Integrated coastal flood design strategies: changing paradigm in flood risk management

The relation between the design of the flood protection infrastructure and the design of the urbanscape is the focus of this paper with the question on how these two types of design can consciously affect each other. The text presents the preliminary result of an interdisciplinary research conducted by a team of urban designers and hydraulic...

Simple, Complex, Innovative: Design Education at Civil Engineering

In faculties such as Civil Engineering, design is a not a core activity. Core activities at Civil Engineering are structural engineering, structural analysis, mechanics, fluid dynamics, etc. Design education has a relatively small share in the curriculum, compared to faculties such as Industrial Design or Architecture. Against this background,...

Integrated design of a pilot vehicle interface for 4-D guidance and navigation: From concept to in-flight demonstration