Master's in Systems and Control

The University of Groningen is a public research university located in the city of Groningen, Netherlands. Founded in 1614, it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. The university has 11 faculties, including one in the Frisian capital of Leeuwarden, and has more than 37,000 students from over 120 nationalities. It also boasts over 140,000 alumni and a budget of 1,000 million EUR.

Flying to the moon, monitoring and stabilizing the energy grid, using cruise control in a car, employing a crane to unload a container ship: these are typical examples of methods within Systems and Control. Systems and Control is an engineering discipline that is concerned with analyzing and influencing dynamical systems that interact with their environment via inputs (influenced via actuators) and outputs (measured via sensors). It is highly multidisciplinary because the underlying mathematical models and methods cover many different domains. These include electronics, mechanics, chemistry, biology, medicine, economy, and social sciences. The Master’s degree programme in Systems and Control at the University of Groningen focuses on complex systems and networks, which means systems are analysed and controlled by breaking them down into interconnections between simpler systems. Understanding how the interplay between simple systems can lead to novel emergent behaviours is important and highly relevant in many application fields.