Sustainability related Education at TU/e

This page provides an overview of the Bachelor courses (in English) offered by TU/e during the Academic Year 2021-2022 that address sustainability in broader terms since interdisciplinary knowledge is essential to achieve the UN SDGs. Click ‘Learn More’ to be redirected to Osiris (TU/e students only) and find all the latest course information.

Innovation Sciences

0SV00 – Sustainable development in a global context

This course introduces students to the concept of sustainable development in a global context. Students will learn to study ecological and socio-economic development of nations, regions, and communities across the globe as integrated challenges.

0SV10 – Sustainable Technology in Society: Introduction

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.

0SV80 – Sustainable Technology in Society: Advanced

This courses 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.

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 and design policy or strategy recommendations as final product.

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, how they can be pursued, and how they relate to innovation processes

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.

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.

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

3DEX0 – Physics of Energy

This course covers the fundamentals of thermodynamics and conversion-storage processes applied to (renewable) energy systems.

Mechanical Engineering

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.

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”.

4GB10 – Combustion Engine

The students form an engineers team that deliver a product to a “customer” interested in what is the efficiency of an engine when it runs on bio-ethanol? And how to improve the performance with minimal adjustments?

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.

4CBLM00 – Energy Transition: the path towards net zero

In this course, the students get the opportunity to develop the necessary skills to bring the newest research on Energy Technology to an application within an international environment.

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

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.

Built environment

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, design methods, and assessment methods.

7CBL1M0 – CBL Smart Cities

The CBL Project Smart Cities is a multidisciplinary course with students from Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design, Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences and Built Environment where students work in groups of 4-5 on a real world challenge from a client in the context of the Built Environment. During the CBL project-Smart Cities you can show that you are able to execute a project that includes design as well as research, based on requirements of a client and on self-developed insights.

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.

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.

Industrial Design

DCB210 – Intercultural Design

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.

DBB180- Design Perspectives on Sustainability

Students will explore various perspectives on what is and how to design for sustainability and then translate their findings, reflection and vision into a Manifesto.

Chemical Engineering

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

6I3X0 – 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

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.

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.

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.