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As a computer science engineer, you design and develop software to process large amounts of data efficiently and to enable users to utilise intelligent digital systems in an intuitive way. You develop software in such a way that it can be maintained and tested. Computer science engineers work on software for web applications, mobile apps, route planners, robots, healthcare systems, financial services and much more. Computer science engineers are not only concerned with programming, they also need to ensure that code is efficient and secure, learn how users interact with a system and design software that can be deployed in a responsible manner.

How do you ensure that a satellite is launched into orbit around the earth or how do you design a micro-aircraft that can save people's lives?
While studying Aerospace Engineering at TU Delft you will learn all of this and much more. In order to design, build and work with aircraft or satellites, you need to have knowledge of a range of different disciplines and know how to combine them.
You come into contact with technologies and materials from the aerospace industry every day. GPS tracking and weather forecasting are both made possible by the presence of satellites in space. The mirrors on a lorry or car have been designed in such a way as to generate as little resistance as possible. And just try to imagine how much food is transported by air every single day.
The field is broad and challenging. It is not limited to the aviation and space industry. In addition to specialist disciplines you also learn to work in teams, compromise, find solutions for complex problems and communicate effectively.

The MSc programme in Life Science & Technology comes in three "flavours", Biocatalysis, Biochemical Engineering and Cell Factory.
The MSc programme in Life Science & Technology comes in three "flavours", each of which finds its expression in track-specific courses and in the subject of the Master's research project. Each track has a somewhat different emphasis, as described below.

The Biocatalysis track integrates enzymological, bio-organic, bio-inorganic and protein-analytical knowledge, with the aim giving students and understanding of the principles of biocatalysis. The track provides theoretical and practical guidelines with respect to the determination of structure and function of single enzymes or multiple enzymes (proteomics/MS).

Biochemical Engineering is concerned with new processes that involve cells or parts of cells, such as enzymes, where the cells or cell parts are based on sustainable feedstocks.

The Cell Factory track focuses on the design, understanding and optimisation of living cells as environmentally and economically sustainable production systems. The courses in this track present and integrate the scientific knowledge needed to use cells (including microbial cells) and communities for the production of valuable components, ranging from food ingredients to fuels.

Over the past decades, the subjective meaning of products and services has steadily gained in importance in design processes. Increasingly, a deeper understanding of users, their lives, and aspirations, has become key for developing successful propositions. As a result, there is a growing need for designers who are expert at ‘the user perspective’ of products and services, who understand the impact products have on people’s lives, their experiences, motivation, and their behaviour.

The Design for Interaction (DfI) Master’s programme focuses on the ways in which people and products interact: how does a user understand, use, and experience a product? This raises the question of how designers can conceptualise products that are relevant to the user.

The goal of the programme is to educate designers who understand what people do with and expect from the products they use in everyday life, and who are able to design products appropriate to their needs’ concerns and abilities. The programme offers students a multidisciplinary course of study, covering topics ranging from aesthetics and ergonomics to psychology and sociology. The programme delves deep into the processes and principles underlying people’s interactions with products: how to involve users in analysing needs, and how to apply technologies in the product development process.

This master offers a comprehensive programme, which aims to provide you with the broad knowledge and skills to understand all phases of the life cycle of transport and logistics systems. From spatial planning and the making of transport policy, through the design of transport systems, supply chains and infrastructure networks, to the operation, management and control of these systems. During the master programme, you will can choose one of the following specialisations: Transport Governance, Transport Networks, Traffic Operations, Logistics Systems.

The MSc programme Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics is offered jointly by three faculties:

• Civil Engineering and Geosciences
• Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering
• Technology, Policy and Management

Throughout the programme you will work on modern day cases in interdisciplinary projects and courses, with students who have different backgrounds and specialisations. Just like in the real world.

Logistics Systems focuses on the control and optimisation of transportation and production systems, as well as on the supply chains to which they belong.

The specialisation Transport Governance focuses on the development and assessment of transport, spatial and environmental policy, as well as on economic impacts of infrastructure and spatial planning.

Mastering design's impact on business and markets.

