Nanna Einarsdóttir
I am on my second semester in MSc in Electrical Engineering in DTU and so far my experience of the school has been excellent. The most important reason is the ambitious atmosphere created by the teachers and staff along with good facilities which I really think succeeds in motivating the students. A good example of that is the honors programme which I am currently enrolled in. There I get amongst other things a personal tutor who helps me make a good study plan and points out opportunities to me that I perhaps wouldn't have spotted myself.
The courses I can choose from in DTU are as versatile as they are many and on top of that there is a possibility for students to ask for a special course if the have a great interest in a specific topic. This freedom gives students a way to get exactly what they want from their education. Although the previous reasons I have mentioned would have been enough for me to choose DTU, I very much appreciate how the school puts a lot of effort into making its students feel welcome and at home.
Follow up in 2017
Since I graduated from DTU I have focused my career on a combination of engineering and software development.
My current workplace, Nox Medical, develops devices for sleep monitoring and diagnosis. The devices record biological signals from a patient, and software displays the signals and performs automatic analyses to help a sleep technician or a doctor reach a conclusion. I work in the software team on implementing the algorithms in the automatic analyses which for me is the perfect combination of signal processing and software development.
At DTU I chose the Automation and Robot Technology study line from an excellent selection of well structured study lines and added software development courses on top since I had a special interest in that field. This combination, along with ambitious work ethics taught at DTU, has since served as a very strong foundation for the engineering skills that I use every day at Nox Medical.
