Smart Buildings & Cities Trainee handbook September 2018 V1.0.2 Smart Buildings & Cities Trainee Handbook Trainee Handbook — PDEng program Smart Buildings & Cities Foreword Dear trainee, Welcome to the Smart Buildings and Cities PDEng program! The aim of this program is to broaden your view on the various disciplines related to smart cities and the built environment. It should make you aware of the challenges of engineers in other disciplines and it should make you able to communicate with them. The program aims to boost your transition from student to professional! This Handbook gives you some general information about this program and its organization. Furthermore, it describes the educational content of this program; in the appendices you find descriptions of all courses. It also describes some general procedures we want you to follow and it provides you with some useful and practical information about the university and your working environment. We wish you all the best in this program! Kind regards, The SB&C management team I Trainee Handbook — PDEng program Smart Buildings & Cities Table of Contents Foreword I Table of Contents III 1. Introduction 1 1.1 Program goals 1 1.2 Admission criteria and Graduate profile 1 2. Program organization 3 2.1 Management Team 3 2.2 Educational Advisory Board 3 2.3 Industrial Advisory Board 3 2.4 Doctorate Board 3 2.5 PDEng Board of Examiners 3 3. Program overview and planning 5 3.1 Program overview and structure 5 3.2 Course and workshop planning 6 4. Training and Supervision Plan 7 5. Company design project 9 5.1 Project meetings 9 5.2 Project reports 10 5.3 Evaluation criteria 11 6. Overview of key project meetings and deliverables 13 7. Other meetings 15 7.1 Brown bag meeting 15 7.2 Lunch Lecture 15 7.3 Company visits 15 8. External communication 17 9. Evaluation of courses, workshops and design projects 19 10. Quality assurance 21 10.1 CCTO 21 10.2 Workshop evaluations 21 Appendices 23 Appendix A: Admission criteria Appendix B: Graduate profile Appendix C: Exam requirements Appendix D: Overview of workshop 2018‐2019 Appendix E: General workshop planning 2017‐2018 Appendix F: Workshop descriptions Appendix G: Evaluation company design project Appendix H: Practical information Appendix I: Templates III Trainee Handbook — PDEng program Smart Buildings & Cities IV Trainee Handbook — PDEng program Smart Buildings & Cities 1. Introduction The Smart Buildings & Cities PDEng program wants to contribute to the transition towards smart, intelligent and sustainable cities where quality of life is high. This transition requires new solutions which can only be created through multiscale and transdisciplinary (design) approaches. The following focus areas or themes for the Smart Buildings & Cities program and its design projects are defined (based on the research areas of TU/e’s Smart Cities program): A carbon neutral city ‐ Designing intelligent and energy efficient building components. ‐ Designing building concepts aimed at intelligent use of (as less as possible) energy. ‐ Designing and implementing energy generation in the built environment. ‐ Designing intelligent networks aimed at matching supply and demand of energy. A climate proof, nature‐based city ‐ Designing buildings and cities that mitigate the effects of climate change. ‐ Designing buildings and cities based on the principles of the circular economy. ‐ Designing buildings and cities that promote healthy living. 1.1 Program goals The goal of the SB&C program is to service industry (consulting, policy making, product development) by delivering designers with a broad technological understanding of smart buildings and cities related concepts (from architecture, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, building physics and services and information technology), who excel in their own discipline and who are able to work in multidisciplinary design teams, contribute to design issues outside their own core disciplines, integrate different technologies into new products and concepts, and who understand the commercial aspects of these innovative products and concepts. 1.2 Admission criteria and Graduate profile The program uses certain admission criteria to select candidates that can start with the program; these admission criteria can be found in Appendix A. The candidates that enrol in the program are expected to own a set of skills and competences after finishing the program. These skills and competences are described in the Graduate profile; see Appendix B. The graduate profile is divided in four skills and competence categories: designer, knowledge, professional and entrepreneurial. The acquired skills and competences give the graduated SB&C trainee a clear advantage over MSc graduates when entering the job market. After successful completion of the program, the trainees receive a certified diploma which entitles them to use the academic degree of Professional Doctorate in Engineering (PDEng). 