General information for industry and institutions
The Post-Master's Program Process and Product Design of the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven is a two-year course. Each year, approximately 20 people are admitted to the program via application and selection procedures. Candidates are all university graduates and the course participants are employed by the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. All courses in the program are taught in English.
The first year of the program consists of a curricular component, mainly in the form of project education. The second year is largely spent on an individual design assignment.
Summary of the curricular component
During the first year the students are learning new technologies and broadening and deepening their existing knowledge. They will mainly be involved in applying technologies by working on industrial assignments: the same kind of reallife projects that our dedicated lecturers from industry work on themselves. Most of our lecturers have several decades of worldwide design experience with international chemical or food companies.
We use a group assignment format because people in industry also work in teams. This teamwork is supported by non-technical courses and professional development.
Curriculum components:
- Plant Design and Operation
- Product Design
- Process Control
- Chemical Thermodynamics
- Process Thermodynamics
- Physical Transport Phenomena
- Chemical Reactor Development and Process Intensification
- Modeling and Simulation
- Process Synthesis
- Applied Statistics
- Process Economics
- Numerical Fluid Mechanics
Next to the technical courses in the common component, a number of non-technical courses are taught, like:
- Methods and Techniques for Design
- Professional Development
- Technical Writing and Editing
- Project Management
Total common component 42 weeks of study.
For foreign course participants, intensive courses in Dutch are provided outside the common program.
Conditions
There are, of course, a number of conditions attached to the acceptance of a design assignment.
- The assignment has to be a real design assignment.
- The company has to provide support in the person of a supervisor, who operates in collaboration with a supervisor from the university (professor, associate professor or assistant professor).
(see also Design project - Organization)
Realization of the project
- Within a month the course participant hands in a project management form containing concrete activities that function as tangible milestones with their respective dates.
- Each month there is a joint meeting (the so-called "Terugkomdag") for all PPD course participants.
- For each group (started in April or October), there will be a Project Management meeting during which for each participant the project planning, milestones, and progress will be discussed. During Return Days, project progress and the contacts the student has within the company are also discussed. Furthermore, guidance is given, for instance with regard to making internal and external contacts, setting up and adjusting a planning, and making a timely start on the writing of the report and applications.
- Furthermore, there is a TOIO meeting of the first and second year course participants.
- 1 or 2 course participants will give a talk about the technical progress of the project with the objective to practice giving talks, and to transfer information on the projects to the other participants.
- A meeting is expected to take place between the supervisor and the course participant every two weeks, and every 2 to 3 months there will be a meeting between the TU/e supervisor, the course participant, and the supervisor of the company where the project is carried out.
- Each course participant is asked to make a poster that has to be approved by the company.
- Completion of the design project is done by means of:
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- a final report
- a presentation at the company or at the TU/e
- A defense of the work in front of a defense committee.
