Eindhoven University of Technology to spend €200 million on campus expansion

The Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) is investing around 200 million euros to make the campus more suited to courses related to chip machine technology. A 5,000 square meters building will be added, which will house a laboratory, offices, and education areas. The university has also said that some of the money will go towards housing.

“One of the reasons for this is to make the planned growth of around 2,000 master students possible in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, and Mathematics & Computer Science,” the TU/e website stated. “This is a crucial step to meet the enormous demand for high-level technological talent, especially in the Brainport region,” said the university’s rector, Silvia Lenaerts.

A portion of the money is from the Beethoven plan, in which the politicians in The Hague spend hundreds of millions of euros to keep chip machine manufacturing companies like ASML in the Netherlands.

ASML, which is based in Veldhoven, will make a financial contribution to the 1,200-square-meter cleanroom. This is a space, free of dust, which is used to build important technological components.