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Appendix 1
Report of
International Peer Review
&
Peer Review documentation
Graduate School Engineering Mechanics:
Application for re-accreditation 2013-2019
Part A: Report of the International Peer Review
Peer Review Committee
Assessment
of the
Graduate School
on
Engineering Mechanics
CONTENTS
Executive summary 3
1 Introduction 4
1.1 Composition of the Peer Review Committee 4
1.2 Schedule, methods and information used by the Peer Review Committee 5
2 Assessment of the EM Graduate School 6
2.1 Assessment of the educational program 6
2.2 Assessment of the research program 7
2.3 Assessment of EM’s role in national cooperation 7
2.4 Assessment of the EM Graduate School’s finances 7
2.5 Assessment of EM’s organization and management 8
3 Future prospects 9
4 Recommendations of the Peer Review Committee 10
Appendix A: Information on the members of the Peer Review Committee 11
Appendix B: Program of the Peer Review Committee visit to the EM Graduate School 13
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The international Peer Review Committee (PRC) is impressed by the extraordinarily high level of quality of research and education in Engineering Mechanics (EM) in the Netherlands. The excellent Dutch Graduate School in Engineering Mechanics guarantees that the high standard in this wide field of great importance for basic science as well as for technology-driven research will be maintained and even further increased. This statement is based on the documents which the members of the PRC received in advance, on interviews with representatives of the EM management team, the scientific staff, the industrial advisory board and the PhD students, the workshop introductions and on the student poster presentations. The PRC notes that the recommendations of the previous PRC and of ECOS have been adequately addressed.
The PRC was impressed by the uniformly positive attitude of all interview partners concerning the EM Graduate School, the constructive climate of the discussions and the openness in answering the questions posed by its members. The excellent organization of the EM Graduate School is a consequence of the high degree of professionalism exhibited by the EM management team. The PRC is impressed by the balance of the research program between basic science, on the one hand, and treatment of important engineering topics and applications relevant to industry, on the other hand. It is evident that this outstanding research environment provides an excellent platform for the education and professional development of PhD students and postdoctoral researchers.
The courses of the EM Graduate School cover topics at the forefront of international research and are received positively by the students, the staff and the industrial partners that are active participants. The Engineering Mechanics Symposia play a central role in the activities of the Engineering Mechanics Graduate School. It was a pleasure for the PRC members to observe the strong involvement and enthusiasm of the student participants.
The PRC fully supports the future plans of the Engineering Mechanics Graduate School. Intensive research activities in multiphysics problems and multiscale methods will help to further strengthen the position of the research groups of the EM Graduate School at the forefront of research in mechanics and hence contribute to meeting the needs of industry and society. The PRC highly appreciates the successful bottom-up strategy of the 3TU EM Graduate School and recommends that efforts be made to ensure that the formation of any new university graduate school should not impinge on its impressive activities.
On the basis of its assessment the PRC enthusiastically recommends that the EM Graduate School be re-accredited for the period 2013–2019.
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1 INTRODUCTION
The Engineering Mechanics (EM) Graduate School, i.e. the 3TU research school for engineering mechanics, will apply for re-accreditation by the ECOS committee of the Royal Academy of Sciences (KNAW) in 2013. A positive recommendation as a result of an international peer review is a prerequisite for receiving this re-accreditation. The EM Graduate School has invited an international Peer Review Committee to assess the quality of the research school.
1.1 COMPOSITION OF THE PEER REVIEW COMMITTEE
The international Peer Review Committee consisted of the following members:
• Professor Herbert Mang, chairman. Prof. Mang is a professor emeritus at the Institute for Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Vienna University of Technology, Austria and former president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is an expert in the field of mechanics of solids and structures.
• Professor Roger Ohayon. Prof. Ohayon is a professor emeritus at the Structural Mechanics and Coupled Systems Laboratory, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France. He is an expert in the field of fluid-structure interaction, structural dynamics and vibrations.
• Professor Roger Owen. Prof. Owen is a professor at the School of Engineering, Swansea University, UK. He is an expert in the field of computational solid and structural mechanics.
• Professor Oded Gottlieb. Prof. Gottlieb is an associate professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology. He is an expert in the field of nonlinear dynamics and bifurcations of continuum mechanical systems.
The committee was assisted by Dr. Hans van Dommelen, secretary to the PRC. Dr. Van Dommelen is an assistant professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology.
Prof. Owen was a member of the Peer Review Committee of the 2008 KNAW/QANU assessment of Mechanical Engineering in The Netherlands.
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1.2 SCHEDULE, METHODS AND INFORMATION USED BY THE PEER REVIEW COMMITTEE
Before starting the review procedure, the Peer Review Committee (PRC) members were provided with the following documents, delivered by the EM Graduate School:
• Self-evaluation report, written by the Management Team of the EM Graduate School, including the PRC assessment of the EM Graduate School in 2006.
• EM Annual Reports 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, including the course programs, as well as the research programs and the lists of publications 2007-2011 of all EM research groups.
• The EM-JMBC Graduate Program proposal. • The EM website http://www.em.tue.nl.
During the two-day review of the EM Graduate School on 1-2 November, 2012, the PRC had discussions with:
• Representatives of the Management Team and Governing Board of the EM Graduate School: Prof. H. van Brummelen (TU/e), Prof. M. Geers (TU/e), Prof. H. Huétink (UT), Prof. F. van Keulen (TUD), Prof. B. Sluys (TUD).
• Representatives of the Scientific Staff of the EM Graduate School: Dr. M. Langelaar (TUD), Dr. V. Magnanimo (UT), Dr. R. Peerlings (TU/e), Prof. A. Suiker (TU/e), Dr. S. Turteltaub (TUD), Dr. Y. Wijnant (UT).
• Representatives of the PhD students of the EM graduate School: J. van Beeck (TU/e), J. Hol (UT), E. Hooijkamp (TUD), J. Neggers (TU/e), M. Talebian (TUD), J. H. Wiebenga (UT).
• Representatives of the EM Advisory Board: Dr. P. van den Berg (Deltaris), Dr. F. Blom (NRG), Ir. H.J. ten Hoeve (NLR), Dr. J. van der Lugt (Tata Steel).
Preliminary conclusions were drawn on Friday, 2 November 2012, and the PRC report was made available to the EM Management Team in November. A detailed time schedule of the visit of the PRC can be found in Appendix B.
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2 ASSESSMENT OF THE EM GRADUATE SCHOOL
The organization of the PRC visit was excellent. The PRC was very satisfied with the information received to assess the program. The Committee interviewed representatives of the Management Team of the Graduate School, the academic staff, the industrial advisory board and the PhD students.
The PRC notes that the recommendations of the previous Peer Review Committee were implemented, in particular:
• A course in experimental mechanics was established and supported by corresponding material.
• The imbalance between solids and fluids was significantly reduced by setting up the 3TU Centre of Excellence on Multiscale Phenomena and the novel NWO graduate program in this area.
The PRC appreciates that the recommendations of ECOS were given full consideration, in particular:
• A revised educational program was developed, including course organization in a two-year cycle and an account of course credits, which has proven to be successful.
• The vision and profile of the Graduate School have been enhanced through the formation of the Centre of Excellence and the NWO Graduate Program.
• The PRC congratulates the EM management team on the implementation of a formal threshold for quality, based on the QANU research assessment.
2.1 ASSESSMENT OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM
The courses provided by the EM Graduate School continue to be at a very high level. They are given by the leading experts of the participating groups, complemented by invited external professors. The courses attract many students from the participating EM groups and from other institutions inside and outside the country, including industry and technological institutes. In addition to their educational function, the EM graduate courses and annual symposia play an important role in networking for the PhD students and staff. The PRC considers the courses to be of such quality so as to be suitable for international graduate students.
The PRC suggests consideration be given to additional assessment of the performance of course participants.
The two-day annual EM Symposium continues to play a central role in the activities of the EM Graduate School, where the staff and PhD students meet, discuss and exchange ideas and experiences. The PRC was pleased to observe the enthusiastic participation of the students.
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2.2 ASSESSMENT OF THE RESEARCH PROGRAM
Engineering mechanics research in The Netherlands is of outstanding quality and is highly visible worldwide. Dutch professors in engineering mechanics play a leading role in their corresponding international communities and at major international conferences. It is also noteworthy that PhD students present their research at international meetings. Furthermore, it is observed that EM group leaders have significantly increased the amount of 3rd money stream research funding, which is clear evidence of the industrial relevance of the research undertaken.
The establishment of the 3TU Centre of Excellence on Multiscale Phenomena in Fluids and Solids has resulted in several new chairs in novel research areas within the scope of engineering mechanics, including fluid-structure interaction and particle-based materials.
The PRC is of the opinion that the assessment of research groups within the EM Graduate School in the 2008 QANU review of mechanical engineering remains valid.
2.3 ASSESSMENT OF EM’S ROLE IN NATIONAL COOPERATION
The EM Graduate School continues to be an active networking organization. Its success is based on the EM graduate courses and on the annual EM Symposia.
In the interview with the Industrial Advisory Board the members of the PRC were very pleased to observe a strong interaction between the research groups of the EM School and Dutch industries. Specifically, the participation of R&D engineers and scientists in the EM courses was highly appreciated. On a managerial level, regular contacts exist with the Materials innovation institute (M2i), the Graduate Schools JMBC for fluid mechanics and DISC for systems and control, the Netherlands Mechanics Committee (NMC), and the Royal Institute of Engineers (KIVI NIRIA).
2.4 ASSESSMENT OF THE EM GRADUATE SCHOOL’S FINANCES
The financing of the EM Graduate School continues to take place in a clear and simple way with a minimum amount of overhead. The three universities, although working in engineering mechanics, are focused on different research areas and target applications. For some innovative applications, collaborative projects should be encouraged to support the needs of industry and society in The Netherlands. The PRC recommends that a budget from the three universities be allocated to the EM Graduate School to foster further scientific interaction between the three universities and the industry in order to enhance the impact of the Engineering Mechanics community on industry and society in The Netherlands.
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2.5 ASSESSMENT OF EM’S ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT
The PRC is very impressed with the professional organization and management of the EM Graduate School’s research activities and educational program. It is noteworthy that a joint EM-JMBC Graduate Program supervisory board has been established.
The PRC is very appreciative of the enthusiasm and dedication shown by all members of the governing board of the Graduate School.
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3 FUTURE PROSPECTS
The PRC endorses the proposed selection of research themes, representing a combination of analytical, computational and experimental mechanics. The identified research themes are in the international mainstream of research in mechanics and are anticipated to be of primary importance for the foreseeable future.
Intensive research activities in multiphysics problems and multiscale methods will help to further strengthen the position of the research groups of the EM Graduate School at the forefront of research in mechanics and hence contribute to meeting the needs of industry and society.
The PRC highly appreciates the successful bottom-up strategy of the 3TU EM Graduate School and recommends that efforts be made to ensure that the formation of any new university graduate school should not impinge on its impressive activities.
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4 RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE PEER REVIEW COMMITTEE
1. The Peer Review Committee strongly and unanimously recommends that the Engineering Mechanics (EM) Graduate School be re-accredited for the period 2013-2019.
2. The Peer Review Committee recommends that a budget from the three universities be allocated to the EM Graduate School to foster further scientific interaction between the three universities in order to enhance the impact of the Engineering Mechanics community on industry and society in The Netherlands.
3. The Peer Review Committee welcomes the combined computational and experimental approach adopted and recommends that this be maintained in both research and education.
4. Following the successful establishment of the 3TU Centre of Excellence on Multiscale Phenomena, the Peer Review Committee recommends that this initiative be continued in both research and education.
5. The Peer Review Committee recommends that the development of the successful interaction between the EM Graduate School and industry is continued.
6. The Peer Review Committee appreciates the world-wide difficulty in achieving a gender balance in engineering mechanics. Although the PRC is well aware that such an achievement is beyond the control of the EM Graduate School, it recommends that a continued effort be made to attract qualified female students and faculty.
7. The Peer Review Committee highly appreciates the successful bottom-up strategy of the 3TU EM Graduate School. The PRC recommends that efforts be made to ensure that the formation of any new university graduate school should not impinge on the current impressive activities of the EM Graduate School.
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APPENDIX A
INFORMATION ON THE MEMBERS OF THE PEER REVIEW COMMITTEE
Prof. Herbert A. Mang (chairman)
• Professor emeritus, Institute for Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Vienna Institute of Technology.
• Former Head, Institute for Mechanics of Materials and Structures. • Former President, European Commission for Computational Methods in Applied
Sciences. • Former Deputy Head, Institute for Mechanics of Materials and Structures. • Former Member of the Governing Board of the Austrian National Science Foundation. • Former President, Austrian Academy of Sciences. • Member of the Science Council of the Federal Government of Austria. • Vice President, International Association for Computational Mechanics. • Former Secretary General, Austrian Academy of Sciences. • Former Prorector (Vice President), Vienna University of Technology. • Former Dean (Chairman), Faculty of Civil Engineering, Vienna University of Technology.
Prof. Roger Ohayon
• Professor emeritus, Chair of Mechanics, Structural Mechanics and Coupled Systems Laboratory, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM).
• President of the Scientific Committee of the EADS foundation. • Former President of French Computational Structural Mechanics Association (CSMA). • Former Division Head, Structural Mechanics and Coupled Systems, French Aerospace
Lab (ONERA/France). • Former Scientific Deputy at the Structure Directorate of ONERA/France. • Honorary Member of National Academy of Engineering of Brazil. • Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, France. • Fellow of the International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM),
Corresponding Member for France in the IACM Executive Council. • Member (elected) of Air and Space Academy, France. • Fellow ASME, Fellow AIAA, Fellow AAAF (Aeronautical and Aerospace Association)
France.
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Prof. D. Roger J. Owen
• Professor at School of Engineering, Swansea University, UK. • Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. • Fellow of the Royal Society. • Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering. • Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. • Member of the Executive Council of IACM (International Association for Computational
Mechanics). • Board Member of the European Council for Computational Mechanics (ECCM). • Past Chairman of the UK Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering. • Honorary DSc at University of Porto, Portugal, ENS Cachan, France and UPC Barcelona.
Prof. Oded Gottlieb
• Associate professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology.
• Member of Euromech Nonlinear Oscillations Conference Committee. • Member of ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineering. • Member of ISTAM - Israel Society for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. • Guest appointments at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Michigan,
Technical University of Darmstadt, University of Roma La Sapienza, Stanford University.
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APPENDIX B
PROGRAM OF THE PEER REVIEW COMMITTEE VISIT TO THE EM GRADUATE SCHOOL
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
16.30-18.30 Preparation by peer review committee (PRC) + discussion about procedures + discussion on self assessment report.
18.30-21.30 Dinner for PRC members + continued discussion on self assessment report.
Thursday, 1 November 2012
08.45-10.00 PRC to interview representatives of EM management team (governing board and local directors: Prof. H. van Brummelen, Prof. M. Geers, Prof. H. Huétink, Prof. F. van Keulen, Prof. B. Sluys): discussion about self assessment report, annual reports and strategic choices.
10.30-12.40 PRC members to attend opening lecture EM symposium and presentations by workshop organizers.
12.45-13.45 Lunch with representatives of the scientific staff (Dr. M. Langelaar, Dr. V. Magnanimo, Dr. R. Peerlings, Prof. A. Suiker, Dr. S. Turteltaub, Dr. Y. Wijnant).
13.50-14.50 PRC members to interview representatives of industrial advisory board (Dr. P. van den Berg, Dr. F. Blom, Ir. H.J. ten Hoeve, Dr. J. van der Lugt).
14.50-15.10 PRC members to attend part of poster discussion session.