Great products and services don't just happen. Behind them lies a development process that starts with careful consideration of market needs, the competitive environment, company resources, the brand image, and the style and function of the new product or service to be created.

The focus of the Strategic Product Design (SPD) Master’s programme is on the business context of product and service design. This can be the context of large international corporations, strong design consultancies, or start-up entrepreneurship.

The programme’s emphasis is on translating a company’s strategy and market opportunities into a strong product or service portfolio. SPD provides the insights and the tools to exploit business resources and market opportunities. In other words, it aims at maximising the impact of design on business and markets!

Students learn to apply techniques like market and brand analysis, future scenarios, and technology road mapping as drivers for strategic product design. They also learn to create robust design strategies for business with a strong social and economic rationale. Ultimately, students acquire the skills to help companies conceptualise, develop and introduce socially sound, and commercially successful products and services.

Engineering and Policy Analysis is a fully accredited TU Delft MSc programme for students with a background in a technological field and is taught in the city of The Hague.

Studying technology and society and their interrelations is typical for the analytical approach central to EPA. The Programme is characterized by its unique blended, case-based approach to teaching and its focus on modelling and simulation. These case studies are provided by ministries, multinationals and NGO's, which are all located next to the EPA location and all contribute to the programme. So EPA equips you with more than just the technical skills you would expect in a standard engineering curriculum. EPA is interactive, international and interdisciplinary. You will be working on technological challenges in a context where political, moral, cultural and socio-economic considerations are crucial to decision-making processes and must be factored into the solutions. The complexity of these problems requires collaboration across the disciplines of natural and social sciences, and across international and cultural boundaries. We call this Comprehensive Engineering.

In the master's programme EPA students will be trained to become policy analysts, policy makers or policy implementers for a range of technology sectors.

The oceans offer unique potential and challenges for engineers. Consider that around 80% of goods are transported by sea, around 40% of the world’s population lives within 100 km of a coastline, and that the global offshore wind energy sector has expanded 30% in the past 8 years alone. How do we design ships (cargo, transport, passenger, offshore support, etc.) to efficiently carry out their work while operating in some of the harshest environments on earth? How do we adapt these ships to new, alternative sources of green fuel? How do we monitor these vessels over their lifetime to ensure they are still safe and reliable? And further consider these technical aspects also need to be applied to other novel structures, like flexible floating structures (think, solar panels!) and the complex vessels needed to install ever-growing offshore wind turbines. Marine Technology uniquely studies (technical) aspects of vessels and complex structures, giving future engineers the scientific knowledge and skills to handle challenges in design, construction, and operation of these systems.

The successful application of Nanobiology will require not simply collaboration between disciplines, but true disciplinary integration of physics and biology. We are a small, highly innovative and interdisciplinary programme applying high level math and physics to answer biological questions.

The Nanobiology programme of TU Delft and Erasmus MC builds on the extensive existing research collaborations between the two institutes. The focus of the programme is on the molecular building blocks of living organisms and the tools to study them. The programme is a mixture of theoretical and practical courses, which deepen and broaden the knowledge the students have acquired previously, and original research in an academic or industrial internship and a large independent research project. The courses integrate physics, math and biology. Mandatory courses cover topics such as the study of cancer from a biological and physical perspective, modern high-resolution microscopy techniques and modelling of complex systems. Apart from the compulsory courses, there is a large selection of elective courses from both institutions.

Design resilient hydraulic and offshore structures to drive the energy transition and combat climate change with sustainable, innovative solutions.

Sustainable Energy Technology includes renewable energy sources (such as solar energy, wind energy, and energy from biomass) and technologies designed to improve energy efficiency.
A transition to a society based Sustainable Energy is necessary to be self-sufficient, meet the growing global demand for energy, and address the threat of climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions. This transition will require fundamental innovations affecting the world's energy landscape.

Securing a sustainable energy future implies an energy transition that will require a new generation of dedicated engineers and researchers capable of developing, optimising, and integrating sustainable energy sources including solar power, wind power, and energy from biomass. Because of the intermittency of these sources storage of energy is an important factor for success. This requires innovative batteries and research into hydrogen as an energy source. New technologies need to be integrated into existing power networks and market structures. The design of new forms of energy distribution, energy market structures, and smart grids is necessary to satisfy the energy needs of modern societies.

