Students' Perceptions on Engaging Database Domains and Structures

Several educational studies have argued for the contextualization of assignments, i.e., for providing a context or a story instead of an abstract or symbolic problem statement. Such contextualization may have beneficial effects such as higher student engagement and lower dropout rates. In the domain of database education, textbooks and...

Beige by Default: The issue of skin tone inclusivity in product design and a proposal for resolving it in design education and professional practices

Past and current product design practices have not been and are not skin tone inclusive. People with darker skin tones are regularly excluded from the design process and the final product. Examples of this are the simple adhesive bandage and the more advanced facial recognition software. This project aimed to change this through an exploration...

The Power of Ten: The KaDEr Project and the Influence of Education in Real Cases

The KaDEr research project is looking for possible changes in the policy to preserve built heritage in a sustainable way for the province of Gelderland. From 2017 to 2021, TU Delft conducts this research project. A lot of disciplines of TU Delft are involved from the Faculty of Architecture. The Heritage & Architecture (HA) is in the lead....

Design for social learning: Encourage people to learn with and from their co-workers in a natural way

A framework to implement social learning in online solutions for educational consultancy TinQwise

Teaching the Modelling of Integrated Energy Systems – Course Design and First Experience

In order to design interventions in energy systems, it is key to combine existing models and simulations. As the interplay of different steps along the energy value chain, various actors and regional scopes makes it difficult for one model or model owner to cover the entire complexity of the system, the usage of present resources instead of...

KiteSim: Designing a new interactive kite simulator

This report is written as a graduation thesis for the Master’s degree in Design for Interaction, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology. It describes the process of researching, prototyping and evaluating a new interactive kite simulator, developed within a consortium of design firm Frank & Frens; the TU...

IO-Board: An Arduino based modular electronics toolkit

The project ‘an Arduino based modular electronics toolkit’ handles the research and design of a modular electronics prototyping kit, targeted at Industrial Design Engineering students at the Delft University of Technology. At first, during the analysis phase, interviews were conducted with the different stakeholders. These interviews included...

Insight Studio

This project is about finding the "ideal" studio conditions for design education. The research describes the basic needs for accommodating design education through studio spaces. The final design of the project is a new building for the faculty of Architecture. It can be seen as a late submission for the contest "building for Bouwkunde" which...

Sustainability's relationship with product design education

This paper shares the experiences of delivering dedicated curriculum in sustainable design (BA & MA Programmes at the University for the Creative Arts) and integrating sustainability into already congested Product Design Programmes (BA & BSc Programmes at the University of Hertfordshire). With the former sustainability is the key driver for...

The Future of Delft Open Courseware - How to build a sustainable environment for Open Educational Resources

Delft University of Technology started publishing some of her course materials online from September 2007 in a project called Delft Open Courseware (OCW). This report discusses the future of this project, describes important issues that should be addressed in order to become sustainable, and ends with an advice on how this can be done.