Digital Twin Engineering

Description

Digital twins open up many new avenues for developing interdisciplinary systems. A digital twin is a model that does not just represent a system but makes out an integrated part of that system, constantly interacting with it in real time. Digital twin engineering means to develop and manage a system and its model hand in hand at the same time throughout the entire life-cycle, from design up to and including operations. 

This summer course provides students with hands-on experience in digital twinning by actually making one for a logistic transport system and exploring its wider applicability.
At the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, this summer you can experience a Digital Twin learning environment focusing on city logistics in our 'Digital Engineering Exploration Lab'. We will use it, explore its design and work on further improvements! Additionally, we will host guest lectures that highlight various applications of digital twins, as well as delve into specific topics such as the ethics of developing Digital Twins (DTs) and effective approaches to data sharing.

The day-to-day programme is planned as follows (indicatively):

• Monday 6-7
  • Welcome & Introductions
  • Digest: DT Intro - State of the Art & Practice
  • Do: Experience our DT Learning Environment
  • Dream: Work on your DT application idea
• Tuesday 7-7
  • Sharing: Reflections
  • Digest: Systems Engineering & Complex Systems
  • Do: Excursion (To a company/organization using DTs)
  • Dream: Work on your DT application idea
• Wednesday 8-7
  • Sharing: Reflections
  • Digest: Ethics in developing and applying DTs (guest lecture) & Actor Scanning
  • Do: Prototyping Workshop
  • Dream: Work on your DT application idea
• Thursday 9-7
  • Sharing: Reflections
  • Digest: Cost & benefits of DTs (guest lecture) & Storytelling
  • Do: Excursion HUBlab - Advanced visualization techniques (VR/AR)
  • Dream: Work on your DT application idea
• Friday 10-7
  • Sharing: Reflections
  • Digest: Futuring
  • Do & Dream: Present your Dream Application
  • Final ceremony & goodbye!

Lecturers

• Bauke Steenhuisen (PhD)
• Steven Haveman (PhD)
• Diede Wiegerinck (MSc)

Target audience

Students need to have a technical background. No specific prior knowledge or skills are needed.

Aim of the course

Aims	The student oversees what it takes and what it could bring to use a digital twin in system development processes
Assignments	Building/developing a digital twin Utilizing a digital twin  In depth reflections Working out an application idea
Assessments	Involvement (holistically) Reflections (shared on paper) Application idea (shared on paper and orally)

Study load

Full (working) days from 6 July until 10 July. 

 

Tags

• digital twin
• digital engineering
• logistics
• data management
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