GOALS AND FINAL QUALIFICATIONS
AIM OF THE PROGRAMME
As envisioned in UT’s ‘High Tech Human Touch’ vision, B-IEM particularly focuses on organizational problems in contexts with high societal relevance. B-IEM students can analyse the root causes, can design solutions, can prospectively assess solutions in a (optimization/simulation/analytical) model, and can implement the outcomes in situations where typically they need to work together with people from various other disciplines. B-IEM graduates specifically are able to support scientific decision making, by choosing a method that fits the problem, which means that they combine quantitative and problem-solving approaches of engineers with research methods and qualitative insights from the social sciences.
The first year has been designed to provide a realistic experience of B-IEM, to give each student insight in their suitability (level, effort, and orientation). Students get acquainted with all B-IEM domains. The focus is on developing students’ maturity through development of meta-cognitive competences such as planning, researching literature, and reflection. The project-based learning approach challenges students to solve a real-life HTHT case (project) in each of the teaching units (15 EC), of which several are multidisciplinary.
Since various modules are shared between programmes, students have to work in multidisciplinary teams and on external projects. In case of shared modules, rules and regulations of the organising programme apply (see Section 1.1). The third year gives room for a student’s personal ambition and personal choices. Students can broaden or deepen their personal interest by choosing a UT minor. Students can also choose courses outside UT, from (inter)national programmes to be approved by the programme management.
The programme leads to a T-shaped profile of BSc graduates with high level academic and professional skills. In support of the horizontal bar of the ‘T’, throughout the BSc programme, all UT students have 10 EC of reflection on science and corporate and social responsibility. Also, all engineering programmes share the mathematics learning line.
INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES (ILOS)
The ILOs (or the so called Final Qualifications) of the B-IEM programme correspond to the requirements formulated by colleagues in the Netherlands and abroad, and by professional practice. We distinguish two groups of competences: domain-specific and general competences, with a specific operationalization on general competences: reflection, working in (multidisciplinary) teams and preparation of student’s lifelong learning, ethics, philosophy of science and Corporate Social Responsibility. The ILOs can be found below.