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Master's Assignments

We offer Master's graduation assignments and Capita Selecta opportunities on topics related to humanitarian and societal challenges. Check the available topics below or get inspired by the experiences and projects of students who have previously worked with our group.

Currently Available assignments

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SUPERVISOR

Designing a Vocational Training Solution for Youth Refugees in the Netherlands through Participatory Video (New Dutch Connections, company involved)

Nina Trauernicht (n.trauernicht@utwente.nl)

Co-Designing Infrastructural Solutions in Informal Settlements in Rio de Janeiro

Nina Trauernicht (n.trauernicht@utwente.nl)

Analysing Existing Portable Health Care Facilities in Disaster and Rescue Zones.

Alberto Martinetti (a.martinetti@utwente.nl)

EMERGI: Designing a service station concept for electric Tuk-Tuk (EMERGI, company involved).

Peter Chemweno (p.k.chemweno@utwente.nl) 

RISE: optimisation of electric cooking steamer for school communities in Madagascar (Jiro-Ve, company involved)

Alberto Martinetti (a.martinetti@utwente.nl)


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Current students

  • Geert Talsma (MSc IDE) - Plastic brick development and characterisation for washroom construction in Ghana (Together with Engineer w/o Borders NL).
  • Weiwen Cai (MSc IDE) - Design of an AI-based ethics chatbot for humanitarian engineering students 
  • Saikiran Samudrala (MSc ME) - Investigating possible automated solutions for sewage inspections in underserved communities villages

Former students

Industrial Design Engineering
  • Eva de Wit: Eva has developed interior furniture for the EDUbox.
  • Alexander de Kok: provided the Solidworks and technical drawings for the EDUbox.
  • Silas Nethe - Silas designs an evolution of the EDUbox for agricultural purposes: the AGRIbox.
  • Tirsa van der Ouw - Designing and developing a plastic-to-bricks system in Ghana (together with Engineers without Borders NL).
  • Angela Krstovska (Capita Selecta) - User Experience Design for Humanitarian Engineering Educational Escape Room.
Mechanical Engineering
  • Evert van der Hook & Ashutosh Dilip- They provided the Solidworks and technical drawings for the EDUbox.
  • Józef Doering (Exchange) - Józef has worked on thermal and energy analysis for an assignment as part of his exchange semester at the UT.
  • David Otim Too, Job Maveke Mambua, Ermiyas Tefera Yigtelu, Hailekiros Woldegerima, Naftali Kiplagat (All Exchange) - Exchange students of Erasmus+ projects involved in the design and engineering of different aspects of EDUbox.
  • Imme Eijck (Capita Selecta) - Developing a water tower construction manual for an irrigation system in Sierra Leone (together with SEP)
  • Gabe-Jan Ommen - Replacing a lithium battery with a small-scale heat battery for underserved communities in Madagascar (together with Jiro-VE).
  • Tim Ribberink - Final Product Development of a heat battery system for clean cooking in Madagascar (Together with Rice, Madagascar).
  • Omar Abo Sseada - Design of a mission-based EVTOL for emergency rescue (Together with Flymov, Brazil).
Other MSc Programmes
  • Lika Bonzi (Sustainable Energy Technology) - Optimization of an off-grid solar cooking hub for schools and communities in Madagascar (together with Jiro-VE).
  • Corentin Monat (Robotics)- Developing a teleoperating robot for landmine neutralisation (together with LMAC).
  • Floris Engels (Spatial Engineering, supervision with Dr. Hendriks) - Back Safer Nepal - Mapping criteria for flood resilient housing and measuring of flood resilience for different types of housing designs in Nepal
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