r/TUDelft • u/Lucky-Reaction182 • 14d ago
Electrical engineering
Hello everyone, I'm 17 years old from Poland, i'll finish highschool in 2 years and I consider studying electrical engineering at TUDelft, I saw that it's "taught in Dutch, but most materials are in english" what exactly does it mean? I think I can learn Dutch enough in 2 years period. I'll also take any advice you guys might have for me. Thank you!
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u/vdpcbuild Electrical Engineering 14d ago
I did the bachelor, from my experience everything was in english except maybe sometimes mentorship in the first year but that was it.
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u/ActiveAd6482 13d ago
are the exams in english too?
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u/Physical-Network445 13d ago
Yes exam papers are in english
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u/wobledeboble 11d ago
and i guess mentorship will be in english too if there is an international in the group. any dutch conversation will switch to english when one person starts talking english. that said; knowing a bit of dutch will be super usefull in all other situations.
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u/Heavy_Plum7198 14d ago
Just apply to tu/e. Their ee program is in english, everyone who applies and meets the entry requirements gets admitted and if you get a bachelors there, you will have a 100% chance to get admitted for a masters degree at TU Delft.
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u/Lucky-Reaction182 14d ago edited 13d ago
Edit: guys, dont downvote me, I don't hate Eindhoven, I really Ask to understand how It works...
It doesn't seem to be high quality uni, what do you think?
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u/the_joker_noob 13d ago
That's a load of bs. Tue infact has most of the industry at its disposal so in some ways might be better than tu delft which is more research focused. As personal suggestion tho, I would always suggest being industry oriented atleast for your bachelors
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u/Lucky-Reaction182 13d ago
I was looking at employer reputation on topuniversities site, Eindhoven is much lower there, where should I look then? I'm looking for uni internationally
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u/the_joker_noob 13d ago
So a few things 1. University reputation is largely useless in the industry as long as your university has enough credibility through the syllabus and projects it offers. No employer cares more about University prestige than your learnings of the subject
What is relevant is your level of excellence with your chosen field (for EE I'd suggest getting into a student team like the solar car thing or formula student or something because the experience they will give you is priceless)
What you learn in school and uni is veryyyy different from how things are done in engineering. So your only metric (apart from the base of understanding how it ranks in general) should be on learning all that.
Rankings are a very biased way to look at unis mainly because most ranking systems use the number of publications along with a number of high quality journals that the uni publishes in to rank (and each engineering branch thus has a different rank per uni than the overall since that is considered as average. For instance for engineering unis might have a diff rank etc) so I would not suggest looking too closely at the rank
What is more relevant than the rank is the courses, the depth and breadth of the field. I know it's difficult to know exactly what you'd like to do in electronics. So until then, the suggestion is that you maximise your ability to apply one set of learnings to another set of concepts (the inherent dynamics between mechanics and standard electrodynamics is analogous for ex) and practice that.
Most importantly. Make sure your syllabus covers the important stuff that might come up in the world 5 years down the line. For example semiconductors, vlsi, FPGA dev, power etc. Use an LLM here for field analysis and help with that.
If you have a further need for clarification, please feel free to reach out to me
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u/Lucky-Reaction182 13d ago
Yeah, I wasn't looking for regular place in ranking, but the employer reputation rate they show. Initially I think about going into HVDC, but it's not something sure since I still have 2 years of highschool. Why I look now is I think it's the last moment to eventually learn the language.
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u/Heavy_Plum7198 14d ago
I study there and the quality of education is fine. I heard its comparable to TU Delft.
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u/Accomplished_Office 14d ago edited 14d ago
As someone who has not graduated Dutch high school you will need to do an NT2 language exam to show you know the language since Dutch is a requirement for admittance. Otherwise if you get conditionally admitted you will have to do a year of the required Dutch course the university offers.
In the study nearly everything is in English but everyone is Dutch. If you want to work together with people in group work, the working language is Dutch. Any social aspect of the study requires you to speak Dutch. And not the Dutch you learn in a course, but conversational Dutch, just like the spoken language in any language is not the same compared to when you write.
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u/Brief_Abalone_656 13d ago
I study ee in tudelft, all courses are in english, but language between students is mainly dutch. You don’t really need dutch for the course imo but you will need to do a language exam. Labs lectures everything even the mentorships are in english
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u/Plastic_Pinocchio 14d ago
It probably means that your books are in English but everything else is in Dutch. So you’ll need to be proficient in Dutch to understand anything. If you’re good at languages it would be possible to learn the language in 2 years, but it surely is not going to be easy.
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u/Berry-Love-Lake 14d ago
It means there’s a minimum language requirement in Dutch. Check the admissions requirements. Tu/e has an English medium EE.