Waste has a purpose in our future. Imagine products, resources, raw materials and byproducts no longer losing value when their lifecycle ends – but instead, using them as building blocks in other manufacturing processes. This requires optimized production chains, tailor-made materials and a new, multi-disciplinary approach to engineering. Landfills, non-renewable resources and unsustainable production methods have no place in a sustainable system like that: in the future, we will have transitioned to a circular economy. We need a new type of engineers to shape this future!
The new bachelor’s programme in Circular Engineering trains you to be an engineer with a multi-disciplinary background. As a circular engineer, you design, implement and adapt technical solutions to enable the transition to the circular economy. You combine a uniquely tailored background in disciplines including chemical engineering, biotechnology and engineering physics with technical skills and industry knowledge.
Fast facts
3-year, full-time bachelor’s, taught in English
Small-scale tutorial groups of about 15 students
Gain hands-on research and engineering experience by doing projects
Education and research at multiple Brightlands locations
Tailor your own second and third year
Work at state-of-the-art engineering labs
Educational Approach
The main method of instruction in the bachelor Circular Engineering is Problem-Based Learning (PBL). In a PBL environment, you work in small tutorial groups of about 15 students on scientific and engineering questions and challenges, usually in the form of case studies. You conduct discussions, exchange knowledge and formulate your learning goals as a group. By actively addressing real-life issues, you better grasp the theory and learn to apply your insights to various situations. The variety of perspectives enlivens the discussions and allows you to experience the true strength of your group’s cultural diversity. Moreover, you gain essential skills, such as presenting your viewpoints, debating, writing academic texts and collaborating with peers.
The bachelor Circular Engineering employs Research-Based Learning (RBL) in addition to PBL. Gradually throughout the programme, you are faced with engineering challenges of increasing complexity. RBL starts with small engineering challenges in the tutorial groups and skills training sessions in year 1. Subsequently, it is further developed in the various design projects throughout the curriculum, in which you make your own discoveries and research and develop technical solutions, in addition to learning about existing theories and systems. RBL culminates into the individual bachelor thesis. In skills training sessions and projects you work at our state-of-the-art engineering laboratories.