1 Trainee Handbook — PDEng program Smart Buildings & Cities 2. Program organization The SB&C PDEng program is embedded in the structure of the 4TU School for Technological Design ‘Stan Ackerman’s Institute’ (SAI). The SAI hosts 16 other PDEng programs. The SB&C program is hosted by the department of the Built Environment of the TU/e. Due to the multidisciplinary nature of the program, also the following departments of the TU/e contribute to the program: Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computers Science and Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences. 2.1 Management Team The Management Team (MT) of SB&C consists of three persons (see below) and is based at the (host) department of the Built Environment. The SB&C secretariat is located in the TU/e’s Vertigo building, room VRT2.08. The secretariat can be reach by phone +31 40 247 2711 and email [email protected]. The Management Team: prof.dr.ir. J.L.M. (Jan) Hensen Scientific Director dr.ir. P. (Pieter‐Jan) Hoes Operational Manager F.M. (Francien) Clijsters Program Assistant 2.2 Educational Advisory Board For the development and quality assurance of the educational program, core lecturers are appointed at each of the involved departments. These core lecturers are responsible for the content of the education at each department and monitor the coherence of the overall program. The core lecturers are organized in the Educational Advisory Board. The Educational Advisory Board consists of the following members: prof.dr.ir. J.L.M. (Jan) Hensen Scientific Director SB&C (chair) dr.ir. A.J.H. (Arjan) Frijns TU/e Department of Mechanical Engineering prof.dr.ing. A.J.M. (Guus) Pemen TU/e Department of Electrical Engineering dr.ir. P. (Pieter‐Jan) Hoes Operational Manager SB&C dr.ir. M.G.L.C. (Marcel) Loomans TU/e Department of Built Environment V.J.B.A. (Vincent) Merk, MA TU/e Education and Student Affairs Prof.dr.ir. R.N.A. (Rudi) Bekkers TU/e Department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences ir. H.T.G. (Harold) Weffers, PDEng. TU/e Department of Mathematics & Computer Science 2.3 Industrial Advisory Board The (Industrial) Advisory Board of the Department of the Built Environment is an external committee. The members of this committee are a representative sample of the various stakeholders in the building (engineering) industry. The Advisory Board provides advice to the Department of the Built Environment, aimed at aligning the contents of the educational programs with the requirements from industry. The Industrial Advisory Board of the Built Environment also provides advice on the Smart Buildings & Cities PDEng program. 2.4 Doctorate Board The final quality control of the granted degree is performed by the Doctorate Board of the university (similar to PhD), which has final responsibility. To execute this responsibility, the Doctorate Board appoints a PDEng Board of Examiners that secures whether a trainee’s program meets the learning outcomes of the program. Final responsibility remains with the Doctorate Board. Appeals to decisions of the PDEng Board of Examiners are handled by the Doctorate Board. 2.5 PDEng Board of Examiners The Doctorate Board appoints the PDEng Board of Examiners, which consists of the following two chambers: Chamber A consists of the following programs: Automotive Systems Designs (ASD), Design of Electrical Engineering Systems (DEES), Design and Technology of Instrumentation (DTI), Software Technology (ST), Data Science (DS) 3 Trainee Handbook — PDEng program Smart Buildings & Cities Chamber B consists of the following programs: Qualified Medical Engineer (QME), Clinical Informatics (CI), Industrial Engineering (IE), User System Interaction (USI), Smart Buildings & Cities (SB&C), Process and Product Design (PPD). Each chamber of the PDEng Board of Examiners is composed such that the required competence and experience in engineering design, and relevant scientific background is guaranteed. The PDEng Board of Examiners has the following tasks: Grants exemptions for the Master degree requirement for admission to the PDEng program. Approves whether the Training and Supervision Plan (TSP) proposed by the trainee meets the learning outcomes of the program. Approves significant changes in the TSP. Appoints a PDEng thesis evaluation committee for each specific trainee. Judges the completeness of the dossier per trainee at the end of the program. Makes the final decision whether a trainee can receive the PDEng degree. Approves changes in the standard curricula of the PDEng programs. Reports annually to the Doctorate Board and the PDEng