15.10-16.00 PRC members to interview representatives of PhD students (J. van Beeck, J. Hol, E. Hooijkamp, J. Neggers, M. Talebian, J. H. Wiebenga).
16.00-18.30 PRC to draw first conclusions and write a preliminary draft report.
18.30-19.00 PRC members to attend reception; informal discussions with participants EM symposium.
19.00-22.00 PRC members attend symposium dinner and evening lecture.
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Friday, 2 November 2012
09.00-10.00 PRC members to attend presentations by workshop organizers.
10.00-11.45 PRC to write an updated draft report.
11.45-12.30 Final discussion of PRC with representatives of EM management team (governing board and local directors: Prof. H. van Brummelen, Prof. M. Geers, Prof. F. van Keulen, Prof. B. Sluys).
12.35-12.50 PRC to attend closing session of EM symposium.
12.50-13.50 Lunch with participants of EM symposium.
14.00-17.00 PRC members continue writing the draft report.
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Part B: Peer Review documentation
Self Assessment
of the
Graduate School
Engineering Mechanics
for the purpose of
Peer Review and Accreditation
(part of the Application for Re-accreditation 2013-2019)
Internet: http://www.em.tue.nl/
Colophon: Editorial Board: Prof.Dr.Ir. M.G.D. Geers Prof.Dr.Ir. L.J. Sluys Prof.Dr.Ir. A. de Boer Dr.Ir. J.A.W. van Dommelen Editing Mw. R.A.M.F. van Outvorst Publication date: September 2012 Notice: The CD: ‘Engineering Mechanics – Information 2007-2012’ contains additional
information on the Graduate School on Engineering Mechanics, including an electronic version of this self-assessment report.
Contents
I Data sheet II Introduction III The field of engineering mechanics 1 Mission 8 2 Research context 8 3 Educational context 14 4 Education in bachelor’s and master’s phase 18 5 Career prospect for alumni 19 6 Graduation rate 20 7 Measures taken in response to criticisms made at the previous re-
accreditation 21
8 Male/female ratio among the members of the permanent staff, the post-docs and PhD students in the research school
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9 Organization and management 24 10 Financial resources 27
Appendices
A Research themes 29 B Research funding 30 C Joint research activities 2007-2012
C.1 Projects C.2 Publications in co-operation between EM-groups
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D Course descriptions & course planning 33 E Engineering Mechanics symposia 2007-2012 37 F Evaluations 39 G Admission procedures EM 41 H Memberships EM 43 I NWO Graduate Programme Fluid & Solid Mechanics 45 J Organizational structure 54 K Overview of Input 2007-2012
K.1 Senior academic staff K.2 PhD students K.3 Postdocs K.4 Total Input in fte
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L Overview of Output 2007-2012 L.1 Scientific publications: refereed journals L.2 Scientific publications: books, chapters in books L.3 Scientific publications: refereed proceedings L.4 PhD-Theses Completed
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M Report of 2006 peer review panel 63
I Data Sheet
Year of application: 2012, for the period of 1 July 2013 – 1 July 2019 Years in which the previous accreditations have been granted: 1997, 2002, 2007 Name Research School (Dutch): Interuniversitaire onderzoekschool Engineering Mechanics Name Research School (English): Inter university research school Engineering Mechanics Contact details of research School: Contact person: Prof.Dr.Ir. M.G.D. Geers Address: Eindhoven University of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering Den Dolech 2, building Gemini-Zuid P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven Phone: +31 40 247 4060 Fax: +31 40 244 7355 E-mail: [email protected] University acting as secretary: Eindhoven University of Technology Commissioner / Secretariat of the Research School:
Contact secretary: Mw. R.A.M.F. van Outvorst Address: Eindhoven University of Technology
Den Dolech 2, building Gemini-Zuid P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven Phone: +31 40 247 8306 Fax: +31 40 244 7355 E-mail: [email protected] Institutes participating in the Research School: Eindhoven University of Technology with the Departments
• Mechanical Engineering • Mathematics and Computer Science • Biomechanical Engineering • Built Environment
Delft University of Technology with the Departments • Aerospace Engineering • Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering • Civil Engineering and Geosciences
University of Twente with the Department • Engineering Technology
Industries and technological institutes formally collaborating with the Research School: Formal collaborations with industries and technological institutes exist at: (1) the programmatic level with the JM Burgers Centre, the Materials innovation institute (M2i) and the Belgian Graduate School GrasMech; (2) the organisational level through the Industrial Advisory Board; (3) at the level of individual projects. Examples of these collaborations are given in the Annual Reports.
II Introduction
In the Netherlands, graduate schools have been founded for a variety of scientific disciplines. Interuniversity graduate schools are schools in which several Dutch universities participate, as laid down in a formal agreement between the Executive Boards of the participating universities. One of the universities is responsible for the daily organization and administration of the graduate school, including the organization of the PhD educational programme and various scientific activities. These activities are conducted under the responsibility of a scientific director, often, but not necessarily, one of the professors of the university that is in charge of the administration. The primary aims of graduate schools are to provide additional education and training for PhD students of the participating institutions and to foster scientific contacts and collaboration. For the Graduate School on Engineering Mechanics the aims have been further detailed in the Mission Statement, presented in section 1. Graduate schools can be accredited by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), which gives a mark of quality. The accreditation is given on the basis of a proposal in which a coherent educational program for PhD students is described as well as coherence in terms of research between the participating teams. Accreditation is given for six-year periods. After such a period an application for renewal of the accreditation can be filed at the KNAW, which consists of a self-assessment over the past period, together with a peer review based on a site visit, interviews and this self-assessment. The Graduate School on Engineering Mechanics was founded in 1996 and received a five-year accreditation of the KNAW directly at the first application in 1997. It embraces all research groups that are active in the field at the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Delft University of Technology and the University of Twente, with the Eindhoven University of Technology acting as the commissioner, hosting the secretariat. In 2001, a peer review of the activities of the Graduate School over its first period of operation by an international review panel took place and in 2002 the ECOS (Research school accreditation committee)/KNAW-accreditation of the Graduate School on Engineering Mechanics was renewed. In 2006 a peer review of the activities of the Graduate School over its second period of operation by an international review panel took place. In 2007 the Graduate School on Engineering Mechanics received the ECOS/KNAW-accreditation for its third period of operation 2007-2013. This self assessment report constitutes the basis for the peer review for the re-accreditation application for the fourth period 2013-2019. The Graduate School on Engineering Mechanics represents the internationally active groups of the Dutch universities of technology in the area of engineering mechanics. The EM-school also co-ordinates and tunes the research activities in the participating groups (e.g. through the 3TU Centre of Excellence), and it has developed a complete graduate course programme in collaboration with the JM Burgers Centre (Graduate School on Fluid Mechanics). It can therefore be considered as the representative scientific platform in the Netherlands in the engineering mechanics field. This platform sets the strategic directions of future research in the Netherlands in the engineering mechanics field, and it is responsible for the quality of future generations of PhDs, who are the primary determinants of the quality of future activities in this area in the Dutch industries and universities. In the Graduate School on Engineering Mechanics the individual research groups have an essential responsibility in executing their individual research programs. On basis of consensus, the graduate school thereby stimulates certain focal areas of research. More importantly, it exercises a quality control on the level of research, since it has adopted a lower bound for the quality of the participating groups, which derives from the research assessments at the level of the university departments that are commissioned by the Netherlands Association of Universities (VSNU).
III The Field of Engineering Mechanics
Engineering mechanics is concerned with the description, analysis and optimization of the static and dynamic behaviour of materials, products and mechanical processes. Solid mechanics is at the heart of engineering mechanics, but is not necessarily identical to it. Traditionally, engineering mechanics is one of the fundamental cores of engineering sciences such as Aerospace Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Maritime Technology. Assisted by a steady growth in computational power, resources and efficiency, new challenges and perspectives for the engineering mechanics field have emerged. Contemporary developments of engineering mechanics include the following major directions: • Prediction of structural mechanical behaviour from material mechanics and establishment of
structure-property relations for engineering materials and structures, including the ultimate failure of the material or structure. The ultimate aim is to bridge the gap between science and technology in the area of materials processing and design, via computational modelling and experimental analysis of the full thermo-mechanical history of material during their formation, processing and final design, in order to be able to quantitatively predict product properties. This equally applies to structures composed of these materials.
• Prediction of the dynamic behaviour of engineering systems with full account of nonlinearities and multiphysical dynamic interaction and experimental identification under operational conditions. This area is of crucial importance in many practical dynamical systems where friction, contact and other nonlinearities have a substantial effect on the dynamic behaviour.
• Optimization of products, processes and systems by means of computer simulations to enhanced the reliability and to tailor their mechanical behaviour for the particular application. Here, it is assumed that the simulation of the mechanical behaviour can be carried out in a sufficiently accurate way, while the optimal design is traced numerically.
Among typical application areas, the following can be highlighted: • miniaturization & micro-technology: design, optimization, processing and functionality of MEMS
(micro-electro-mechanical systems) and NEMS (nano-electro-mechanical systems); processing, performance and reliability in SiP (systems in package); low-k solutions in IC-technology; lead-free soldering; …
• high-tech consumer applications: flexible displays; flexible photovoltaic cells; lab-on-a-chip systems; RF-MEMS wireless technology; … • high-tech materials: metastable materials; shape memory alloys; TRIP-steels; GLARE; Ni-based
superalloys; thermoshock materials; high-temperature engine materials; self-healing materials; thermoplastic composites, …
• innovation and optimization in manufacturing: polymer-coated sheet processing in packaging; discrete die forming; damage engineering in metals; paperboard engineering; friction stir welding; …
• dynamics of materials and structures: nonlinear control of motion systems and robotics, vehicle dynamics, tire dynamics, acoustics and control, structural acoustics and noise control, structural health monitoring of wind turbines;...
• construction engineering: collision-proof ship hulls; damage control in masonry and concrete structures, … • topology optimization of smart structures As a consequence of the above developments, the traditional boundaries between solid and fluid mechanics are sometimes fading. This happens, for example, in fluid-structure interaction (FSI), in the field of mechanics of materials and in the area of acoustic radiation of structures. In addition, the interactions with other areas of engineering sciences, such as materials technology, thermodynamics and systems and control, become of increasing importance. Finally, it is noted that the successful
implementation of the abovementioned developments in practical applications relies on prior experimental validation of the developed simulation tools and physical models. This requires an increasing interaction between computational modelling and experimental analysis.
1. Mission
The Netherlands Graduate School on Engineering Mechanics has been established with the aim to strengthen research and education in the field of engineering mechanics in The Netherlands. The EM Graduate School intends to be a platform that, on the basis of a number of selected research themes, fosters long-term knowledge and skills in the engineering mechanics field. Although operating primarily at a national level, it intends to stimulate international collaborative research projects within the research themes. Within the foregoing global objectives the following more specific objectives can be formulated: • Training of PhD-students to become qualified independent researchers in the field of engineering mechanics according to international standards. To this end, a series of high-quality graduate courses is developed on specific subjects. • Co-ordination and tuning of the engineering mechanics research activities in the participating groups. Furthermore, the Graduate School aims at strengthening the available infrastructure for research in engineering mechanics. It can be stated that the present infrastructure meets high international standards. • Selection of the main research themes in engineering mechanics carried out within the EM Graduate School. These research themes are being characterized by a strong international position of the research in the Netherlands, while at the same time they are of importance for Dutch industry and society. • Strengthening of the international scientific position and the international visibility of The Netherlands in the engineering mechanics field. • Cooperation with industries and technological institutes to promote the mutual exchange of knowledge on engineering mechanics. • Maintain close connections and cooperate with related fields of engineering. • Stimulate nation-wide thematic discussions, streamlined research strategies and organization of workshops for representatives from industry, technological institutes and project leaders to discuss the needs of industries with respect to scientific research. • Guarding the standards of undergraduate education in the engineering mechanics area at the Dutch universities. This is done in particular by influencing policies with respect to the appointment of professors and other senior staff in this area. • Attracting highly qualified engineers, prospective and established scientists to the Netherlands.
2. Research context 2.1 Research programme and scientific output
An important goal of the Graduate School on Engineering Mechanics is the co-ordination and combination of research activities of participating groups. In accordance to this it was decided to cluster the research activities into three research themes:
1. Computational and Experimental Mechanics This research theme is related to the potential of advanced and innovative computational and experimental techniques for solving problems in mechanics. The theme is strongly multi-scale in nature, spanning research from the atomistic level up to the structural engineering level. It encompasses all activities in mechanics of materials, structural and civil engineering, production and processing technology. Much attention is paid to emerging multi-scale techniques, state-of-the-art mechanical testing at different length scales, optimal numerical procedures and large-scale computing. Important applications are in the field of materials engineering and design, reliability and lifetime
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assessment, mechanics of micro-systems, predictive analyses of production processes, as well as complex structures in civil engineering and aerospace engineering.
2. Structural Dynamics and Control This research theme is related to the dynamic behaviour of engineering structures, components and devices. Important challenges handled in the research of EM relate to understanding and predicting the non-linear behavior of complex structures, experimental identification of structural systems in operation, fast and reliable methods for real-time simulation and understanding the dynamic coupling between different physical fields in advanced systems. Also of importance is the interaction with control. Important applications are in the field of automotive engineering, aerospace and aeronautics, wind energy and robotics.
3. Reliability and Optimization This research theme is related to the development of design procedures based on reliability, as well as to structural optimization with respect to mechanical and dynamic behaviour. It provides a strong methodological basis that is complementary to the other research themes. It is of vital importancefor new technological developments and therefore highly valued by the engineering mechanics industrial backbone. Important applications are in the fields of biomedical technology, nano/micro-system technology, automotive technology, and aerospace. The different research themes are all characterized by a strong international position of the research in the Netherlands, while at the same time they are of importance for Dutch industry and society. Point of departure in all research themes is the development of models based upon the principles of engineering mechanics. These models necessitate and motivate the development of contemporary numerical and experimental tools for solving engineering mechanics problems. The application of these tools in computer-aided design and production processes results in a decrease in the development time of advanced products, and thereby time-to-market, for instance due to a reduction in the required amount of prototypes. Also, an increase in product quality and a reduction in production and operating costs are worth mentioning, improving competitiveness. The optimal use of computational resources for complex numerical simulations as well as the incorporation of nonlinear phenomena in the modeling is common to all three themes. The number of PhD-projects and dissertations per research theme is given in Appendix A.
2.2 Cohesion Intra-university and inter-university cooperation The EM graduate school is a federation of the three Dutch Technical Universities, whereby different Departments participate of each TU. Its intra-university and inter-university character is therefore natural. This has given rise to many joint projects, fostering the co-operation between groups and departments within a university and across universities. This is most evident from the list of joint research activities in Appendix C. Cooperation with para-university institutes and other non-university organizations Based on its strong ties with industry, the EM graduate school has a long tradition in co-operating with para-university and non-university organizations. Examples thereof are TNO, NLR, NRG, M2i, DPI, Nanonext.nl which all participate in EM research projects, and also KNAW, NWO, STW, FOM in funding EM research. Moreover, several of these organizations are represented in the EM Advisory Board. At an international level, the contacts reach to Euromech, Mecamat, ECCOMAS, IACM, IUTAM and several more focused organizations. Section 2.4 provides more details on these and the co-operation with industry in particular. The EM graduate school interacts with the Dutch Institute of Systems and Control (DISC) and has a strong collaboration with the JM Burgers Centre (JMBC), which is the sister Graduate School on Fluid Mechanics. The interaction between fluids and solids in many engineering problems across the scales,
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constitutes a natural common part between both disciplines. Solid and Fluid Mechanics play a significant role in many areas of applications that are relevant for our economy, our society and the preservation of our environment. Solid and Fluid Mechanics are a core part of the educational programmes of a number of disciplines, e.g. Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Maritime Technology, Applied Physics, Aerospace Engineering, Applied Mathematics and Chemical Engineering. Many of the great challenges in Fluid and Solid Mechanics are characterized by their intrinsic multi-scale nature. These multiscale phenomena require advanced multi-scale modelling in order to bridge the gap between the fundamental understanding of small-scale phenomena and emergent properties or even large-scale applications. Not surprisingly, this has become the central theme of the 3TU Centre of Excellence for Multiscale Phenomena in Fluids and Solids, which clusters selected groups participating in the EM and JMBC graduate schools.
