The automotive industry is changing rapidly. New developments are particularly evident in the fields of Smart and Green Mobility. This requires collaboration with other sectors in the fields of energy, ICT, infrastructure and traffic management, among others. But collaboration between companies, research institutes, education and governments is also crucial.
TU/e university is one of the strategic partners benefitting contributing to the scientific development of the Campus offering educational, research and training activities as well as research staff for the Automotive Campus in Helmond - located in the Brainport Region. The Campus is the national and international hotspot, meeting point and place of business in the field of automotive (technology) and smart mobility. The Automotive Campus offers an attractive learning and working environment, state of the art technological (test) facilities and flexible accommodation concepts.
The Campus is a one-stop-shop when it comes to automotive technology and mobility concepts. The door is open to engineers, suppliers, scientists, testers and assembly workers. For a "pit stop", co-creation or as a new home base for innovation and product development. The Campus is a meeting place where know-how and companies can get together with the aim of promoting cross-sector cooperation, exchange of knowledge and open innovation. Smart, safe and sustainable mobility solutions for people, roads and vehicles of today and tomorrow are realized at the Automotive Campus.
The Automotive Campus Shared Facilities provide high-tech automotive testing facilities and spaces for research, offices and workspace for a wide range - including SMB, knowledge institute and educational institutions - to make use of. The facilities provide an impulse for the Dutch automotive sector and the Brainport region. These facilities were created by an alliance between Benteler Engineering Services, construction firm Van de Ven, TNO, TASS International and VDL. They received support from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Province of Noord-Brabant, SRE and the municipality of Helmond.
The automotive sector is part of the top sector High-Tech Systems and Materials (HTSM). The Dutch high-tech sector excels in complex systems and embedded software. Flagships include Philips, ASML, NXP and TomTom. The Automotive Campus maintains close contact with the high flyers within the Dutch high-tech industry. Automotive innovation is high-tech, but on wheels! Systems thinking and multidisciplinary attitudes are paramount on the campus: that means integrating mechanical engineering, mechatronics, electronics and informatics. The Automotive Campus supports and encourages open innovation, knowledge sharing and collaboration. Companies on campus inspire each other by sharing knowledge, experience and facilities. The result is that innovation arises faster, proves cost effective and achieves higher quality; this is made possible by means of organising and facilitating seminars, conferences, workshops, networking meetings and matchmaking activities of both an individual and a collective nature, and also for non-residents. Various automotive companies (from start-up to OEM), research institutes and educational and governmental organisations have already found their way to the Automotive Campus. - HEI: 25% - Industry: 25% - Government: 25% - Society: 25%
A group of students from the Technical university of Eindhoven is continuously studying and working at the Automotive Campus in Helmond. They are specializing in a number of fields and are fully integrated in several of the Campus residential companies. TU/e offers the Bachelor Program Automotive. This is a unique programme in automotive engineering at university level. The students gain experience in various companies on the Automotive Campus. In addition to the bachelor programme, the TU/e also offers a master programme in the Automotive field, the master in Automotive Technology. This unique programme trains students to become a multi-disciplinary automotive engineer and offers you and excellent foundation for a successful career in the automotive industry, or at one of the research institutes. As a future automotive engineer needs to have knowledge of mechanics, electronics, informatics and chemistry. Studying Automotive Technology means students can use the excellent facilities of the Automotive Campus. Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) offers two-year (post-Master's) design courses. Just like trainee PhDs, these PDEng (Professional Doctorate in Engineering) trainees get TU/e-employee status. The PDEng ASD (Automotive Systems Design) course focuses on a systems approach, whereby trainees follow a program that focuses on both technical and non-technical aspects and competences within this multidisciplinary field. Within the programme, a lot of attention is paid to working in a commercial, industrial setting. Thus, more than half of the course consists of projects with and for the industry. In this respect, the companies on the Automotive Campus also play an important role.
The Automotive Campus Shared Facilities provide high-tech automotive testing facilities and spaces for research, offices and workspace for a wide range - including SMB, knowledge institute and educational institutions - to make use of. The facilities provide an impulse for the Dutch automotive sector and the Brainport region. These facilities were created by an alliance between Benteler Engineering Services, construction firm Van de Ven, TNO, TASS International and VDL. They received support from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Province of Noord-Brabant, SRE and the municipality of Helmond.