Monday, December 14, 2009

University of Groningen Honours College - Netherlands

Start Honours College
The Honours College of the University of Groningen will start in September 2009 and is intended for bachelorstudents who start their studies in September 2009.
Aim of the Honours College
The Honours College will give talented, motivated students the chance to be challenged even more by following Honours programmes and taking part in numerous other activities. The main aim of the Honours programmes at the University of Groningen is to develop talent and initiative.
The College will teach students:
to master their discipline and exercise it at a higher level
to develop a wide view and look beyond the boundaries of their discipline
to play a prominent role within and outside their own discipline and make a significant contribution to society.
The Honours College comprises a broadening part and a deepening part and has a study load of 45 ECTS credit points besides the 180 ECTS credit points from your regular bachelor programme
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University of Groningen Netherlands

Founded in 1614, the University of Groningen is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. The University of Groningen enjoys an international reputation as one of the leading research universities in Europe. It has a large international network and an excellent reputation for academic teaching with a modern, student-oriented approach. We offer degree programmes at Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD levels in virtually every field, many of them completely taught in English. Located in the north of the Netherlands, Groningen is an ideal, safe student city with a flourishing student life and many social and cultural activities. International students have rated the University of Groningen as the most welcoming university in the Netherlands.

School of Industrial Engineering

Education at the School of Industrial Engineering
The School of Industrial Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology offers two bachelor programs (Industrial Engineering and Management Science and Industrial Engineering and Management Science for Healthcare), two master programs (Innovation Management and Operations Management and Logistics), and is involved in several other education programs. Besides, staff members perform strategical-technological research that is of importance to industrial and other applications.
This concerns repairing and maintaining technical production chains for products or services; within companies and other organizations, but also within networks of organizations. Next to production and distribution, other aspects also play a role, such as design and innovation, purchasing, storage, sales, maintenance, service, marketing, performance management and communication.
The teaching and research at the School of Industrial Engineering is performed by four capacity groups: (1) HPM: Human Performance Management, (2) IS: Information Systems, (3) OPAC: Operations, Planning, Accounting, and Control en (4) ITEM: Innovation, Technology Entrepreneurship, and Marketing. Read more about: www.study-netherlands.info

Mechanical Engineering course Netherlands

Welcome to the education site of the department of Mechanical Engineering.
The educational goal of the department of Mechanical Engineering is to educate students to an academic level of bachelor or master of science in such a way that they are able to contribute both in industry as in technical sciences to the research, design and development of products, processes and systems from an innovative point of view.
On the left you will find a menu where:'Programs' will direct you to information about all different programs at this faculty such as mechanical engineering or systems & control.'Extracurricular' will direct you to information about different student associations and activities at the department in which students can participate.'Facilities' gives an overview of study locations and other resources which are available to students.'A-Z Masters' will direct you to a list with keywords of information which is commonly used or asked for. Read more about: www.study-netherlands.info

Chemical Engineering and Chemistry Courses - Netherlands

Chemical Engineering and Chemistry (Scheikundige Technologie; ST) of Technische Universiteit Eindhoven provides education and carries out research in the fields of chemistry, materials sciences and process technology. The engineer of the future must be able to get acquainted quickly with new areas of the field that will be subject to change faster than before. This requires a programme that not only provides students with a sound scientific and practical foundation, but also gives insight into the social context in which the work is carried out. The programme, which during a recent external assessment of education has been judged one of the best in the Netherlands, is international in scope and follows the newest developments with respect to the Bachelor and Master structure.
The Department in Chemiical Engineering and Chemistry aims to create an academic atmosphere in which its students feel comfortable and can develop themselves in every aspect. It hopes that most of them will later look back on their time spent here as some of the best years of their lives.
The Bachelor and Master Programs
The general objective of the programs leading to BSc and MSc in Chemical Engineering is:
To educate a chemical engineer who has a broad knowledge with sufficient depth. On completion of the programme, the engineer will have mastered and be able to apply the fundamentals of chemical engineering. He or she will be able to come with technical solutions for problems that have arisen, in the process of which he or she will always take into account the economical and social aspects involved. In the course of his or her study, he or she has had ample opportunity to get acquainted with the ethical aspects of science and technology.
The chemical engineer is suited for work in three sectors of industry:
In the sector related to his or her field of study (chemistry, chemical engineering, or materials science), both in industry and in government institutions;
In a post-masters program: a four-year PhD study, a two-year design programme, or a university program for a grade-one teaching qualification;
In a sector unrelated to his or her field of study, for instance in the commercial or policy-making sectors.
The department considers it of high importance that the education is embedded in the research that is carried out in the department. Thus, the desired depth and innovation are brought about that befit an academic education. Analogous to the research projects, the units of study can be ranged under three headings: Molecular Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Process Engineering, which will be supported by units of study from the fields of Mathematics, Applied Physics, and Technology Management. The department not only has high demands on the contents of the programme, but also on educational matters. We therefore have an intensive system of quality control, ranging from polls of the students to didactical courses for the lecturers. Within this system of quality control, the students play an important role. Through their delegates in the Curriculum Committee and the Quality Control Committee, all students at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry can give their view on the program. Read more about: www.study-netherlands.info

