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    Geology I

    Geology I

    The Geology 1 course is composed of three parts dedicated to 1. general knowledge of the system Earth, 2. tools for the 3D geometric representation of geological objects and 3. methods and techniques for the recognition of fundamental minerals and rocks.

    Subjects:
    Environmental Sciences and Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
    Keywords:
    Rock mechanics Minerals Earth sciences Geology
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  • Courseware 
    Geoscience: the Earth and its Resources

    Geoscience: the Earth and its Resources

    Are you fascinated by Geosciences and willing to take the challenge of predicting the nature and behavior of the Earth subsurface? This is your course! In a voyage through the Earth, Geoscience: the Earth and its Resources will explore the Earth interior and the processes forming mountains and sedimentary basins. You will understand how the sediments are formed, transported, deposited and deformed. You will develop knowledge on the behavior of petroleum and water resources. The course has an innovative approach focusing on key fundamental processes, exploring their nature and quantitative interactions. It will be shown how this acquired knowledge is used to predict the nature and behavior of the Earth subsurface. This is your ideal first step as a future Geoscientists or professional to upgrade your knowledge in the domain of Earth Sciences.

    Subjects:
    Environmental Sciences and Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
    Keywords:
    Plate tectonics Earth sciences Petroleum -- Geology Geology Hydrology
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  • Courseware 
    How to Design a Successful Business Model

    How to Design a Successful Business Model

    Do you want to start or grow your own business, go international, or avoid bankruptcy? In this business and management course, you will learn the key steps to take to design or innovate your own business model. You will learn about the trade-offs to be made, and the design issues that are critical for a viable and sustainable business model. This course will help you answer questions like, how do I create a simple business model in a structured way, how do I engage my users and how do I create value for my customers as well as revenue for my company.

    Subjects:
    Management
    Keywords:
    Business planning Strategic planning Industrial management
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  • Courseware 
    Hydrological Measurements

    Hydrological Measurements

    This course discusses the requirement, interpretation, methods and design of hydrological measurements. Following topics are covered: Accuracy requirements of measurements and error propagation: Related to a problem the required accuracy of measurements and the consequences for accuracy in the final result are discussed. Different types of errors are handled. Propagation of errors; for dependent and independent measurements, from mathematical relations and regression is demonstrated. Recapitulated is the theory of regression and correlation. Interpretation of measurements, data completion: By standard statistical methods screening of measured data is performed; double mass analysis, residual mass, simple rainfall-runoff modelling. Detection of trends; split record tests, Spearman rank tests. Methods to fill data gaps and do filtering on data series for noise reduction. Methods of hydrological measurements and measuring equipment: To determine quantitatively the most important elements in the hydrological cycle an overview is presented of most common hydrological measurements, measuring equipment and indirect determination methods i.e. for precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, river discharge and groundwater tables. Use, purpose and measurement techniques for tracers in hydrology is discussed. Advantages and disadvantages and specific condition/application of methods are discussed. Equipment is demonstrated and discussed. Areal distributed observation: Areal interpolation techniques of point observations; inverse distance, Thiessen, contouring, Kriging. Comparison of interpolation techniques and estimation of errors. Correlation analysis of areal distributed observation of rainfall. Design of measuring networks: Based on correlation characteristics from point measurements (e.g. rainfall stations) and accuracy requirements the design of a network of stations is demonstrated.

    Subjects:
    Hydraulic Engineering
    Keywords:
    Hydrology -- Measurement Hydrology
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  • Courseware 
    Hydrology of catchments, rivers and deltas

    Hydrology of catchments, rivers and deltas

    The course deals with the principles of hydrology of catchment areas, rivers and deltas.

    Subjects:
    Hydraulic Engineering
    Keywords:
    Watersheds Estuaries Saline water barriers Hydrology Floods Rivers
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  • Courseware 
    Inclusive Energy Systems: Exploring Sustainable Energy for All

