Industrial Engineering & Management

Groningen offers you the perfect opportunity to combine engineering with business aspects. In this way, you will be able to combine technical solutions with entrepreneurial skills. As a result, a lot of future career options will be open to you once you graduate.

The Groningen science and engineering programmes stand out for their academic excellence. The work pace in the first year is generally high and the courses contents demanding. The first year curriculum concentrates on laying a sound basis for our engineering and natural science disciplines. This allows our students to choose their specialization already in their second Bachelor's year.

Example course units in the Production technology and logistics specialization are: production techniques, applied manufacturing management, control engineering, digital and hybrid control systems.

Example course units in the Process and product technology specialization are: separation processes, technical thermodynamics, special process equipment, multi-phase reactors.

A lot of our courses include learning communities, which include a lot of project-work and cooperation with your fellow classmates. You will practice research, academic and engineering skills in your learning community by carrying out integrative IEM research and design projects.This way you will get to know most of your fellow students and tackle the most demanding subjects as a team.

For the complete curriculum, please visit: https://www.rug.nl/ocasys/fwn/vak/showpos?opleiding=3753

An internship is currently integrated in the Master's degree of IEM. In the near future we may add the opportunity to also carry out your Bachelor's project abroad (eg China). During the IEM Master's degree you will have the opportunity to do a research project of several month at a company in the Netherlands or abroad. Our choice of industry partners ranges from large multinationals (such as Shell, Philips, Unilever) to dynamic small and medium enterprises in the Groningen area.

The Dutch government intends to halve the statutory tuition fees for specific groups of first year bachelor's students starting from the 2018/19 academic year. https://www.rug.nl/education/tuition-fees-halved

Once you have completed the three-year Bachelor's programme and have your degree, you may continue with the Master's degree programme to study your field in greater depth. A Bachelor's degree in IEM qualifies you for the Master's degree programme in IEM at Groningen, or the equivalent at another university. A graduate in industrial engineering and management is at home in organizations that focus on innovation.

A Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Management will open many doors to you in many different companies and organizations, from multinationals to consultancy firms, in the Netherlands and further afield.

Your technical know-how and your management insights will prepare you for jobs where technology and management meet. You will feel at home in companies and organizations interested in innovation, searching for new opportunities by integrating technologies.

Product manager and process technologist are jobs often offered to our graduates. You could also work in a hospital, investigating how to use research equipment better. Some graduates end up in the service sector or working for the government. Virtually all of our graduates find jobs immediately after graduating.

Examples include manufacturing (from cars to razors), as well as the chemical and pharmaceutical industries where you could end up as a process technologist, for example for Shell or DSM. Because of your business training, you can quickly find work in management positions. One interesting field is our future energy supply. Think of companies developing and improving solar panels, or generating electricity from biomass. You don’t have to stand in a lab yourself as long as you are able to translate the results of research into useful information for the rest of the company.

Engineering and Technology institute Groningen (ENTEG)

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