Industrial Design course - Netherlands

The Industrial Design department is organised along the lines of a simulated professional design environment. It is based on an innovative model of competence-based learning. Students, or 'junior employees' as we call them, work in units. As such, each unit has a unit leader, a team of consulting experts from the university and from outside business partners, and a number of junior employees. Units also have their own physical location at the department. In this way, students work with and get to know their future colleagues in the field in an informal setting from day one. Outside consulting experts are part of every 'business unit'. We have been very successful in hiring some of the top people to take part in training future industrial designers.
Each student develops a portfolio detailing this kind of experience during the course of his or her studies. Individual assignments are also included in this portfolio. Sixty per cent of a student's time is spent on joint unit projects. The rest of their time is spent on individual assignments, in which students acquire specific basic knowledge and skills, such as modelling and programming. The Bachelor's course consists of basic training and subsequent specialisation in different areas, such as Product Design and Embedded Systems Design. During the Master's programme, in the fourth year, students work as trainees for outside businesses or organisations for at least three months. A traineeship may last up to one year. Students are encouraged to spend at least part of their time as a trainee abroad. In the fifth year they work on an integrative final project based on their previous specialisation.
Competency learning systemThe way this course of study is organised is inspired by an education model known as competency learning. The system focuses on complex behaviour and gives equal weight to knowledge, skills and attitudes. Acquiring knowledge, skills and attitudes is part of every 'job' a student is given. He or she starts developing as a professional designer from day one. Competency learning requires a powerful working and learning environment. A place where self-tutoring is possible, which responds flexibly to each individual and which recognises the importance of collaborative learning within a realistic context.
One of the reasons competency learning is greatly suited to industrial design is that design has always been a profession which is learned and performed by practical application, not exclusively through the acquisition of theoretical skills. This stems both from the nature of the skills involved (e.g. drawing, 3D modelling, presenting) and from the fact that certain types of knowledge are hard to formalise (e.g. aesthetics, product semantics, product values, creativity).

Biomedical Engineering (BME) - Netherlands

The Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) offers three educational programs:
Undergraduate program (Bachelor, BSc) in Biomedical Engineering - all lectures are in Dutch
Graduate program (Master, MSc) in Biomedical Engineering
Graduate program (Master, MSc) in Medical Engineering
Various departments of Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e) and Universiteit Maastricht (UM) contribute in the education of (bio)medical engineers: Applied Physics (TU/e), Chemical Engineering & Chemistry (TU/e), Electrical Engineering (TU/e), Mechanical Engineering (TU/e), Mathematics & Computing Science (TU/e), Medicine (UM) and Health Sciences (UM).

