Research at Engineering Technology
The Faculty is organised in departments, clusters of principal investigators who together create mass and focus within research and education. The Faculty of Engineering Technology has five departments, and together are responsible for the corresponding research and education in the BSc, MSc, EngD and PhD programmes. Each department has multiple research chairs; sometimes, 2 or more research chairs are part of a research group.
- 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.
Daily Management Team
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)
- Engineering Organ Support Technologies (Prof.Dr.-Ing. J. Arens)
- Neuromechanical Engineering (Prof.dr.ir. M. Sartori)
- Rehabilitation Medicine and Technology (Prof.dr. J.S. Rietman)
- Surgical Robotics (Prof.dr. S. Misra)
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).
Daily Management Team:
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)
- Soil Micro Mechanics (prof. dr. V. Magnamino)
- Marine and Fluvial Systems (Prof.dr.S.J.M.H. Hulscher)
- Climate Change impacts of Coastal Risk (Prof.dr. R. Ranasinghe)
- Coastal Systems and Nature-Based Engineering (prof.dr. K.M. Wijnberg)
- Multidisciplinary Water Management: (Prof.dr.ing. M. Berger)
- Modelling Water Management and Climate (Prof.dr. J. Kwadijk)
- Persuasive Systems Modeling for Sustainability Science (Prof.dr. A.A. Voinov)
- Transport Engineering and Management (Prof.dr.ir. E.C. van Berkum)
- Transport Planning (Prof.dr.ing. K.T. Geurs)
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.
Daily Management Team:
Research chairs:
Asset Management & Maintenance Engineering (dr. A. J. J. Braaksma)
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 behaviour, system behaviour and robust optimisation. 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.
Daily Management Team:
Research chairs:
- Applied Mechanics & Data Analysis (AMDA) (Prof.dr.ing. B. Rosić)
- Computational Design of Structural Materials (CDSM) (Prof.dr.ir. I.M. Gitman)
- Dynamics Based Maintenance (DBM) (Prof.dr.ir. T. Tinga)
- Elastomer Technology and Engineering (ETE) (Prof.dr. A. Blume)
- Functional Surface Engineering & Design (FUSED) (Prof.dr.ir. E. van der Heide)
- Laser Processing (LP) (Prof.dr.ir. G.R.B.E. Römer)
- 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)
- Surface Technology and Tribology (STT) (Prof.dr.ir. M.B. de Rooij)
- Tribology Based Maintenance (TBM) (Prof.dr.ir. P.M. Lugt)
- 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.
Daily Management Team:
Research chairs:
- Computational Mechanics of Multiscale Materials (Prof.dr.ir. H. Askes)
- Engineering Fluid Dynamics (Prof.dr.ir. C.H. Venner)
- Granular Materials (Prof.dr.A.R. Thornton)
- Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics (Prof.dr.ir.W. Rohlfs)
- Multi Scale Mechanics (Prof.dr. S. Luding)
- Thermal Engineering (Prof.dr.ir. G. Brem)
Related research institute: MESA+