Graduation opportunities

Urban areas in Europe are increasingly becoming car-free zones to create space for mobility solutions that require less public space but still meet mobility needs. People want to keep moving around cities, and the growing interest in sustainable mobility solutions presents new opportunities for providers like Kalkhoff-Bikes.

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

Would you like to work with young people to tackle street harassment in their neighbourhood? Then this assignment might be for you! In these graduation projects, we would like to apply (1) a system thinking approach or (2) a participatory design approach with youth in Rotterdam (with a special emphasis on boys). Initially, we want to find out the thoughts of important stakeholders on street harassment. In later stages, we want to work with them to turn the unravelled causes and behaviours into positive ones via design interventions.

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.

In many cities around the world people are exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollution, with populations in low-income cities the most at risk for respiratory diseases and other long-term health problems. Monitoring air pollution is key to a better local understanding of the problem, needed to take appropriate measures. Unfortunately, air pollution is difficult to measure, and reference equipment is expensive in purchase and maintenance. As a result there are hardly any measurements done in developing countries.