PDEng trainee – Efficient Comfortable School Indoor Air Quality

SBC PDEng program
The SBC PDEng program wants to contribute to the transition towards smart, intelligent and sustainable cities where quality of life is high. This transition requires new solutions which can only be created through multiscale and transdisciplinary (design) approaches. This requires technical designers who are able to work in a multidisciplinary environment and know how to communicate with different disciplines and stake holders. This PDEng program educates trainees to become those technical designers! Please note that this program is about technological design, i.e., the process of solving problems by means of a technological design,
this in contrast to (PhD) research, which is the process of understanding problems.

The trainee position leads to the degree of 'Professional Doctorate in Engineering' (PDEng).
The program consists of two main parts running in parallel:

• Half of the program consists of post-master level education in the form of generic design projects and courses about design methods, entrepreneurship, professional skills and several technical courses about topics relevant to design project.
• The other half of the program is dedicated to an individual design project in collaboration with a company. It is the main responsibility of the trainee to manage and execute the project. Each trainee is supported by an advisor from the company and an advisor from the university.

The company design project related to this traineeship is to design a system that provides a healthy, comfortable and energy-efficient ventilation for schools within the existing investment and maintenance budgets. For this knowledge and insights from building services management and maintenance will be used in the development of products for new and existing school buildings. The objective of the PDEng assignment is to design school ventilation systems and implement a smart control strategy based on a modelbased approach as well as on a Big Data learning approach as part of a Continuous Commissionings approach. The PDEng trainee will be embedded in the Building Services group.

We are looking for candidates with:

• an excellent and highly motivated candidate with an MSc degree in Building Science, Informatics, Mathematical, Mechanical or Environmental Engineering, or equivalent. Interest in physical processes (heat, air and moisture transfer) in the built environment, sustainable energy technologies and computational building performance simulation is essential.
• an interest in developing new control technologies and applications for the built environment
• a design-oriented attitude.
• ability to work in a team and interested in collaborating with the industrial partners.
• an academic attitude in order to develop new technologies and perform applied research with an integral view on what is needed for the future built environment.
• an excellent command of the English language, both in speaking and writing.