DSA Kalman Student Environment
Welcome to the student area of the DSA Kalman website. We have collected and created some useful links, documents, and videos in order to help our new fellow students during the start of their studies. Below you will find, in no particular order, a selection of helpful links, a tutorial on the commonly used MATLAB and Simulink software suite, an Overleaf tutorial for your homework and reports, and more. Do you have something to share with your fellow students to help them out? Don’t hesitate to contact us, and we will share it here!
S&C Quick Start Guide
Checking Courses Out
The list of all S&C courses and electives can be found on the TU Delft’s Study Guides. This website shows the codes, contents and instructors of the courses as well as the overall credits (ECs) you need to obtain and how many EC each course is. Go and scout!
Adding Courses
Compared to other universities or bachelors programs, there is no official registration for the course, you only need to register for their exams. In order to follow a course, you simply:
- Login to Brightspace. This is the main website for all real-time information on courses, also where you see and submit your assignments.
- Select the ‘Catalog’ tab.
- Search for the code of the course you would like to take.
- Click ‘Login to Enrol’, then ‘Enrol’.
The course will be added to your Brightspace page. Anything related to the course materials will be posted under there, unless specified by the professor. You can roam around in Brightspace and change your notification settings to determine what type of mails you receive.
S&C Brightspace Page
This is the main information page of our masters. You can find announcements, forms and guides of our department here.
Course Schedules
At the TU Delft, individual course planning and scheduling is done on MyTimetable. The courses you add on Brightspace are NOT connected to this website, so you will need to add them here again. To add the courses:
- Login from top right.
- Select ‘+ Add Timetable’, then ‘Course’.
- Search for courses on the list, select the one(s) you would like to add.
- Click ‘Add Timetables’ from the bottom right.
The course(s) will appear on the schedule. Then, you can easily see the time and location of each lecture of that course on there. You can also link it to your Google Calendar.
MyTUDelft
MyTUDelft portal is where you see all your grades, can follow your schedule, enrol for exams and get enrolment/transcript documents. It is highly recommended to download its App from the application stores. The courses you added to MyTimetable also appear on the main page of the App which allow you to quickly check where to go for lectures!
Self-enrolling for Exams
Although we do not officially register for courses, it is required to enrol to the exams of the courses. The enrolment opens 1-1.5 months before the exam and stays open until 2 weeks before. If you miss the enrolment deadline of an exam, you need to go to the exam room on the day to see if they have any empty seats for you. They can refuse to take you in if the room is full or if they do allow you in, you will only be able to enter 30 mins after the exam begins.
- To enrol, open MyTUDelft.
- From the ‘Menu’ bar go to ‘Enrol’.
- Select ‘Test’ and find your course by using the search bar.
- Click on the course and follow the steps to confirm your enrolment.
- You will receive a mail of confirmation once you have enrolled.
Please Note: Not all courses are open for enrolment at the beginning of a quarter so don’t worry if you cannot find the course on the list within the first weeks of a quarter.
S&C Obligatory Course Materials
You can find a list of materials used in each of the S&C mandatory course here.
MATLAB and Other Software
During your studies, you will use MATLAB quite alot. It is a very strong tool for all things Control! You can download the licensed MATLAB (and many other software tools) from TU Delft’s Software page
Pulse App
This app is an easy way to get the Brightspace announcements of your courses as notifications on your phone. You should download it and login with your NetID and password.
Google Play Store
Apple App Store
Communication and Socializing
The best way to survive Systems & Control is with friends! Here are some ways you can reach your fellow Controllers:
Introduction Camp
The first week of every academic year, DCSC plans an introduction camp and brings all freshman students to a lodge outside of Delft for orientation activities! Here, you stay for a night or two and bond with all the newcomers while doing house chores and playing tons of games. DSA Kalman will also be there to lead some fun activities!
WhatsApp Community
Our main communication method! Here you can find groups for all things S&C, including a general chat, an announcement chat, and separate groups for all S&C coded courses. The link will be shared with you on the Tuesday of the Introduction Week! If you miss out, feel free to pull aside any S&C student and ask them to invite you in.
Events
DSA Kalman organizes social and career events every quarter! Ensure you keep an eye out for the Systems & Control WhatsApp community and Instagram, don’t miss out.
DSA Kalman and Committees
Joining our student association will also help you connect with students, alumni, professors and companies. We also have separate committees you can be a part of such as the Control Robotics Fair Organization, and The Study Tour Committee. Whether it’s the association or the committees, we all work as a team to bring events and activities that benefit the students!
Foosball Table
Don’t forget to make good use of the foosball table on the 3rd floor of the DCSC tower. Our PhDs also regularly play and organize tournaments there. Go say hi!
the Wiggle Room
We share a common room in the ME building with another masters. We call it the Wiggle Room at 34.H-1-320. Feel free to work or chill there, or just come and grab a free coffee. P.S. we have just renovated the room, go check it out!
Sports
If you are looking for something active, check out what TU Delft’s sport and recreation centre, X, has to offer.
Important Documents
Towards the end of your first year, you will be required to fill out forms to select your electives.
Form 2
This form is mainly for your elective choices to be officially counted on Osiris. Keep in mind, every student should fill out their own cohort’s (academic year they started S&C) Form 2. After you fill the form, send it to sc-coordinator-dcsc@tudelft.nl
The download link for the form will be available soon.
Form 3
This form is used to change the courses you have already submitted in Form 2. For example, use this form if:
- You did (or will do) another elective instead of the one you submitted on Form 2.
- Your cohort accepts Nonlinear Systems as an obligatory course but you did Machine Learning for S&C instead and want that to be counted as your obligatory course.
- Your cohort did not include Probabilistic Sensor Fusion in its Elective Course list, but you took (or will take) it and want it to be registered as an elective.
The download link for the form will be available soon.
Guides
The following tutorials will hopefully help you survive your studies:
Prerequisites
NOT REQUIRED, JUST RECOMMENDED! Systems & Control is not easy. Through this document, we present relevant concepts that the student should be familiar with. Students from the bachelor mechanical engineering from the TU Delft have been taught these concepts in various courses. This document focuses on students from other studies and universities. However, if you want to get a head start it is wise to thoroughly scan this document.
Report on Prerequisites S&C 22052025Latex and Overleaf
This tutorial is created during Covid time to help new students get familiarize with Latex. The tutorial will include 2 videos, 1 for people new to overleaf with some basics and 1 with tips and tricks that will be useful for anyone. We will also include a template for commonly encountered setups such as equations, a bibliography and a front page.
Introduction
Video contents:
- What are LaTeX and Overleaf, and why should you use it?
- User interface
- Language basics
- Math mode and how to use it
You can also get it directly as an Overleaf template here.
Tips and tricks
Tips:
- Mathpix
- The \input{} command
- Multi-select writing
- .eps style figures
- Navigation tips
- LaTeX in MATLAB
- Citing sources with Citation Machine.
- MATLAB in LaTeX, saving figures