MSc in Systems, Control and Mechatronics
Chalmers University of Technology
Key Information
Campus location
Gothenburg, Sweden
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
2 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
SEK 160,000 / per year *
Application deadline
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Earliest start date
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* tuition fees for non-EU/EEA students
Introduction
Gain the skills and competencies to prepare for a professional career focused on the engineering of complex, computer-controlled products and systems. With such systems already in great demand in a vast range of possible applications, the need for highly trained engineers like you is great.
This program will give you a broad systems engineering base, suited to the design and understanding of complex, computer-controlled products and systems.
Modern passenger cars, for example, feature highly integrated intelligent systems, with multiple computers, sensors, and communication devices working together to create safer and more efficient vehicles. Other rapidly developing areas for the field include networks for HVDC power transmission, healthcare devices, and intelligent robots for both industrial and consumer use.
But there is plenty of room for improvement. All these applications are only possible with the input of engineers, who make them accurate, adaptable, efficient, and safe. Whether through energy savings, reduction of environmental impacts, or streamlining production processes to be more economical, this master’s program will allow you to push the field forward, with an education ideally tailored to the future challenges and demands facing the industry. You will be contributing to development by designing and refining sensing, monitoring, and control functions for all sorts of products and systems.
The program also offers course packages focused on subtopics and relevant fields of application in the industry. This includes packages such as algorithms and AI, machine learning, industry 4.0, power systems, and mathematical systems theory. And, thanks to a collaboration with Universität Stuttgart in Germany, there is also the possibility to pursue a double degree.
Systems engineering enjoys a rich history in Sweden, and longstanding collaborations with leading industrial partners make Chalmers University of Technology the perfect choice for students looking to pursue a career in this rapidly evolving field of engineering.
Career
Due to its integrating properties, the program Systems, control, and mechatronics lead to a wide range of career opportunities with an emphasis on the operation, design, development, and research of complex technical systems within almost any branch of industry. The generality of many of the methods offers great opportunities in terms of choosing among many different domains of application. The acquired skills are needed at manufacturing companies, supplier companies, consulting firms, and utility companies.
Job roles range from applied research to product and system development and operation, as well as sales support and product planning. In addition, other career opportunities may arise, such as academic researchers, technical advisors, project managers, and teachers at different levels.
General entry requirements
A Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, Technology, or Architecture
To fulfill the general entry requirement for a Master's program at Chalmers (at advanced level/the second cycle), the prospective student must hold a degree that is equivalent to a Swedish Bachelor's degree (minimum 3 years, 180 Swedish higher education credits) in either Science, Engineering, Technology or Architecture.
- All applicants must document their formal academic qualifications to prove their eligibility. Only documentation from internationally recognized universities will be approved by the Swedish Council for Higher Education which manages the website universityadmissions.se.
- If an applicant is also a holder of a second degree such as a Master's degree, that may be to fulfill specific (course) requirements, it cannot be used to fulfill the general entry requirement on its own.
In your final year of Bachelor's Studies
Students in their last year of studies who don't yet have documentation of their soon-to-be-completed degree can be accepted.
Restrictions
Degrees that are constructed on one another cannot consist of the same course
Applicants who fulfill the general entry requirements for the second cycle (master’s level) programs and eventually specific entry requirements can be admitted to a master’s program. Applicants cannot be evaluated as unqualified in the qualifying academic merits which include courses from the program’s plan in those programs that they have applied for if that occurs.
Courses included in an earned first cycle degree (bachelor’s level) or professional qualification of at least 180 cr. (180hp) or the equivalent foreign qualification that are prerequisites for master’s qualifications may not be included in the higher qualifications. This also applies to prerequisite courses for master’s programs, regardless of whether they are included in the underlying qualification. *
*) Local Qualifications Framework for Chalmers University of Technology - first and second cycle qualifications.
Restrictions for Citizens from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)
Chalmers cannot admit applicants with citizenship of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea only to any program or course, due to the Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1509 of 30 August 2017 concerning restrictive measures against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and repealing Regulation (EC) 329/2007.
For applicants with double citizenship of which one is of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the other of another country, the citizenship of the other country has precedence in this respect.