Eindhoven University of Technology

Eindhoven University of Technology is a technical university in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, built around engineering, design and technology, with its campus on De Zaale. Its Industrial Design programme trains designers who translate knowledge and technological innovation into meaningful applications, integrating data, creativity, technology, user needs, aesthetics, social impact and business interest into a product or a service.

The bachelor in Industrial Design runs for three years (180 ECTS), is taught in English and leads to a Bachelor of Science. Teaching is organised around challenge-based learning, in which students work in teams on real problems brought in by companies, institutions and researchers, alongside courses, projects and individual assignments in the department’s own labs and studios.

The programme starts from the idea that design is everywhere, from the app on a phone and the monitoring of a physical therapy to a self-driving car or a pair of sustainable sneakers, and that the industrial designer is the link between new technology and the people who use it. The university describes its graduates as the spider in the web when innovations have to reach the market.