Using digital homework assignments, the case of performance engineering

Delft Aerospace engineering integrated curriculum

The complex multidisciplinary problems and challenges in our society require deep problem solvers in science, management and engineering who are also capable of interacting with and understanding specialists from a wide range of disciplines and functional areas. Industry refers to these people as T-shaped professionals. The T-shaped professional...

The trail of six design projects in the Delft bachelor Aerospace Engineering

Tomorrow’s engineers are required to have a good balance between deep working knowledge of engineering sciences and engineering skills. In the Bachelor Aerospace Engineering at TU Delft, students are educated to master these competences so that they are ready to engineer when they graduate. The bachelor curriculum has three mainstreams of about...

Educating engineering practice in six design projects in a row

Tomorrow’s engineers are required to have a good balance between deep working knowledge of engineering sciences and engineering skills. In the Bachelor in Aerospace Engineering at TU Delft, students are educated to master these competences so that they are ready to engineer when they graduate. The bachelor curriculum has three mainstreams of...

Making curricular change: Case report of a radical reconstruction proces

Educational change is technically relatively simple but socially complex. Making effective change in engineering curricula is problematic and often fails by too high ambitions, too short development time frames, inconsistent design and a lack of a systems approach, but also by poor leadership, lack of ownership and low faculty engagement....

Six Aerospace design projects to learn how to engineer

Tomorrow’s engineers are required to have a good balance of deep working knowledge of engineering sciences and engineering skills. In the Bachelor in Aerospace Engineering at TU Delft, students are educated to master these competences so that they are ready to engineer when they graduate. The mainstream Aerospace Design is built up semester...

Industrial internships as integrated learning experiences with rich learning outcomes and spin-offs

At graduation engineering students should be able to use the engineering skills they learnt in advanced industrial applications with preferably little additional training. Authentic design and innovative engineering problems and questions in the life of an engineer should therefore be identifiable subjects in engineering curricula. An important...

The integrated curriculum; attracting, exciting and educating students to become highly qualified aerospace engineers

Engineering Education in the Rapidly Changing World: Rethinking the Mission and Vision on Engineering Education at TU Delft

Een onderzoek naar het niet-lineair elastisch gedrag van cfrp-UD laminaten en de invloed van de unidirectionaliteit op stijfheid en treksterkte

Non Hookean behaviour in the fibre direction of carbonfibre composites and the influence of fibre waviness on the tensile properties

State transition matrix computations for Kalman filter orbit determination from laser range observations

Engineering Education in the Rapidly Changing World: Rethinking the Vision for Higher engineering Education

When drafting the first issue of this document it sometimes felt like I was manoeuvring a small canoe through a highly viscous fluid of conservatism and complacency, with everybody bogged down by today’s thinking, preparing next Tuesday’s nine o’clock lecture, aiming for the best learning experience by optimising teaching and assessment. The...