Transport Networks focuses on the design of transport service and infrastructure networks in the context of urban design, spatial planning and regional economy.

As the complexity and importance of our many industrial structures and manufacturing systems grow, so does the guiding hand of Systems and Control.
This active research area is an important discipline in many fields, involving such specialists as engineers, physicists, mathematicians and designers.

The world of systems and control guides more of our lives than most of us realise. Areas as diverse as the manufacturing and semiconductor industry, infrastructure management, transportation, communications and logistics, energy delivery, the medical profession, and the family household are increasingly dependent on it. And as the world becomes more and more automated and guided, its impacts will spread even further.

The MSc programme trains students to use interdisciplinary strategies involving modelling, signal processing, controller design, and system analysis. It prepares engineers for a key role in the field of dynamics and control technology for complex systems and processes. The programme provides top-quality expertise and skills for successful professional careers in research, technology development and design.

The master's programme Systems and Control is a educational programme developed by the four leading universities of technology in the Netherlands (4TU).

Become an expert in construction materials design and their structural applications, lead innovative solutions for modern infrastructural challenges.

Develop engineering solutions shaping the future of transport in urban environments.

Understand water systems within deltas and the physical processes in oceans to address societal challenges. Utilize nature-based engineering solutions to manage these issues and quantify their impacts.

Whether it's a dentist's drill or a tunnel drill, an automobile assembly line or a CD player, somewhere in the course of its development, a mechanical engineer has had a hand in its design.
Mechanical engineers design, develop and build an enormous range of technical systems and mechanisms for industry and consumers. They have an important hand as well in stimulating the development of bio-systems, and micro- and nano-scale devices. Innovations in these areas are of vital importance in efforts to reduce energy consumption, to ease pressures on the environment, and to build a more sustainable society.

At TU Delft, the goal of the MSc Programme in Mechanical Engineering is to give students a broad, in-depth understanding of all mechanical engineering disciplines. The programme trains engineers to handle the entire process of innovative thinking, design, manufacturing and operation.

Students have to choose one of the five tracks/specialisations: BioMechanical Design, Energy & Process Technology, High-Tech Engineering, Opto-Mechatronics, Multi-Machine Engineering.

Over the past decades products have become more and more complex; whether it is added functionality or tougher recycling demands. Logically the design of successful products has become increasingly complex as well; the master of Integrated Product Design teaches how to bring these complex aspects together.

The international product development arena is changing rapidly; products are becoming smarter, better integrated into systems and have to comply with increasingly stringent standards. Product development is moving from an inter-disciplinary to a transdisciplinary occupation, becoming more knowledge intensive and therefore in need of continuous updates of tools and methods.

As the world faces major challenges such as climate change, rapid urbanisation and ageing infrastructure, civil engineers play a vital role in creating sustainable, safe, and resilient solutions. The 2 year MSc Civil Engineering programme at TU Delft equips you with the expertise to design, model, analyse and improve the infrastructures and engineering systems that shape our cities and environment: from bridges, buildings, and offshore structures, to coastal defences, transport networks, and geotechnical works.

You begin the programme with the faculty-wide module Modelling, Uncertainty and Data for Engineers (MUDE), where you combine theory, coding and teamwork on real data and models to solve engineering problems. You'll also take a core civil engineering module on advanced mechanics and interdisciplinary systems design. In Q2 you specialise by choosing one of the six tracks relating to structural, materials, hydraulic, offshore, geotechnical or transport engineering.

In the second year, you can tailor your studies through electives, cross-over modules, interdisciplinary projects, an internship or study abroad experience, before completing your thesis in your chosen specialised or multi-disciplinary field.

By joining this world-renowned programme, you’ll develop the technical expertise and collaborative skills to design innovative solutions to current engineering challenges.

The MSc program in Computer Science is built on the strengths and innovative power of our research groups
The MSc program in Computer Science has two tracks Data Science & Technology and Software Technology and the EIT Digital Master School program ICT Innovation with specializations in Visual Computing and Communication and Cloud Computing and Services. Besides that, the MSc program in Computer Science offers three special programs: 4TU Cyber Security Master, Bioinformatics and Information Architecture.

