Electromechanics SPRING

Exchange courses in Electromechanics

A programme for international Exchange students who achieved at least 120 ECTS in electromechanics, on bachelor level.

Courses with Dutch as official teaching language have tutoring and course material in English.

For students applying for a bachelor project approval and allocation is based on a CV with relevant experience and a transcript of records. 

SPRING 2026

* Tutoring and course material available in English.

** Students can only register for this course in one semester, Autumn or Spring

*** Students that register for Technical Project (autumn semester) can’t register for Project Mechatronics (spring semester).

Course content 

For official course catalogue information check the course catalogue: 

Course Catalogue 2024-2025 (available from june 2024).

Below you can find a description of the course contents.

International Bachelor project

Students do a bachelor project in the field of climatization, maintenance or electromechanics genaraly and incoming students are usually enrolled in a research project of our own research group. 

An important objective is that a student learns to work individually and to solve a problem. The student has to analyse the problem, search for different solutions and work out a plan. The student needs to collect knowledge in different ways, bring this knowledge and the results of the practical work together and needs to make a report/paper in which the entire project is described.In this bachelor project, practical work is always combined with a theoretical background of the subject.

On the one hand, the aim of the bachelor's thesis is to establish contact between future professional bachelors and business reality with a view to future professional life. On the other hand, the activities during the Bachelor's thesis will make an important contribution to the final year's thesis. We try to achieve this by having the student realize a project within a business environment and under professional guidance. The description, definition and planning of the project are done in consultation with the promoter of the study program. The bachelor's thesis consists of a theoretical and / or practical approach to a technological problem in one of the specializations of the chosen specialization. The graduation thesis is the written record of the thesis. The bachelor's thesis is a compulsory educational activity and continues in semester 2 (12 weeks) of the last academic year. During the 12 weeks, the student performs his activities on the internship company (or research group at PXL) itself and the work regime of the company in question will be followed.

Global engagement

For this course students need to work independently and do assignments of their own choice.  This course tests the following competences:

• Intercultural competences
• International competences
• Sustainable competences

Sustainable minds

 Students collaborate in an international group project that focuses on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) defined by the United Nations. They develop solutions for a more sustainable future.

Project Mechatronics

During the lessons of Technical Project 1, the introductory research competences are discussed, namely: planning and design (3), collecting and saving(4), processing (5), concluding (6), reporting and presenting (7) and evaluating ( 8).

This is a course in which the students are taught the research competences by implementing the skills in the project. They are given a technical problem (with a choice between a climate control or maintenance project) and must collect and store information about this, process this information, formulate conclusions and report and present their project individually or in group. Finally, they also have to do a peer and self-evaluation.

Project Skills 2

This course teaches English communication skills combined with project skills.

Project design and assembly techniques

Objectives:

The student is able to make a part according to the required precision and finishing level using the production machines (turning, milling, drilling, cutting and bending) in the lab.

The student can produce a part using an automated machine (CNC) by making use of simple programming techniques and by making use of advanced program generation techniques (post-processing).

The student is able to make a quick fix and a detailled design. The student can make a correct technical drawing (functional dimensioning) when designing. When creating a design, the student can justify which sustainable option is preferred.

Learning content:

The students are introduced to drilling, turning, milling, bending and cutting. The basic concepts of the machining process are explained in theory and on the basis of practice on the machine. The students learn to accurately convert a drawing into a produced workpiece. The students learn to build larger assemblies through simple assignments of assembly and disassembly. Thread tapping and exercises on sawing, filing and deburring, the students also learn the basics of practical knowledge in the workshop. The students learn to make the relationship between the computer and the workplace. The students learn to work with a 3D CAD package that makes it possible to prepare designs for the machine. Several specific translation software applications are used for this. In this way, the link between 3D model and finished workpiece is established. The students learn to make simple designs from idea to realization. It starts with simple problems that become more complex in the course of the lessons and where just-in-time design methods are taught. The student must make a correct technical drawing of this (functional dimensions). Design focus for this course is on creating new solutions.

Project design for maintenance

Objectives:

The student is able to make a part according to the required precision and finishing level using the production machines (turning, milling, drilling, cutting and bending) in the lab.

The student can produce a part using an automated machine (CNC) by making use of simple programming techniques and by making use of advanced program generation techniques (post-processing).

The student is able to make a quick fix and a detailled design. The student can make a correct technical drawing (functional dimensioning) when designing. When creating a design, the student can justify which sustainable option is preferred.

Learning content:

The students are introduced to drilling, turning, milling, bending and cutting. The basic concepts of the machining process are explained in theory and on the basis of practice on the machine. The students learn to accurately convert a drawing into a produced workpiece. The students learn to build larger assemblies through simple assignments of assembly and disassembly. Thread tapping and exercises on sawing, filing and deburring, the students also learn the basics of practical knowledge in the workshop. The students learn to make the relationship between the computer and the workplace. The students learn to work with a 3D CAD package that makes it possible to prepare designs for the machine. Several specific translation software applications are used for this. In this way, the link between 3D model and finished workpiece is established. The students learn to make simple designs from idea to realization. It starts with simple problems that become more complex in the course of the lessons and where just-in-time design methods are taught. The student must make a correct technical drawing of this (functional dimensions). Design focus is on fixing problems in existing setups.