Transportation and Planning - Netherlands

In densely populated countries such as the Netherlands hundreds of kilometres of traffic gridlock, air pollution, traffic accidents and delayed public transportation are all part of the daily fare. The MSc track Transport & Planning trains people to play a central role in resolving such problems. T&P engineers, for example, work on clever ideas to manage traffic flows and prevent congestion, they develop public transport systems or develop infrastructural plans. A characteristic of the topics on which they work is that these are often in the news and are high on the political agenda.
Available Courses
Transportation (EN)
The objective is to get insight and practice in the design and use of mathematical models for the estimation of transport demand in the framework of major strategic transportation planning. The course consists of a number of lectures and several exercises in OmniTRANS.

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BioMedical Engineering - Netherlands

The two-year MSc programme in BioMedical Engineering at TU Delft is based on a long history of training and research within three collaborating faculties: Applied Sciences; Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science; and Mechanical, Marine and Materials Engineering.
BME know-how in these has led to a broad BME programme. Clinically driven research is also a central theme in the programme. There is close collaboration with clinical partners at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam (Erasmus MC), and Academic Medical Center Amsterdam (AMC). These clinical partners participate in teaching in the first year and the tutoring of MSc projects in the second year.
Objectives
The goal of the Master’s programme in Biomedical Engineering is to train skilled academic engineers with specialist medical and biological knowledge. They must be able to understand and use medical theory, track the literature, and develop conceptual models from a technical perspective. They must be able to collaborate with physicians, researchers and other health-care professionals to identify, define and analyse biomedical problems. They use biomedical engineering principles and techniques to contribute; to design and produce sound solutions; and to present them clearly.
Many recent innovative advances in biomedical engineering have been thanks to competent engineers and physicians collaborating effectively in multi-disciplinary teams.
Available Biomedical Engineering Courses
Bio Mechatronics (EN)
Biomedical Engineering Design (EN)
System Identification and Parameter Estimation (EN)
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NanoScience

The Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology studies new physics and exploits novel principles in nanostructured devices with a new functionality. The nanostructures vary from superconductors to biopolymers and are obtained from nature or fabricated with bottom-up methods (starting with atoms or molecules) or top-down techniques (such as electron-beam lithography).
The Institute consists of several research groups and a nanofabrication cleanroom facility. With a staff of 16 professors and over 90 PhD students and postdocs.
Besides participating in the Applied Physics MSc programme the department also participates in the MSc programme in NanoScience together with Leiden University and in the ErasmusMundus MSc programme in Nanoscience & Nanotechnology together with Leiden University, KU Leuven (Belgium), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) and TU Dresden (Germany).
Available NanoScience Courses
Advanced Statistical Mechanics (EN)
Ensemble theory; noninteracting classical and quantum systems; cluster expansion for interacting systems, many body quantum mechanics, phase transitions, scaling, renormalisation; nonequilibrium thermodynamics; Boltzmann transport equation
Mesoscopic Physics (EN)
Mesoscopic physics is the area of Solid State physics that covers the transition regime between macroscopic objects and the microscopic, atomic world.The main goal of the course is to introduce the physical concepts underlying the phenomena in this field.
Advanced solid state physics (EN)
This course is about the electronic properties of materials and contains lectures about scattering, transport in metals, phonons and superconductivity.
Quantum Information Processing (EN)
Quantum Information Processing aims at harnessing quantum physics to conceive and build devices that could dramatically exceed the capabilities of today's "classical" computation and communciation systems. In this course, we will introduce the basic concepts of this rapidly developing field.
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Offshore Engineering - Netherlands

