The Master's

The Master of Engineering: Electrical Engineering programme offers a comprehensive set of courses to provide graduate students with the foundation to create the next generation of networked integrated systems. The excellence of the faculty, the breadth of the programme and the opportunity to study in a highly stimulating environment close to the research combine to attract students from all over the world.

Next generation ICT infrastructures will contain complex integrated systems. Tiny devices will be omnipresent in the environment. The backbone will consist of complex servers, routers and complete compute farms. The devices will communicate with each other over wired and wireless networks. The applications that run will be rich in multimedia content. And the complete system needs security and privacy. Our goal is to teach the students the technical skills and methods such that they can contribute to the creation of this and other future ICT infrastructure. The contents of the courses are state of the art. The faculty that teach also perform their research in the department. This close link between education and research enables students to confront challenging and significant topics while working on problems during their course work or their Master's thesis.

My profile

The programme assumes basic knowledge of electrical engineering (e.g., basic transistors and logic design, digital signal processing, systems and control). The Master of Engineering: Electrical Engineering programme gives the student in-depth training in many ICT related topics, organized into three main categories:

• Integrated electronics: analogue and digital design, computer architectures and integrated system design
• Multimedia and signal processing: advanced DSP, multimedia technology
• Telecommunication: mobile and wireless communications, coding, security and cryptography

The Master's thesis project is carried out in close co-operation with the Electrical Engineering Department's ongoing research, exposing the student to the latest research topics in these fields.

Assets

The city of Leuven has around 90,000 inhabitants. Add to this 35,000 students and it should come as no surprise that young faces fill the streets of a city that lives at a student's rhythm. Leuven is located in the centre of Belgium, 25 km from the capital city Brussels and 15 km from Brussels airport. It is a perfect base for trips within Belgium and abroad. Leuven is an important hub in the Belgian railway network, and Paris, London and Amsterdam are only a couple of hours away by train. A bus pass gives you free access to the regular bus lines running within the area of Leuven. But because the city is so compact, cycling is usually the quickest way to get around.

K.U.Leuven and the city of Leuven grew together over the centuries, meaning that town and gown are strongly linked. Student apartments, dorms, cafeterias, entertainment and sports accommodations are integrated into the city.

Study programme

During the second year, you write a Master's thesis comprising 24 credits. You may choose from a large selection of research topics offered by the staff members that teach in the programme. For this Master's thesis, you will be supervised individually by a full faculty mentor and a daily supervisor.

Depending on your background and/or research interest, some special technical education courses may be replaced by other Master's level courses. This is decided by the programme director together with the Master's thesis supervisor on an individual basis. These changes are made once you have arrived in Leuven.

Career prospects

The Electrical Engineering Department (ESAT) is the largest department within the university and has been the starting point of IMEC and many spin-off companies. The faculty also has excellent connections to industry. With the programme's strong link between education and research, employment perspectives are excellent - and not only in Belgium, but also in Europe and the rest of the world. Our graduates are in very high demand.

Application and Admissions

Detailed information on application procedures and admission requirements depends on your preceding qualifications, etc.

• You will find more information on application matters here.

Electrical Engineering - Impressionen vom Masterstudium

Übersicht der Masterstudiengänge - KU Leuven

• Adapted Physical Activity
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