Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management
TPM’S MISSION:
COMPREHENSIVE ENGINEERING
The Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management combines insights
from the engineering sciences with insights from the humanities and the
social sciences.
The Faculty’s mission is to develop robust models and designs in order to
solve the complex challenges of today’s networked, urbanized knowledge
society.
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ORGANIZATION CHART
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FACTS AND FIGURES
TPM staff year-end 2014 (FTE)
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Academic staff
275
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Support staff
56
Total number of employees: 331
Student Intake 2014
• Bachelor
236
• Master
130
Total new intake
366
Total active students: ca. 1.254
Total PhD students: 192
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RESEARCH DEPARTMENTS
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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
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NWO/Shell grants for 3 research projects in the field of smart energy systems
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2 NWO grants for Supply Chain Compliance and Border Management
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ERC grant for Economic Underpinnings of Social Technological Innovation
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6 NWO grants for project in the field of Responsible Innovation
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ERC grant for global terrorism and collective moral responsibility
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Start of a new research programme Engineering Social Technologies for a
Responsible Digital Future
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Educational programmes
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THE DEGREE PROGRAMMES OF TPM
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Bsc ‘Technische Bestuurskunde’ (Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis and
Management)
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MSc Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management
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MSc Management of Technology
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MSc Engineering and Policy Analysis
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THE DEGREE PROGRAMMES OF TPM CHARACTERISTICS
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Interdisciplinary
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Sciences and technology
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Policy and management
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International orientation
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Close relationship to research
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Public and private sector
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INTERFACULTY / INTERUNIVERSITY
DEGREE PROGRAMMES
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MSc Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics (with Civil Engineering and
Mechanical Engineering)
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MSc Information Architecture (with Electrical Engineering, Mathematics
and Computer Science)
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MSc Industrial Ecology (with Applied Sciences, University of Leiden,
Erasmus University Rotterdam)
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INTERFACULTY EDUCATION
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Profession-oriented knowledge in fields as
economics, management and law
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Skills (e.g. presenting, reporting) and languages
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Reflection on technology
(e.g. ethics, philosophy and history of science)
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Professionalization of teaching
(Interfaculty Centre for Education Focus)
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ONLINE EDUCATION
MOOC’s (Massive Online Open Courses)
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Next Generation Infrastructures
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Responsible Innovation
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Solving Complex Problems
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Framing
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Leadership for Engineers
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Sustainable Urban Development
More than 140.000
subscriptions for TPM
online education
ProfEd’s (professional Education via EdX)
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Economics of Cyber Security
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Text mining and Analytics
Online master courses (part of EPA master curriculum)
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Systems Modelling
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Policy Analysis
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Technology Development and Impact Analysis
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PHD-PROGRAMME
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Best Practices Cycle (2 blocks)
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Five day course TPM research methods and
skills
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Deeper investigation of research methods
relevant for the specific research programmes
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Demand driven symposia
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Peer groups
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Coaching by experienced researchers
(e.g. on writing a research proposal)
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INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
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TPM-Consortium
(MIT, George Mason University, Carnegie Mellon University,
Instituto Superior Técnico Lisboa)
Global Technology of Management Consortium
(University of Maryland, CERAM Sophia Antipolis, Asian Institute
of Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology, National Tsing Hua University)
Shell Project Academy, (Shell Global Solutions, University of
Cranfield (GB), University of Texas at Austin (USA), Queensland
University of Technology at Brisbane (Aus)
Harbin University of Technology
Council of Engineering Systems Universities
Idea League
UNITECH Partners
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TPM for Comprehensive Engineering
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