Minor Do you want to learn how you can apply Electrical Engineering in your field of engineering? Do you want to understand electronic Electrical Engineering for instrumentation principles? Then the Electrical Engineering for Autonomous Autonomous Exploration Exploration Robots minor is for you! Robots Why? In space exploration, the use of autonomous robots for exploring the surface of Mars is a typical example of how Electrical Engineering (EE) becomes prevalent in just about any branch of engineering. These robots contain electro-motors, sensors and communication techniques which can be found in many other engineering marvels. Traditional EE branches such as communication and information processing are continually expanding into other fields such as medicine and pharmaceutics, infrastructure etc. EE is also becoming more and more important in: The automotive branch: fuelled by increased safety requirements (accident prevention), eco-friendliness (engine management), comfort etc. Sensors: via the development of Micro-electromechanical Systems (MEMS). You can find these in the gravity sensor of your iPhone and WII. Satellites: when used in swarms (many small, closely cooperating satellites) they hold prodigious promises concerning mission costs and robustness. Sustainable energy (solar, wind): will be central to unrelenting technological progress for the coming decades. Robotics: this field faces an exciting future largely made possible by a combination of electronics and mechanics. The field of EE is broad and knowing how to apply EE will give you much-needed added value in your field of engineering. You can register now for this minor programme at www.minors.tudelft.nl ‘Electrical Engineering plays a major role in our everyday life, knowing how it works will transform you in a multi-functional future engineer’ Giorgos Galatis, Aerospace Engineering student Challenge the future ‘The minor gives a varied picture of what Electrical Engineering can offer you; even if you don’t know anything about Electrical Engineering yet’ Marlou Pors, Computer Science student Who is this minor for? This minor is of special interest to students in Guiding & Radiating Systems provides a non-specialist Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace foundation of wireless transfer of information, by starting Engineering and Computer Science. from the analysis of guided electromagnetic waves propagation and extending this knowledge to basic, but Do you see yourself as a potential EE MSc student? This illustrative free-space propagation phenomena. minor will allow you to validate your dream and will Electronic Power Conversion Systems will introduce provide you with instruments to self-assess your you to applications of power electronics by providing an readiness to enrol in such a programme. overview of electronic power circuits and instructing you Contact the minor coordinator for more information. on how to select and analyse the appropriate circuits occurring in any power conversions systems. Programme Structured Electronic Design will instruct you on how The minor consists of seven courses and a project. an optimal design can be found and how design choices can (or should) be motivated. Courses Circuit Analysis focuses on the analysis of linear Project electrical circuits and components, laying the basis for The minor concludes with the Mars Rover Project understanding the steady-state and transient behaviour – a typical EE project in which you will work in a of passive circuits. group of 4-5 students for creating a robot vehicle Electronic Circuits will give you an insight (in a (rover) with some form of autonomous behaviour. structured manner) in the function of electronics as information-processing technique in our society. Telecommunications Techniques focuses on the basic concepts of signal processing for telecommunications, especially those related to the transmission of digital signals, and on solving related problems using calculations. For more information about the courses and the project, see Digital Systems focuses on the two fundamental www.studyguide.tudelft.nl notions of digital systems, namely combinational and sequential networks, and the basics of Very High Speed IC Hardware Description Language (VHDL). For further information Dr. ing. I.E. Lager, Minor coordinator EEMCS Faculty +31 (0)15 27 85591 Mekelweg 4 [email protected] 2628 CD Delft www.minors.tudelft.nl The Netherlands www.ewi.tudelft.nl Challenge the future.