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Schols, Ruben (author)As new technologies will allow for a new kind of driving there is room for implementing innovative interior architecture in future luxury cars. The main goal for this master thesis was to find out what a user truly needs in a Mercedes EQ interior for a level 4 autonomous driving vehicle in a context around the year 2035. Furthermore, the design...master thesis 2022
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Rocha, Randy (author)This thesis examines in what way designers should reassure that the use of parametric design can be switched from esthetical purposes to problem-solving purposes for future global challenges throughout Zaha Hadid Architects’ historical approaches and developments. In order to find the answer to the research question, it is important to know how...student report 2022
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Nieuwsma, Auke (author)Over the past ten years Heineken measured a decrease in brand power, especially among younger consumers. Furthermore, Heineken lacks an experiential culture that fosters innovation due to daily workloads, mindset on global impact and scalability, immediate successful deliverables and business cases, and strict brand approval and brand mitigation...master thesis 2022
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Smolders, Timothy (author)Superyachts are expected to be perfect since the owner pays millions for them, and the worst that could happen is tilting the ship once it floats. The lightweight, including the center of gravity, is essential to know with a high degree of certainty to prevent this. However, the lightweight is already expected in an early design phase, when...master thesis 2022
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van der Sanden, Eveline (author)In the current moment in time, the interest in sustainability is growing. Companies need to transition towards a more sustainable business model. One of the ways to do this is to become more circular. <br/><br/>The circular economy is an economic system aimed at eliminating waste and on the continuous reuse of resources. The end goal is to get...master thesis 2022
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French, Shin (author)Since the transition period from tie-stall to free-stall, at the end of the previous century, lameness became more and more prominent. A preventive claw trimming technique was developed for lameness prevention. It is recommended to trim the claws twice a year but this does not always happen so often in practice. One of the things that preventive...master thesis 2022
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Borghans, Jaap (author)The objective of this research is to design and evaluate a new type of rolling gate for the Western lock (Westsluis) in Terneuzen, for which all sensitive and heavily loaded mechanical parts are both easily accessible and located above water. Having all mechanical parts above water not only makes them easier to inspect and maintain, but it also...master thesis 2021
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Lee, Yin-Jen (author)The thesis addresses the organizational challenges of lacking the big pictures in an early-stage startup. First, the author joined a newborn software venture as a founding product manager and observed the dynamics in his daily practice. Then, through numerous interviews with team leaders and employees, the author analyzed the data and discovered...master thesis 2021
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Donkers, Daniel (author)In the upcoming decades, the Netherlands is going to face challenges regarding the protection against flooding. The reason for this is the expected rapid change in climate around the world. As a result of the changing climate, the sea levels rise and the peak river discharges increase. These changes lead to higher water levels in the Dutch...master thesis 2021
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Pierhagen, Hidde (author)Public organisations are shifting their focus towards the implementation of sustainability into their projects through sustainable public procurement, but recent studies indicated that the implementation is still lacking. Sustainable public procurement is only implemented in around 10% of the Dutch public procurement tenders (Yu et al. 2020)....master thesis 2021
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Verhage, Fabian (author)The Netherlands has a severe shortage of care workers. The shortage is expected to increase in the coming years. Care-robots could provide a solution, by taking work out of the hands of the care workers. The potential utility of the care-robot is dependent on the functionality of the gripper. The goal of this study was to design and develop a...master thesis 2021
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Bukai, Itamar (author)A colossal amount of people around the world do not have access to basic health care. In order to reach the unreachable, humanitarian organizations assemble medical units that provide health service to the most outreach communities. Although, these units experience numerous challenges and drawbacks when it comes to traveling, questioning the...master thesis 2021
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Haagmans, Nadine (author)A modular product-service approach has the potential to facilitate behaviour change within the snowboard boot context. The circular design strategy proposed in this report, including the 6 circular design principles, navigates the process of creating a product-service aiming to maintain a products’ value throughout its lifetime. With a special...master thesis 2021
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Groen, Gijs-Bart (author)Laparoscopy is a type of minimally invasive surgery in which instruments with long, slender shafts between handle and end effector are inserted through small incisions in the abdominal wall. A laparoscopic aspirator-irrigator (LAI) has a hollow shaft used to evacuate undesirable substances using a vacuum pressure, rinse tissue using a stream of...master thesis 2021
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Walgaard, Jeroen (author)The number of people working night shifts has been steadily increasing over the past 20 years. Although shift workers have known this for a long time already from first-hand experience, the Dutch national institute for public health and the environment has recently published advice to minimize night (shift) work, as it is detrimental to the...master thesis 2021
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Rijkers, Tim (author)This research and design project provides design leaders with a toolkit that aims to help them develop their leadership qualities. With the modern definition of a designer being in a transitional period where designers are transitioning on the spectrum of traditional designers and business executives (Muratovski, 2015), creativity is becoming a...master thesis 2021
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de Wolf, Daan (author)Libraries play a central role in society, a gateway to knowledge, culture and learning. But recently libraries have seemed to fall out of fashion, especially with young adults. Libraries have had a tough time with a streak of budget cuts, whilst adapting to many innovations and changes. This alone may make it hard for a library to keep up, but...master thesis 2021
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Roorda, Coen (author)This report describes a graduation project for the MSc Program Strategic Product Design. The client of this project is a University Medical Centre in the Netherlands. Due to privacy, the client is referred to as: “the Dutch UMC.” The Dutch UMC wants to become an innovating leader in health care but faces many problems during the act of...master thesis 2021
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Sinke, Maaike (author)<b>Introduction: Prosthesis simulators are essential tools for research and rehabilitation. They can be used to increase the amount of participants in research studies or to assist in rehabilitation. The main goal of this master thesis is to design a functioning prosthesis simulator, which can be used with commonly used...master thesis 2021
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Sparks, Allison (author)The objective of this project was to explore the context of gun violence in America using the Vision in Product (ViP) design process to identify and design an intervention that would help reduce gun violence in the United States. I began by investigating the vast nature of this domain to gain a bird’s-eye view and deeper understanding of this...master thesis 2021