am not the right person to contact. Please consult the study information part of our university's website.

If you want to do a research project with a duration of 3 months or more, first read these remarks about internships. If an internship in our department is indeed what you are looking for, identify the research group that is the most attractive to you. Once you have identified this group, try to get into contact with the group directly, and see if you can agree on a suitable project bilaterally. If not mentioned on the group's web pages, email addresses (together with internal addresses and telephone numbers) can be found here. Do not hesitate to contact me, however, if you have trouble in contacting a research group; I will be happy to help you in establishing the contact. And note that in the unfortunate case that no research group is able to offer you a suitable project, nothing can be done at the department level: the department cannot force a research group to accept a particular student. In case your are interested in a six months' research project in Optical Communications, feel free to contact Dr. Nicola Calabretta; his research group has several projects available.

If you want to follow courses, please consult our list of master courses. Our university is in the process of changing from a two-semester system consisting of six blocks to a two-semester system consisting of four quartiles. In the old system, semester 1 = blocks A+B+C and semester 2 = blocks D+E+F; in the new system, semester A = quartiles 1+2 and semester B = quartiles 3+4. You might want to check the overall time schedule and calendar for the exact dates of the quartiles and the examination periods in the academic year 2010/2011. Note also the language policy in our department! For what it is worth: the average mark for elective courses in our department is 7.5 on a scale from 0 to 10.

Finding accommodation in Eindhoven will be difficult. Please read the following information about housing and start arranging your accommodation in time, i.e. several months before your planned date of arrival. In case you want to arrange your accommodation through the university's International Relations Office, do not forget to fill out page 5 (Annex I) of the application form (see below). A few weeks (less than a month!) before your scheduled arrival date, the International Relations Office will notify you via email about the actual address of the accommodation, so be sure to include your email address in the application form.
Please note that students applying for housing via TU/e are offered a housing contract with a fixed period of one semester, regardless of their actual period of stay. TU/e can only guarantee housing for a limited number of exchange students; they will be served on a 'first come, first served' basis.

Application procedure. Applicants are required to use the TU/e student application form (available in PDF format), which should be accompanied by (i) a copy of your passport, (ii) one passport photo (3x4cm), (iii) transcript of records of previous and current higher education, (iv) the learning agreement (available in PDF format) with the proposed study program (if already known), and (v) proof of sufficient mastery of the English language. The administration accepts only the new applicaton form! Please send the set of documents to the postal address M.J. Bastiaans, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Faculteit Electrical Engineering, Postbus 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, Netherlands; to speed up things, I suggest that you send a scanned version of it to me by email, as well.

Last but not least! I have written down some guidelines how to get from Schiphol (Amsterdam airport) to Eindhoven, and how to use the 'strippenkaart', the national bus and tram card. Also some maps are available, which may help you in finding the housing agency Vestide and the Electrical Engineering Building. And once your are here, do not forget to pick up your student card, proof of registration, and some other important documents at the service desk of the Education and Student Service Center (STU) in the Main Building, room HG 0.72, and say 'Hello!' to me at my office in the Electrical Engineering Building 'Potentiaal', room PT 3.24. If you want to use your own laptop computer, be sure that it has the latest updates of the operating system and that a virus scanner with the most recent virus data file has been installed; you can then register your laptop at our notebook service center, room PT 1.34. And if you are interested in the IEEE, feel free to drop in at the IEEE Student Branch Eindhoven room PT 2.35.

I wish you a fruitful stay in our department.

Martin J. Bastiaans.

P.S. Be sure to read the information for exchange students, available at the TU/e website; also the STU/International Relations Office website is a good source of education-related information. And there is, of coure, the Study Information Guide for International Students at TU/e.

For Erasmus coordinators of foreign universities: please check our Erasmus policy.

All information about courses, examinations, time schedules, etc. can be found at Onderwijsinfo TU/e; click on the button 'english' on the left-hand side, to get the english menu! More useful links can be found on the links page.

Any relevant information missing? Please tell me! email.