17 Engineering BSc Degree Programs in Netherlands

Can biobased plastics be produced on a large scale? Can we convert CO2 into useful chemical products? How can you ensure that factories operate in a clean, safe, and efficient way? Chemical engineers work on the production of chemicals at an industrial scale. The Bachelor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Groningen will prepare you for this profession. You will learn to deal with chemical processes on a large scale, develop new chemical products, and design improved catalysts for the targeted reactions. At the same time, you will learn to evaluate and improve the safety and sustainability of chemical processes. Along the way, you will be also stimulated to develop your critical thinking skills and your problem-solving attitude.

Together with lecturers, fellow students, and company managers, you discover what you need to know to develop a deep understanding of the people, organization, technical know-how, and economic principles on which companies depend.

Do you want to contribute to the transition to a circular economy? Then the unique new Maastricht bachelor's program in Circular Engineering is the perfect choice for you: the engineer of the future. The bachelor in Circular Engineering combines a rigid engineering foundation with in-depth knowledge and skills in one of three engineering concentrations while focusing on sustainability throughout the curriculum.

Industrial Engineering is a real engineers' degree, in which you learn to translate new industrial techniques into practical solutions, such as a more sustainable production process or new products. In the Bachelor’s degree program in Industrial Engineering and Management (Technische Bedrijfskunde in Dutch), you learn how to analyze problems and develop, design, and apply solutions. You are first and foremost trained to become an industrial engineer, and you learn to look at the applicability of your solutions in the business world. After all, a technical solution is only useable if you have thoroughly tested its feasibility. Imagine, for example, that you have developed a new method to keep pepper-flavored crisps fresh for longer. Does the production process still cost-efficient? Does the method fit into the production line? What do the company’s employees think of it? And do customers still find the crisps tasty? The degree program is offered by the Faculty of Science and Engineering so you can be sure of lots of course units in maths, physics, and chemistry. In addition, you will follow course units in business studies, management, and logistics. Your technical know-how and your management insights will prepare you for jobs where technology and management meet. Embedding in business and society is a key element of this degree program.

You’ll be trained as a designer in Electrical & Electronic Engineering. As an electrical & electronic engineer, you contribute to every aspect of life. You will learn about Health and Well-being, Sustainability and smart living, and Intelligent sound and vision systems to ensure an easier and more pleasant life.

The course Industrial Engineering & Management teaches you how to use technology, management and economy in such a way that you will be able to improve production processes or to make organisations profitable or more sustainable.

Are you interested in contributing to the construction of the largest lock project in the world? In determining how high and how strong dikes should be to ensure flooding does not take place? Or would you like to make sure that people and animals can continue to live safely near coasts and rivers despite climate change? If your answer is ‘yes’ to the questions above, the Civil Engineering programme at HZ may be the right choice for you!

As a mechanical engineer, you invent, design, and implement new products and production processes. Also, you can think about how to make machines and production processes safer. A mechanical engineer knows everything about materials and how to use them in the best possible way.

Our programme teaches you to design, manufacture and test vehicles in a rapidly changing and demanding world. Technical developments – certainly in the field of mobility – are happening at lightning speed. You’ll become a specialist who isn’t afraid to push the boundaries.

Coffee machines, phones, medical devices: they all need to be ‘designed’. When designing these products, many questions need to be asked and answered. What does the customer need? How does the customer expect the product to look?

Increase your freedom of choice: some software engineers work for the world’s top technology companies, others work for themselves. As a software engineer, you can work anywhere in the world and under the terms you want.

Robotics is developing at a rapid pace. This requires an always up-to-date educational program that fits in with the fourth industrial revolution. We train you to be a specialist in the systematic design of control techniques for robot-controlled products and machines.

Industrial Engineering is a study program in which you examine a business process from the perspectives of people, engineering and organization. You develop a thorough theoretical basis and pay great attention to the practical applications of this knowledge.

Do you want to study at the cutting edge of science, engineering, and business, crossing the boundaries of each discipline to gain new insights and learn how to innovate? The new Program Business Engineering from Maastricht University is for students with a pioneering spirit and will train you for exciting jobs that combine business and new technologies.

Electrical Engineering plays a role in everything involving electricity and magnetism. For instance, in the development of electrical motors for cars or the design of the very latest wireless chips for cell phones.