The world is changing. Due to urbanisation most of the rapidly growing world population lives in or around cities. The need for water and other resources increases, while climate change asks for engineering solutions to keep cities liveable.

The task of environmental engineers is to develop engineering solutions to cope with the effects of environmental change; to protect citizens against environmental hazards such as air, soil and water pollution, heatwaves, floods and droughts, and to safeguard water supply and sanitation. The challenge for humanity is to ensure a sustainable and healthy urban and natural environment, based on the principles of a circular economy. Coping with this challenge requires a new kind of engineers: engineers focusing on the interaction between humans and their living environment and protecting the public from the risk of environmental hazards.

This is a two year programme. In the first year you develop a strong foundation in modelling techniques, analysing data and environmental challenges. You also specialise in areas like water resources engineering, atmospheric environmental engineering or waste and resources engineering. In the second year, you can follow electives, create your own project, complete an internship or go abroad. You cap the year off by preparing for your master’s thesis and choosing a research project.

This two-year programme is aimed at educating engineers who can contribute to the design and management of infrastructures and related services.
The interdisciplinary MSc programme Complex Systems Engineering and Management (CoSEM) aims at designing innovations in a complex socio-technical environment and tackling large-scale problems in a highly interconnected world. Typical CoSEM problems are the energy transition, smart information society, smart and sustainable cities, intelligent transport systems & logistics, smart regulation & compliance.
The foundations of the programme comprise complex systems engineering, institutional economics, law and managing multi-actor decision making. Modelling and analysis methods allow the students to handle the big, heterogeneous and contested data on which the designs are based, and to take into account deep uncertainty about the development of the socio-technical systems. In this Master's programme we explore the innovations in complex socio-technical environments. You learn to think about more than technology alone. After all, when designing technological innovations, you have to deal with matters such as existing regulations, subsidies, distribution channels and infrastructures, as well as interests, cultures and human behaviour. In order to achieve successful innovations, these aspects must be considered and used in your design.

Applied Mathematics aims to provide its students with knowledge of applicable mathematics and to develop their expertise in applying the methods and tools to problems in science and engineering.
When you join the MSc Programme in Applied Mathematics at TU Delft you will gain a thorough knowledge of applicable mathematics, in addition to developing expertise in applying the methods and tools of mathematics to problems in science and engineering. This programme focuses on the acquisition of broad experience in simulation and the mathematical modelling of problems in science and engineering, in the mathematical analysis of these models and in the implementation of the results. You will gain sufficient insight into the underlying mathematical theories, allowing you to develop new mathematical methods and techniques.

The world population is growing & so is our need for clean forms of energy & critical raw materials for solar panels, electronic devices, & windmills. We also need to understand how climate change & other processes impacts our environment, the earth & climate system, & thus our daily lives & those of future generations. Do you aspire to be an engineer that helps move society toward a sustainable future?

The programme has two tracks:

• Climate & Earth Observation: Monitor, analyse & predict the state of our planet, from sea level rise & storms, to heat waves, flooding, & land subsidence. Gain the skills to tackle challenges such as precise weather forecasting, renewable energy planning, mitigation of geohazards, biodiversity protection, & the monitoring of infrastructure on land and at sea
• Subsurface Energy & Resource Engineering: The subsurface has the potential to help with the energy transition & our need for critical raw materials for every day technologies. Learn how geological processes shape the subsurface & develop engineering skills to design safe, efficient, & sustainable solutions for geothermal energy, CO₂ and hydrogen storage, & responsible resource extraction

* We've changed our name to Earth, Climate & Technology. Since the official name change is a lengthy process, you'll currently find us listed on Studielink under ‘Applied Earth Sciences’.

The master programme Construction Management and Engineering (CME) addresses the growing need for reform in the construction industry. The programme offers a broad spectrum of courses to prepare students for the dynamic environment of the construction business by focusing on management aspects of large engineering projects during design, project execution and maintenance. Core themes are integral & collaborative design processes, optimisation of project management, risk & asset management throughout the design and life-cycle, as well as the legal & financial aspects of construction projects.

