Summer courses

In August, before the start of the Joint Master's programme, Delft University of Technology offers a one-month summer course for non-European students. It allows them to become acquainted with European teaching methods, project work, and European culture. The course helps to ensure the social coherence of the students enrolling in the Joint Master's programme.

Summer course details

The summer course is a preparatory course for non-EU/EFTA nationals who come to Delft University of Technology.

The main objective of the course is to give a thorough, but pleasant, preparation for the educational system at Delft University of Technology and an introduction to issues related to technological developments in the Netherlands and Europe. Important elements of the summer course are team work, oral and written communication and interdisciplinary study.

During and shortly after the summer course a number of excursions will be organised. The excurision programme includes visits to some famous Dutch cities, like Amsterdam and Rotterdam, and other typically Dutch locations such as the Delta Works: a big civil engineering project to protect the province of "Zeeland" from the sea.

The duration of the summer school is four weeks, starting at the beginning of August. The Master programmes start at the beginning of September.

Goals

The major goals of the summer school are:

• Participants will have developed an understanding of a relevant field of engineering in relation to a practical (Dutch) context.
• Participants will be able to explain the role of Delft University of Technology within this context.
• Participants will be able to cooperate and communicate in multicultural, multidisciplinary project teams.
• Participants will be able to analyse a problem and implement study activities based on this analysis. In addition they will have become acquainted with common methods for problem solving like actor and context analysis.
• Participants will have an overview of the different engineering programs currently being undertaken at Delft University of Technology, especially the international programs.

In addition, the summer course includes social goals. Participants will get to know each other and the city of Delft.

Programme

The summer school project is roughly divided into four phases, each of which takes one week:

• Week 1: Introduction regarding contents and process of the projects
• Week 2: Problem analysis and interaction at the first (poster) presentation
• Week 3: Project elaboration and follow-up on the training sessions
• Week 4: Drawing up a report and final (oral) presentation

Please note that living expenses (food, rent, etc.) during the summer course have to be covered by the participants.