Since 1926 Dredging Engineering and since 1975 Offshore Engineering courses are given at the Delft University of Technology. In 2004 these two specialisations merged and formed the new MSc programme Offshore Engineering, a two-year curriculum leading to the MSc degree in Offshore Engineering. The programme consists of four specialisations: Fixed (Bottom Founded) Structures, Floating Structures, Subsea Engineering and Dredging Engineering. Students with a BSc degree in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Marine Technology and Ocean Engineering can enrol in this programme. Students with a different background should first consult the staff of Offshore Engineering to explore the possibilities.Offshore Engineering is multidisciplinary and is a cooperation between Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Marine Technology.
Offshore & Dredging Engineers make structures such as fixed and floating platforms for the oil and gas industry. They also design undersea pipelines and other underwater equipment for this sector. An important feature is the design of dredging equipment for land reclamation, maintenance and the recovery of embedded minerals in deep-sea locations. Another application of offshore engineering is the design of offshore wind farms. Offshore & Dredging Engineers are the people who design facilities for the 70% of the earth's surface area that is not land.
Scope
The offshore & dredging industry is a relatively young, international industry, which has expanded globally in the last fifty years. Almost all new offshore & dredging engineers work in the private sector. The offshore & dredging industry's relative 'youth' means that problems often arise that have never been encountered before. This means that offshore & dredging workers (and students of offshore & dredging engineering) must possess a great deal of ingenuity and demonstrate initiative in addressing and resolving problems.
Available Offshore Engineering Courses
Offshore Hydromechanics (EN)
Offshore Hydromechanics is built up from four related modules: 1. Basic principles: Hydrostatics, constant flow phenomena and waves, 2. Floating Structures 1: Wave forces & motions, 3. Floating Structures II: wave forces & motions, nonlinear problems, applications, 4. Slender Cylinder Hydrodynamics and Sea Bed Morphology.
Dredge Pumps and Slurry Transport (EN)
After a short overview of dredging as a whole, this course concentrates on principles of pipeline transport of slurries and on the design of a transportation system comprised of pipelines and slurry pumps.
Dredging Processes (EN)
The course focuses on 3 main dredging processes: the cutting of sand, clay and rock; the sedimentation process in hopper dredges; and the breaching process.
Design of Dredging Equipment (EN)
Dredging equipment, mechanical dredgers, hydraulic dredgers, boundary conditions, design criteria, instrumentation and automation.
Offshore Wind Farm Design (EN)
This course makes students familiar with the design of offshore wind farms in general and focusses on the foundation design in particular. The course is based on actual cases of real offshore wind farms that have been built recently or will be built in the near future.
Offshore Moorings (EN)
The course treats the design of offshore mooring systems literally from the ground up: Starting with the anchor and its soils mechanics in the sea bed, via the mechanics of a single mooring line and system of lines. The course concludes by touching on other mooring concepts and the dynamic behavior of the moored object as a non-linear mechanical system. Read more about: www.study-netherlands.info

TU Delft OpenCourseWare (OCW) - Netherlands

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Delft University of Technology is the largest and most comprehensive university of engineering sciences in the Netherlands.
TU Delft develops technologies for future generations, focusing on sustainability, safety and economic vitality.
TU Delft OpenCourseWare
does not require any registration
is not a degree-granting or certificate-granting activity
does not provide access to TU Delft faculties.
Current MSc programs with courses in Delft OpenCourseWare are:
Watermanagement
Microelectronics
Offshore Engineering
NanoScience
BioMedical Engineering
Sustainable Development
Transportation and Planning
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Master of Science - Netherlands

Master of Science
Master programmes
TU Delft offers some 40 English-language MSc programmes. The programme duration is two years. The first year comprises theoretical study, assignments and laboratory work. The second year is largely devoted to thesis work, which involves participating in one of the university's advanced research or design projects or taking an internship or research assignment within a company.
Problem-oriented, creative, innovative, learning by doing. Our objective is to produce graduates who are critical independent thinkers so they later become engineers capable of independently solving problems. The curriculum focuses to a great extent on analysis and problem-solving in groups, and the writing of papers. During your study, guidance and assistance will be available at all times.
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Onderwijs voor bedrijven - Netherlands

Naast de reguliere opleidingen biedt de Vrije Universiteit ook opleidingen en cursussen die speciaal zijn toegespitst op de professionele praktijk. Dit is vooral voor bedrijven interessant! Postgraduate School of EconomicsVU Law AcademyMeer Postgraduate onderwijs
Brochures
Informatie en/of brochures over onderwijs aan de VU zijn verkrijgbaar bij de faculteit of het instituut waar dat onderwijs verzorgd wordt. Kijk daarom eerst op de website van die faculteit of dat instituut. Overzicht van de FaculteitenOverzicht van de Instituten Heeft u toch nog vragen, stuur dan een e-mail naar Onderwijscommunicatie. E-mail Onderwijscommunicatie
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