CME is an interfaculty programme that combines the relevant expertise of the faculties of Civil Engineering & Geosciences, Architecture & the Built Environment and Technology, Policy & Management. Through the shared expertise and collaboration of the three faculties CME offers its students a unique programme that provides the competences required to combine engineering knowledge with management skills and prepares future engineers for exciting jobs in today’s demanding construction projects in an international context.

CME is part of the 4TU Federation. Within this federation, the four universities of technology in the Netherlands – Delft University of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, Wageningen University and the University of Twente – join their forces.

Offshore and Dredging Engineering concerns the sustainable utilization of resources and space in the ocean environment. Offshore and Dredging Engineers are open-minded and creative engineers with a thorough understanding of the marine environment and an ambition to shape tomorrow’s society

Key features:

• Engineering solutions in the harsh ocean environment
• Structural integrity and reliability
• Multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural collaborations
• Cutting-edge research on novel offshore technologies
• Connecting different societal and environmental perspectives
• Positive impact solutions

The international MSc Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences programme at TU Delft is especially strong in design, research, management, technology and research-by-design.
The Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft offers a dynamic Master's programme very much informed by the unique circumstances of the Netherlands, where the high population density has strongly influenced thinking about how to work creatively with space. The Faculty has an outstanding reputation and attracts students from all over the world.

The programme is especially strong in such areas as design, research, management, technology and research-by-design. The field of architecture used to be fairly straightforward – it was about the design of buildings. But these days, the field is far more complicated. Where in the past the emphasis was primarily on expanding the supply, far more attention is now directed to maintaining, adapting and replacing existing buildings and neighbourhoods. Construction as a field has therefore become more complex and specialised. That in turn increases the demand for architectural engineers with management skills – engineers who are capable of skilfully directing both the technical and logistical components of a construction project at every phase along the way from design to management of the completed structure.

Geomatics is concerned with the acquisition, analysis, management and visualisation of geographic data with the aim of gaining knowledge and a better understanding of built and natural environments.
With Geomatics for the Built Environment you will learn to use advanced techniques in data collection and analysis, spatial information modelling and the visualisation of data. The remote sensing techniques that you will learn give you the ability to measure and observe our environment - especially the features that are beyond the capability of the human eye. Data management and analysis techniques allow you to turn these measurements into useful information and knowledge, with which patterns can be identified, behaviour over time can be tracked and the future state can be predicted. You will gain knowledge about the use, governance and application of geographic data for solving real-world problems in an innovative way.

You will apply your skills in 3D modelling, GIS, mapping, serious gaming, simulation and visualisation to a wide range of fields, such as disaster management, geodesign, location-based services (LBS) and land administration. Also applications as esri's CityEngine, real time mapping, promoting energy efficiency and investigating and analysing the movement of people belong to the possibilities.

Traffic Operations focuses on the operational management and control of traffic in transport systems, as well as on the advanced technologies and methodologies in vehicles that facilitate these processes.

The Master's programme in Electrical Engineering offers four different tracks: Electrical Power Engineering, Microelectronics, Telecommunications & Sensing Systems and signals & systems.
The MSc programme in Electrical Engineering, building on the strengths of our research groups and enhancing the career prospects of our graduates. Based on the advice of alumni and industry sounding boards we have redesigned our master's programme, giving you the flexibility to focus on state of the art technologies such as solar cells and smart sensors, while giving you a broad basis so that you are equipped to continue innovation in the future.

Technology management in high-tech organisations.
The MSc Management of Technology (MOT) is an international master program which highlights the numerous aspects of technology and innovation management. This MSc program educates students with a bachelor degree in engineering as responsible decision makers, professionals and future leaders in technology-based internationally-oriented competitive business environments. MOT engineers work as scientists, consultants or also as entrepreneurs in such environments. The programme deliberately aims at an international and diverse group of students. The programme focuses on the core themes of technology and innovation with a specific emphasis on commercialization, engineering economics, and research and reflection. MOT students have the opportunity to work hands on with technology as new technology emerges regularly from the different labs at Delft University of Technology.

Applied knowledge to meet society's needs.

