Civil and Environmental Engineering

Overview

Key facts

The world of civil engineering is changing. Nowadays, there is an increasing demand for engineers who have a profound understanding of their own field and can oversee and combine the specialist knowledge from other disciplines. A Professional Doctorate of Engineering (PDEng) programme in Civil and Environmental Engineering will provide such an opportunity for engineers and graduated master students.

The faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences of TU Delft, as one of the pioneers in education, has developed a two year PDEng programme in two tracks:

• Sanitary & Environmental Engineering
• Structural & Railway Engineering

Trainees will be given precisely the knowledge and practical experience in the field of design, construction, finance and maintenance, which is important for their role as the future head designer. The two years give an equivalent of four to five years of experience in the business. 

The programme is unique: trainees will be taught subjects which deepen their specialisation, but  also provide a wide-ranging overview of developments in the relevant professional field and adjacent disciplines. Joint and individual design assignments from professional practice will provide  an opportunity for the trainees to learn to carry out complex design assignments independently and to communicate efficiently in a group. Trainees will receive intensive supervision from experienced designers active at TU Delft and in the civil engineering sector.

Working on strategic innovation

The two year Professional Doctorate programme in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) is the starting point of an innovation project and a successful career in the industry or business as a designer or engineering expert. The degree Professional Doctorate in Engineering (PDEng) will be awarded upon the successful completion of the programme.

This programme will help you to develop strategic innovations. During the programme, you learn how to initiate, develop and finish a design project which is of interest to the company or your employer. The design project is the core of the programme and is carried out individually. It is supported with different courses as well as an integral project. The individual design project takes the innovation past the phase of prototyping to implementation and market introduction. In the project you demonstrate your ability to apply the knowledge you gathered in the different courses of the programme, in solving a real- life, complex design problem or developing a new system.