2.3 Composition of the research groups, involvement of senior researchers in the research
school Staff Members Responsible for Themes and Programs The Graduate School on Engineering Mechanics was founded as an inter-university Graduate School by the Eindhoven and Delft University of Technology and the University of Twente. The Eindhoven University of Technology acts as the commissioner, hosting the secretariat. Co-operation takes place through local institutes and consortia: • The Research Profile “Mechanics & Control” at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). • The “Koiter Institute Delft” at the Delft University of Technology (TUD). • A number of research consortia at the UT (Thermoplastic research centre; Tire Road consortium;
Maintenance consortium)
Each of them invokes the contributions of specific research groups: University Department Group,
Groupdirector(s) TU/e (Research Profile Mechanics & Control)
Mechanical Engineering
Dynamics and Control Prof.dr. H. Nijmeijer Manufacturing networks Prof.dr.ir. I.J.B.F. Adan Systems Engineering Prof.dr.ir. J.E. Rooda Control System Technology Prof.dr.ir. M. Steinbuch Multi Scale Solid and Fluid Mechanics Prof.dr.ir. M.G.D. Geers, Prof.dr.ir. E. H. van Brummelen Micro- and nanoscale engineering Prof.dr.ir. A.H. Dietzel
Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Multi physics and advanced numerical techniques Prof.dr.ir. R. de Borst, Dr.ir. J. Huyghe
Mathematics and Computing Science
Analysis Scientific Computing and Applications (CASA) Prof.dr. R.M.M. Mattheij, Prof.dr. W.H.A. Schilders, Prof.dr. M.A. Peletier
Construction Engineering Applied Mechanics and Design Prof.dr.ir. A.S.J. Suiker
TUD (Koiter Institute Delft)
Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Structures and Computational Mechanics Dr.ir. S. Turteltaub, Prof.Dr. Z. Gürdal
Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering
Applied Mechanics (PME) Prof.dr.ir. F. van Keulen, prof.dr. D.J. Rixen Prof.dr. M. Gutiérrez, prof.dr.ir. L. Ernst
Civil Engineering and Geosciences
Computational Mechanics, Structural Mechanics and Dynamics Prof.dr.ir. L.J. Sluys Prof.dr. A. Metrikine
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UT
Engineering Technology
Applied Mechanics Prof.dr.ir. A. de Boer, Prof.dr.ir. J. Huétink, Dr.ir. A.H. van den Boogaard Surface Technology and Tribology Prof.dr.ir. D.J. Schipper Mechanical Automation Prof.dr.ir. J.B. Jonker, Dr.ir. R.G.K.M. Aarts Production Technology Prof.dr.ir. R. Akkerman Multi Scale Mechanics Prof.dr. S. Luding
New EM research groups or group leaders that have joined EM in the period 2007-2012 are marked in green. Group leaders that have left EM in the period 2007-2012 are marked in red. Associate members are marked in blue (memberships are defined in Appendix G).
Research groups participate, depending upon their expertise and affinity, in several themes:
Group Computational and
Experimental Mechanics
Structural Dynamics and
Control
Reliability and Optimization
TU/e
Dynamics and Control
Manufacturing networks and systems engineering
Multi Scale Solid and Fluid Mechanics
Multi physics and advanced numerical techniques
Analysis Scientific Computing and Applications (CASA)
Applied Mechanics and Design
TUD
Aerospace Structures and Computational Mechanics
Applied Mechanics (PME)
Computational Mechanics, Structural Mechanics and Dynamics
UT
Applied Mechanics
Surface Technology and Tribology
Mechanical Automation
Production Technology
Multi Scale Mechanics
A summary of information per research theme is presented in appendix A of this report. It contains actual PhD-projects at the start of 2012 and dissertations completed in the period 2006-2012. The following staff members of the EM Graduate School jointly co-ordinated the progress of the research themes in the past period: • Computational and Experimental Mechanics: Sluys (TUD), de Borst - Geers (TU/e), Huétink (UT) • Structural Dynamics and Control: Rixen (TUD), Nijmeijer (TU/e), De Boer (UT) • Reliability and Optimization: Van Keulen (TUD), Etman (TU/e), Geijselaers (UT) .
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2.4 National-International positioning and co-operation in the Netherlands and abroad
National position With reference to its mission statement the Graduate School on Engineering Mechanics fosters the co-operation between participating research groups. This has resulted in an increasing number of joint research projects that received substantial input from different EM-groups. Joint projects in the past period 2006-2011 are summarized in Appendix C. Furthermore, co-operation between members from different participating groups resulted in a total of 113 joint publications in refereed journals and proceedings. Within the field of mechanics of materials, the Graduate School on Engineering Mechanics strongly co-operates with one of the four leading technological institutes, namely the Materials Innovation Institute (M2i). The EM projects in this institute form a coherent program that concentrates on forming processes and on the fundamental understanding and the predictive analysis of a number of carefully selected generic industrial problems. The main challenge within this program is the accurate prediction of mechanical properties of metals with complex microstructures, in view of their application in micro-systems (functional materials) and various engineering manufacturing processes. Establishing micro-macro structure-property relations with a particular emphasis on the improvement of materials, processes and products at various scales, is thereby a key issue tackled both experimentally and numerically. The scientific work in this area directly supports the long-term strategy of the industrial partners involved (Akzo-Nobel, Boal, Tata Steel, DAF, Dow, DSM, Filarc Welding, GE Plastics, Impress Metal Packaging, Montell, Interturbine, Koninklijke Schelde Groep, Océ, Philips, Polynorm, Reynolds Aluminium, Shell, SKF, Stork, TNO, NLR) by acquiring fundamental insight that leads to improved materials and processes. At the same time, the investigated applications in several projects are fine-tuned to a particular industrial request, which provides direct answers to specific engineering questions in industry. The EM Graduate School participates in this leading technological institute with 2 clusters (cluster 1 on ‘Virtual shaping and structural performance’ and cluster 2 on ‘Multi-scale fundamentals of materials’). More than 20 EM research projects were initiated within M2i, contributing to the overall EM output. The Graduate School on Engineering Mechanics also co-operates with other universities, research institutes and various industrial partners within the last phase of MicroNed (completed in 2010); specifically in Cluster IV, the research program on “Fundamentals, Modelling And Design Of Microsystems (FUNMOD)”. This has been continued in the follow-up programme NanoNext.
Starting from the past accreditation period, the research schools Engineering Mechanics (Solids) and J.M. Burgers Centre (Fluids) jointly compose the 3TU Centre of Competence of Fluids and Solids, in which the 3TU Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Multiscale Phenomena is embedded. There is a long tradition of co-operation between the two research schools. As a result of this collaboration, both research schools jointly applied for a NWO Graduate Programme, which has been granted (see section 4). The 3TU Centre of Excellence for Multiscale Phenomena is the core unit of the joint research schools in which the PhD students of the Graduate Programme in Fluids and Solids will be embedded. The organizational structure of the two research schools and their embedding in 3TU and the Netherlands is shown in the scheme below. At the level of the individual research schools, EM and JMBC have a comparable organizational structure: • Governing Board of the research school • Scientific Director • Management team (consisting of members of each of the participating universities) • Industrial Advisory Board and Programme Committee (consisting of representative members of
the industry, TNO and GTIs exploiting the knowledge developed in the research schools) • PhD students Board (consisting of representative PhD students of the participating universities)
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At the national level, the two Graduate schools jointly constitute the 3TU Centre of Competence on Fluids and Solids. At the international level, the two research schools are represented by the Netherlands Mechanics Committee (NMC), through which all formal communication with international scientific organisations (IUTAM, IACM, EUROMECH, etc.) is organized. For the purpose of managing, controlling and organizing the NWO Graduate Programme in Fluid and Solid Mechanics, a GP Supervisory Board is installed.
International position The Dutch Engineering Mechanics field is a traditionally very strong field and internationally well recognised. The Netherlands is one of the leading countries world-wide in this field. This is reflected in the high fraction of Dutch articles in the top journals in this discipline and in the representation of Dutch scientists in the Editorial Boards of these journals and in the Boards of the International Councils in this field. The scope of Engineering Mechanics in the Netherlands is noticeably broad. This holds both contents-wise and method-wise. The employed methods are experimental, theoretical, and numerical, with both fundamental and applied character. Involved university departments include aerospace engineering, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, applied mathematics and biomechanical engineering. The individual groups of the EM Graduate School have active collaboration with research groups in other countries. The multitude of scientific contacts is reflected by many external visitors to the EM groups. Likewise, EM staff also regularly visit mechanics groups abroad, and present their work at international conferences. Various EM groups collaborate in programmes funded by the EU. Details on these collaborations can be found in the EM annual reports.
2.5 Changes in the research programme The most prominent change realized in the past period is the launch of the Centre of Competence on Fluid and Solid Mechanics, with its embedded Centre of Excellence on Multiscale Phenomena. This joint initiative with our sister graduate school in Fluid Mechanics, has enabled EM to steer the research profiles at the different TUs. Within the EM-context, the following researchers have been appointed/attracted: • A new full-time chair on Multi Scale Mechanics at the UT: professor Stefan Luding • A new full-time chair on Precision and Microsystems Engineering at the TUD: professor Miguel
Gutiérrez • A new full-time chair on Multiscale Engineering Fluid Dynamics at the TU/e: professor Harald van
Brummelen
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• A part-time chair on Micromechanics at TU/e: professor Vikram Deshpande (also full professor at Cambridge University, UK)
Besides this CoE programmatic impact, some local changes in the research programme are to be expected as the result of personal career steps of individuals. Within this context, we mention the fact that professor René de Borst has accepted a prestigious Regius professorship in Glasgow University, whereas professor Daniël Rixen has accepted a new challenge at the University of Munich. Meanwhile, professors Dick van Campen, Han Huétink, Koos Rooda, Bob Mattheij, Ben Jonker and Leo Ernst retired. For some of these positions, an overlap construction was already in place, for some other positions new leading scientists will be attracted. Other newly appointed professors are: • professor Akke Suiker on a full-time chair Applied Mechanics and Design at the Built Environment
Department of the TU/e. • professor Remko Akkerman on a full-time chair Production Technology at the Faculty of
Engineering Technology of the UT. • professor Ivo Adan on a full-time chair Manufacturing Networks at Mechanical Engineering
Department of the TU/e. • professor Andrei Metrikine in the group Structural Mechanics at Department Civil Engineering and
Geosciences of the TUD
3. Educational context 3.1. Educational programme
The most important goal of the Graduate School on Engineering Mechanics is the formation and education of graduate students to become independent researchers in the field of Engineering Mechanics. In accordance with this, the Graduate School offers a national four-year training program for PhD students in the field of Engineering Mechanics. It consists of a programmatic part and a PhD research project, accompanied by a personal plan of education and supervision per PhD student. In addition to these joint courses the programmatic part contains an individual course program, with initial and post-initial courses selected from the programs offered at participating groups. Furthermore, participation in workshops and summer schools under guidance of foreign visiting lecturers forms part of it, even as practical work at foreign top-institutes. In 2008, a new course programme has been established in the interest of the PhD students and Post-Docs. Key characteristics are: a two-years cycle course programme, formal registration of credit points, more courses and courses of different type (broad or in depth). Details are provided below: The minimum educational load for PhD students is 20 credit points (one credit point is equivalent to one ECTS-credit and will be further referred to as EC), i.e. 1/3 of a year. Every EM PhD student receives a formal certificate, as proof of his/her successful participation in the EM course programme. Recognized courses and allowable share within the programme: • EM-courses and workshops: PhD courses organized by EM (details below). Minimum share = 8 EC. • Recognized external courses organized by external graduate schools or institutes and approved by
the EM board. Minimum share = 4 EC. • Training relevant to professional skills (courses presentations skills, technical writing, ...) Minimum
share = 2 EC.
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• Master courses given at local institutes to patch missing skills in the training of a PhD student, as required for his/her particular project. If MSc courses are taken, the course exam is compulsory and has to be passed.
Boundary conditions: • The courses have to be attended completely. PhD students who only attend a part of a course will
not receive credit points for that course. • Each individual has to supply a written proof of the successful completion of a local or external
course, to be signed by the supervising professor (promoter). • In order to obtain credit points for an external course that has not been previously approved by EM,
the PhD student must request for an approval prior to the start of the course. • In order to obtain the EM certificate, a PhD student must have attended the EM symposium at least
2 times during his PhD contract. • PhD students who collected a minimum 20 EC, receive a formal certificate, formally handed over
during the annual EM symposium.
Outline of the structure of the EM-courses in the programme: • Duration of a cycle in the course programme = 2 years. • Full courses (3 EC): 6 day courses covering the wide scope of key areas in EM. Two such courses are
organized every year, i.e. 4 courses in a cycle of 2 years. These courses include a rapid summary of basics followed by advanced topics that are beyond the MSc level.
• Topical courses (0.5 or 1 EC): 1- or 2-day courses on specific subjects, for a smaller group of participants. These courses may either strengthen the generic basis or provide specific in-depth knowledge. About 8 such courses are offered in a 2-year cycle.
EM courses All courses are integral part of a 2-year programme. EM course descriptions are listed in Appendix D.
The planning of the 2-year EM course programme based on the last cycle (2011-2012) is given below: EM full courses (typical duration: 6 days)
Scheduling Subject / title Organizers May
1st year Reliability and stability in statics and dynamics Gutiérrez, van Keulen
October 1st year Nonlinear material mechanics Van den Boogaard, Huetink, Sluys,
Luding May
2nd year Advanced dynamics Rixen, Nijmeijer, de Boer
November 2nd year Multi-scale and micro-mechanics Geers, Peerlings, Hoefnagels, van
Dommelen, Kouznetsova The main (responsible) organizer is underlined. Topical courses (typical duration: 1-2 days)
Scheduling Subject / title Organizers April
1st year Continuum thermodynamics Turteltaub, Suiker, Kouznetsova
May 1st year
Optimization and parameter identification Etman, Geijselaers, van Keulen
November 1st year
Solution methods in computational mechanics Mattheij, Peletier, Wijnant
December 1st year
Solving structural – Acoustic coupled problems Wijnant, de Boer, Lopez
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February 2nd year Mechanics in micro-systems Van Keulen, Rixen, Ernst, Bellouard
May 2nd year
Advanced topics in solid mechanics
Van Brummelen, (de Borst), Huyghe, Remmers, Steeb
October 2nd year
Experimental engineering mechanics Hoefnagels, Warnet
November 2nd year Mechanics in large deformations v.d.Boogaard, Schreurs
The main (responsible) organizer is underlined.
External courses Examples of external courses that have been accepted (0.5 EC/day): • CISM courses • Course Nonlinear FEM (Belytschko and Hughes) • GrasMech courses • Graduate courses JM Burgers centre • Graduate courses DISC
Changes in the educational programme As emphasized above, the course curriculum has been completely redesigned since 2008, with a broader course spectrum, and more emphasis on the personal development of each of the PhD students. The new curriculum is continuously evaluated, see section 3.4.
