This transfer minor is designed for all students who would like to deepen their knowledge within the field of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) and are interested in a scientific approach. This minor’s goal is to prepare you for the Master's programme.

This means you will be taught various scientific skills and your skills in Mathematics will be improved. You will also attend several courses related to industrial design engineering. After successfully completing this transfer minor and having  obtained your degree from a University of Applied Sciences you will be able to immediately start the Master's programme Industrial Design Engineering. 

Topics which will be addressed in this minor:

• Academic and research skills emphasizing writing a research proposal and scientific paper.
• Industrial design courses, these may differ depending on your previous education
• Mathematics

The University of Twente wants students to be aware that it is required to have a minimum level of English and Mathematics B on VWO-level. This is the student's own responsibility.

Previous experiences have shown that hardly any students manage to succesfully complete the transfer minor if they do not comply with these requirements. If necessary, additional courses are available at Boswell-Bèta or the Open University (or at Saxion for Saxion students). We urge students to brush up their knowledge if they are in doubt of meeting this level.

After successfully completing this transfer minor, depending on his previous education, the student has knowledge in different fields for example regarding to:

Research skills:

• Explain what scientific research is, what kind of research there is and how the quality can be guaranteed
• Set up a research plan, perform literature research and form research questions and goals.
• Process, analyse and interpret research data
• Write a scientific paper and hold a presentation in English
• Be able to critically reflect on the results of others.

Mathematics:      

• Formulate definitions and properties of functions or variables.
• Solve first and second order differential equations
• Work with complex numbers
• Integration and optimisation of functions of two or three variables

Human product relations:

• Be able to see the interaction between humans and products from different perspectives
• Develop possibilities to influence the human-product relationship during the product design and coordinate the different phases and perspectives of the product development cycle for the benefit of that cycle as a whole

Graphic design:

• Provide the supporting graphic design of a product presentation
• Design the product information - such as use, danger and legal aspects

 Product market relations:

• Describe key concepts of marketing and understand how marketing can promote success in the market and that the success of a product is not just the design.

Design and sketching:

• Apply perspective, construction and basic principles of marking in sketches
• Use signs as tools from an early stage of the design process (thought formation) and as means of communication within design practice

Physical ergonomics:

• Perform motion and task analysis
• Calculate maximum acceptable forces that a user can deliver
• Apply the results of the above analyses and calculations in the design process

This transfer minor prepares you for the Master's programme Industrial Design Engineering. If you successfully complete the transfer minor within one year you will be admissible to the Master's after you have completed your degree from your University of Applied Sciences (HBO)

As a designer you have an overview of the design as a whole and not just the technical aspects. You are aware of how products are used on a daily basis and can focus on how a production process is managed successfully which also involves communicating with different target groups such as customers and buyers. You can also focus on new technologies in the consumer market.

This transfer minor is recommended only for those students of Universities of Applied Sciences (HBO) who have obtained good grades throughout their educational programme. The transfer minor is designed for students who have the motivation and capacity to obtain an academic degree from an English-taught Master's programme.

Only students enrolled in a related educational programme such as Mechanical Engineering or Industrial Design are admissible to this transfer minor, see also www.doorstroommatrix.nl.  In some cases where the students prior education is not related to the Master's programme, the examination board can make an exception. An individual request for this must be submitted to the contact person below.

The University of Twente assumes that all students who sign up for a transfer minor have a minimum level of English and Mathematics (VWO-level English and Mathematics B). This is the student's responsibility. Previous experiences have shown that hardly any students manage to successfully complete the transfer minor if they do not comply with these requirements. If necessary, additional courses are available at Boswell-Bèta or the Open University.

Also students must have obtained at least 120 ECTS at their University of Applied Sciences in order to be admitted to the transfer minor.

The books used for each course can be found in the course descriptions of the individual courses in the course catalogue.

The transfer minor is a full time programme of 30 ECTS. The programme starts on Monday, August 31, 2020 and ends on Friday, January 29, 2020. An introduction period for prospective students takes place in the week before the programme starts.

Mechanical Engineering

Quartile 1

202001192 Intro. to Math + Calculus 1A (B1)         4.0 EC 
202400379   Design Fundamentals                        2.0 EC      
202000201 Project Human Project Relations (B2) 7.5 EC
202000238 Academic Research Skills (PB)           1.0 EC                     

Quartile 2                                   

202001199 Calculus 1B (B1)                             3.0 EC               
202000206 Project Consumer Products (B2)    8.0 EC                                   
202000205 Product Market Relations (B2)       2.0 EC    
202000238 Academic Research Skills (PB)      3.0 EC

 

Industrial Design (IPO)

First Quartile

Physical Ergonomics                      2,0        Written exam with open questions & assignment
Project Human Product Relations  7,5       Presentation, assignment (essay)
Introduction to Mathematics
& Calculus 1A                                4,0       Written exam
Academic Research Skills             1,0       Research proposal, scientific article and presentation

Second Quartile

Calculus 1B                                3,0        Written exam
Product Market Relations           2,0         Written exam, assignments
Project Consumer Products       8,0         Assignment, presentation, oral exam
Academic Research Skills          3,0         Research proposal, scientific article and presentation

The programme is entirely in English, as is the required literature.

For more information, please contact: E.C.M. Luijkx premastercoordinator-et@utwente.nl