Graduation opportunities

Explore the experiences and perspectives of children with physical or neurodevelopmental disabilities to inform design directions of VR/AR assisted child rehabilitation.

The (University of Amsterdam) Law Hub and ConsumentenClaim are looking for a design student who is interested in researching and redesigning a new process for mass claims procedures.

Design a multifunctional open space that supports play for children and leisure activities for the elderly, encouraging intergenerational interaction and community engagement.

Graduation opportunity: Design of an on-line tool that enables innovators (often product managers, R&D managers and/or strategic marketing managers) to structure their front end of innovation process, while integrating sustainability as core deliverable in their innovation projects. The front end of innovation is often referred to as "the fuzzy front end”. From experience we know this doesn’t have to be the case. A well-structured approach strongly helps: - to speed up the early phase of an innovation project - to improve the briefing at start of a development project - to reduce risks and loops in the development process - To maximise impact at delivery Besides this, In a world of increasing scarcity of materials and an increasing pressure to reduce waste, we see circular design as a fruitful tool to improve the competitiveness of a company

In the context of the Healthy Start programme, a collaboration between Delft University of Technology, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Erasmus Medical Centre, we are working on a 4-year PhD project on the role of youth participation in understanding and tackling street harassment in Rotterdam. Street harassment remains a major problem in Rotterdam. About half of the respondents in an evaluation by the Municipality of Rotterdam felt sexually intimidated in 2020. Research often focuses on the coping strategies and consequences of street harassment. At the same time, we still do not fully understand why this behaviour actually occurs. In this graduation, we therefore want to explore with youth how this behaviour comes about and how we can prevent it or turn it into positive behaviour.

First responders like the police, ambulance and fire brigade have to wear heavy and protective clothing for longer periods of time, often in hot environments. Cooling is currently done with passive cooling vests which are first precooled in the freezer and last only 20 to 30 minutes. Active cooling vests pump cold water to a series of flexible tubes. In this project, we will explore a new way of cooling using foam elements which are expected to have both a better cooling efficiency and a higher wearing comfort.

Blinden en slechtzienden zijn dagelijks afhankelijk van witte stokken om zich veilig te verplaatsen in het verkeer. Echter, in drukke verkeerssituaties worden deze stokken vaak over het hoofd gezien, wat leidt tot aanrijdingen en gevaarlijke situaties. Traditionele witte stokken missen de zichtbaarheid die nodig is om in een splitsecond opgemerkt te worden door andere verkeersdeelnemers. Dit gebrek aan zichtbaarheid (en dus herkenbaarheid op grotere afstand) verhoogt het risico op ongelukken aanzienlijk, vooral onder slechte zichtcondities als duisternis en slecht weer.

We are on the lookout for an entrepreneurial and creative innovator to envision the mobility of the future. Are you ready to change the way people and goodsare transported in the urban environment? Become a forefront runner in the mobility transition.

Smart textiles are textiles with embedded sensors that can measure and monitor physiological signals like heart rate, breathing and temperature. In our research group we aim to develop a new generation of soft, fully textile-based sensors that are breathable, washable and stretchable by embedding conductive yarns in the textile structure. By changing the knit structure, the knitted patterns can be designed such that they respond to stretch or pressure.

Ontwerp een verbeterde versie van een eHealth-interventie om gepersonaliseerde ondersteuning te bieden aan patiënten tijdens de wachtperiode voorafgaand aan hun hartrevalidatie.