CME Onderzoeks- en Ontwikkelingsproject

The student will, individually or in a team of multiple students, work on a CME research or development project which is part of ongoing CME research. This can be in collaboration with and under supervision by any CME staff member, including PhD's and postdocs. The research project can also be conducted in an affiliated research group (e.g. Deltares, TNO, research laboratory) or in a company R&D departement.

The CME research or development project provides students with the opportunity to work in a research environment, to master research techniques and further develop scientific thinking, argumentation and skills. It is an excellent opportunity for students to find out whether they aspire a scientific career and/or PhD-position.

The student has to set up an assessment committee which consists of at least two supervisors, where at least one of them should be a full, associated or assistant professor in one of the faculties involved in the CME Master programme, i.e. Architecture en the Built Environment (ABE), Technology, Policy en Management (TPM) or Civil Engineering en Geosciences (CEG). Additionally, the student must inform their specialisation coordinator of the topic of their CME R&D project and the composition of the assessment committee (note here that this does not mean that the specialisation coordinator must be part of the assessment committee).

The student is responsible for the planning, management and execution of the CME RenD project, in coordination with the assessment committee. The format of the deliverables of the CME R&D Project is not fixed and are agreed upon in consultation with the assessment committee, but the CME RenD project is always concluded by a final session with the assessment committee, including a presentation of the R&D project and a Q&A-session. The assessment committee is responsible for the assessment and determines the grade only after consultation of all committee members.

As the CME R&D project is worth 10 credits, the student is expected to spend approximately 280 hours, which equals 7 weeks of 40 hours if executed full-time. However, the CME R&D project may also be executed part-time and is not necessarily restricted to the regular education periods, pending the approval of the assessment committee.