Minor Be Creative

Starts February and September
English
30 ECTS
5 months

Eindhoven

Are you an Engineering student or do you have a passion for engineering? Would you like to invent, design and develop a completely new concept and product together with other students? And do you want to work with real-life projects? Join us at the minor Be Creative!

About the minor Be Creative

The minor Be Creative is a project-based, technology-oriented minor that offers a unique blend of unforgettable experiences, technical challenges and creative design methods. Together with your teammates from different disciplines, you'll design an innovative prototype that is not yet available on the market.

Learn tomorrow's skills, discover your strengths, and become the creative engineer of the future!

Why the minor Be Creative?

Share your knowledge with different disciplines: each student brings his or her unique perspective to the issue.
Foncus on continuous learning, talent, and feedback: the minor is focused on what you want to learn and on your talent.
Learn in context by working in real-life, practical situations.

More about the minor

Use your unique skills to solve the problem within the project you are working on. You’ll learn, amongst many other things, how to do applied research, design and model methods and how to develop a product or prototype.

Working in a multidisciplinary team also means you get to work on:

Communication skills
Reflection
Presentation skills

Programme

The programme of the Engineering minor Be Creative in Eindhoven consists of 20 weeks in which you will work on your own projects with your project teammembers.

First week: creativity bootcamp

You will develop new skills, learn creative tools and push boundaries during the first week's creativity bootcamp with your fellow students from different countries and educational fields. The bootcamp is an amazing and intense experience, including an evening programme. Lunch and dinner will be provided, so all you have to do is show up!

Next 19 weeks

For the next part of the minor, you will split off into smaller teams to work on the project you’ve chosen. This is where the real work starts! The goal is to develop an innovative prototype that is not yet available on the market. You will receive intensive support from companies and (technical) experts.

In addition, the team members of the minor organise workshops and presentations to share their knowledge. A great informal way to help each other grow in technologies and skills.

Dragonfly: Students of the minor presented the light art piece Dragonfly during GLOW 2024. The team used their engineering skills to capture the beauty of the animal through light and movement.

Handex: The Handex Exoskeleton Therapy Hand is a rehabilitation device designed to help people regain finger strength and mobility after a spinal cord injury, stroke or other medical condition

Eye of the Storm: The impressive Eye of the Storm won the Glow Talent Award in 2023. The students made a huge art piece out of various led-lights, representing a pupil slowly blinking at visitors and hypnotizing, urging onlookers to look into the eye of the storm.

Students from the minor work in teams on a specific project, which will be the base of assessment. Assessment is based on the deliverables for the minor and the growth in three learning areas.

Deliverables for the minor

Individual deliverables:

Personal development plan (PDP)
Personal blog or progress report (weekly updated)
Written reflections on feedback received
Assessment interview

Group deliverables:

Project report
Video of the project
Midterm and final presentation/demo
Project folder containing all project files

Learning areas

You are able to show growth in the following learning areas:

Personal development
Creative engineering
Sharing knowledge

A unique aspect of the minor Be Creative: you get the chance to work on your own art project for light art festival GLOW Eindhoven. The festival is a large and very popular public exhibition with around 750.000 visitors each year! Students of the minor have been presenting their art project during the festival for the past couple of years. Will you create next year's artwork?