3.2. EM symposia Every year, a two-day Engineering Mechanics symposium is organized (see Appendix E, for a complete list of all symposia from the period 2007-2012). This annual meeting has a multiple focus: • Stimulate scientific research discussions within the EM Graduate School • Present latest developments (e.g. the granted NWO graduate programme) to all members of the
graduate school • Provide a training platform for PhD students to present their research results in an oral
contribution and through a poster session • Foster the professional and social cohesion in the Dutch Engineering Mechanics field These EM Symposia are attended by more than one hundred members of the senior academic staff, post-doctoral researchers and PhD students participating in the EM Graduate School. The program of the Symposium follows a general framework, comprising a keynote lecture (the Koiter lecture) by an international expert in the field, special topic sessions devoted to the research themes of the EM Graduate School and two poster sessions in which PhD students participating within the EM Graduate School present their current research project. In conjunction to the poster session a poster contest is organized in which a jury selects the best three contributions. The contributed posters are published in an information brochure and on the Internet-site of the EM Graduate School. The EM Graduate School also organizes a PhD student Presentation Contest within the framework of the EM Symposium. A jury consisting of the workshop organizers awards prizes for the best PhD student presentation at each of the Symposium workshops. Additional details, including session topics and keynote lecturers, are presented in Appendix E.
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3.3. Training and supervision programme
Structure of the training and supervision programme All PhD students in the Engineering Mechanics graduate school have 1, 2 or even more supervisors depending on the embedding in their research group and the multidisciplinary nature of the PhD project. The full training programme of a PhD student consists of several parts: • Presentation trainings: As a regular part of the training plan, all PhD students present on a regular
basis the progress in their work in internal group meetings, departmental meetings, project progress meetings, EM and JMBC symposia, conferences.
• PhD educational programme: The educational programme is the prime responsibility of the research schools. All course activities of all PhD students are logged, through which the progress of all students is monitored.
• Knowledge dissemination: all PhD students are actively trained to disseminate knowledge by participating in national and international meetings and conferences, and by writing scientific papers on the original contributions in their PhD work.
• Personal development plan: The training programme is complemented by optional courses or trainings, which are needed to improve on a particular skill. Typical examples are the PhD student’s proficiency in English, technical writing skills, etc. Each of the technical universities has also installed a local university-wide graduate school organizing these general skills and the coaching activities. This allows the EM graduate school to focus more on the high-level field-specific courses and training.
• Career development guidance: In the last year, most PhD students are offered assistance in their further career development, often facilitated by the local HRM support.
The supervision plan is made by the responsible professor, including the daily supervision (assured by faculty members in the group) and regular progress meetings. For many projects that are externally funded, additional project meetings take place to fine tune the activities and the progress with other partners or work packages.
Progress monitoring and measures The progress is monitored at different levels and different frequencies: • At the level of the daily supervisor: the progress is here monitored on a daily to weekly basis,
through the frequent interactions between the PhD student and his/her supervisor(s). • At the level of the promoter: the progress is monitored at least on a monthly basis, in close
interaction with the daily supervisor(s). • At the level of the institute in which the PhD student is employed (e.g. university, FOM, M2i, etc):
a yearly assessment (performance interview) is made by the responsible professor and discusses the progress and the performance of the PhD student, as well as the expectations and planning for the coming year. At this point, it is monitored if sufficient progress has been made to successfully finish the project within the PhD term. If the assessment is convincingly negative, the student’s participation in the programme is discontinued and the student is guided towards alternative career opportunities. The monitoring is fine-tuned in agreement with the local university-wide graduate schools.
Policy on male/female ratio among PhD students The policy on male/female ratio among PhD students is quality driven. At equal quality, a female candidate is to be chosen. The graduate school aims to attain a male/female ratio that is at least equal or higher than the male/female ratio in the MSc programmes from which EM recruits.
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3.4. Quality assurance in Education and Supervision Programmes
Quality assurance of the PhD course curriculum The course curriculum is considered as a corner stone of our PhD educational curriculum. For this reason, all courses were evaluated systematically and evaluation results were discussed with lecturers and Governing Board. In general, participants were very satisfied with the courses, appreciating their relevance and the new knowledge and information offered. Furthermore, courses enabled a fast and effective interaction between research and education. A summary of results from the evaluations of the courses of the new curriculum is reported in Appendix F. PhD supervision and monitoring of supervision The supervision of the PhD students is carried out via the professors and the faculty members of the EM research school. They are responsible for the execution of the training and supervision plan for the student. Supervision is carried out on a daily basis, and regular meetings in which the progress of the work and the next steps to be taken are discussed. All projects have a project plan, with a clear planning of activities, which is adapted where needed as a result of the new insights gained from completed research tasks. The supervision is monitored at the level of the research school by verifying the throughput of PhD students in each group and by assessing the reasons for an early withdrawal of a PhD student. At the level of the research groups, regular contacts exist between the scientific director of the research school and the group leaders, whereby supervision issues are discussed if needed. Quality control – Selection and training of supervisors To safeguard the quality levels, EM adopted a new admission procedure (see Appendix G) to assess the quality of a group that wants to become a member. This admission procedure is based on past performance and scientific reputation and guarantees an adequate level of all supervisors in the research school. Young faculty members are trained in supervising by senior group members. Moreover, the local university-wide graduate schools take a direct responsibility on the supervision of the quality of the supervisors, which complements our efforts. Additional instruments in quality management • Feedback from PhD students: EM has a Board of PhD students to collect all feedback from the PhD
students on the functioning, the symposia, the educational programmes and the supervision within the research school. This PhD student Board meets separately and jointly with the scientific staff of the research schools.
• Advisory boards: The EM graduate school has an industrial advisory board, which gives adequate advice on the contents of the educational programme and other activities in the research school.
• Database with progress of PhD students: EM maintains a database that keeps track of the general progress of all PhD students (starting date, end of contract, PhD defence, etc.) and all details of the courses attended in the educational programme of the research school.
The instruments above are used by the Board to define follow-up actions and corrective measures where needed.
4. Education in Bachelor’s and Master’s phase Engineering Mechanics is at the core of the Bachelor programs of the participating (sub-) departments of Aerospace Engineering, Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mathematics and Built Environment at the respective universities. The scientific staff of the EM Graduate School is heavily involved in the engineering mechanics courses of those Bachelor programs. In the MSc phase, several Master tracks with a focus on Engineering Mechanics have been developed as part of the running Master programs. The scientific staff of those (sub-) departments, participating in the EM Graduate School, bears full responsibility for the contents of those Master tracks. MSc students take part in the research activities of the participating groups at the respective universities.
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In the context of the 3TU confederation, a nation-wide two-year Master track in Fluid & Solid Mechanics has been designed and implemented in their respective departments of each TU. In these parallel Master tracks the EM Graduate School co-operates with the sister Graduate School JM Burgers Centre for fluid mechanics (JMBC). Based on this initiative, a proposal for a 3TU graduate programme in Fluid and Solid Mechanics has been granted by the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO), see Appendix I. The NWO graduate programme constitutes the excellence track in Fluid and Solid Mechanics, whereby the best BSc students are selected for entering the MSc phase. The MSc phase is organized as an excellence track in different MSc programmes. The optimal structure of the course list for this special track (see Appendix I.3) results from the close interaction between the Chair of the Graduate Programme and the different local directors of the Graduate Schools, ensuring short communication lines with the programme directors of the MSc programmes involved. The programme formally starts in September 2012 with excellent students with a pronounced PhD ability. At the end of the MSc phase, each of these students will write his/her proposal for a PhD project in collaboration with the research group of their choice. Among these, 4 students will get direct funding for their project from the NWO grant. This graduate programme is managed and monitored by a Graduate Programme Supervisory Board, in which an equal number of members from EM and JMBC participate. The selection process of the granted PhD projects will be carried out by an independent jury.
Changes in the involvement in the BSc and MSc phase The most important change compared to the previous accreditation period is the direct involvement in the MSc phase, through the recently granted NWO Graduate Programme on Fluid & Solid Mechanics (see comments above). More details on this graduate programme can be found in Appendix I.
5. Career prospects for alumni
The EM Graduate School follows the careers of EM alumni with great interest. Delivering young bright people to society is the main vehicle for transfer of scientific knowledge to application-driven areas. Not surprisingly, almost all have found an employment very rapidly. The figure below shows the first career position of our EM alumni: • Half of the EM alumni (51%) work in industry in the Netherlands and abroad. Important employers
are ASML, Philips, Tata-steel, SKF and various SMEs. • 39% of EM alumni take up an academic position after their PhD. • 6% of EM alumni obtained a position at a technological institute (of which TNO with 83% is the
main employer).
Academia 39%
Techn.Inst. 6%
Industry 51%
Other 4%
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6. Graduation rate 6.1 Graduation data
Particular attention has been given to the reasons underlying the numbers depicted in the last two columns, relating to PhD students that have not yet finished or are discontinued (within the EM Graduate School). The main causes of the delay for the individuals that have not yet finished are: (1) Serious health problems of the PhD candidate; (2) Death or serious illness in the family of the PhD candidate; (3) PhD candidate who gave birth to a child during her PhD, including extra time to care for the child; (4) PhD candidates that have started to work in industry before the completion of the PhD thesis and thereby postponed the defense. The main causes underling the last column of PhD students who discontinued with our Graduate School: (1) PhD students that were forced to stop during the project time, since they were not able to meet the PhD requirements; (2) PhD students who moved with their supervisors to another University, Department or graduate school (several cases); (3) PhD students who did not complete the thesis at the final stage, since the level was not of sufficient quality and the candidate did not make the required effort to improve on it (few cases only).
6.2. Analysis of Graduation Data
The figure below shows the full time taken by EM students to obtain their PhD. The median is 4 years and 6 months. Note that all PhD students have to submit their thesis at least 3 months in advance of the defense date (as required by the formal PhD approval procedures at each university) and that all PhD contracts end well earlier than what is indicated by the duration. Most of the ongoing PhD students of early cohorts are special cases: part-time PhDs that combine the PhD study with a job in industry or students with a special medical or personal history.
Enrollment Success rates Total
Starting year
Male/ Female
Total (male + female)
Graduated Within ( ≤)
4 years
Graduated within ( ≤)
5 years
Graduated within ( ≤)
6 years
Graduated within ( ≤)
7 years
Total graduated
Not yet finished
Moved &
stopped
#M #F # # # # # # # #
2007 30/3 33 8 22 28 28 28 2 3 2006 36/3 39 12 23 28 32 32 3 4 2005 31/2 33 5 18 24 25 25 2 6 2004 30/8 38 6 17 23 29 29 2 7 2003 26/4 30 8 20 22 22 22 0 8
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7. Measures taken in response to criticisms made at the previous re-accreditation 7.1. Measures taken in response to the 2006 peer panel review
See Appendix M for the report of 2006 peer review panel.
• Recommendation: The Peer Review Committee strongly and unanimously recommends that the Engineering Mechanics (EM) Graduate School be re-accredited for the period 2008-2013. Measures taken: KNAW-ECOS re-accredited EM for the past period.
• Recommendation: The Peer Review Committee recommends that there be an additional budget to foster further scientific interaction between the three universities participating in the EM Graduate School, in order to enhance the impact of the Engineering Mechanics community on industry and society in The Netherlands. Measures taken: An additional budget from NWO for funding 4 PhD students in the NWO Graduate Programme (with JMBC) has been obtained. Nevertheless, EM does not have a structural financial source of income and therefore depends on the contribution from its participating groups.
• Recommendation: The Peer Review Committee recommends that the visibility of Experimental Mechanics in the EM courses be increased. Measures taken: This recommendation has been explicitly addressed in the new course curriculum, where topical courses on experimental mechanics are now incorporated, whereas this subject also receives more attention in the full courses.
• Recommendation: The Peer Review Committee fully supports the 3TU Centre of Excellence, although it is concerned about the lack of balance between solids and fluids. In addition, topics involving complex materials that cannot be characterised as traditional solids or fluids are of increasing scientific and technical importance. This Centre of Excellence provides a unique opportunity to develop a major research activity in these emerging areas that should not be missed. Measures taken: The 3TU Centre of excellence on Multiscale Phenomena has been implemented in the past accreditation period and a balanced number of chairs between fluids and solids have resulted from it. Particular emphasis has been given on FSI (Fluid-Structure interaction; chair of professor van Brummelen, TU/e) and particle-based materials (Chair of professor Luding, UT), which is a common area of interest between fluids and solids. The NWO Graduate Programme is equally balanced between Fluids and Solids.
• Recommendation: The Peer Review Committee fully supports the future plans of the EM Graduate School, in particular the 3TU master program in fluid and solid mechanics, which we hope will be started without delay. Measures taken: A complete Graduate Programme on Fluid and Solid Mechanics has been submitted and granted by NWO and has subsequently been implemented. For more details, see Appendix I.
• Recommendation: The Peer Review Committee encourage to develop ways to improve the interaction with industry in the EM Graduate School, e.g. through lectures by industrial representatives in courses or industrial participants in the annual meetings. Measures taken: To address this comment, the EM school has: (i) incorporated an industrial membership protocol in its regulations, through which a few companies joined our course programme; (ii) explicitly opened the EM courses to industrial participants. Likewise, the industry has participated systematically in the EM symposia, through its representatives of the Advisory Board and occasionally through some other invited colleagues.
• Recommendation: The Peer Review Committee encourages the EM program to keep a close relation with related areas. Measures taken: This recommendation was particularly relevant for the past accreditation period. The appointment of several new professors in the EM community has been a careful process, in
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which the profile descriptions largely integrated this valuable recommendation. These new chairs are now all integrated in the EM research programme. The close interaction that now exists with our sister graduate schools (JMBC, DISC, GrasMech) are a clear indicator of this intensified relation with related areas.
7.2. Measures taken in response to the comments made by ECOS at the 2007 re-accreditation
• Further development of the educational programme: This recommendation was addressed by developing a new course programme, with an account of course credits, with different course types, within a 2-year scheme, and with due attention to the full development of our PhD students. Details of this new course programme have been given in section 3.1 and in Appendix D.
• Vision on the research school’s future: In view of the mission of the EM Graduate School, important steps have been taken in the past accreditation period to foster the School’s future. From the research focus side, EM has (jointly with JMBC) initiated the Centre of Competence on Fluid and Solid Mechanics, with the Centre of Excellence on Multiscale Phenomena embedded in it. The momentum which this has delivered, will offer many fruits for the years to come. From the educational side, the new course curriculum and its embedding in the local Graduate School initiatives of the participating universities is essential. The recently received grant from NWO for a Graduate Programme in Fluid and Solid Mechanics is the next step to foster the educational embedding of the EM school.
• Profile and presentation of the school: The profile of the EM school has been sharpened
considerably through the implementation of the steps mentioned above in relation to the school’s future. Its research profile and its educational profile have a clear nation-wide visibility through the CoC/CoE on the one hand and the new PhD educational and NWO graduate programmes on the other hand. The presentation of the school is further secured through its participation in the CoC/CoE and of course through the website of the school www.em.tue.nl. The website of the school has been redesigned and optimized completely in the past accreditation period.
• The lower output of some of the participating groups: The Board of the EM Graduate School has
given special attention to this concern. Since the research performance of the participating groups is assessed by QANU following the Standard Evaluation Protocol (SEP), the school has decided to use the results of this SEP research evaluation to address this concern. To ensure a quality threshold for all participating groups of the EM graduate school, a next membership protocol has been worked out and approved by the board (see Appendix G and H). Section 4 of this protocol gives special attention to the performance of the participating groups. As a minimum threshold for scientific quality, the QANU marks for quality, quantity, relevance and viability, according to the most recent version of the SEP protocol, have to be at least 3, 3, 3, 3, respectively. All groups participating in EM at present, comply with this new membership regulation.
