Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management

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The Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of the Delft University of Technology is a national and international renowned faculty of excellence for graduation and post-graduation studies in Technology, Policy and Management. The faculty intends through internationally oriented education and research to make a significant contribution to sustainable solutions to complex social problems.

[edit] History

The faculty started in 1997 from a merger between the two existing faculties of the Delft University of Technology at the time: Technology and Society and Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management.

The Faculty of Technology and Society had been a joint faculty from the 1960s, including philosophy, economics, skills, technology assessment, law and gender studies. Its main task was to provide service education to all the other faculties of the Delft University of Technology. The Faculty of Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management was built from scratch and started in 1992 with a new curriculum and research programme.

The faculty has evolved form three departements in 1999 to five departments in 2007. These are:

  • Infrastructure Systems & Services Department
  • Multi Actor Systems Department
  • Engineering and Reflection Department
  • Innovation Systems Department
  • Education & Didactics Department

These five departments contain 19 sections.

[edit] Programs offered

The faculty offeres the following five master programmes, which are taught in English:

  • Technology, Policy and Management
  • Engineering and Policy Analysis (EPA)
  • Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis & Management (SEPAM)
  • Management of Technology (MOT)
  • Transport, Infrastructure & Logistics (TIL)

[edit] External links

Detailed information about the master programmes are given in the separate websites: