Vacant MSc graduation projects | Department of Civil Engineering

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Water Engineering and Management

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overview of vacant MSc graduation projects at WEM here below

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Construction Management and Engineering

Sustainability and Resilience

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Hydraulic and Geo-Structures

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Modeling Morphological Development and Sediment Dynamics in the Keteldelta 56.25

Systemic Perspectives on Drought Resilience: Evaluating Co-Benefits, Trade-Offs, and the Upscaling Potential of Adaptation Measures in the Dutch German Border Region 55.25

Modelling of wave impact on revetments 54.25

Beyond Good Intentions: A Critical Analysis of Maladaptation Risks in Climate Change Adaptation Household Measures 52.25

Quantifying the Effects of Vegetation Characteristics on Wave Attenuation over Dikes with Vegetated Foreshores (Living Dikes): A CFD Study using OpenFOAM 51.25

Morphological development of the nourishment in the mouth of the Scheldt estuary 50.25

Joining forces for the implementation of multi-layered safety: a comparative exploratory study of collaboration for climate-resilience in the Netherlands 49.25

Ecosystem services and biodiversity in Nature-based Solutions with salt marshes for climate change adaptation and mitigation 48.25

Emission-Free Execution of Dike Reinforcement 47.25

Experimental Scripts for Dike Strength Analysis (DAM) 46.25

Overlap between Soundings and Borings 45.25

Upsetting Offsets: A Critical Exploration of Water Offsetting’s Promises and Pitfalls 57.25

Evaluating the flow field in a scour hole in the Waal near Erlecom using field measurements 01.26

Analysis of Robustness in Dike Design 44.25

Implementing innovations in municipal asset management practices: the case of urban bridges & quay walls 43.25

Experimental Investigation into Grain Size Effects on Cross-shore Shoreface Nourishment Morphodynamics 42.25

How do stakeholders exploit integrative potential? A comparative study of nature-inclusive water projects 41.25

Understanding of piping mechanism in well graded soils directly underneath clay cover layer 38.25

Reliability updating of retaining structures 37.25

Linking soil model parameters and CPT measurements using machine learning 36.25

Risk assessment of dikes: from material to geo-structural uncertainties 35.25

Probabilistic Model for Retrogressive Breach Failure During Dredging Activities 34.25

Interaction between macro stability inner slope and micro stability inner slope given saturation due to high volumes of overflow 33.25

Identification of dike strength parameters from laboratory and field data 32.25

A micro-hydrodynamical investigation on how backward erosion piping progresses in dikes 31.25

Influence of animal burrowing in dikes on dike strength and the probability of failure 30.25

Evaluation of the conservativeness of critical state soil parameters for clay and peat materials 29.25

Shear strength unsaturated soil - dike assessment 28.25

Modelling stress-strain curve in D-stability 27.25

Experimental investigation of soil reinforcement by cellular geosynthetics 25.25

Assessment of crane operation safety on soil substrates under variable mechanical and environmental loads 24.25

Digital twinning of Fugro Aquisense® penetration tests 23.25

COMPARISON OF DEEP LEARNING METHODS FOR GENERATING CROSS-SECTIONS BASED ON CPTS 22.25

Manufacturing of a robotic probe to perform local underground: the importance of the tip shape soil monitoring 21.25

Shear response in reinforced granular soil: Do (living) plant roots perform better than (inert) fibers? 20.25

Study of Freezing and Thawing processes in granular soils 19.25

Scaling up vegetation dynamics in salt marsh modelling 18.25

Assessing groyne effectiveness under relative sea level rise 02.26

The global historic grey water footprint of human pharmaceuticals: A measurement-based estimation/modelling approach 17.25

The environmental, socio-cultural and economic values of clean water 16.25

Analysis of the effects of speed limit reduction on the fatal and injury crashes at the Rijkswaterstaat roadways 15.25

Incipient motion of sand mixtures 12.25

Evaluation of different beach house permits on wind-driven sediment transport towards coastal dunes: A numerical modelling assessment 11.25

Integrated control in water resources management 10.25

Insights into the allocations of costs and benefits of parking interventions 09.25

Rainfall-runoff dynamics of a ZOAB highway section 08.25

Regional Water Footprint Assessment of Hydropower in the Syr Darya Basin, Central Asia 05.25

How does agricultural trade relieve or sharpen water scarcity issues in the Syr Darya Basin in Central Asia? 04.25

Anticipating and evaluating the impact of remote working arrangements on the spatial, economic and social facets of the urban-rural divide. 01.25

BIM & Subsurface projects

BIM-related projects; simulations; optimization

Procurement Strategies, Tendering, Governance & Client-Contractor Relationships

Soil mechanics and applied research, with focus on novel technologies for improvement of construction (earth) materials and processes

Structural health monitoring (SHM) of bridges

Digitalisation in Construction; Machine Learning

Safety Aspects of Energy Transition in the Built Environment

Project management; International Projects; Culture in construction;

Societal challenges; governance, organisational processes; construction management practices

Decision Making & Financial Management

Climate-resilience and climate adaptation, multi-actor processes, stakeholder participation and policy implementation

Procurement, collaboration, public private partnerships, supply chain innovation, project management, ecosystems

Construction Industry, Construction Organisations, Collaboration & Innovation

Data analysis of megaripple dynamics around wind farms in the North Sea 33.24

Numerical modeling of the complex 3D flow patterns in deep scour holes in rivers 32.24

Linear analysis of sand extraction pits on the Netherlands Continental Shelf 27.24

Morphodynamic modeling of Western Scheldt incorporating sand-mud interaction 24.24

The impact of coastal works on Dutch tides 23.24

Dike Failures, Fibre-Reinforced Soils, Deep Learning for Geomechanics & Finite/Discrete Element Analyses

Societal Challenges, Value Management, Systems Engineering, Organisational Processes

Calibration methods based on innovative use of measurements/new measurement techniques 12.24

Resilient coastal dunes as a nature-based flood defense: Modelling wind-driven sand pick-up on moist beach surfaces 08.24

Sustainability and Circularity; assessment methods; decision Making

The (N)itrogen- and (P)hosphorus-related grey water footprints of agriculture – a global analysis of the past and future 06.24

Systems Engineering; Circular Economy, Urban Mining

The impacts of green water consumption on blue water availability 04.24