TU/e notebook program - Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

4.3 Universities included in the benchmark
In the following section a short description of the universities that are participating in the
benchmark will be given. Next to that is described at what way the various universities
provide their students with the IT facilities they need for their education program.
Eindhoven University of Technology
General information
The TU/e consists of 9 departments; together they provide 11 Bachelor and 26 Master’s
education programs. Furthermore, there are 4 Master’s programs to obtain a first-degree
teacher qualification, and 10 postgraduate designer programs, which are being provided in
cooperation with the technical universities of Delft and Twente.
In total there are at the moment about 7000 students, 240 professors, and several guest and
part-time teachers.
In addition the TU/e employs about 640 PhD students. Next to the scientific personnel there
are about 1170 support staff members. In total the TU/e employs about 3.000 scientific and
support staff members.
IT facilities
Eindhoven University of Technology does not have many computer rooms, in both public and
departmental buildings there are not more than 500 PC’s available for students. The TU/e
provides the students with a notebook program, in which the first-year students are equipped
with a notebook, but also with all the accessories, applications, and support they need to use
IT in their education program. They also have the disposal of IT facilities like for instance e-
mail, and an electronic learning environment. This means that, with the extension to the
notebook itself, at the TU/e the IT facilities are totally integrated and are so from the start of
the education. The university contributes in the costs of the notebook program. This
contribution of the notebook and the other facilities is in the form of an obligatory contract,
which the student can reduce by studying for three years at the university, after three years the
contract is redeemed. The other part is to be paid by the student himself. For students that do
not make use of the notebook program all the facilities, with exception of the service and
support of their notebook, are available as if they did make use of the program. For instance
all the software that is available for students with a “TU/e” notebook is also available for
students without a notebook, or a notebook they obtained elswhere.
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