The Applied Physics Master’s programme is designed to educate students to be able to stay at the forefront of fundamental understanding, and to develop practical applications.

The programme will provide you with the knowledge, insights and skills required to perform independent professional and scientific activities in the area of applied physics at the level of a Master of Science.

During the programme, you will acquire fundamental knowledge of and hands-on experience with experimental techniques, theoretical analysis, simulation and modelling. You will work on research projects, including a Master's thesis project, together with fellow students and professionals from the university, industry and research institutes. By doing so, you will learn to translate the abstract into the practical and to effectively communicate your insights as an applied physicist in a global context.

You will be able to choose from among many different elective modules as well as from many different topics for your Master's thesis. Building on the broad range of course modules will give you the opportunity to specialise in a topic of your interest.

As medical science has advanced, physicians and patients have relied on increasingly sophisticated medical devices for diagnosis, treatment, and long-term health care.
BioMedical engineers are key players in the development, design, and continuing refinement of devices such as joint replacement prostheses, microsensors, imaging and image processing, as well as advanced instruments for use in such domains as minimally invasive surgery and the diagnosis of movement disorders.

The TU Delft master's programme in BioMedical Engineering is a multidisciplinary programme which aims to provide you with both an understanding of biology and medical theory as well as highly specialised technical training in such fields as electrical, physics, material and mechanical engineering.

You will learn how to develop conceptual models from a technical perspective and you will work in close collaboration with physicians, researchers and other healthcare professionals, including on-site at the collaborating academic institutions.

The two-year MSc programme in Biomedical Engineering at TU Delft is based on a long history of education and research in three collaborating faculties.

Materials Science & Engineering is an interdisciplinary field applying the properties and applications of matter to various areas of science and engineering.
If asphalt could be designed so that it repaired itself, all that inconvenience and congestion that results from road repair would be a thing of the past. And if lighter materials could replace the current metals in auto bodies at an affordable price, far less fuel would be required to get from point A to point B. Those challenges are the sort that materials engineers and materials scientists confront every day in their work.

The MSc Programme in Materials Science & Engineering combines studies of the physical, chemical and mechanical properties of materials with the training in production techniques and the selection of appropriate materials for a wide range of applications. In the programme, you will gain an understanding of the behaviour of materials under different conditions and learn how to assess their suitability in products and industrial processes. You will study the design of new material properties at nano and micro levels to suit applications on a macro scale. The programme focuses in particular on the design of new materials, including, for example, self-healing materials.

The MSc Robotics is situated at the intersection of mechanical engineering and artificial intelligence. Engineers who graduate in this domain will be able to guide the industry in strengthening and accelerating robotisation.

The Robotics Engineer will supervise the transition towards further robotisation of society. The Robotics Engineer masters a variety of mechanical engineering and computer science disciplines: mechatronics, artificial intelligence, embedded systems, control, human-machine systems, ethics, and security. The Robotics Engineer can solve complex and multi-functional robot problems, is a critical thinker beyond cultural boundaries, has a can-do mentality, and understands privacy, security, and ethical aspects of working with robots in human environments.

Master soil behaviour and soil-structure interaction to ensure safe and sustainable design of infrastructure projects like tunnels and flood defences.

The Chemical Engineering programme aims to provide students with a solid foundation in chemical
engineering science while preparing them for a broad range of career opportunities.
The programme, with a primary emphasis on the underlying sciences, gives students the opportunity to personalise their curriculum and to choose the particular study path that will best prepare them for their future careers. The programme challenges students to solve open-ended problems and teaches critical thinking skills, teamwork and open discussion.

The Master's Chemical Engineering addresses a wide range of subjects at all levels: molecular science, including the emerging field of nanochemical engineering, the design and analysis of chemical reactors, and the application of chemical engineering in manufacturing processes, with a strong emphasis on innovative thinking. The programme stresses multi-disciplinary problem solving by means of a systematic approach, incorporating considerations of sustainability, economics and social welfare into the analytical process.
The fundamental goal of the Master's Programme is to provide students with both a breadth and a depth of knowledge sufficient to prepare them for careers in research or to work in industry at either the design or operational level.