Professional Skills

Professional Skills

In addition to professional (mathematical) knowledge and engineering skills, graduates need skills to exercise their profession, like skills on communication. Therefore, every TU/e Major includes six professional skills trajectories:

  • Cooperating
  • Presenting
  • Writing
  • Reflecting
  • Planning and Organizing
  • Looking up and processing (scientific) information

Each of these six skills trajectories consists of two or three components which are embedded in bachelor courses. For instance,  Cooperating 1 is such a component on Cooperating in the first year of the major, Cooperating 2 in the second year, and Cooperating 3 in the third year. These components usually take the form of a workshop plus assignments, or just assignments. 

First year

Here is a detailed list of the professional skill components in the first year major courses of the major Applied Mathematics:

Skill components Course Form

Writing 1

2WF20 Linear algebra 1

writing assignment in LaTeX

Cooperating 1

2WH20 Programming and modelling

meeting skills

Reflecting 1

2WA40 Analysis 2

reflection on first year bachelor

Looking up and processing (scientific) information 1

2WH20 Programming and modelling

assignment

Second year

Here is a detailed list of the professional skill components in the second year major courses of the major Applied Mathematics:

Skill components Course Form

Presenting 2

2WN20 Introduction numerical analysis

or

2WS20 Probability theory

training and presentation

Writing 2

2WN20 Introduction numerical analysis

or

2WS20 Probability theory

report modelling assignment

Cooperating 2

2WA70 Ordinary differential equations

workshop peer review

Planning and organizing 2

2WB20 Stochastic processes

planning modelling assignment

Third year

Here is a detailed list of the professional skill components in the third year major courses of the major Applied Mathematics:

Skill component Course Form

Cooperating 3

2WH30 Mathematical modelling

workshop

Presenting 3

2WH40 Bachelor final project

final presentation

Writing 3

2WH40 Bachelor final project

final report

Reflecting 3

2WH40 Bachelor final project

reflection on completed bachelor

Planning and organizing 3

2WH30 Mathematical modelling

planning modelling assignment

Looking up and processing (scientific) information 3

2WH40 Bachelor final project

assignment

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