Research at Engineering Technology
The Faculty is organised in departments, clusters of principal investigators who together create mass and focus in research and education. The faculty Engineering Technology has five departments, who together are responsible for the corresponding research and education in the BSc, MSc, EngD and PhD programmes.
- Biomechanical Engineering (BE)
Research at the interface of technological and medical sciences, aimed at improving rehabilitation of patients with sensory or motor disorders, resulting in their increased independence. The research will be focused in three themes, i.e. neural control of movement and posture, characterization of biological tissue behavior and the effect of (surgical) interventions, and development of methods to study human movement. The medical application areas of the research are rehabilitation, orthopedics and neurology.
Executive Committee:
Research chairs:
Biomechanical Implants (Prof.dr.ir. N.J.J. Verdonschot)
Biomechatronics and Rehabilitation Technology (Prof.dr.ir. H. van der Kooij)
Biomedical Device Design and Production (Prof.dr.ir. G.J.M. Tuijthof)
Design of Biomedical Products (Prof.dr.ir. G.J. Verkerke)
Neuromechanical Engineering (Prof.dr.ir. M. Sartori)
Rehabilitation Medicine and Technology (Prof.dr. J.S. Rietman)
Surgical Robotics (Prof.dr. S. Misra)
Engineering Organ Support Technologies (Prof.Dr.-Ing. J. Arens)Related research institute: TechMed Centre
- Civil Engineering and Management (CEM)
Research to acquire qualitative and quantitative knowledge on the life cycle of civil engineering systems and objects, with a particular focus on the initiative phase, the phase of conceptual or functional design, and the operation and maintenance phase, all in a societal and environmental context. Research concentrates on construction management and engineering (e.g. planning, development, procurement systems and construction engineering) transport studies (e.g. engineering, management and interaction of transport systems) and water engineering and management (physics of marine and fluvial systems and integrated water management).
Executive Committee:
Research chairs:
Construction Process Integration and ICT (Prof.dr.ir. A.M. Adriaanse)
Market Dynamics (Prof.dr.ir. A.G. Dorée)
Integrated Project Delivery (Prof.dr.ir. L. Volker)
Modelling Water Management and Climate (Prof.dr. J. Kwadijk)
Transport Engineering and Management (Prof.dr.ir. E.C. van Berkum)
Transport Planning (Prof.dr.ing. K.T. Geurs)
Water Systems (Prof.dr.S.J.M.H. Hulscher).
Climate Change impacts of Coastal Risk (Prof.dr. R. Ranasinghe)
Persuasive Systems Modeling for Sustainability Science (Prof.dr. A.A. Voinov)
Coastal Systems and Nature-Based Engineering (prof.dr. K.M. Wijnberg)
Multidisciplinary Water Management: (Prof.dr.ing. M. Berger)Related research institutes: Digital Society Institute
- Design, Production and Management (DPM)
Research on the understanding and improvement of design processes (and consequently also manufacturing processes). Focal points in this research field are the development of methods and tools for scenario-based, user-oriented product design against the background of the requirements and constraints of the entire product life cycle, and manufacturing facility and warehousing design. 'Integration' and 'synthesis' are important topics for design engineering research, the focus is on understanding and improving the design process irrespective of the product.
Executive Committee:
Research chairs:
Asset Management & Maintenance Engineering
Advanced Manufacturing Sustainable Products & Energy Systems (Prof.dr. I. Gibson)
Human Centred Design (Prof.dr.ir. M.C. van der Voort)
Interaction Design (Prof.dr.ir. G.D.S. Ludden)
Information driven Product Development & Engineering (Prof.dr.ir. D. Lutters)
Manufacturing Systems (Prof.dr.ing. S. Thiede)
Product-Market Relations (Prof.dr.ir. J. Henseler)
Systems Engineering & Multidisciplinary Design (Prof. dr.ir. G.M. Bonnema)
Intergrated Life-cycle Management (Prof.dr. M.W. Groll)
Packaging Design and Management (Prof.dr.ir. R. ten Klooster) - Mechanics of Solids, Surfaces and Systems (MS3)
Develop the technology for future manufacturing processes and new products by a science based engineering approach focused on material behavior, system behavior and robust optimization. Manufacturing new products and/or developing new processes requires a profound scientific understanding of (functional) materials (e.g. elastomers, polymers, composites, metals, bio-materials) and their interactions throughout the complete life cycle: during design, production, use and after service life.
Executive Committee:
Research chairs:
- Applied Mechanics & Data Analysis (AMDA) (Prof.dr.ing. B. Rosić)
- Dynamics Based Maintenance (DBM) (Prof.dr.ir. T. Tinga)
- Elastomer Technology and Engineering (ETE) (Prof.dr. A. Blume)
- Laser Processing (LP) (Prof.dr.ir. G.R.B.E. Römer)
- Mechanics of Polymeric Materials (MPM) (Prof.dr.ir. L.E. Govaert)
- Nonlinear Solid Mechanics (NSM) (Prof.dr.ir. A.H. van den Boogaard)
- Precision Engineering (PE) (Prof.dr.ir. D.M. Brouwer EngD)
- Production Technology (PT) (Prof.dr.ir. R. Akkerman)
- Tribology Based Maintenance (TBM) (Prof.dr.ir. P.M. Lugt)
- Surface Technology and Tribology (STT) (Prof.dr.ir. M.B. de Rooij)
- Skin Tribology (ST) (Prof.dr.ir. E. van der Heide)
- Computational Design of Structural Materials (CDSM) (Prof.dr.ir. I.M. Gitman)
- Thermal and Fluid Engineering (TFE)
Research in theoretical, numerical and experimental fluid dynamics, granular materials and thermal engineering, driven by applications in fields such as mechanical engineering, maritime engineering, aerospace engineering and process technology. Research themes are aero-acoustics, fluid mechanics of rotating flow machinery, multi-phase flows, transport phenomena, sustainable fuels, turbulent combustion and heat transfer.
Executive Committee:
Research chairs:
Thermal Engineering (Prof.dr.ir. G. Brem)
Engineering Fluid Dynamics (Prof.dr.ir. C.H. Venner)
Multi Scale Mechanics (Prof.dr.rer.-nat. S. Luding)
Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics (Prof.dr.ir.W. Rohlfs)
Granular Materials (Prof.dr.A.R. Thornton)
Computational Mechanics of Multiscale Materials (Prof.dr.ir. H. Askes)
Related research institute: MESA+