Faculty of Aerospace Engineering
Intern recruitment
Opportunities at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering
Are you looking for students to complete an internship at your company? This flyer gives you detailed information about the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, the programme and the procedures for internships. Aerospace Engineering
The Faculty aims to train engineers to respond
TU Delft’s Faculty of Aerospace Engineering is one of
effectively to the vast range of engineering needs
Europe’s largest educational institutes specializing
arising within the worlds of aerospace technology.
in aerospace technology with a student body of
Students are encouraged to be confident and
over 2200. A long history of technical excellence,
resourceful in problem solving, and at the same
innovation and teaching performance across a broad
time, to cooperate and communicate across cultural
spectrum of space and aerospace disciplines enables
borders.
graduates to provide technically imaginative and commercially viable solutions for this dynamic
Master programmes
sector.
The Faculty of Aerospace Engineering offers two programmes: Master Aerospace Engineering and the
Aerospace Engineering graduates are also
European Wind Energy Master. Within the master
contributing significantly to research on and
programme Aerospace Engineering there are five
solutions for our changing environment.
tracks:
Educational and research programmes are nationally
• Aerodynamics & Wind Energy
accredited and internationally recognized. Graduates
• Control & Operations
are employed across the Netherlands, Europe, USA,
• Space Flight
and Asia.There is close cooperation with industry
• Flight Performance & Propulsion
and national and international research institutes.
• Aerospace Structures & Materials
The Faculty is a founding member of PEGASUS, the European network of aeronautics and astronautics universities and faculties.
How can you get in contact with your future
Students of the Faculty of Aerospace
intern?
Engineering have visited over 640 companies/
The Internship Office can inform you about the different
institutes around the world to do their
selection options to be taken. You can choose to
internship
have students contact you directly about internship
Below you find a list of some companies/institutes that
opportunities. Also you can choose to have the
hire our interns on a regular basis:
Internship Office do the first selection. It is the goal of
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BMW, Germany
the Internship Office to provide a custom solution for
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ESA/ESTEC, NL
your company/institutes needs.
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Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, USA
As a service, we can also publish the internship/final
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Fokker Aerostructures, NL
thesis opportunity on our student intranet site.
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NLR Nationaal Lucht- en Ruimtevaart Laboratorium, NL
Furthermore, we can e-mail students who meet your
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Dutch Space, NL
requirements (certain specialization, period available
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TNO, Defence, Safety & Security, NL
etc) directly in order to inform them about your
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Universidad de Concepcion, Chile
internship opportunities. Obviously we also mention the
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Yahama Motor Co.Ltd., Japan
different internship possibilities to students that contact
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University of Toronto, Institute for Aerospace Studies, Canada
us in search of an internship position. Please let us know how we can help you choose a suitable candidate
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KLM, NL
for your organisation!
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EADS Astrium, Germany
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Airbus Germany & France
Contact information Internship Office
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DLR, Germany
The Internship Office at the Faculty of Aerospace
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Qantas, Australia
Engineering is the main point of contact for companies/ institutes interested in hiring an intern. So if you are interested to have an intern from our faculty, please contact the Internship Office.
The internship in the Master Programme
Social-psychologic
During the Master Programme all students complete an
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internship of at least three months. However students can also decide to extend this period or to combine their
different social/work environment •
internship with their final thesis work. The internship aims to provide students with skills that complement
To learn a different way of behaviour, suitable for a To be able to communicate and cooperate with colleagues and non-colleagues
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To obtain a better view of the position of a company
those taught at university. This ‘learn and explore’
compared to other companies (competition,
kind of internship typically takes place in an aerospace
achievements).
related organisation. Intellectual skills There are three goals of the Master Internship:
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To use the obtained knowledge and skills in an environment different from that of our own
Industrial orientation/societal context •
To increase the understanding of employment
university •
options after graduation •
To get a better perception of tasks and responsibility within a professional environment
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To obtain, rapidly and effectively, new skills that are necessary to successfully accomplish the project
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To be competent in reasoning, reflecting and forming a judgement.
To create an understanding of the context in which Aerospace Engineering and utilization is practiced by industry, institutes and organisations.
Why should your company or institute hire an intern from the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering? The list with arguments that can be produced based on this question is quite long. We will here give you a selection of the main arguments given by the different companies who have already had interns from the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering: •
Students are up-to-date with theoretical and practical knowledge;
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Students demonstrate a fresh and analytic view of the problems within a company/institute;
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Students are trained in doing project-based work in multidisciplinary teams;
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Possibility to recruit highly trained students in a flexible way, who will be able to solve problems which are taking too much of our own time;
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An internship or a graduation project is an excellent way to recruit talented young employees;
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Hiring a student from the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering will provide you access to renowned professors and research groups.
Testimonials BMW Group “The last couple of years I have had interns from the Delft University of Technology. Our projects are complex on a technical point of view, but also the variety of different departments to work with, is an extra complexity that comes with it. The projects were always finished with a high quality and at all times with a direct implementation in the BMW proces. The students were on top very reliable, independent and trustworthy employees. Interns of the Delft University of Technology are at all times welcome in my department and high qualified persons to work with.“ By Els de Ridder, Dipl. Ing. Elektromechanik-Automatisierungstechnik (TU) and Dipl. Ing. Luft.-und Raumfahrttechnik (TU) BMW Group Germany
Lockheed Martin “We have had a superb experience with the students who have come through the program. Every class has had a unique personality and all have been a true pleasure to have on the F-35 team. The students come to us very knowledgeable of the F-35 product areas they will be working on as well and are well educated about the military aerospace industry in general. More importantly, the students are tremendous ambassadors for the Netherlands and for Delft University. They are highly motivated, do an excellent job and are very well regarded by all of their work teams. One of my favorite comments I have heard is one of the 2010 supervisors described his intern as “scary smart” which means he is very impressed with the level of knowledge they possess.” By Tom Burbage, Executive Vice President & General Manager Lockheed Martin, F-35 Program Integration, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Delft University of Technology Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Drs. Femke Verdegaal, Internship Coordinator Kluyverweg 1 2629 HS Delft The Netherlands T +31 (0)15 - 278 95 62 E lnternship-AE@tudelft.nl I www.lr.tudelft.nl/internship
About internship candidates of the TU Delft, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering: Source: Supervisors of TU Delft interns
Adaptable to changes Willing to share their Dutch culture with
Possess an outgoing personality Highly motivated all of us
Extremely sharp Willingness to learn
TUDelftAerospaceEngineering @AETUDelft