8. Male/female ratio among the members of the permanent staff, the post-docs
and PhD students in the research school
All participating universities apply a clear policy to increase the representation of female colleagues among the academic personnel. In spite of all these efforts, the male/female ratio within the graduate school indicates that women are still underrepresented. Comparing the number of female researchers in the graduate school with the number of female graduates in the participating departments however, clearly points out that the male/female ratio is fully consistent with the equivalent ratios in the master programmes. Considering this reality, it is believed that this unbalanced ratio is not further controllable by the graduate school, since it results from the corresponding unbalanced instream in
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the particular master tracks. Furthermore, it should be emphasized that this is not specific to EM or The Netherlands, but that this trend is present in many engineering disciplines worldwide.
Category Total Male Female Permanent staff 93 88 (95%) 5 (5%)
Post-docs 32 28 (88%) 4 (12%)
PhD students 155 137 (88%) 18 (12%)
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9. Organisation and Management
9.1 Formal structure, management and organisation of the research school
The organizational structure of the Graduate School on Engineering Mechanics as it has been implemented in the period 2007-2012 is summarized in the following organization chart:
The Scientific Director is in charge of the day-to-day management of the Graduate School. Local Directors from the participating Universities assist him in this. TU Eindhoven as commissioner supplies extra support for general management and secretariat. Altogether they form the Management Team. The Governing Board establishes the annual plans on research, education and finances of the Graduate School. They are advised on this by the Advisory Board, which consists of representatives from industry and applied research institutes. The composition of the Governing Board and the Advisory Board are given in the Table below:
Governing Board Advisory Board
Prof. R. de Borst (chairman, until 2012) Eindhoven University of Technology
Dr. P. van den Berg Deltaris, Delft
Prof B. Sluys (member since 2010, chairman since 2012) - Delft University of Technology
Ir. G. Calis (until 2011) - Stork until 2010 - Arbiter at Raad van Arbitrage voor Metaalnijverheid en Handel
Prof. A. de Boer University of Twente
Dr.ir. S. Hoekstra M2i, Delft
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Prof. D.H. van Campen (until 2012) Eindhoven University of Technology
Ir. H.J. ten Hoeve NLR, Marknesse
Prof. J. Huétink University of Twente
Dr. F.J. Klever Shell Int. Expl. and Production B.V., Rijswijk
Prof. D.J. Rixen (until 2012) Delft University of Technology
Dr. J. van der Lugt TaTa Steel R&D, IJmuiden
Prof. F. van Keulen (since 2012) Delft University of Technology
Dr. R. Woltjer NXP Semiconductors, Eindhoven
Ir. D.Ph. Schmidt TNO, Delft
Dr.ir. F.J. Blom (since 2010) NRG, Petten
Prof. E.H. van Brummelen (since 2012) Eindhoven University of Technology
The Board of PhD students represents the PhD-students within the Graduate School and provides direct feedback towards the Management Team. They are involved in the evaluation and organization of the EM-courses and the EM-symposium and they can initiate activities for fellow PhD-students. Members at present are:
Board of PhD students Ir. E.W.C.(Erica) Coenen (until 2011) Eindhoven University of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering Ir. J. (Jeroen) van Beeck (since 2011) Eindhoven University of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering Ir. W.R(Ronald) Kampinga (until 2010) University of Twente Department of Engineering Technology Ir. E.R. (Erwin) Kuipers (since 2010) University of Twente Department of Engineering Technology Dipl.ing F. (Frank) Radtke (until 2010) Delft University of Technology Department of Civil Engineering Technology
Ir. M.R. (Farid) Talagani (since 2010) Delft University of Technology Department of Aerospace Structures and Computational Mechanics
The Governing Board of the Graduate School usually meets once or twice a year (or more if needed), once during the Engineering Mechanics Symposium (cf. Section 3.2), which normally takes place in the fall, and once during the period May-June. The latter meeting is organized at one of the participating universities and accompanied by lab visits. The Advisory Board usually meets once or twice a year and those meetings take place in conjunction with the meetings of the Board. In between the meetings of the Board, the Management Team and/or the Local Directors meet regularly to discuss and act on issues of current importance. All in all this offers a flexible and effective organization of the EM Graduate School.
For completeness, the organizational structure of the EM Graduate School is also summarized in Appendix J.
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9.2 Personnel
# / fte Year-5 Year-4 Year-3 Year-2 Year-1 Year now
Tenured staff (#/fte)
96/25.2 97/25.7 90/24.5 86/24 93/25.6 93/25.5
Non – tenured staff (#/fte)
21/13.7 18/12.1 24/19.2 34/22.6 35/24.2 32/22.8
PhD students (#)
140 150 154 168 154 162
Based on SEP, table 5.2 (first part) Note 1: Comparable with WOPI categories HGL, UHD and UD Note 2: Comparable with WOPI category Researcher, including post docs Note 3: Standard PhD (employed) and Contract PhDs (externally or internally funded but not employed)
9.3 Managerial policy
The EM Graduate School operates on the basis of a professional collaboration between different research groups of different departments and universities, sharing a common interest, i.e. training and developing our future generations PhD students in solid mechanics. The running budget of the graduate school is based on membership contributions. The graduate school does not receive additional funding from the participating universities or other resources. With its operating budget, the graduate school faithfully fulfils its major tasks. Typical cost covered are the secretarial support, administrative costs, costs for running the educational programme, costs related to the EM symposia, membership costs e.g. ECCOMAS, IUTAM, costs for covering peer review expenses, etc.
As a result of this limited budget, the research school does not have a formal power of designing and implementing its own personnel and investment policy. Only exception for this is the recently granted NWO Graduate Programme. The procedure for implementing the personnel policy in this programme is formalized in an agreement by the Graduate Supervisory Board. Note that in spite of its limited formal power, the Graduate School has a clear informal influence through the close links between the EM members and the involvement of the EM members in the CoE and in their respective Universities.
9.4 Secretarial support
The secretarial support is organized with the support of the university hosting the graduate school administration (i.c. TU/e). The costs involved are covered by the annual contributions of the participating groups. The secretary of the Graduate School takes care of all administrative and planning issues, in particular those related to tracking and tracing of all PhD students participating in the course programme and assisting all responsible lecturers for all the courses. The secretary also takes care of the annual report of the Graduate School. In order to carry out its tasks, the secretary keeps close contact with all the individual secretaries of all research groups participating in EM. The modus operandi of the EM secretary works well, to the satisfaction of all participating universities and groups.
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9.5 Changes in management and organisation compared with the previous re-accreditation application
Since April 2012, a few personnel changes have been implemented, resulting from new career steps taken by the involved colleagues. As of April 1st 2012, prof. L.J. Sluys acts as the chairman of the Board, replacing Prof. R. de Borst. Prof. F. van Keulen has joined the Board, replacing Prof. D.J. Rixen. Prof. E.H. van Brummelen (TU/e) has joined the Board, replacing Prof. D.H. van Campen. The Graduate Schools Engineering Mechanics (Solids) and J.M. Burgers Centre (Fluids) jointly constitute the 3TU Centre of Competence of Fluids and Solids, in which the 3TU Centre of Excellence (CoE) on Multiscale Phenomena is embedded. There is a long tradition of co-operation between the two Graduate Schools. The 3TU Centre of Excellence for Multiscale Phenomena is the joint excellence centre of EM and JMBC, supported by 3TU. The organizational structure of the research schools and their embedding in 3TU and the Netherlands was shown in section 2.4. At the international level, the two Graduate Schools are represented by the Netherlands Mechanics Committee (NMC), through which all formal communication with international scientific organisations (IUTAM, IACM, EUROMECH, etc.) flows. The financial support of 3TU for the development of the CoE on Multiscale Phenomena has been mainly materialized through new full professor chairs at each TU. At the start of 2010, all 5 planned full professors have been appointed, among which 3 professors are (at least partially) involved in EM (van Brummelen, Luding, Gutiérrez). Moreover, 4 part-time professors have been appointed.
10. Financial resources
10.1 Expectations for coming period In spite of the overall reduction of the financial resources at all universities and also NWO/STW/FOM, we expect that the impact thereof will remain limited since the EM Graduate School operates on themes that are central to several top sectors (e.g. high-tech systems and materials, energy, health, mobility/automotive). From this perspective a stabilization of the number of PhD students for the coming years is expected. Likewise, the available capacity for training and supervision is expected to remain stable.
10.2 Educational and administrative costs The financial resources for supporting all educational and administrative tasks are acquired through the group contributions (see section 9.3). This will be maintained in the coming period. Meanwhile, several local Graduate Schools initiatives are being taken at universities, through which direct funding for the educational activities of EM might be possible.
10.3 Financial track record
Below, the overview of the Graduate School’s annual financial resources during the last period of accreditation is given, broken down into direct funding, research grants and contract research. The data results from the total of all participating groups over the last four years. The numbers are based on 50 kEuro/year for one researcher.
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Year-5 Year-4 Year-3 Year-2 Year-1 Year now Direct funding (1) 1000 kEuro 1175 kEuro 925 kEuro 925 kEuro 1000 kEuro 700 kEuro
Research grants (2) 2000 kEuro 1850 kEuro 2100 kEuro 1550 kEuro 1425 kEuro 1200 kEuro
Contract research (3) 4000 kEuro 4475 kEuro 4675 kEuro 5925 kEuro 5275 kEuro 6200 kEuro
Total funding 7000 kEuro 7800 kEuro 7700 kEuro 8400 kEuro 7700 kEuro 8100 kEuro
Notes: (1) Direct funding by the university / KNAW / NWO (2) Research grants obtained in national and international scientific competition (e.g. grants from NWO, KNAW and European Research Council) (3) Research contracts for specific research projects obtained from external organizations, such as industry, governmental ministries, European Commission and charity organizations
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Appendix A: Research Themes 2006-2011
General
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Average # PhD-projects 139 150 154 168 154 162 154.5 # Dissertations 23 21 21 25 31 32 25.5
Theme: Computational Mechanics (CoMe)
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Average # PhD-projects 92 100 106 112 106 103 103.2 # Dissertations 13 11 13 17 21 26 16.8
Theme: Structural Dynamics and Control (StDy)
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Average # PhD-projects 36 33 30 38 31 39 34.5 # Dissertations 8 9 5 7 8 2 6.5
Theme: Reliability and Optimization (ReOp)
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Average # PhD-projects 11 17 18 18 17 20 16.8 # Dissertations 2 1 3 4 2 4 2.2
CoMe 67%
StDy 22%
ReOp 11%
PhD Projects 2006-2011
CoMe 66,0%
StDy 25,5%
ReOp 8,5%
PhD Theses 2006-2011
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Appendix B : Research Funding This appendix contains a cross tabulation of PhD-projects with respect to: Sources of financing: PhD 1: University - PhD 2: STW, NWO, FOM, FTW - PhD 3: Industry, TNO, EC funds, Nuffic, M2I, DPI, Marie curie network Research themes: CoMe: Computational Mechanics, StDy: Structural Dynamics and Control, ReOp: Reliability and Optimization The numbers are based on 50 kEuro/year for one researcher.
