TGD-Related Education at TU/e
Overview of the Bachelor courses, in English, offered by TU/e during the Academic Year 2022-2023 that address sustainability in broader terms since interdisciplinary knowledge is essential to achieve the UN SDGs.
The courses are divided into 2 categories:
Global South related - courses providing knowledge or opportunities to deal with socioeconomic, political or geographically challenging global contexts (e.g. Africa, Latin America, Pacific Islands).
Sustainability-related - courses focus on sustainability sciences and the development of technological solutions to increase processes sustainability or to contribute to climate change mitigation.
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Global South Related Courses
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This course introduces students to the concept of sustainable development in a global context. Students will learn to study the ecological and socio-economic development of nations, regions, and communities across the globe as integrated challenges.
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Students are introduced to the complexity of sustainable transition: the intertwinement of sustainable innovation with social, political and ethical issues; the sociotechnical processes; and tensions and controversies between stakeholders.
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This course acquaints students with key research debates on Sustainable Innovation such as the Anthropocene era, socially just transitions, global sustainability, telecouplings, sustainability knowledge politics, and responsible innovation.
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Designing for societal challenges is complex multi-stakeholder collaboration and participation. Students will learn the influence of work ethics, company culture, design briefs and their own way of collaborating.
Sustainability Related Courses
Innovation Sciences & Industrial Engineering Dept.
0SV20 - From Industrial Ecology to Cradle-to-Cradle
This course focus on the critical analysis mass flows: natural mass flows; flows through the industrial system and their environmental impact; and flows at a more aggregated level (product chains, sectors, compartments or complete economies).
0SV40 - Managing Sustainable Technology
This course focus on innovation from a system perspective and on how societies can manage them when dealing with grand societal challenges such as climate change, poverty or social inequalities., this course focuses on innovation from a system perspective.
0SV50 - Managing Sustainable Technology OGO
This course applies MST theory to a real-life case study related to topics such as energy, ICT or mobility, in order to study how technology is/can be managed in society. Student groups chose a topic and design policy or strategy recommendations as the final product.
0SV90 - OGO Sustainable Innovation: Integration Project
This course teaches students how to integrate technical, economic, and social science knowledge in order to apply concepts to one real-life case in order to develop their interdisciplinary critical thinking and present solutions as policy, strategy, and/or research recommendations.
0SK30 - Sustainability Challenge: the future city of 1.5 Degrees (Partly Online)
This course based on a virtual classroom gathers BSc students from Eindhoven University (TU/e), Utrecht University (UU), and Wageningen University (WUR). The students will design a neighbourhood of the future in regards to the energy transition, emissions, greenery & urban agriculture.
1ZK20 - Sustainability Perspectives on Product Innovation
In the course, students will learn which possibilities exist and which actions can be taken within and beyond the product development process to achieve socially and ecologically more sustainable and simultaneously profitable product innovations.
0SV60 - Economic Policy
How can policy stimulate innovation? This course provides students with theoretical and practical insights into why and when policy measures are necessary, relation to innovation & impact on market failures and social welfare.
0SV70 - Evaluating Policy in Practice: SCBA
This course provides students with practical insights into the social cost-benefit analysis (SCBA), its embeddedness in welfare economics, and the policy context.
0SV100 - Economics of Innovation: Advanced
This course allows students to master advanced theories to understand economic development, technological change, and firm competition specifically in relation to sustainability.
Applied Physics Dept.
3DEX0 - Physics of Energy
This course covers the fundamentals of thermodynamics and conversion-storage processes applied to (renewable) energy systems.
Mechanical Engineering Dept.
4EM70 - Sustainable Energy Sources
This course provides main insights about common sustainable energy sources (e.g. solar, biomass, geothermal and wind energy and their underlying physical phenomena and principles.
4AUB10 - Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Powertrain Design
In this course, the focus is on understanding of the basic vehicle powertrain modelling and design for energetic and performance analysis.
4EC10 - Dynamics of Energy Systems
This course addresses the modeling, simulation, and dynamic analysis of unsteady and/or nonlinear thermal processes such as sustainable energy systems.
4CBL20 - E3 Challenge 2:Data & Health-Mobility-Energy
In this course, you and your group will develop a Health-Mobility-Energy product in the context of Data analytics with an emphasis on its societal, ethical, user-related impact.
4GA50 - Solar Heat Systems
This course challenges students in groups to design and build a small-scale Solar Heat Storage System that is tested under an “artificial sun”.
4GB00 - Modeling of Time-Dependent Systems: Energy Storage & Transport
The goal of this project is to develop a mathematical-physical model for energy storage and transport system and to validate this model using experiments.
4AT020 - Clean engines and future fuels
The students follow a ‘reverse engineering’ approach: design a new sustainable fuel given certain demands such as effects on combustion & emissions.
4EM80 - Monte Carlo Simulations for Energy Applications
A student team develop a solution to meet the European Climate Action 2030 targets on topics such as carbon capture, energy storage, the capture of pollutants & volatile compounds, etc.
4GB10 - Combustion Engine
The students form an engineering team that delivers to a “customer” a software tool that models an engine running on bio-ethanol with proper efficiency & performance.
Built Environment Dept.
7S5X0 - Acoustic Awareness
Sounds are a product of all human activities and are all around us. Sounds can be pleasant and useful but they can also be a serious threat to our health. Understanding how to deal with sound is crucial for the future sustainability of our living environment
7I3X0 - Built Environment Project for PT & SI
In this project, students make an individual design within the themes ’Living’ & ‘Sustainable Living’ to practice basic building design skills
7S9X0 - Introduction to Building Performance
This course introduces students to building performance assessment (with a focus on energy and indoor environmental quality) during the (pre)design and operational phase of buildings.
7CBL1M0 - Challenge-based learning (CBL): Smart Cities
Multidisciplinary course (2 quartiles) where students work in groups on a real-world challenge from an external client in the context of the Built Environment.
7S3X0 - Introduction to Building Physics & Materials
The characteristics of typical building materials and the principles of building physics are explained in relation to sustainability, energy, user comfort, and architectural expression.
Chemical Engineering & Chemistry
6I2X0 - DBL Energy
Renewable energy and reduction of demand are a critical part of the solution. ‘Energy’ includes economic, technological and social components in which chemistry will play a central role. In this course we discuss energy topics that are relevant for the research themes in the department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the TU/e
6I1X0 - Energy
This course gives practical experience in designing and executing projects with energy topics that are relevant to the research themes in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the TU/e, and are related to solar energy (solar cells, solar fuels, light management), CO2 capture and fuels (biofuels, fuel cells, hydrogen).
6E7X0 - Topics in Molecules and Materials
The students understand the important concepts in the fields of supramolecular chemistry, functional nanoparticles, organic semiconductors (charge generation & transport), circular polymer materials (recycling, biodegradable and life cycle analysis) and surfaces & interfaces.
Electrical Engineering Dept.
5XIA0 - DBL Automotive Design Project: Energy Challenge
The ultimate goal of the project is to develop strategies for maximally efficient city and open-road driving using an electrically-driven model car.
5XWC0 - Energy Management
This course deals with modeling, optimisation and supervisory control in hybrid and electrical vehicles. to be applied by students in two assignments about control theory in automotive systems.
5XWD0 - DBL Project: Energy Management in Hybrid Vehicles
The theory of the courses “Energy management” and “Electric drive systems” will be applied to a project done with computer simulations followed by prototyping on an existing lab setup.