What is the benefit of an EngD trainee? (Engineering Docter) – formerly PDEng
Partnering with ºÚÁϸ£Àû꿉۪s professional 2-year post-master program Smart Buildings & Cities boosts your innovation capacity and gives your company the extra competitive edge it is looking for. Is your company facing a technological problem that needs solving or a challenging design issue that needs unraveling? An SBC EngD trainee may be an attractive option. This program offers you the possibility to hire a young professional who can design and develop complex new products and processes and offer innovative solutions to your technological design issues.
Focus areas
• A carbon neutral city – designing of intelligent and energy efficient building components and concepts; renewable energy generation and storage in the built environment; intelligent networks aimed at matching supply and demand.
• A climate proof, healthy and circular city – designing buildings and cities that mitigate the effects of climate change; are based on the principles of circular economy; promote healthy living and to improve quality of life in the built environment.
SBC Curriculum – 120 ECTS (last update 2024)
Trainees
EngD trainees work at their company project and parallel to that they are taking part in different courses provided by ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍø. These courses help them to improve their design skills, professional skills (communication, teamwork, management, entrepreneurship) and their individual disciplinary knowledge related to their project and their background to deepen and broaden their knowledge.
Added value for the industry
Design projects (products or processes) are excellent opportunities for companies that are faced with a challenging design problem or want to solve a technical problem in a fixed period of two years.
Trainees
• work under supervision of ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍø professors and researches together with a coach from your company
• have access to state-of-the-art scientific knowledge
• understand the entrepreneurial challenges of your project
• are selected from a large pool of high potential candidates
• in many cases trainees become employee of the companies after finishing their EngD program
• these projects establish/strengthen the contact between the university and the industrial client
Funding opportunities (subsidies)
It is possible to get funding for practical learning from RVO.
More information:
Interested?
Contact Smart Buildings & Cities EngD Program at Eindhoven University of Technology
Phone: +31 40 247 6117
Email: sbc@tue.nl
Scientific Director – Prof.dr. ir. Astrid Kemperman
Managing Director – Dr. Ing. Lada Hensen Centnerová