ADMS education

Participation in the ADMS technological designers programme, full-time or part-time, offers you the possibility to develop new competences. You will be trained to become a process designer and process manager of development processes in the Dutch building and construction industry. In practice, this allows you to design, arrange and/or manage multidisciplinary architectural development processes with high technical complexity. For this, you develop the corresponding strategy, organization and design of tasks and responsibilities. This multidisciplinary technological design domain concerns structural and industrial aspects. The distinction with projectmanagers is that you acquire good business understanding of architectural development and design processes, which allows you to act proactively. Your skills concentrate on the development of process methodologies to improve control of staffing, quality, time, information, communication and costs within the project’s framework. This is especially important when dealing with complex building- and constructionprojects, in which many different parties with different interests are involved.

The postgraduate designers programme Architectural Design Management Systems (ADMS) is part of the 3TU.School for Technological Design, Stan Ackermans Institute (SAI). The programme was established to meet the growing demand of industry for innovation of development and design processes in the construction industry. In particular, this concerns an adequate response to current housing questions from clients and users and stimulating the integrality of the processes. Important aspects are effectiveness and quality of the result and diminishing failure costs. The programme is administered by the faculty of the Built Environment of the TU/e.  The content of the programme is provided by lecturers of the faculties of the Built Environment and Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences of the TU/e. The (full-time) programme was first started in 1996 and since then more than 85 participants completed the programme successfully. Graduates of the programme receive the title PDEng: Professional Doctorate in Engineering.

ADMS has a 2-year full-time and a 3,5-year part-time programme. The programme is primarily accessible for university graduates in the fields of urban planning, architecture, industrial engineering and civil engineering or for those who received an equivalent education like the Academy of Architecture or Urban Development. Both programmes share the same teaching modules. Case studies within the programme are carried out in small groups (full-time and part-time followers do the programme separately) and results will be exchanged through discussion meetings.
There are a lot more two-year postdoctoral designerprogrammes besides the ADMS programme. For more information see: 3TU.School for Technological Design, Stan Ackermans Institute.