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Engineering Physics and Mathematics

Studies in Engineering Physics and Mathematics create a basis for technological applications and open doors to various positions in business, science and research. Engineering Physics and Mathematics graduates can be found in places where something new is being created without established traditions.

Profound knowledge of Engineering Physics and Mathematics helps you to find innovative solutions to both current and future challenges. You will learn to trust your problem-solving abilities and will be able to adjust to rapid changes in the working environment.

Courses in Engineering Physics and Mathematics have a strong scientific basis and they will direct you towards up-to-date research topics from the beginning. From the more traditional university studies in Physics or Mathematics this degree programme differs as it is more practically oriented. Links to real-world engineering problems are present both within the programme and through other courses offered by the Aalto University.

Future careers of Engineering Physics and Mathematics graduates

Graduates of the Engineering Physics and Mathematics majors are not all alike: one has studied brain research, some one else has concentrated on developing fusion energy and another on quantum statistics or game theory. As an Engineering Physics and Mathematics graduate, you will not graduate to any specific occupation but to positions in which profound understanding of nature and technology, analytical thinking and creative problem solving create challening and intriguing content for work.

Through studies in Engineering Physics and Mathematics you can become an internationally recognized scholar or expert, start up your own company or become a business consultant.

Currently, about 40 percent of Engineering Physics and Mathematics graduates continue their studies to doctoral students and the goal of the degree programme is to increase this number to 50 percent. The primary research areas include material physics at the atomic level, nanophysics and technology, optimization and systems sciences, new energy technologies, biophysics and biomaterials, and numerical analysis and simulation.