As a graduate of the Master’s in Electrical Engineering with a specialisation in Integrated Circuit Design, you can look forward to an exciting career as a microchip architect, analogue and radio frequency IC design engineer, or research engineer, to name but a few. You can also continue with a PhD or EngD programme. What about starting your own business?
Type of degree
Upon completion of the Master's with a specialisation in Integrated Circuit Design, you will receive a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering. Also, you can title yourself Master of Science (MSc). Your specialisation will be mentioned on your diploma supplement, highlighting your specialised knowledge and skills in the field of integrated circuit design.
Job opportunities
As a graduate of this specialisation, you have the necessary skills to design and analyse analogue and radio frequency integrated circuits. You can do this considering power consumption, noise, and signal integrity. With this expertise, you will be well prepared to work at semiconductor manufacturers, research and development institutes, medical device manufacturers, automotive electronics companies, or telecommunications companies, among others.
Whichever career path you choose, you will be sure to find exciting opportunities at various private and public organisations. You can work at a wide range of semiconductor designers and manufacturers, such as Texas Instruments, NXP, or Analog Devices. Are you interested in a career at a multinational technology company, such as Bosch, Panasonic, or Siemens? Moreover, you can jumpstart your career at the analogue, radio frequency, and mixed signals IC design companies located in Twente, among which AnSem, Bruco, Teledyne DAlSA, ItoM, MEMSIC, Axign, Chain-IC, or Sencure.
Start a business
Do you have a great business idea? At the University of Twente, you can turn it into reality! At UT, we highly encourage entrepreneurship. In fact, with over 1,000 start-ups to its name, UT is recognised as one of the most entrepreneurial universities in the Netherlands. Did you know that big international companies like Booking.com and Just Eat Takeaway were once founded by students of UT? We are keen to put your scientific knowledge to practical use in solutions that people and society need. Your innovative ideas, creativity and the courage to put in the extra mile will be rewarded. As a catalyst for meaningful entrepreneurship, we offer you the Novel-T foundation and their start-up hub Incubase on campus.
You can use your master’s research - or prototypes from the research you have done - to start your own business. Graduates of Electrical Engineering have founded Axign, a fabless semiconductor company that delivers high-end digital audio amplifiers. Will you be next?
Post-master opportunities
Instead of pursuing a professional career right after obtaining your Master’s degree, you can opt for an academic career by completing a PhD or an EngD. An EngD programme is more practically oriented and aligned with direct problem solving and addressing design needs of a particular industry whereas a PhD programme is more focused on research. You can follow both types of programmes at the Twente Graduate School (TGS).
CONTINUE AS A RESEARCHER: OBTAIN A PHD
A PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) entails studying and carrying out research in a particular area for a period of four years. You can do this within one of our research groups or our structured PhD programmes. An integral part of a PhD is writing your PhD thesis and presenting and defending your research publicly. Obtaining a PhD gives you the title Doctor (Dr).
FOLLOW AN ENGD PROGRAMME
You can also choose to follow an EngD programme after graduation. Such a programme usually takes two years and prepares you to become a high-level technological designer. Upon successful completion, you will receive a certified diploma and the academic degree title Professional Doctorate in Engineering (EngD).