PDEng position App development for health monitoring at Eindhoven University of Technology

The Department of Industrial Design (ID) of the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e), founded in 2001, is a rapidly growing department with over 650 students, both Bachelor and Master, and around 40 research staff members and about 10 lecturers. ID focuses on creating intelligent systems, products, and related services in a societal context. These a priori innovative systems enable people to interact with the environment in an optimal and flexible way.

The TU/e ID engineer, who has developed a wide range of competencies during his/her education, is capable of integrating technology, user aspects, design and business/marketing insights. While the BSc is more focused on interaction design, in the MSc students can focus on researching, realizing or valorising more complex systems. They learn to design in projects that are closely related to ongoing research. Internet of things and data-inspired design in the contexts of mobility, health and wellbeing draw special attention within TU/e and ID in particular.

USI Program structure
The program consists in a course component and a project component. The course work is structured into modules of two or three weeks in which topics from different disciplines are taught, e.g. user experience, interaction technologies, user research methodologies, user interface system technologies and understanding user needs. This part of the curriculum includes interactive workshops, working lectures, practical training, individual and group assignments, self-study, experiment set-ups and laboratory work for design and evaluation. Furthermore, professional development courses are an important part of the curriculum. In the last part of the regular curriculum trainees work in small project teams on a design case, in which they apply their knowledge and skills to a concrete problem from a project outside the USI program.

Career perspective
USI designers are trained in user-centered design methodologies. They focus on creating rewarding user experiences and interactive systems that are valued by users, and avoiding problems users face in interacting with technology. They are equipped with knowledge to come up with solutions that support users at work or leisure with their information, communication and entertainment activities. Their field of work is the design and development of user system interactions for intelligent products, services, and systems. USI designers are prepared to join multidisciplinary design teams within industry, business services, or government institutions. Examples of position descritpions that USI graduates take in industry aree: interactin designer, user experience designer, usability engineer, usability consultant, human factors engineer, information architect, customer insight specialist etc.

Closing Date: 15-12-2015

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