Academic counsellors IDE

Industrial Design Engineering

At TU Delft every faculty has academic counsellors. The academic counsellors of the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering can provide you with general information about your study programme and about studying at TU Delft. The academic counsellor can also provide you with personal guidance and advice regarding the specific situation you are in. See below for an overview of subjects you can discuss with the academic counsellors.

Please always report personal special circumstances immediately.

Contact in emergency/crisis

You can reach us via our appointment system. You can choose to have the meeting online or in the faculty.

Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering

This drop-in clinic is intended as a way to quickly provide information in response to short questions. In many cases the academic counsellor will need to refer you to another part of the organisation or another person where you will be able to get the specific help you need. For example you might be referred to the Contact Centre, to another faculty, to another person or to a website.

The drop-in clinic is expressly not intended for:

Discussing individual special circumstances
Individual questions regarding study planning
Requests for a study place in the faculty due to special personal circumstances
MOMI, RPF related issues

If you need to discuss any of these specific topics you are welcome to make an appointment via our online appointment system

The drop-in clinic is Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 12:45-1:45 pm in room C4-150 or C4-160.

You will be granted approximately 5 minutes. If needed you can of course make a follow-up appointment.

Make an appointment

Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering

Via our agenda tool you can make an appointment with one of our academic counsellors. During an appointment, a counsellor can take roughly 30 minutes to speak with you. Of course, you can have one or more follow-up meetings after that.

Send an email

Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering

You can always send an email. We try to answer your question within one week. Please use academiccounsellors-ide@tudelft.nl to contact us.

P.S. For a short question, please visit the drop-in clinic

From left to right: Stefan Melchior, Annemiek van Drunen, Jeroen van Lawick

What is our role?

We advise students on the following topics:

Study delay
Study doubts, changing their study programme
Personal circumstances (illness, accident, handicap, psychological problems, problems at home)
Study planning
Honours programme, extra courses
Requests to the examination board
Contacts with teachers and the student’s graduation team (chair and mentor)

We provide individual counselling for problems related to:

Study motivation
Handicap, chronical illness
Stress, study discipline, fear of failure
Choice of study
Graduation
Unacceptable behaviour/Social insecurity
Adapting to the Dutch language and life

We can refer to:

Central student counsellors for legal and financial matters and studying with a handicap
Student psychologists for study-related psychological problems, and training in social capabilities, assertiveness and constructive thinking
Student doctors for RSI treatment, vaccinations and medical statements
Career counsellors
Student counsellors elsewhere, general practitioner, external specialists such as MoTiv for Life Coaching, Handling Loss and Well-being

We need to be consulted on:

Requests for financial compensation for study delay as a result of personal circumstances
Study Progress Reports for the Modern Migration Policy Act
Combination of sports on a top level in combination with studying

A lot of information can also be found online. Either on the IDE student portal or the TU Delft student portal.

A number of common topics are:

Drop-in clinic:

Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 12:45 - 13:45 pm in room C4-150 or C4-160.

Contact in emergency/crisis

Make an appointment