How to teach engineers to interact in a political decision making environment

Sectoral professionals, like coastal engineers, need to know how to cooperate in a multi-disciplinary environment, as well as how to present substantial information to (political) decision makers. In order to train (coastal engineering) students in this matter, Unesco-IHE and TU Delft have in their curriculum an Integrated Coastal Zone...

OK-afdeling: hart van het ziekenhuis: Medewerkers binden door een beter gebouw

In Nederland vinden regelmatig symposia plaats over de operatiekamer van de toekomst. De ideale operatie afdeling is zowel functioneel als prettig in het gebruik, flexibel en voorzien van de modernste apparatuur. De gebruiker moet er optimaal kunnen werken. Het komt echter nog vaak voor dat de eindgebruiker onvoldoende betrokken wordt in het...

Training of coastal engineers to work in a non-engineering environment

Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) is an interdisciplinary process by definition. Individual actors in CZM need to cooperate and communicate to come to an optimum management strategy for the coastal zone. Because engineers focus on finding the “best” solution in engineering terms, they often are quite surprised that in the end of the day...

Inventory of Dutch datasets for extreme value analyses

Overview of available datasets in the Netherlands