Industrial Design Engineering – (B.Eng.)

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The English-taught Industrial Design Engineering degree programme at The Hague University of Applied Sciences has a three-year curriculum and leads to a Bachelor of Engineering. You’ll learn to devise creative and successful solutions for complex issues in trade and industry and non-profit organizations, solutions that are of value to the user, the market and society.

The English-taught Industrial Design Engineering degree programme lasts three years and consists solely of a main phase. In each year of the degree programme, a skill is adopted as the year’s theme; this is a skill that will be useful to you as a future open innovator.

• Year 1 The Explorer (the researcher) Four modules, four projects
• Year 2 The Creator (the designer) Four modules, four projects
• Year 3 The Entrepreneur Four modules, minors, final project

Main phase 1 (first year)

In the first year you focus on an important phase in a creative design process: the research phase. In this initial phase, you seek a creative solution to an existing problem. Imagine that the manager of Schiphol learns that passenger waiting times have increased. To prevent frustration growing among the waiting travellers, she wants you to tell her what she can do about the situation. You observe and interview the travellers and translate the results into a solution. To make this creative jump, you need empathy and knowledge, knowledge of, say, group behaviour, cultural differences and opportunities for testing. You will learn about these subjects in the first year, in both theory lessons and in field assignments.

Main phase 2 (second year)

The second year focuses on actually designing the creative solutions that you devise. You will immerse yourself in subjects such as social innovation, production techniques, user-friendly and environmentally friendly materials and digital design techniques. You need this knowledge and these skills to arrive at a complete solution, one that revolves around the user. You’ll gain a great deal of practical experience in this year.

Main phase 3 (final year)

In the final year you study support subjects; these teach you smart, purposeful and strategic entrepreneurship. Once you have designed a solution, its successful marketing is naturally your next concern so that people really do benefit from it. You’ll learn where you need to focus your attention as an entrepreneur and you will also learn all about matters such as marketing strategies, business models, corporate social responsibility, change management and networking. You will also have the opportunity to study minors of your own choice and this is also the year in which you graduate.

Accreditation

The Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO), is responsible for accrediting study programmes offered by Dutch universities. All international bachelor’s and master’s programmes offered by The Hague University of Applied Sciences are NVAO recognised.

Funding details

Scholarships are very popular nowadays and a subject considered by nearly every student who decides to study abroad. In the following sections we will try to give you the most recent and essential information about scholarship opportunities for international students in the Netherlands.

Scholarships in your home country

If you’re an international student it’s worth checking out if any scholarships are available in your home country. For example, American students can apply for a Fulbright scholarship and there is an EU-South Africa Scholarship programme for South African students. Your country may offer similar grants. For more information or application forms contact your local Dutch embassy - or ask your present college or university if you are coming here for a bachelor programme. www.grantfinder.nl also has some useful information on scholarships.

Nuffic

The Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education (Nuffic) offers a variety of additional scholarships for students from all over the world. Erasmus Mundus is a new European Commission programme that aims to improve the quality of European higher education and encourage co-operation with countries outside the EU.

• • Worldwide
• • Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe
• • Asia
• • Europe
• • North America

ScholarshipPortal.eu

This website offers a centralized European platform for information about all scholarships offered for study in Europe. The database lists more than 700 different scholarships and grants amounting to an estimated yearly average of € 15.6 billion in funding.