Year-5 Source of financing CoMe StDy ReOp Total
PhD1 650 kEuro 350 kEuro - 1000 kEuro PhD2 1600 kEuro 350 kEuro 50 kEuro 2000 kEuro PhD3 2350 kEuro 1100 kEuro 500 kEuro 4000 kEuro Total 4600 kEuro 1800 kEuro 550 kEuro 7000 kEuro
Year-4
Source of financing CoMe StDy ReOp Total PhD1 725 kEuro 400 kEuro 350 kEuro 1175 kEuro PhD2 1500 kEuro 250 kEuro 100 kEuro 1850 kEuro PhD3 2775 kEuro 1000 kEuro 700 kEuro 4475 kEuro Total 5000 kEuro 1650 kEuro 1150 kEuro 7800 kEuro
Year-3
Source of financing CoMe StDy ReOp Total PhD1 625 kEuro 250 kEuro 50 kEuro 925 kEuro PhD2 1800 kEuro 250 kEuro 50 kEuro 2100 kEuro PhD3 2875 kEuro 1000 kEuro 800 kEuro 4675 kEuro Total 5300 kEuro 1500 kEuro 900 kEuro 7700 kEuro
Year-4
Source of financing CoMe StDy ReOp Total PhD1 575 kEuro 300 kEuro 50 kEuro 925 kEuro PhD2 1350 kEuro 150 kEuro 50 kEuro 1550 kEuro PhD3 3675 kEuro 1450 kEuro 800 kEuro 5925 kEuro Total 5600 kEuro 1900 kEuro 900 kEuro 8400 kEuro
Year-5
Source of financing CoMe StDy ReOp Total PhD1 650 kEuro 250 kEuro 100 kEuro 1000 kEuro PhD2 1225 kEuro 150 kEuro 50 kEuro 1425 kEuro PhD3 3425 kEuro 1150 kEuro 700 kEuro 5275 kEuro Total 5300 kEuro 1550 kEuro 850 kEuro 7700 kEuro
Year-6
Source of financing CoMe StDy ReOp Total PhD1 350 kEuro 250 kEuro 100 kEuro 700 kEuro PhD2 850 kEuro 300 kEuro 50 kEuro 1200 kEuro PhD3 3950 kEuro 1400 kEuro 850 kEuro 6200 kEuro Total 5150 kEuro 1950 kEuro 1000 kEuro 8100 kEuro
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Appendix C: Joint Research Activities C.1 Projects
Title Start Participants
Rotor Dynamics (STW) 2005 Applied Mechanics (UT), MeAu (UT)
Title Start Participants
Inverse Acoustics (STW) 2005 Applied Mechanics (UT), DyCo (TU/e), Nine companies (Philips….), 2 other universities
Title Start Participants
Objective determination of failure mechanisms in geomechanics (STW) 2004 CoSt (TUD), SoMe(TUD), MSM(UT), Other universities, 4 Companies
Title Start Participants
Multiscale Methods in Computational Mechanics Twin projects I - IV (project of DFG, NWO & STW) 2002 Multi-scale solid and Fluid Mechanics (TU/e), NuMe (TU/e), EnMe (TUD), PME (TUD), MSM (UT) Uni Stuttgart TU Munich, Sandia Nat Laboratories
Title Start Participants
Drape Simulations 2002 Applied Mechanics (UT), ProTe (UT), NLR Stork-Fokker
Title Start Participants
Swelling Materials (STW, Shell, NWO) 1998 Materials Technology (TU/e), CASA (TU/e), STW/Shell
Title Start Participants
Rotor Dynamics for micro systems 2007 Applied Mechanics (UT), MeAU (UT), PME (TUD), DyCO TU/e
Title Start Participants
Nonlinear soil vibrations induced by high-speed trains 2006 SoME (TUD), CoSt (TUD)
Title Start Participants
Friction stir processing 2008 ProTe (UT), Applied Mechanics (UT)
Title Start Participants
Self healing materials 2008 Pro Te (UT), MSM (UT)
Title Start Participants
Model reduction of complex high-tech systems (STW) 2008 DyCo (TU/e), CASA (TU/e), EnMe (TUD)
Title Start Participants
Friction modelling in sheet metal forming on multiple scales 2009 Applied Mechanics (UT), Trib (UT), Tata Steel
Title Start Participants
Motion in Vacuum by Elastic mechanisms and Tribology (Mov-ET) 2009 Trib (UT), MeAU (UT)
Title Start Participants
Structural health monitoring 2009 Applied Mechanics (UT), ProTech (UT)
Title Start
Local Alloying and Cladding of Advanced Al-Alloys Employing Friction Stir Welding 2009
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Participants Applied mechanics (UT), ProTe (UT) Title Start Participants
Intelligent Rotor Blades 2009 Applied Mechanics (UT), ProTe (UT)
Title Start Participants
Ultrasonic Inspection of Thermoplastics 2009 Applied Technology (UT), ProTe (UT)
Title Start Participants
MC1/2.03158: Strain path dependent models for forming and crash 2002 Multi-scale solid and Fluid(TU/e), Applied mechanics (UT), Tata Steel Philips Boal Alum., RWTH Aachen
Title Start Participants
MC1/2.05205: Forming the limits of damage predictions –From fundamentals to application 2005 Multi-scale solid and Fluid (TU/e), Applied Mechanics (UT), Tata Steel, DAF, Philips, DAP
Title Start Participants
MC2.03177 / MC2.02113 / 02EMM30-1/2: Tailoring of processable Metastable steels (FOM-M2i project) 2005 Multi-scale solid and Fluid (TU/e) , EnMe TUD, TUD-LR (Tata Steel, Philips, DAP)
Title Start Participants
Transport phenomena and multiphysics (TRANSMU) 2006 EnMe (TUD), PME (TUD), MSM (UT, Other TUD and TU/e groups, Philips
i) Title Start Participants
Workpackage IV-C Micromechanics (MicroNed) 2006 Multi-scale solid and Fluid (TU/e), PME (TUD), RUG, , Philips Research, App.Tech and NXP, M2I, DPI
Title Start Participants
Workpackage IV-D Design and Optimization (Microned) 2006 Dynamics and Control (TU/e), PME (TUD), ApMe (UT), MeAU (UT)
1) Close interaction with M2i, where a related project is carried out (MC2.05235)
C.2 Publications in co-operation between EM-groups
# of joint publications Total
2006-2011 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Ref. journals 2 18 9 9 9 8 55
Ref. proceedings 2 24 4 16 6 6 58
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Appendix D: EM course descriptions Title: Mechanics in micro-systems Date; Location: February 9-10 2010, TUD Lecturers: Goosen, French, Schitter, Staufer Contents: Today’s micro- and nanofabrication techniques provide an overwhelming flexibility and versatility. Although these techniques originated primarily from the research and developments targeted for electronics, mechanical structures can be manufactured equally well. Given their small dimensions, these mechanical structures may exhibit unique responses and may interact with physical domains unthinkable at the macro level. This graduate course provides an introduction to the world of microsystems and tries to demonstrate the possibilities offered. A particular focus will be on mechanics being used as a tool for focusing at nano resolution. The main ingredients of the course are: Introduction to micro- and nano fabrication, scaling, examples of micro- and nano systems, atomic force microscopy and other nanotools. Title: Advanced topics in solid mechanics Date; Location: May 26-28 2010, TU/e Lecturers: van der Zee, Remmers, Huyghe, van Brummelen Contents: An introduction to interface problems. The course starts with a introduction, characterizing the generic properties of interface problems, as well as the specific attributes pertaining to various prototype problems. Fluid-structure interaction: Introduction to fluid and solid mechanics and fluid-solid interface conditions. Free boundaries, moving domains: three-field formulations. Partitioned solution procedures and added-mass effects. Variationally consistent load evaluation. Crack propagation and the Partition of Unity Method: Introduction to cracks and fracture mechanics. Cohesive zone models. Theory of the Partition of Unity Method for crack propagation. Implementation aspects of the Partition of Unity Method. Interface phenomena in biomechanical systems: Ionised interfaces, double layers, swelling. Crack propagation in fluid-solid mixtures. Multiscale modelling of multiporosity with application to blood perfusion. Phase-field models: Introduction to the Cahn-Hilliard equation,Energy principles: stability / well-posedness, Steady solutions: constants / transition solution. Spinodal decomposition: linearization and Fourier analysis. Long time behavior: sharp-interface limit model (Mullins-Sekerka). Numerical aspects: mixed FEM and gradient-stable time integrators. Title: Advanced dynamics Date; Location: June 2-4 2010, TUD - June 9-11 2010, UT Lecturers: Rixen, Schwab, De Boer, Ellenbroek, Fey Contents: Basic principles of Dynamics (Discrete systems): Dynamic formulations, Linearization and linear stability. Multibody dynamics (rigid bodies): Newton-Euler equations, finite rotations, constraints, application to bicycle dynamics and walking robots. Basic principles of Dynamics (Continuous systems): Elastodynamics, linearization, prestressed systems, discretization, flexible multibody dynamics. Vibration and Modal analysis: Undamped and lightly damped systems, damped systems, non-linear vibrations, eigensolvers and time integration. Experimental techniques: Sensors and excitations, mode extraction techniques, operational modal analysis. Hands-on exercise. Title: Multi-scale and micro mechanics Date; Location: November 8–10, 22-24 2010, TU/e Lecturers: Deshpande, Doghri , van Dommelen , Geers, van der Giessen, Hoefnagels, Hütter, Kouznetsova, Onck, Pardoen, Peerlings, Schreurs , den Toonder
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Contents: Short introduction: Multi-scale & Micromechanics: overview, mathematics & notations, reminders of continuum mechanics. Mean-field homogenization of heterogeneous materials: averaging and mean-field theories, Eshelby and Mori-Tanaka approaches, self-consistent methods, cell methods. Scale transitions: asymptotic homogenization, computational homogenization, thermodynamics perspective on coarse graining. Microplasticity in metals discrete dislocation plasticity, crystal plasticity: single and polycrystalline models, scale size effects. Micromechanics of semi-crystalline materials: multi-scale mechanics of semi-crystalline polymers. Mechanics of interfaces & thin films: cohesive zone modeling, thin film mechanics. Cellular and porous materials: micromechanics and fracture of foams, plasticity of porous materials. Ductile damage, creep fatigue: physics of ductile damage, micromechanical modeling and characterization, micromechanics of creep and fatigue. Microstructure evolution: introduction to phase field models. Experimental micromechanics: microscopy & analysis tools, multi-scale testing. Lab and training sessions: related to the course subjects. Title: Mechanics of large deformations Date; Location: November 3–4 2010, UT Lecturers: van den Boogaard, Huétink, Schreurs Contents: An introduction to geometrical nonlinearity: Limitations of geometrical linear theory - Geometrically nonlinear equations for a simple truss structure Nonlinear solution techniques (refresher). Kinematics: Position vectors and coordinate systems - Deformation tensor - Strain tensors- Deformation rates. Stresses and balance law: Equilibrium in deformed and undeformed configuration - Energy conjugated stress definitions - Objectivity requirements. Finite element formulations: Total Lagrange - Updated Lagrange. Material models for large deformations. Hyperelastic models - Elastoplastic (rate) models. Title: Experimental engineering mechanics Date; Location: December 9-10 2010, TU/e & UT Lecturers: Hild, Schipper, Matthijn, de Rooij, Sloof, Bellouard, Warnet, Hoefnagels Contents: To design better materials and systems, the mechanical behavior of the material or system in an application, such as damage or failure, needs to be coupled to the deformation of its (micro-)structure in order to elucidate the underlying physical deformation mechanisms. To this end, experimental (micro-)mechanics seeks to study mechanical deformation through the measurement of (local) forces and strains (under various loading conditions) and, if possible, simultaneous visualization of the microstructural deformation. Such an integration of experimental techniques is often necessary to gain sufficient insight into the complex deformation mechanisms. This calls for a careful design of the experiment, as well as a minimum level of understanding of the various existing deformation tests and microscopes in order to select the appropriate experiment, therefore: the short graduate course on ‘experimental engineering mechanics’ provides an overview and introduction to commonly-used experimental deformation and visualization techniques, in which the underlying physical principles will be briefly addressed. Other topics: design of an optimal experiment considering statistical and systematic accuracies and limitations, also in the context of miniaturization of the experiment, mechanical deformation tests, including, e.g., tensile, bending, compression tests, (nano)-indentation, tribology, and digital image correlation, microscopic techniques to visualize deformation, including optical microscopy (different contrast modes), electron microscopy (including EDX and EBSD), and scanning probe microscopy (including AFM and STM), and a short (optical microscopy) lab session. Examples from faculty research and literature will be used to illustrate possibilities and restrictions of these techniques.
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Title: Continuum thermodynamics Date; Location: April 7-8 2011, TUD Lecturers: Turteltaub, Suiker, Kouznetsova Contents: General introduction: Objectives and scope- Notation and summary of tensor algebra and analysis. Thermodynamics of continuum media: Basic mechanical and thermal concepts - Reference and current configurations - Mechanical concepts- Thermal concepts- Energy of a continuum- Intensive and extensive quantities in the reference and current configurations. Thermomechanical principles: Principles in global form (integral relations) - Principles in local form (differential relations). Constitutive theory: Field equations and constitutive models - Thermoelasticity- Theories with internal variables- Dissipation and kinetic relations: Onsager’s framework. Thermoelasticity: Introduction Thermodynamical laws - General equations of a thermoelastic material - Thermodynamical equilibrium - Linear thermoelastic material - Isotropic linear thermoelastic material - Isothermal and adiabatic conditions. Elastoplasticity: Introduction - Inelastic materials and internal variables - Constitutive laws and dissipation inequality. Elastoplastic material- Approach based on postulate of maximum dissipation - Approach based on dissipation potential. Von Mises plasticity with isotropic hardening - Von Mises plasticity with kinematic hardening- Drucker-Prager plasticity with isotropic hardening. Martensitic phase transformations and damage: Introduction - Martensitic phase transformations - Transformation kinematics and stress-strain response - Formulation in terms of the Helmholtz and Gibbs energy densities - Thermomechanical constitutive model- Kinetic relation for transformation - Heat conduction and latent heat - Summary of main model equations. Phase transformations with damage: Derivation of model equations from Helmholtz energy density - Driving forces for transformation and damage -Stress and conservative entropy- Kinetic law for damage. Although the emphasis in the present course is on solid materials, the general thermodynamical principles are valid for continuum media, including fluids (liquid and gases).
Title: Reliability & stability in statics and dynamics Date; Location: May 30–June 1, June 22–June 24 2011, TUD Lecturers: van Keulen, Tiso, Verhoosel, Gutiérrez Contents: Stability analysis : Functional description - General buckling phenomena - Initial post-buckling behaviour - Linear and nonlinear pre-buckling solution - Buckling of discrete systems -Buckling of finite element models - Geometrical stiffness - Geometrically nonlinear finite element analysis - Asymptotic initial post-buckling analysis - Eigen value analysis - Sensitivity analysis - Dynamic buckling. Reliability and uncertainty: Description of uncertainty - Probabilistic models -Statically determinate structures -Random fields - Parameter sensitivity computation -Perturbation technique - Spectral methods - Geometric reliability methods - Nonlinear problems - Title Optimization and parameter identification Date; Location: May 20, 23 2011, TU/e and TUD Lecturers: Abdalla, Etman, Geijselaers , Gürdal , van Keulen, Langelaar Contents Basic principles: Introduction to design optimization, optimization problem formulation, problem properties, conditions for optimality, classification of optimization problems. Gradient-based local search methods: Concepts of gradient-based search methods, line search methods, trust region methods, methods in structural optimization. Surrogate modeling. Concepts of surrogate modeling, response surface modeling, radial basis functions, neural networks. Structural sensitivity analysis: Approaches, finite difference gradients, semi-analytic derivatives, adjoint formulation, continuum derivatives. Structural topology optimization: Topology optimization concepts, SIMP method, level set method, sensitivity analysis, applications Optimization of composite laminate structures: Optimization with discrete variables, optimal laminate design, genetic algorithms, applications.
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Title: Nonlinear material mechanics Date; Location: October 4-6, 11-13 2011, UT Lecturers: Akkerman, van den Boogaard, Huétink, Luding, Magnanimo,
Perdahcioğlu, Simone, Sluys, Thornton Contents: Vectors and tensors - Kinematics (material coordinates, deformation tensor, polar decomposition, strain tensors) - Force and stress, Balance laws - Fundamental concepts of constitutive equations (thermodynamics, frame indifference, elasto-viscoplasticity, yielding and hardening) - Multi phase materials (phase transition,TRIP, composites, anisotropy) - Plasticity models and continuum damage models (yield functions, damage loading functions, tangential formulation, return mapping, locking) - Higher-order continua (non-local, gradient models, micro polar models) - Particle Methods (particle systems, molecular dynamics for particle systems, smooth particle hydrodynamics for continuum systems) - Depth-averaged models (applied to granular systems) - From Particle Systems to Continuum Theory (micro-macro transition methods, plastic flow models, higher order - continua, advanced theories) - Nonlinear solution techniques (Newton-Raphson methods, convergence criteria, Load-, displacement-, arc-length-control) - Discontinuous models (weak/strong models (GFEM/XFEM), continuous discontinuous models). Title: Solutions methods in computational mechanics Date; Location: November 3- 4 2011, TU/e Lecturers: ten Thije Boonkkamp, Anthonissen Contents: Partial differential equations (PDE) are ubiquitous in mechanics, describing a wide range of phenomena like stresses in a solid or waves. In this course we will address some numerical methods for PDE. In particular, we will discuss discretisation methods for PDE and iterative solution methods for the resulting algebraic systems. The following topics are included: Classification of PDE - Finite volume and finite difference methods for elliptic equations - Discretisation methods for the wave equation - Iterative solution methods for (non)linear algebraic systems. The discretisation methods will be analysed in terms of accuracy and stability. As for the iterative solution methods, a few state-of-the-art methods for sparse systems, both symmetric and nonsymmetric, will be discussed. The course will include a number of computer sessions, in which the participants can put in practice the numerical methods introduced. Title: Solving Structural Acoustic coupled problems Date; Location: December 8-9 2011, TU/e Lecturers: Ines Lopez Arteaga, Ysbrand Wijnant Contents: This course will give a concise introduction to varies aspects on vibro-acoustics. It focuses on numerical/theoretical aspects (finite element methods/boundary element methods to solve the Helmholtz equation as well as source localization techniques) but some experimental (specifically source localization) techniques are covered as well. This course is part of the 3TU Engineering Mechanics training program for PhD students.