    Inclusive Energy Systems: Exploring Sustainable Energy for All

    For the first time in history, the number of world citizens without access to electricity services has dropped below one billion, but still more than 2.8 billion people lack access to clean and affordable cooking fuels. Access to clean, affordable and reliable energy services for all world citizens is a precondition for the achievement of many other Sustainable Development Goals, such as health and economic development. The provision of sustainable energy services for all is not just a technological challenge or one confined to developing countries. Industrial and post-industrial societies also need to address issues of energy poverty and energy injustice. Rather than tackling the technological dimension of the formidable challenge to provide an inclusive energy system with renewable and climate-neutral energy resources, this course will focus on its social and institutional dimension. Introduction to the principle of the 4 As of energy services – Accessibility, Availability, Affordability, and Acceptability (environmental and social) will enrich your perspective as an engineering professional. Balancing these four critical and interdependent criteria is a recurrent challenge for individuals and society as a whole, as the characterization of the four As evolves with economic development and changing societal preferences. You will learn how the rules of the game as defined in laws, regulation and market designs impact the balance between the 4As. Using a wider socio-technical systems perspective you will discover new solutions for the inclusive provision of energy services beyond the purely technological solutions. After this course you can engage in a richer, more informed debate about how to achieve an inclusive energy system. You will be able to translate this knowledge into strategies to serve society’s future energy needs. The cases presented from developed and developing countries will help you to develop and test your analytical skills. Interviews with industry leaders shaping the energy system will challenge you to reflect on the position these leaders take and the interests they serve. Lastly, you will put yourself to the test by demonstrating your newly acquired knowledge and skills as a strategic policy advisor, in writing guidelines for a strategic action plan for the energy system and institutional context which are relevant for you, in your company, your city or your country.

    Subjects:
    Environmental Engineering and Environmental Policy and Planning
    Keywords:
    Energy policy Sustainable development Power resources -- Economic aspects Power resources -- Environmental aspects
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  • Courseware 
    Integrated Water Management

    Integrated Water Management

    The lectures introduce a number of topics that are important for IWRM and the modeling exercise. The lectures introduce water management issues in the Netherlands, Rhine Basin, and Volta Basin. The role-play is meant to experience some of the social processes that, together with technical knowledge, determine water management.

    Subjects:
    Environmental Engineering and Hydraulic Engineering
    Keywords:
    Water resources development Netherls Water-supply -- Management Water-supply
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  • Courseware 
    Introduction to Aeronautical Engineering I

    Introduction to Aeronautical Engineering I

    This course provides an overview of and an introduction to the fundamentals of aeronautics, using the history of aviation as a story line. The course uses examples from the very beginning of aviation (the Montgolfier brothers’ balloon flight in 1783 and the Wright brothers’ heavier-than-air flight in 1903) and continues all the way through to the current Airbus A380 and future aircraft. This trajectory will start with a general introduction to aeronautics, to be followed by a closer look at aerodynamics and flight performance.

    Subjects:
    Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering
    Keywords:
    Aerospace engineering Airplanes Aeronautics Aerodynamics
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    Introduction to Aerospace Engineering II

    Introduction to Aerospace Engineering II

    This part of the course Introduction to Aerospace Engineering is focused on two aerospace disciplines: “space and orbital mechanics” and “structures and materials”. These topics are discussed in detail and will provide an understanding for both aircraft and for spacecraft/space missions.

    Subjects:
    Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering
    Keywords:
    Orbital mechanics Space vehicles -- Materials Airplanes -- Materials Aerospace engineering
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  • Courseware 
    Introduction to Aerospace Structures and Materials

    Introduction to Aerospace Structures and Materials

    This course introduces the structural and material design of aircraft. Students will see and understand how aircraft and spacecraft are manufactured, and learn how safety is enshrined at every stage. Experts from the Aerospace Structures and Materials Department of Delft University of Technology will help you explore and analyze the mechanical properties of materials; learning about manufacturing techniques, fatigue, loads and stresses, design considerations and more – all the scientific and engineering principles that structural and materials engineers face on a daily basis.

    Subjects:
    Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering
    Keywords:
    Space vehicles -- Materials Airplanes -- Materials Aerospace engineering
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    Introduction to Credit Risk Management

    Introduction to Credit Risk Management

    Imagine that you are a bank and a main part of your daily business is to lend money. Unfortunately, lending money is a risky business – there is no 100% guarantee that you will get all your money back. If the borrower defaults, you will face losses in your portfolio. Or, in a bit less extreme scenario, if the credit quality of your counterparty deteriorates according to some rating system, the loan will become more risky. These are typical situations in which credit risk manifests itself. According to the Basel Accord, a global regulation framework for financial institutions, credit risk is one of the three fundamental risks a bank or any other regulated financial institution has to face when operating in the markets (the two other risks being market risk and operational risk). As the 2008 financial crisis has shown us, a correct understanding of credit risk and the ability to manage it are fundamental in today’s world. This course offers you an introduction to credit risk modelling and hedging. We will approach credit risk from the point of view of banks, but most of the tools and models we will overview can be beneficial at the corporate level as well. At the end of the course, you will be able to understand and correctly use the basic tools of credit risk management, both from a theoretical and, most of all, a practical point of view. This will be a quite unconventional course. For each methodology, we will analyse its strengths as well as its weaknesses. We will do this in a rigorous way, but also with fun: there is no need to be boring.

