Fresh at Industrial Engineering and Management

Starting your studies

When starting your studies at Fontys, it is nice to know when we expect to meet you on campus for the first time and what you will experience in the first months at Industrial Engineering and Management.

For a successful enrollment it is necessary that you personally come to Nexus in Eindhoven, to show your original diploma from your previous education with corresponding list of marks. This is an important condition to complete your enrollment. If you do not manage to come to Eindhoven on this date or at least before the start of your study, your enrollment will be terminated. Everyone who is admitted will get a personal invitation with the details by e-mail. For last-minute admission questions please contact us:

Email: studyiem@fontys.nl

Culture Shower

For your own planning, it is useful to assume that each day the first week lasts from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The exact location and times will follow. You will receive information regarding the first lesson week, such as your lesson schedule and orientation. You will also meet your study supervisor, some of your teachers, and your classmates.

What is it about?

A metaphor for an immersion, get to know Industrial Engineering & Management: the work, the study and the world; by experiencing and researching (by) yourself.

The goal is to enable you to

create your own view and understanding of Industrial Engineering and Management
work in teams
learn to deal with uncertainty
creatively (re)imagine and transfer insights to others
reflect individually on what you've learned

Necessities for this first day

notebook
multiple colours (pencil or marker)
laptop/tablet/telephone
a charger for the devices you're bringing
something to drink and to eat
earplugs/headphones
most importantly: good spirit!

Company experience in the first year? Well, yes that's exactly what IEM has in store for you! When joining IEM you must be prepared for a year full of interesting assignments and projects directly connected with real life. Right after your introduction week, probably the most fun week of the whole year, you go straight into the culture shower week, and you must already do an assignment. After your first week of the study, you will get your first credit (ECT). Following this assignment is the first project for the year, which if you start in September is all about the technical part of the study. You pick an appliance, take it apart and improve a part you think could use improving. You work with SolidWorks, a drawing software, to create the new and improved appliance and at the end of week 8 you present it in front of your stakeholders.

If you want to plan holidays or other activities, it is useful to know when there are no classes.

Academic calendar 2025-2026

Educational period 1

01-09-2025 / 16-11-2025

Educational period 2

17-11-2025 / 08-02-2026

Educational period 3

09-02-2026 / 26-04-2026

Educational period 4

04-05-2026 / 26-07-2026

Vacation and holidays

Autumn break

13-10-2025 / 19-10-2025

Christmas break

22-12-2025 / 04-01-2026

Carnival break

16-02-2026/ 22-02-2026

Good Friday

03-04-2026

Easter Monday

06-04-2026

May break

27-04-2026 / 03-05-2026

Liberation day

05-05-2026

Ascension Day and the day after

14-05-2026 / 15-05-2026

Whit Monday

25-05-2026

Summer break

27-07-2026 / 30-08-2026

Download the holiday calendar '25-'26