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Appendix E: Engineering Mechanics Symposia 2007-2012
Title Date # Participants Keynote lecture Sessions
# Posters Winning posters
Winning presentations
Tenth Engineering Mechanics Symposium October 11 – October 12, 2007 145 Prof. Bernard Schrefler, University of Padova Multi-physics, Mechatronics and Smart Structures, Composites, Discretisation and Solution Techniques 81 X. Shan (TUD), Thermal effects on two-phase flow in porous media E. Coenen (TU/e), Multi-scale computational homogenization of structured thin sheets L. Burchitz (UT), Accurate simulation of springback using adaptive integration Y. Schroeder (TU/e), Computational investigation of key parameters in disc generation E. Steur (TU/e), Synchronization of electronic Hindmarsh-Rose neurons M. Patricio Dias (TU/e), Periodically distributed materials with local imperfections I. Burchitz (UT), Adaptive integration for accurate springback prediction
Title Date # Participants Keynote lecture Sessions # Posters Winning posters
Winning presentations
Eleventh Engineering Mechanics Symposium October 30 – October 31, 2008 138 Prof. Gerhard Holzapfel, Graz University Interface and Surface Mechanics, Reliability and Uncertainty, Mechanics of Miniaturisation Model Identification, Validation and Doe 79 A. Schutte (UT), Towards a multigrid solver for finite elements applied in contact problems T. Hille (TUD), Oxide growth and fracture processes in thermal barrier coatings R. Mestrom (TU/e), Resonances in clamped-clamped beam MEM resonators A. Blom (TUD), Design and manufacture of a composite cylinder with circumferentially varying stiffness F. van der Meer (TUD), Modeling delamination between cracking plies H. Sadegian (TUD), Mechanical characterization on nanoelectromechanical cantilevers D. Akcay Perdacioglu (UT), A hybrid design optimization for the field of structural dynamics
Title Date # Participants Keynote lecture Sessions # Posters Winning posters
Winning presentations
Twelfth Engineering Mechanics Symposium October 29 – October 30, 2009 150 Prof. Charbel Farhat, Stanford University M2i, Fluid-structure interaction, MicroNed, Dynamics 83 H. Sadeghian (TUD), Size effects on silicon Nanocantilevers J.C. Pina (TU/e), Microstructure-based material model for thermo-mechanical fatigue of cylinder heads H.A. Visser (UT), Condition monitoring of uPVC gas pipes C. Tasan (TU/e), Micro-mechanical characterization of ductile damage in sheet metal F. Pizzocolo (TU/e), A mixed hybrid formulation for 2D poroelasticity with discontinuity N. van Dijk (TUD), A new discrete level-setbased topology optimization method B. Biemond (TU/e), Nonsmooth bifurcations of equilibria in planar continuous systems
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Title Date #Participants Keynote lecture Sessions
# Posters Winning posters
Winning presentations
Thirteenth Engineering Mechanics Symposium October 28 – October 29, 2010 130 Prof. Herbert Mang, TU Wien MuST/Multiscale, Optimisation,Mathematical and numerical solution methods, Energy 83 E. Coenen (TU/e), A multi-scale oddity: unifying homogenization and localization W. Quak (UT), An adaptive methods & forming processes J.H. Wiebenga (UT), Robust optimization of forming processes L. Del Tin (TUD), Handling of stress constraints in topology optimization E. Coenen (TU/e), A multi-scale oddity: unifying homogenization and localization P. Rosen Esquivel (TU/e), A new discrete level-set based topology optimization method C.T. Bolsman (TUD), Nonsmooth bifurcation of equilibria in planar continuous systems
Title Date # Participants Keynote lecture Sessions
# Posters Winning posters Winning presentations
Fourteenth Engineering Mechanics Symposium October 24 – October 25, 2011 129 Prof. O. Gottlieb, Technion Israel Institute of Technology Non-linear dynamics, Composites and hybrid materials, Experimental mechanics and physics, Coupled problems 64 B.G. Vossen (TU/e), Multi-scale analysis of cohesive interfaces W.J.B. Grouve (UT), Modelling the laser assisted tape placement of thermoplastic composites T.H. Ooijevaar (UT), Vibration based structural health monitoring of advanced composite structures B. Besselink (TU/e), Model reduction for nonlinear dynamical systems with incremental gain of passivity properties S. Hosseini (TU/e), The application of the energy dissipation arc-length solver for the simulation of damage in composite materials L. Bergers (TU/e), Do precipitates influence time-dependent metallic microbeam deformation? T. van Opstal (TU/e), Fluid-structure interaction in complex folded membranes
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Appendix F: Evaluation of EM Graduate Courses General All EM courses are assessed to get optimal feedback from all the participants. The assessment of the course allows to permanently evaluate the organization of each course, the quality of the course, the match between expectations and the actual course content, the contributions of all individual lecturers, etc. The course programme as a whole takes great benefit from this systematic assessment procedure. Summary of results Topical Courses
Extent to which participants agree on a five-point scale with the statements mentioned.
Scores have the following meaning: 1 = I totally disagree 2 = I disagree to a great extent 3 = I disagree/agree partly 4 = I agree to a great extent 5 = I totally agree
Courses under consideration are Course 1: Mechanics in micro-systems Course 2: Advanced topics in solid mechanics Course 3: Mechanics of large deformation Course 4: Experimental engineering mechanics Course 5: Continuum thermodynamics Course 6: Structural optimization, algorithms and applications Course 7: Solution methods in computational mechanics Course 8: Solving structural acoustic coupled problems
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Average
I am content with the course in general. 3.87 3.79 4.37 3.87 4.5 3.87 4.7 4.14
I found the course relevant for my own field of interest. 3.6 3.58 4.26 3.6 3.13 3.6 4.1 3.7
I would recommend the course to someone in a similar field of interest. 4 4.05 4.26 4 4 4 4.7 4.15
I see opportunities to apply topics of the course in my own work soon. 3.27 3.37 3.95 3.27 2.75 3.27 3.7 3.37
The course offered a lot of new knowledge and information. 3.57 3.95 3.58 3.57 4.38 3.57 4.1 3.82
Summary of suggestions for improvement
Course 1: Mechanics in Microsystems More elaboration on novel fabrication methods/microsystems and less on the standard microfabrication/microsystems Course 2: Advanced topics in solid mechanics Print the slides as handouts
Course 3: Mechanics of large deformation More practical applications useless to spend too much time on the proves of formulas More (practical) examples of large deformations computations with finite element packages Some more exercises Perhaps distortion effect of FEM in large deformations is interesting (ALE, remeshing) Receiving the course programme more in advance
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Course 4: Experimental engineering mechanics If the course is addressing non-experimentalists it should have more case studies and direct examples of which technique to be used. If the course is aiming at giving a detailed insight of the most relevant tools in experimental mechanics: it should have better connections between different lectures, (e.g. optical microscopy- scanning electron microscopy)
Course 5: Continuum thermodynamics Use more days for this course
Course 6: Structural optimization, algorithms and application
Add additional optimizations examples test cases, not only structural optimization problems Course 7: Solution methods in computational
mechanics PDE topics little less fast, more practical Engineering
Course 8: Solving structural acoustic coupled problems
not evaluated
Summary of results Full Courses Courses under consideration are: Course 9: Advanced dynamics
Course 10: Multi-scale an micro mechanics Course 11: Reliabiltiy & stability in statics and dynamics Course 12: Nonlinear material mechanics
9 10 11 12 average
I am content with the course in general. 4.33 4.47 4 4 4.2
I found the course relevant for my own field of interest. 3.93 4.42 4 3.64 4
I would recommend the course to someone in a similar field of interest.
4.2 4.63 4 4 4.21
I see opportunities to apply topics of the course in my own work soon.
3.53 3.84 3.4 3.43 3.55
The course offered a lot of new knowledge and information.
3.4 4.28 4.6 3.86 4.04
Summary of suggestions for improvement
Course 9: Advanced dynamics Less lectures and more matlab demonstrations to explain difficult points. Use same notations for models. Change the sequence of the lectures (in a more logical sense). Publication on subject beforehand woould be nice.
Course 10: Multi-scale an micro mechanics Slides and notes could perhaps been sent online before the start of course A lower number of hours per day would be appropriate. More exercises with detailed and answers in the future courses Microscopy More thorough treatment on crystal plasticity
Course 11: Reliability & stability in statics and dynamics
Receiving presentation/slides as hand outs before the course starts
Course 12: Nonlinear material mechanics Preferred lecture notes in PDF files instead of printed versions Sending preparative notes a month before the course starts. More practical training. More thorough treatment on MD simulations, XFEM
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Appendix G: Admission procedure EM - regulations Selection, admission criteria and procedures (applying to the memberships listed in Appendix H) Membership admission Group membership
A group membership is granted by the Board of the Graduate School. The group leader sends a written motivated request to the scientific director. The Board decides on the basis of all criteria and arguments provided. Once the group is admitted to EM, all group members (faculty, PhDs, Post-Docs) can subscribe to EM by completing the form (in attachment). The subscription forms of PhD students and Post-Docs must be approved and signed by the direct project supervisors.
MSc student membership
Excellent master students, who wish to become an MSc student member, can fill in a subscription request. This request needs a separate motivation from the responsible supervisors, accompanied by a list of course marks obtained in the MSc course programme. The scientific director decides on the basis of all information provided.
Associate membership
An associate membership is also granted by the Board of the graduate school. A formal request has to be sent to the scientific director. The Board decides on the basis of the established contacts with EM members, the embedding, expected integration and contribution to the EM graduate school.
Industrial membership An industrial membership can be granted by the Board of the Graduate School to companies or research institutes with a strong interest for the EM research activities. To this purpose, the company or institute sends a written motivated letter to the scientific director. The Board decides on the basis of all criteria and arguments provided. Once a company or institute is admitted to EM, its research employees can freely participate in the course activities of the Graduate School. Double membership admission Faculty members Faculty members can be member of more than 1 graduate school. They are nevertheless expected to play a substantial and active role in each of the graduate schools in which they participate. To be admitted to a graduate school, at least 25% of the research activities should fit in EM’s research programme. PhD students and Post-Docs
Researchers (PhD students and Post-Docs) can be member of one graduate school only (KNAW requirement).
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Quality monitoring & control Quality expectations
The Engineering Mechanics graduate school expects all its group members and associate members to aim for a contribution to a high quality research programme. This includes high quality publications with a good citation impact, keynote lectures, patents or inventions, editorial roles in international journals, memberships of international assessment committees, etc. In terms of PhD supervision, a good progress monitoring procedure is expected. It is the prime responsibility of the group leader to work towards these goals.
Research assessment Every 6 years, the quality of the research programmes is assessed by QANU. All research programmes are evaluated in terms of quality, quantity, relevance and viability. The outcome of this assessment constitutes the prime feedback on the quality of the research programmes. The quality of the PhD supervision is monitored through direct feedback from PhD students, either individually or through the PhD student board. Monitoring
As a minimum threshold for scientific quality, the QANU marks for quality, quantity, relevance and viability, according to the most recent version of the SEP protocol, have to be at least 3, 3, 3, 3, respectively. In case a research group underperforms as apparent from the QANU assessment its membership will be reconsidered by the EM Board. If the supervision of an individual PhD student lacks quality, the EM management team will directly contact the responsible supervisors to address the problem.
Additional provision All situations for which this regulation does not apply will be handled by the Governing Board of the Graduate School.
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Appendix H: Membership EM – regulations Regular Membership – Group based
The regular membership of the Graduate School Engineering Mechanics is based on the admittance of a 3TU research group to become a group member of the School. The membership of a group is based on three criteria: 1. Research programme of the group: The programme should fit in the mission of the EM graduate school
and there needs to be a solid basis for co-operation between the scientific group members and other members in the graduate school. The group’s research programme must have a critical mass that lies well within EM’s scope.
2. Scientific performance and quality: A new research group can be admitted to EM: (1) on the basis of a proven scientific track record that underpins the quality of the group leader and faculty members, for a group with established scientists; (2) on the basis of good expectations for scientific quality and performance for the group leader and faculty members for a new (young) group. If a new EM group has previously been assessed by QANU, the requirements outlined in section 4.3 for existing member-groups apply for the new group as well.
3. Expectation for integration in the graduate school: The integration of a new group within EM implies an active participation in the execution of EM’s PhD course programme and a regular participation of PhD students in the courses offered by EM. Group members are expected to participate in the annual EM symposium to present their scientific progress in the oral and poster sessions.
Group based members of EM either fall in one of the following categories:
• Faculty members: Faculty members are junior (assistant professor) or senior (associate or full professor) researchers appointed at the research groups by one of the respective universities. They have a prime responsibility in supervising the PhD students and Post-Docs during their research projects, and in assisting all PhD students during their PhD educational programme. A high quality of the supervision is one of the key requirements. Faculty members from an EM research group can be voluntary member of EM if their research focus fits in the EM research programme. As a member of the Graduate School EM, faculty members are expected to actively contribute to the knowledge dissemination (PhD course programme) and knowledge exchange (EM symposium).
• Post-Docs: Post-Docs are young researchers with a PhD degree, who actively contribute to research projects in the participating research groups. They can take benefit of the EM course programme and they are expected to participate and contribute to the yearly EM symposium. They can also play an active role in the Graduate school, by assisting in the PhD educational programme.
• PhD students: PhD students are the research members of the Graduate school, aiming to obtain a PhD with the support of the Graduate School and the educational part thereof. The PhD projects are proposed by the supervisors and typically fit within the scope of the EM research topics. PhD students belonging to member groups are admitted to the Graduate School on proposal of one of the supervising faculty members (also EM member). They are expected to fully attend the EM course programme for 20 ECTS and they are expected to participate and contribute to the yearly EM symposium.
The membership of a group involves a yearly financial contribution, and an individual (small) contribution to the EM-symposium. The group and individual fees will be determined yearly by the governing board of the Graduate School. For the yearly fee, full access to the educational programme for all subscribed group members is granted. MSc student membership Excellent MSc students from an EM research group (i.e. an EM group membership as defined in section 1.1 applies) that are following a MSc-PhD Graduate programme or who have been identified as potential PhD students in the master phase already, can be admitted as a MSc student member of the EM Graduate
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School. These students need to be registered in one of the adhering Master programmes of the EM graduate school. MSc student members can be admitted to the Graduate School upon nomination of the MSc/PhD supervisors (EM members). Admittance implies that MSc student members are allowed to participate in the EM PhD educational programme and the EM symposium. Associate Membership – Individually based Individual faculty members who are not part of an EM research group (as defined in section 1.1) can be admitted to the Graduate School as an associate member. They can also propose a maximum of 2 PhD students or Post-Docs to become an associate (PhD student or Post-Doc) member. Note that only 1 faculty member from a group can be an associate member. A larger participation in EM necessitates a group membership. Associate members of EM can be (1) researchers from a non-EM research group of 3TU, (2) researchers from Dutch non-3TU research groups that have an established scientific track record of high quality in engineering mechanics or (3) established researchers of high quality from a non-Dutch group. The associate membership implies that Associate members can participate in all EM events, including its educational programme. Associate members (faculty, Post-Doc or PhDs) have to contribute financially to the activities (including EM courses) in which they participate. Industrial Membership Companies and institutes with long-term research activities in the field of the Graduate School can request an industrial membership of the Graduate School Engineering Mechanics. The industrial membership grants full and free access to all courses of the EM course programme for research employees working in the company. Moreover, as an industrial member, researchers from these companies or institutes can attend the EM symposium, where they can also actively participate in the poster sessions. For registration at the symposium, the EM-researchers regular fee has to be paid. The industrial membership of a company or research institute involves a yearly financial contribution, and the individual contribution for participation to the EM-symposium. The level of the company and individual symposium fees are determined yearly by the governing board of the Graduate School.
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Appendix I: NWO Graduate Programme Fluid & Solid Mechanics I.1 Context I.1.1 What? NWO has granted the Dutch interuniversity research schools J.M. Burgers Centre (JMBC) and Engineering Mechanics (EM) a Graduate Programme, which covers an educational excellence programme joining the MSc phase to the PhD phase. This two-year excellence MSc-track provides MSc students the opportunity to work and study with different groups, offering the student a large degree of freedom to make his/her own choices, even across the 3 TU’s. It provides the MSc student a unique chance to write his/her PhD-project proposal at the end of the MSc phase and acquire funding for it. An attractive study programme is offered that focuses on the central role of Fluids and Solids in our Engineering society. Students in this excellence track will be in the spotlight of the industry, opening doors for their future. The programme starts in September 2012 with the Master phase, where outstanding candidates who have obtained their BSc degree will start in one of the MSc tracks involving Fluid & Solid Mechanics at one of the three Technical Universities (3TU). In a call, group leaders and scientific staff members in JMBC and EM are invited to identify and inform potential candidates for entering the first phase, the MSc track. At the end of the MSc track, the four best – finished MSc graduates – will receive one of the 4 PhD-grants for carrying out their own PhD project. The selection of these 4 students will take place in open competition and is based on quality screening only, including a proposal for the PhD project. EM and JMBC hope to extend the number of grants that can be offered in future calls.