    Subjects:
    Management and Finance
    Keywords:
    Risk management Financial institutions Asset-liability management Bank loans -- Management Banks banking Credit analysis
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  • Courseware 
    Introduction to Drinking Water Treatment

    Introduction to Drinking Water Treatment

    Learn about urban water services, focusing on conventional technologies for drinking water treatment. This course focuses on conventional technologies for drinking water treatment. Unit processes, involved in the treatment chain, are discussed as well as the physical, chemical and biological processes involved. The emphasis is on the effect of treatment on water quality and the dimensions of the  unit processes in the treatment chain.  After the course one should be able to recognise the process units, describe their function, and make basic calculations for a preliminary design of a drinking water treatment plant.

    Subjects:
    Environmental Engineering and Hydraulic Engineering
    Keywords:
    Water -- Purification Water treatment plants -- Design construction Drinking water -- Purification Water-supply
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  • Courseware 
    Introduction to Functional Programming

    Introduction to Functional Programming

    Broadly speaking, functional programming is a style of programming in which the primary method of computation is the application of functions to arguments. Among other features, functional languages offer a compact notation for writing programs, powerful abstraction methods for structuring programs, and a simple mathematical basis that supports reasoning about programs. Functional languages represent the leading edge of programming language design, and the primary setting in which new programming concepts are introduced and studied. All contemporary programming languages such as Hack/PHP, C#, Visual Basic, F#, C++, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Java, Scala, Clojure, Groovy, Racket, … support higher-order programming via the concept of closures or lambda expressions. This course will use Haskell as the medium for understanding the basic principles of functional programming. While the specific language isn’t all that important, Haskell is a pure functional language so it is entirely appropriate for learning the essential ingredients of programming using mathematical functions. It is also a relatively small language, and hence it should be easy for you to get up to speed with Haskell. Once you understand the Why, What and How that underlies pure functional programming and learned to “think like a fundamentalist”, we will apply the concepts of functional programming to “code like a hacker” in mainstream programming languages, using Facebook’s novel Hack language as our main example. This course assumes no prior knowledge of functional programming, but assumes you have at least one year of programming experience in a regular programming language such as Java, .NET, Javascript or PHP.

    Subjects:
    Computing
    Keywords:
    Haskell (Computer program language) Functional programming (Computer science)
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  • Courseware 
    Introduction to Reflection Seismics

    Introduction to Reflection Seismics

    Introduction to seismic theory, measurements and processing of seismic data to final focussed image for geological and/or physical interpretation.This course deals with the most important aspects of reflection seismics. Theory of seismic waves, aspects of data acquisition (seismic sources, receivers and recorders), and of data processing (CMP processing, velocity analysis, stacking, migration) will be dealt with. The course will be supplemented by a practical of 6 afternoons where the students will see the most important data-processing steps via exercises (in Matlab).

    Subjects:
    Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics and Disaster Control and Management
    Keywords:
    Seismic prospecting Seismometry Earthquakes Seismic reflection method
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  • Courseware 
    Introduction to Seismic Essentials in Groningen

    Introduction to Seismic Essentials in Groningen

    Groningen, a province in the northeast of the Netherlands, is experiencing earthquakes due to the extraction of gas. This phenomenon is called induced seismicity. But what is induced seismicity? And how can the risk to life safety and the consequences for the built environment be reduced? The Groningen situation is unique and for this reason, solutions for the built environment cannot simply be copied from abroad. To contribute to a basic understanding of the various topics in this field, knowledge lectures have been developed as Open Course Ware by a large number of scientists and practitioners.

    Subjects:
    Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics and Disaster Control and Management
    Keywords:
    Netherls -- Groningen Earthquakes Induced seismicity
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  • Courseware 
    Introduction to Water and Climate

    Introduction to Water and Climate

    Water is essential for life on earth and of crucial importance for society. Also within our climate water plays a major role. The natural cycle of ocean to atmosphere, by precipitation back to earth and by rivers and aquifers to the oceans has a decisive impact on regional and global climate patterns. This course will cover six main topics: 1. Global water cycle. In this module you will learn to explain the different processes of the global water cycle. 2. Water systems. In this module you will learn to describe the flows of water and sand in different riverine, coastal and ocean systems. 3. Water and climate change. In this module you will learn to identify mechanisms of climate change and you will learn to explain the interplay of climate change, sea level, clouds, rainfall and future weather. 4. Interventions. In this module you will learn to explain why, when and which engineering interventions are needed in rivers, coast and urban environment. 5. Water resource management. In this module you will learn to explain why water for food and water for cities are the main challenges in water management and what the possibilities and limitations of reservoirs and groundwater are to improve water availability. 6. Challenges. In this module you will learn to explain the challenges in better understanding and adapting to the impact of climate change on water for the coming 50 years.

