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Electrical Engineering
Daniel Noer Thyde 24 years 2nd semester
The reason I chose to study Electrical Engineering was because it covers such a wide range of subjects
and gives you access to a master’s programme in renewable energy, which I want to study.
Nicolai M. Bøegh 22 years 4th semester
In my view, this is the best and broadest of all the engineering programmes.
Without energy or electricity, our world would collapse.
That’s why I’m studying it: it’s the future.
Hans Henrik Niemann Head of Studies Electrical Engineering
Our study programme covers a broad spectrum:
At one end, we work with energy. At the other, acoustics.
In between, we work with hardware and software.
We also work with automation and robotics, wireless systems, power electronics and radio communications.
Rikke Helbirk Jensen DTU graduate (2008) Strategic Grid Planner, *** Energy
I work in the strategy department under *** Energy’s electric power distribution.
Our most important job is to maintain the power supply,
in other words, making sure electricity is supplied to customers in Copenhagen and North Zealand.
Our job is quite simply to make sure the grid is available to our customers
not only right now, but also 10, 20 and 30 years from now.
One of my duties is to calculate the consequences of various scenarios,
such as a rise in the use of electric cars, heating pumps or solar cells.
And I find this to be very stimulating.
We’re in the process of something called a technical project
where we build a transformer for a solar panel so you can recharge various devices from it.
We’re making splendid progress.
Right now we’re working on a programming project where we have to program a microprocessor
and get a computer game – with graphics – to run on it
and then get it to write to and from the hardware and have this printed on a screenshot.
And then integrate all these functions and get them to work together.
This involves mathematics, programming and all sorts of things.
It’s brilliant!
I’m not very practically minded myself. I’m more theoretical.
I prefer calculating things and determining which sizes we need to make this transformer
rather than the actual process of building it.
The BEng programme is more hands on and learning by building,
but our learning is more theoretical.
I like that.
Everyone is really interested in the programme,
and you never see anyone slouching in a chair because they can’t be bothered.
Everyone is super interested in what they’re doing and good at it, too, and we challenge one another.
And that’s awesome!
To me, the best part is studying something with obvious future prospects.
I would love to become an energy consultant.
I like the idea of maybe even doing research in some of this new energy,
which as we all know is something we’ll have to base our future on at some point.
This would be very interesting and stimulating work in my opinion.