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Circular Engineering

Your future

Graduates will have a solid background in engineering, combined with in depth knowledge of chemical engineering, biotechnology or engineering physics, depending on your concentration in year 3, with knowledge on circularity and sustainability within these fields. Your selection of electives further allows you to look across existing boundaries and to connect different disciplines and stakeholders. Circular Engineering graduates have a versatile skillset in offering technical solutions that aid the transition towards a circular economy.

Master's programmes

The programme has been designed to enable the creation of a unique personalised academic profile with the second-year electives and third-year concentration of your choice. An academic advisor will help you select courses for the profile you would like to build. This will help you to take the required courses to be eligible for admission into the master's programme of your choice.

The bachelor Circular Engineering provides a strong foundation for the following Maastricht University master’s programmes:

Examples of other master's programmes graduates of the BSc Circular Engineering could pursue are:

  • Chemical engineering
  • Applied physics
  • Industrial ecology
  • Sustainable energy technology
  • Water technology
  • Biotechnology
  • Environmental engineering

Career prospects

Students will be able to work in business and industry. Examples of fields include:

  • Small and medium enterprises (SME) that focus on innovative product development, technology development, process development, especially with regards to sustainability and circularity
  • Companies involved in plant breeding and other biotechnological applications, including biological/chemical suppliers
  • Any engineering company involved in the transition towards sustainable processes or circular economy, for instance related to the engineering of installation parts, solar panels, packaging and recycle processes
  • Chemical industry or engineering companies that design (parts of) chemical processes or process equipment
  • Consultancy firms with a focus on sustainability and circularity related to the fields above

Whether a student is successful in securing a job with a bachelor's degree is highly dependent on his/her intrinsic motivation, social and project skills. The contextual, collaborative, constructive and self-directed nature of the PBL/RBL-approach in the programme fosters a stimulating environment in which you can develop these skills.