Engineering & Technology Courses
Take a look at our varied programme in the fields of Engineering & Technology. Do you want to learn more about product innovation, process mining or digital leadership? Or is your heart set on understanding and designing smart sustainable cities? All of these topics and more can be studied in 2023.
13 course(s) found
Agile Prototype Your Dream
Prototyping is an important part of product development. A prototype gives the developers and the client the actual feel of a product. This summer course makes you familiar with different digital manufacturing techniques to make a prototype. With Agile Prototyping we take you a step further through a short-cyclic trial-and-error make process to get from idea to a fully functional prototype in a shorter time with less costs and less risks. Agile…
Inner Development for Sustainable Futures
Developing your inner capacity to contribute to a sustainable future
In 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals developed a comprehensive plan for a sustainable world by 2030. The 17 goals cover a wide range of issues that involve people with different needs, values, and convictions. These goals are not easy to achieve, despite the rapid progress of technical and scientific developments. A culture change is necessary, aiming to develop the inner…
21st Century Skills for Healthcare Professionals
"This course has without a doubt changed my perspective and understanding of healthcare, and all of us agreed that we felt more equipped to face the healthcare challenges that we may face in the 21st century" (student, 2022). This multi-professional course is intended for students in nursing, physiotherapy, medicine, allied health care workers, and many others fields, who want to develop new skills and work in an international context. The…
Advanced Functional Programming in Haskell
Typed functional programming languages allow for the rapid development of robust programmes. This course explores some of the more advanced language features of Haskell, a state-of-the-art functional programming language, together with some of its theoretical background. The course aims to teach not only the more advanced Haskell features, such as GADTs or type families, but also the underlying theory. Besides the lectures, there are numerous…
Gerontechnology
The world is rapidly ageing but the technological innovations are also rapid penetrating the world. Older adults are facing several major challenges regarding how to age-in-place, deal with dementia or other chronic disorders or how to retrofit their homes our adjust their environment aligned with the functional and/or cognitive decline. These aspects will be addressed in the Gerontechnology course. Furthermore, the latest developments trends…
Applying Ethics in Digital Innovation
Technology is not neutral. In this course we discuss and practice how to recognise and address moral questions in digital innovation. How do you respect personal and public values such as security, autonomy, well-being or distributive justice in technological designs? And how do your own values and norms influence the choices you make or would like to make? We introduce various ethical tools and techniques and show how their application leads to…
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Neural Networks
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has grown in the last few years from a promising research field into a widely applied technology. Many processes and decisions in our lives are governed by algorithms: from autonomous driving, e-commerce recommendations, traffic predictions to fraud detection. It is important that AI is used correctly, to prevent privacy issues, discriminations and other harm. In this course we explain what AI is, how algorithms work…
Innovation Lab: Design Thinking for Socially-Relevant Innovation
We see an increase in the need for socially relevant innovation: to boost our networks, activate our communities, and contribute to a healthier society. We invite you to join our ‘learning-by-doing’ lab, focused on getting things done for a project that matters. We aim to change the way you look at the world in a more opportunity-oriented and less problem-focused way. Enter Design Thinking: a creative, holistic, multidisciplinary approach based…
Exploring Culture through Data: Digital Methods & Data Practices
Are you curious, eager to learn and would you like to have an enriching experience during your summer holidays? This course would make a great opportunity! The accelerating datafication of society constitutes challenges and opportunities for humanities research. We welcome you, students and non-students, to join us in this crash course in data practices and digital methods.
Smart Sustainable Cities
What does the city of the future look like? Since the beginning of the 21st century the majority of the world population have lived in urban areas. The summer course Smart Sustainable Cities focusses on how to boost the sustainable development of cities. In almost two weeks, we will dive into several highly relevant themes such as clean air, mobility, waste, energy, health and also innovation, inclusiveness, participation and smart solutions to…
Applied Social Robotics
Are you interested in how social robots can be implemented in daily life, for example in education, in healthcare, and in hospitality? Do you want to come up with innovative solutions for long time societal problems? And do you think robots can be part of these solutions? Then this summer school is designed for you! During the course, you will work in a multidisciplinary research team and learn how people interact with robots, how to design …
Game Design and Development
The Game Design and Development summer school offers interactive hands-on game design workshops, theoretical game design analysis classes and programming sessions. Practical aspects of the design of games, like levels, characters, art, engines, etc. will be discussed and experienced. The design of new and existing games will be systematically analysed. Programming sessions treat the basics of programming and common elements of game development,…
Reviewing Internationalisation: Open to Global Change?
The course takes a higher education, international relations, legal, and public policy perspective and combines theory with workshops, case studies and active team work. It is indispensable for researchers who wish to enhance the focus and scope of their research and for practitioners and policy makers involved in university (re-)strategizing. The dialogue between these different actors, coming from a broad range of countries, has proven highly…