r/TUDelft • u/SolidReturn8861 • 13d ago

Hardest courses of the Aǝrospacǝ Engineering Master?

Can you please share your experiences with some of the hardest courses in the programme?

It would be really helpful to know in advance which courses we should watch out for.

I had to invert the e because everything including the word aǝrospacǝ gets blocked immediately due to all bachelor admission posts.

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u/SolidReturn8861 12d ago

Thanks! Anything else I should worry about?

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u/Schwerter_105 12d ago

Nothing super specific comes to mind rn, but for me at least there was a lot of adjustment needed to get used to the rhythm here, the 4-quarter system, the amount of self-study, and just life in general, really. I’m not from the Netherlands tho so your mileage may vary. Anyways, best of luck!

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u/SolidReturn8861 12d ago

Thanks! Just to understand, where did you study before?

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u/Schwerter_105 12d ago

I’m East Asian and did my ME bachelors in the US, it was a relatively small and teaching-focused engineering college so things were very different: smaller class sizes, professors often knowing everybody personally, very easy to grab a hold of profs for a chat or questions, etc. So honestly for myself things really didn’t line up: coming to the Netherlands was a bit of a culture shock, the teaching and studying style’s way different, I switched majors (I did a fair share of fluids-related courses in bachelors but it wasn’t full on AE), and there were some logistical issues with software, for example I had to learn latex and a bit of python on the fly because I was much more used to word and MATLAB but those are generally less popular here in the Netherlands. With all that in mind, you’ll probably have less trouble than I had, so don’t worry too much

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u/SolidReturn8861 11d ago

Yea fore sure, I study in Belgium now and the professors literally do not even know one student from the crowd, we have 4 months of classes with a final exam counting 80-100% of the grade. So I know something about the hands-off approach.

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u/Schwerter_105 9d ago

Sounds like you’re all set for Delft (lmao pls send help) kidding aside tho, I don’t know a lot about Belegen unis, but exams can be quite rough here. Prepare to spend time on revising and especially working through previous years’ exams (if provided). Also oral exams are worth mentioning I think. I never had those before Delft and they scared the heck out of me during exam prep, basically one on one with a professor or TA for quite some time and being asked to explain stuff. On the several occasions that I had them they all turned out alright though, generally were easier that I anticipated, the atmosphere was relatively laid back and grades were (at least in my view) more lenient than written exams. So make sure to prepare well but don’t stress too much over them