    Subjects:
    Environmental Engineering and Hydraulic Engineering
    Keywords:
    Hydrologic cycle Water-supply -- Effect of global warming on Water-supply -- Management
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  • Courseware 
    Irrigation and Drainage

    Irrigation and Drainage

    The course will discuss the objectives and functions of water management systems for irrigation and drainage purposes. Analysing system requirements in terms of technical engineering constraints, management possibilities and water users (wishes and options) is central. This includes the design and operation of regulation structures, dams, reservoirs, weirs and conveyance systems; balancing water supply and water requirements in time and space is a main focus of analysis too.

    Subjects:
    Hydraulic Engineering
    Keywords:
    Drainage -- Management Irrigation -- Management
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  • Courseware 
    Leadership for Engineers

    Leadership for Engineers

    Many of today’s global challenges require tech-driven solutions — climate change, the growth of the world population, cyber security, the increasing demand for scarce resources, digitalization, the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. With this in mind, it is no surprise that one fourth of the CEOs of the world’s 100 largest corporations have an engineering degree. Solving these global problems requires leaders who, in the first place, are comfortable with technology, models and quantitative analyses — Leaders who see systems instead of isolated problems. However, simply understanding technology is not enough. Successful leaders today must have both the ideas and the know-how to put these ideas into action by working collaboratively with others, winning their hearts and minds. We need leaders who know how to seize opportunities in a networked world, and can mobilize people and other stakeholders for large-scale change. Leaders who lead fulfilling lives and who are able to move themselves and others from the ‘me’ to the ‘we’. Leaders who are long-term oriented and who deliver economic profit, while also making positive contributions to society and the environment. We call these leaders ‘sustainable leaders’. This course has three parts: - In the first part, you will explore the context that leaders are facing, building an understanding of the complexities of global and business challenges. You will discover the ambiguities and the many stakeholders that leaders must consider when making their choices. You will get a sense of effective leadership practices. - In the second part, you will discover your “who am I” through personal and group exercises. You will create a “Personal Charter” that can serve as a life-long guide, helping you, as a leader, to make important choices in your personal and professional life. - In the third part, we will bring the knowledge of the context and yourself together. We will translate the insights of this course into a leadership model and you will discover what sustainable leaders do. We will offer you frameworks to help you make your own career choices. We will finally help you to ‘sell’ yourself as a leader.

    Subjects:
    Management
    Keywords:
    Leadership Engineering -- Management Engineers
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  • MOOC 
    MOOC: Business Model Implementation | TU Delft Online

    MOOC: Business Model Implementation | TU Delft Online

    You will also learn about the practical factors that need to be taken into consideration during the transition process, i.e. the competency of your people and your IT, in order to successfully implement a new business model. What you'll learn: How to create a business model roadmap. How to plan concrete actions to realize a new business model. How to find partners to realize a new business model. In this business and management course, you will learn how to make a practical action plan to implement your new business model. Designing a new business model is one thing, but how do you actually put it into practice? How do you move from your current model to a new business model? You will create a business model roadmap that will include practical activities that take into consideration the possible risks associated with moving to a new business model.

    Subjects:
    Management
    Keywords:
    Business planning Strategic planning Industrial management
    Resource Type:
    MOOC
     
    OER
  • MOOC 
    MOOC: The Value of Business Models | TU Delft Online

    MOOC: The Value of Business Models | TU Delft Online

    Does your business need a make-over? Are you unsure how to start? Having an innovative business model is key for a profitable business and growth. In this business and management course, you will learn how to design, test and implement new business models for sustainable success. This course introduces you to the main topics of business model innovation. You will learn what drives business model innovation and why it is valuable to you and your business. You will apply practical tools to (re)design and test a business model. Be inspired by real-life business model examples from fellow entrepreneurs and learn from leading experts who design business model innovations. By the end of this course, you will be able to structure your thinking and communicate your business model ideas and learn how to improve your own business. Start the course anytime, and complete it at your own pace! What you'll learn: What a business model is. Why business models matter to your firm and the value they bring. How business model innovation improves business performance. How tooling can help you to innovate your business model.in

    Subjects:
    Management
    Keywords:
    Business planning Strategic planningIndustrial management
    Resource Type:
    MOOC
     
    OER