The track Artificial Intelligence Engineering Systems (AIES) can no longer be chosen as per academic year 2022-2023. This is due to the start of the new master’s program Artificial Intelligence & Engineering Systems per September 1, 2022. Students of cohort 2021 and earlier who already started the AIES track will be able to finish it. Students who successfully complete the AIES track before September 2025 will receive the Artificial Intelligence Engineering Systems certificate.
Below you can find a detailed description of the EE master track Artificial Intelligence Engineering Systems (AIES). The track involves the CS, ES and SPS research groups.
General program setup
| EC | ||
| 1st year | Core course | 15 |
| Specialization electives | 10 | |
| Elective courses | 25 | |
| Free elective course | 5 | |
| Professional development | 5 | |
| 2nd year | Internship | 15 |
| Graduation project | 45 |
Core courses
Students of the master track AIES must follow three core courses in the 1st year:
- 5SSD0 Bayesian machine learning and information processing in Q2;
- Choose between 2DME30 Complex analysis in Q1, 2DME10 Discrete mathematics in Q1 and 5CTA0 Statistical signal processing in Q1;
- Choose between 2DME20 Non-linear optimization in Q1 and 5CSA0 Modeling dynamics in Q1.
Specialization electives
Students of the master track AIES choose two specialization electives:
- Choose between 5SMC0 Control principles for engineered systems in Q2 and 5LIL0 Intelligent architectures in Q3;
- 5LSL0 Machine learning for signal processing in Q4.
Elective courses
Students of the master track AIES choose 25 EC of elective courses:
- 5ARA0 Programming for Artificial Engineering Systems in Q1 (this is a compulsory study component unless the student can prove sufficient programming skills: the student will then have to choose 10 EC of free elective courses instead);
- 1 study component in ‘Human aspects of AI’ (see table 7);
- 2 study components in ‘AI & engineering systems’ (see table 8);
- 5 EC of disciplinary deepening course(s) on request of graduation supervisor (see table 9).
Free elective course
Students of the master track AIES can choose 5 EC of free electives courses. Suggestions for free elective courses can be found here.
Professional development
Students of the master track AIES follow two professional development courses worth 5 EC in total. For more information on professional development please visit this webpage.
Internship
Students of the master track AIES do an internship of 15 EC in the field of AIES. For more information on the internship please visit this webpage.
Graduation project
Students of the master track AIES do a graduation project of 45 EC in the field of AIES. For more information on the graduation project please visit this webpage.
AIES certificate
Students who meet the abovementioned criteria receive the Artificial Intelligence Engineering Systems certificate.
Admission & entry requirements
Students with a BSc Electrical Engineering degree are directly admitted to the AIES master track. Students with a major Automotive technology are recommended to register for the 5ESC0 DSP Fundamentals (signals II) in Q1.
Students with a BSc Applied Physics degree or a BSc Computer Science & Engineering degree will be admitted selectively to the AIES track with the requirement of following two homologation courses, namely 5ESD0 Control systems in Q1 and 5ESC0 DSP Fundamentals (signals II) in Q1.
Students who have completed the pre-Master’s program Electrical Engineering for HBO Bachelors must additionally complete course 5ESC0 DSP Fundamentals (signals II) in order to be admitted into the AIES track.