Technological innovation with fluid mechanics - Course

Location: TUD 
Coordinator: Edwin Poorte 
Lecturer: Edwin Poorte 

This JMBC course is centred around technological innovation. You learn to develop a new technology, based on sound fluid mechanics principles. To succeed both technically and commercially, many challenges must be overcome.  The objective is to take a wild innovative idea (for example an ocean drone, an electric plane, or a brilliant idea for the energy transition) and convert this into a technically feasible technology concept, that must also become commercially viable. Many interdisciplinary issues must be overcome to succeed: technical, economical, commercial, organisational, political and related to society. Close collaboration in an empowered and motivated innovation team is required to overcome blockers of progress.  

Some 30% of this course is ‘lecturing style format’, where all relevant aspects of technological innovation will be covered. Some 40% of the course is in ‘workshop format’, where teams of participants will grasp the topic just covered in a lecture, by applying it to their technological innovation concept. Learning-by-doing requires close collaboration. The course instructor will facilitate each team such that creative and valuable ideas are included into the technology concept. The remaining about 30% of the course is ‘interactive sessions’, where participants openly exchange views on several aspects of technological innovation. This interaction allows to make the course highly relevant for the ongoing PhD project of a participant, or for future innovation endeavours as part of an aspired industrial career. 

The various skills acquired in this course will be highly valuable for: 

• PhD students that are working on an experimental topic in fluid mechanics (which requires to be innovative to develop the best possible experimental set-up);  
• PhD students that have an ambition for an industrial career based on fluid mechanics and innovation; 
• Industry participants that want to develop professionalism in technological innovation. 

For more information, contact: 
Edwin Poorte | 0638342806| Edwin@troyka-innovation.com