Industrial Design

Welcome to the department of Industrial Design

We offer students and staff an international and academic, in other words intellectually stimulating, study and working environment that will inspire them to broadly-based personal development, social and cultural engagement and an entrepreneurial attitude. We are shaping a new discipline: designing and creating intelligent systems, products and related services. We combine cutting edge research in several domains to educate a new type of engineer.

Our industrial designers create connected solutions, combining products and services to suit individual needs. Both students and researchers can work with all stakeholders, customers and producers alike, who are not only involved, but are also essential contributors to the future sustainability of our world. Their role will be to mediate the developments in technology, the needs of people (culture & society) and the responsibility for properly using the power of ideas and values.

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Education

Our unique educational model brings together learning and working. Right from their very first day students learn, apply and develop the appropriate attitude, while functioning as ‘junior employees’. They intensively collaborate with research staff in squads, dedicated to specific research topics.

Our department regards it as its task to train engineers possessing a sound basis of knowledge, as well as a rich set of competencies that will enable them to develop successful careers in Industrial Design and a wide range of functions within the community. 

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Research through design

Research at the department focusses on two areas or thematic clusters: Future Everyday and Systemic Change.

 

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Research Labs

At the Departement of Industrial Design researchers and students can use several labs to support their research and educational activities. We offer Generic Make-Labs, Specific Make-Labs and Research Labs.

We proudly present our spin-offs, startups and other projects!

Valorization

At the department of Industrial Design we are shaping a new discipline: designing and creating intelligent systems, products and related services. We combine cutting edge research in several domains to educate a new type of engineer.

Find out more about collaboration with students of Industrial Design, examples of research and student projects and Industrial Design's spin offs.

News

Eric van der Geer-Rutten-Rijswijk. Photo: Bart van Overbeeke
February 1, 2024
‘I want to be the eyes and ears for TU/e’
On February 1 Eric van der Geer-Rutten-Rijswijk takes up the role of TU/e secretary.
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January 25, 2024
Exploring design opportunities to promote healthy eating at work
Sibo Pan defended her PhD thesis at the department of Industrial Design on January 25th.
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Marieke Martens appointed as board member of NWO domain AES
December 4, 2023
Bringing some fun to practicing an instrument
November 29, 2023
Targeting student motivation in physical education through design
November 27, 2023
Susan Hommerson (photo: Levi Baruch)
Finding the balance between ethics and innovation in AI
November 9, 2023

Miguel Bruns in Universiteit van Nederland

What if you could feel this video?

Everything around us is desgined: from the chair you sit on to the phone you're watching this video on. Designers mostly focus on visual aspects, but Miguel Bruns (Eindhoven University of Technology) explains how we could also design for touch so that in the future you might feel instead of watch this lecture.

Events

  • 05 Feb
    running robots
    Machine consciousness, an evolutionary frontier

    Lecture visiting Professor Peter Hershock

    Consciousness is often identified with subjective self-awareness. The ethical implications of self aware machines are legion.

  • 05 Feb
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    WISE Network Talk by Dr. Eriketti Servou, followed by WISE New Year's/Networking Drinks (05.02.2024)

    February 5, 2024 4:30 PM / Senaatszaal (Auditorium)

  • 06 Feb
    [Translate to English:] Peter Hershock
    Toward a systemic concept of attention for the attention economy using Buddhist and Western ethics

    AI & Ethics workshop 1 Peter Hershock

    In a recently published article “Attention as Practice” we argue that the current critiques of the attention economy are too narrow. We plea…

  • 07 Feb
    [Translate to English:] Peter Hershock
    Toward a systemic concept of attention for the attention economy using Buddhist and Western ethics

    AI & Ethics workshop 2 Peter Hershock

    In a recently published article “Attention as Practice” we argue that the current critiques of the attention economy are too narrow. We plea…

  • 08 Feb

    Healthy Hart @ Home

    February 8, 2024 9:30 AM / Blauwe Zaal

  • 22 Feb
    The interplay of AI and Multimodal Data to support human learning

    Lecture visiting Professor Michail Giannakos

    The intersection of multimodal data and advanced computational analyses has the capacity to improve our understanding on how humans learn…

  • 07 Mar

    Information Session - Data Science & AI for Professionals

    March 7, 2024 6:30 PM / EAISI, Neuron Building - TU/e

  • 16 Apr
    ladies of data 2024
    Debiasing (with) AI

    JADS Ladies of Data 2024

    At Ladies of Data 2024, we’ll delve into both the challenges of biases in AI and how AI can help reduce biases in society.

  • 05 Jun
    ICAI Day

    ICAI DAY – exploring AI’s impact on society

    June 5, 2025 12:00 PM / Erasmus Campus, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam

    • Contact

    • Visiting address

      Department of Industrial Design
      Atlas 3 South
      Groene Loper 3
      5612 AE Eindhoven
      The Netherlands

    • Postal address

      Department of Industrial Design
      Atlas 3 South
      PO Box 513
      5600 MB Eindhoven
      The Netherlands