Offshore & Dredging Engineering concerns the sustainable utilisation of resources and space in the ocean environment. On the one hand, this relates to the extraction of resources such as energy and materials, while preventing irreversible impact on the ecosystem, and on the other the responsible use of space in synergy with the environment, for instance for the development of offshore wind parks.
Consequently, offshore developments can no longer be considered in isolation, but should be seen as a part of the entire ocean system, within which numerous other human and natural activities take place. This requires a system perspective on all offshore developments. Such a system perspective also implies full life-cycle analyses, based on the principle of circularity and the avoidance of irreversible changes in the natural environment.
Proceso de aplicación
There are different application procedures and dates depending if you are a national student or an international student.
Oportunidades de financiamiento/becas
TU Delft offers several study, research and internship grants for which you can apply for
Resultados del aprendizaje
Adopting purposeful, methodological and reproducible approaches, offshore & dredging engineers build on existing knowledge by making use of theory, experiments and models, for instance based on the finite-element method and computational fluid dynamics.
As a result of digitalisation, the amount of available monitoring data has expanded tremendously and needs to be interpreted and used coherently, for instance in digital twin applications and remote operations.
All these aspects involve uncertainty, meaning that offshore & dredging engineers adopt a probabilistic perspective in their problem-solving and apply reliability-based design approaches and risk-assessment techniques. From an ethical point of view, offshore & dredging engineers are expected to consider their activities in relation to the potential environmental impact of offshore developments – accounting for the environmental footprint over the complete structural life-time – as well as the societal impact of unexpected events, such as system failures after a natural disaster.
Future offshore & dredging engineers will operate in international, multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary teams. To prepare students for such settings, the educational programme addresses the required skills – such as writing and presenting – ensuring effective communication, and logical reasoning and arguing, while accounting for alternative opinions. In this respect, it is important that the engineers know how to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences. These skills contribute to a critical and open-minded attitude, and capability to give and receive constructive feedback.
Moreover, future leaders in society with an engineering background should be able to identify, define, analyse and contribute constructively and responsibly to solve current and future complex societal challenges. This requires the skills to reflect on your own role with others in (multi- and interdisciplinary) projects and towards processes in interaction with societal impact.
Prerrequisitos
The following BSc degrees are eligible for admission:
Mechanical Engineering
Marine Technology
Civil Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
Applied Physics
Categorías CINE (ISCED)