I.1.2 Who can apply? The best BSc students, who must have received their BSc diploma by the end of August 2012, can submit their candidacy (motivation letter + CV) with the support of at least one of the EM/JMBC staff members. All scientific staff members working in the graduate schools EM or JMBC are invited to submit a support-letter for candidates applying for admission to the MSc-phase of the Graduate Programme Fluid & Solid Mechanics. Submission includes - Motivation Letter - CV of the MSc candidate (including all BSc marks obtained) - A proposal for the MSc course plan that is consistent with this call - Support Letter of one or two JMBC or EM staff members (if possible from different disciplines) I.1.3 Scientific framework The research programme of the joint EM-JMBC graduate programme consists of the core research activities in Fluid & Solid Mechanics. The Solids pillar in engineering mechanics is concerned with the description, analysis and optimization of the static and dynamic behaviour of materials, structures, products and processes. It therefore plays a vital and substantial role in economy and society. The Fluids pillar is the description, analysis and optimization of fluid flows, relevant for many phenomena in our environment and important for a multitude of industrial, biomedical and environmental processes. In many engineering problems, the interactions between fluids and solids across the scales constitute the common interest of both disciplines. Fluid & Solid Mechanics as well as their interface are of utmost importance for many applications relevant for our economy, our society and the preservation of our environment. Fluid & Solid Mechanics are the technical core of the educational programmes of a number
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of disciplines, e.g., Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Maritime Technology, Applied Physics, and Applied Mathematics. Many of the great challenges in Fluid & Solid Mechanics are characterized by their intrinsic multi- scale nature and their interaction with neighboring disciplines. Fast and slow physical phenomena interfere and interact at hugely different, small and large length-scales, ranging from atomistic to environmental scales. This requires advanced multi-scale modelling in order to bridge the gap between the fundamental understanding of small-scale phenomena and the emergent properties of large-scale systems and applications.
I.2 Graduate Programme I.2.1 The MSc phase Organisation of the Master phase The MSc excellence tracks Fluid & Solid Mechanics have a comparable composition at the three TU’s (see I.2.2.). To ensure that the MSc students will get the opportunity to familiarize in-depth with different groups in which they might continue their PhD studies, the programme offers a large freedom-of-choice on the one hand, but also encourages the students to study in different research groups. In order to realize such rotations across the groups, but also across the 3TU’s, the following elements are formalized by mutual co-ordination of the 3 MSc tracks: • Within each MSc track, at each university, many groups participate with lectures and offering
projects. Each of the Master tracks has an obligatory and an elective part, both reflecting the fundamentals of Fluid & Solid Mechanics as well as the experience and contribution of the groups. Hence, all MSc students participating in the Excellence Programme will naturally get the opportunity to not only gain specialized knowledge needed for their MSc and PhD research, but also will learn about research strengths and challenges at the 3TU’s.
• Each MSc track has an internship or training period, in which MSc students carry out research outside of their home-university and host-group. For this phase, the MSc student will work on a short research project, which is a collaboration between different disciplines (or involving a different international excellence group at a top university abroad). This will enforce the student to get in contact with new research disciplines – involving more than one group.
• The MSc final project is carried out under the responsibility of one graduation professor from EM-JMBC (not necessarily the original supporter, or his group, leaving the MSc students the flexibility of choice). The research projects will involve a substantial research component from another EM-JMBC group, through which one of the faculty members of that group will act as co- supervisor.
• Already during the MSc phase, students are encouraged to participate in some of the courses of the PhD graduate course programme. This offers a natural way to get to know the scientists (and their respective research programmes) of other groups, other Departments and even other TU’s.
• Both EM and JMBC organize a symposium each year. The MSc students in the excellence track are expected to participate in both symposia (free of cost), providing them the opportunity to explore the full research scope of both research schools, and establish personal contacts with the participating research groups.
• 3TU has the infrastructure in place to offer common elective courses in the MSc tracks Fluid & Solid Mechanics across the universities. Using courses that have been made available in video lectures, the research schools are planning to explicitly share courses in the MSc curricula, to fill in gaps and facilitate the rotational structure of the MSc tracks at the 3TU’s. Furthermore, these courses will also be offered to PhD students in EM/JMBC, so that the excellence track MSc students come in early contact with the PhD students at EM and JMBC.
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• The MSc phase incorporates an explicit connection between fluids and solids. Each Master track includes a part of both disciplines, and special attention is given to fluid-structure interaction problems in the programme (see attachments).
Freedom of choice for Master students The implementation of the MSc phase in a Master track formally ensures rotations between groups (see organisation above), but also offers a great freedom of choice to the Master students. Their mentor (original supporter) will be available to advise them concerning their course program and the internship: • Entering one of the MSc tracks in Fluid & Solid Mechanics, the students have the freedom to
choose their host university (one of the 3TU’s) and one of the enveloping MSc programmes (see Appendix A) with a broad coarse list in Fluid & Solid Mechanics.
• In the MSc track, there is a large freedom-of-choice to compose the package of elective courses (the part that is not obligatory) from the huge number of courses offered (see Appendix A).
• For the Master final project, the students – knowing better the 3TU’s, the research schools EM and JMBC, and some of the groups and PhD students – will have the option to choose (or reconsider) their university, group and project theme.
• Students have to select a supervisory professor in the EM-JMBC group (for groups, see www.3tufsm.nl) in which they want to graduate as MSc student (co-supervised by a faculty member of another group). The prior rotations in the first part of the Master track offer the students adequate insight and overview to enable them to make a motivated choice.
Only towards the end of the MSc phase (Spring 2014), students will select one or more EM-JMBC group(s) while applying for a PhD project (to be defined, and submitted to the selection committee by the students – in close consultation with his/her future supervisors). PhD Research proposal by Master students The MSc students in the excellence track have to propose and work out their own PhD research proposal, taking into account possible funding constraints (since external funding may be required, see below). All MSc students enrolled in the Graduate Programme will submit their research proposal to an independent assessment committee that will select the 4 best proposals, to be funded directly through the NWO Graduate Programme. Another 6 proposals will be admitted to the PhD excellence track, but since these projects have to be funded through different routes, the research proposal may have to fit a particular programme or has to be accepted by the host-groups and the participating industrial partners. The collaboration between different groups (with different disciplines) during the PhD research, however, is a strict condition to ensure added value and synergy – ideally, but not necessarily across the 3TU’s. I.2.2 Educational programme and transition to the PhD phase Master phase The MSc tracks consist of 4 parts: (1) an obligatory part; (2) elective courses; (3) research assignments and internship; (4) MSc graduation project. On top of this, MSc students already participate in the JMBC and EM PhD courses. More details of these parts are given in Appendix I.3. The MSc excellence tracks Fluid & Solid Mechanics are embedded in the Masters Mechanical Engineering and the Masters Applied Physics at TU/e and UT and, in addition, also in the Masters Applied Mathematics at UT, as well in the Masters Mechanical Engineering at TUD. The list of courses in each of the tracks at each TU is also given in Appendix I.3.
PhD phase The purpose of the PhD-programme of the JMBC and EM research schools is the support of PhD- students to allow them to develop as independent researchers in the field of fluid and solid mechanics. To reach this goal a thorough and fundamental knowledge of fluid/solid mechanics phenomena and their
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mathematical and numerical modelling is required, as well as the ability to further develop this knowledge and to apply it to solve scientific and technical problems. An important part of the PhD-programme consists of the execution of a scientific research project under the supervision of an expert of one of the research schools.
The research schools EM and JMBC both organize the education in the PhD phase through a course curriculum of at least 20 ECTS credits. Details on this course curriculum and the list of all courses organized by EM and JMBC are given in Appendix I.4. At present, the research schools jointly offer 24 PhD courses in a 2-year cycle, which offers a large freedom of choice for all our PhD students.
MSc‐PhD coherence The structure of the new excellence graduate programme in Fluid & Solid Mechanics obviously interweaves and links the MSc and PhD phase: • MSc students in the excellence track already can follow PhD courses in the MSc phase. • The research assignments in the MSc phase are parts of ongoing research projects at the PhD level, through which the MSc students also get in contact with PhD students already working in the different research groups.
International activities at MSc and PhD level At the MSc level, students have to take a research internship at another group (or internationally, at a contact/relation of another EM-JMBC group, but not as “ambassador” of the host-group). For the students in the excellence track on Fluid & Solid Mechanics, the internship serves to ensure an important rotation in the MSc research phase, by taking a research assignment in another field, represented by one of the other EM-JMBC groups.
From the MSc final project onwards, the graduate programme students are enrolled in research projects as PhD students. They are then expected to present their work in the groups, at EM/JMBC events, and at international conferences – on an annual basis. On top of the PhD course curriculum, all PhD students are expected to participate in workshops, summer schools and seminars in order to both broaden and deepen their knowledge and expertise. Even though this is a less-structural part of the training programme, it is very valuable for the education of the PhD-student, and will usually be in the area of fluid or solid mechanics to which the research project of the PhD-student belongs. All this enriches the multi-disciplinary, multi-sectorial, and international experiences of our excellent PhD students.
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I.3 EM-JMBC Master track programmes on Fluid & Solid Mechanics General structure of the MSc tracks The structure of the MSc tracks consists in
• Obligatory (or Key) courses – This part of the MSc track formalizes that students will get acquainted with the main research directions in Fluid & Solid Mechanics (typical size 20-30 EC).
• Elective courses – In the elective courses students can already specialize in a particular
direction of their interest or continue to widen their scope by integrating a number of disciplines (typical size 20-30 EC).
• Research assignments, internship and literature study – This part of the MSc track
typically instructs the students in the art of conducting research and science (typical size 15-20 EC).
• MSc graduation project – This research assignment of the MSc track completes the
MSc phase and has a typical size of 45-60 EC.
• Finally, the excellent MSc students in the Graduate Programme are invited to participate in the PhD course programme already from the MSc phase onwards. Excellent students are well able to take this extra challenge.
Note that the small differences in the EC size of the different parts of the track are only due to its local implementation in the enveloping Master programmes at each of the 3 TUs. Each of the Master programmes determines the exact size (in EC credits) of the different units in the embedded MSc track. This offers an additional freedom of choice for the students, while selecting a combination of university/department/master for studying a MSc track in Fluid & Solid Mechanics. Each of the 3 Technical Universities has a Master track in place, embedded in one of the enveloping Master programmes. The tracks are listed on the following pages, for each university: TUD, MSc track Fluid & Solid Mechanics embedded in the Master Mechanical Engineering. TU/e, MSc track Fluid & Solid Mechanics embedded in the Master Mechanical Engineering and the Master Applied Physics. UT, MSc track Fluid & Solid Mechanics embedded in the Master Mechanical Engineering and the Master Applied Physics.
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I.3.1 TU Delft – Master track Fluid & Solid Mechanics MSc Course list
Obligatory Courses EC credits
Wb1451-05 Engineering Mech. Fundamentals 4 CT5142 Computational Methods in Non-linear Solid Mechanics 3 WB1409 Theory of Elasticity 3 WB1427-03 Advanced Fluid Dynamics A 5 WB1428-3 Computational Fluid Dynamics 3 WB1417 Introduction to Fluid-Solid Interaction 4 WI3105ME Analysis 4 3 Plus one of the following: MS4041 Structure of Materials 5 MS4051 Physics of Material 6 NS3511TU Biophysics 6
Elective Courses
AE4140 Gas Dynamics I 3 AE4141 Gas Dynamics II 3 AP3181 D Applied Multiphase Flow 6 CT5145 Random Vibrations 4 WB1310 Multibody Dynamics A 3 WB1405A Stability of Thin-Walled Structures 1 4 WB1406-07 Experimental Dynamics 3 WB1408A Shell Structures - Introductory Course 3 WB1408B Shell Structures - Advanced Course 5 WB1412 Linear & Non-linear Vibrations in Mechanical Systems 3 WB1413-04 Multibody Dynamics B 4 WB1416 Numerical Methods for Dynamics 3 WB1417-05 Fluid-Structures Interaction 4 WB1424ATU Turbulence A 6 WB1424BTU Turbulence B 3 WB1429-03 Microfluidics 3 WB1433-04 Thermomechanical Modelling & Charact.of Polymers 3 WB1440 Eng. Optimization: Concept & Applications 3 WB1441 Engineering Optimization 2 3 WB1444-07 Advanced Micro Electronic Packaging 3 WB1445-05 Mechanics of Micro Electronics and Microsystems 3 WB2303-08 Measurement in Engineering 4 WB2414-09 Mechatronic System Design 4 WB5414-08 Design of Machines and Mechanisms 4 WI4006 Special Functions 6 WI4011 Computational Fluid Dynamics 6 WI4014TU Numerical Analysis 6 WI4141TU Matlab for Advanced Users 3 WM0605TU Business Economics for Engineers 4 WM0625TU Innovation Management 4 WI4201 Scientific Computing 6 WI4212 Advanced Numerical Methods 6 WI4205 Applied Finite Elements 6
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I.3.2 TU/e – Master track Fluid & Solid Mechanics MSc Course list Obligatory Courses EC credits
For all: 1 Fluids course – 1 Solids course – 1 FSI course 3T111 Advanced Fluid Dynamics 4 4P100 Fundamentals in Fluid-Structure Interaction 3 4H200 Micromechanics of materials 3 For the TN track 2DN40 Complex Analysis 3 3AP16 Computational Physics 4 3T340 Micro- and Nanofluidics 4 4T300 Microscopic Measurement Techniques 3 For the W track 4K440 Nonlinear finite element method for solids 3 4K680 Composite materials 3 4P630 Application of FEM to heat and flow 3
Elective Courses (common for the TN track and W track)
2DN41 Aero-acoustics 3 2WA17 Ordinary differential equations 3 2WA25 Introduction to homogenization 3 2WN10 Scientific computing 6 2WN13 Scientific computing in partial differential equations 6 3F250 Transport in Porous Media 3 3N280 Polymer physics 3 3T250 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics 3 3T280 Turbulent Flow Phenomena 3 3T350 Statistical Fluid Mechanics & Chaos 3 3T360 Hydrodynamic Stability 3 3T370 Experimental Methods in Transport Physics 3 3T380 Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics 3 3T390 Atmospheric Physics 3 4A780 Fracture Mechanics 3 4H300 Deformation and failure of materials 3 4J530 Engineering optimization: concepts & applications 3 4K200 Mechanics of micro-electronics 3 4K400 Rheology 3 4K430 Computational rheology 3 4K440 Nonlinear finite element method for solids 3 4K530 Micro-fluidics: dynamics of mixing 3 4K610 Polymer mechanics 3 4K620 Computational material models 3 4K630 Particle-based thermomechanics 3 4K680 Composite materials 3 4K710 Microfluidics put to work 3 4N100 Advanced discretization techniques 3 4P060 Fundamental of Gas Dynamics 3 4P540 Multi-phase Flow with Heat Transfer 3 4P630 Application of FEM to heat and flow 3 4P650 Stochastic Processes in Mechanical Engineering 3 4P700 Turbo Machinery 3 4P710 Micro-heat transfer 3 4T700 Engineering optimization: advanced topics 3 8W060 Biological mixtures 3 8W090 Cardiovascular Fluid Mechanics 3 8W150 Multi-fluid mechanics 3 8W270 Fluid Biomechanics 3
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I.3.3 UT – Master track Fluid & Solid Mechanics MSc Course list Obligatory Courses (20+10) EC credits 115771 Numerical methods in mechanical engineering 5 115772 Solid mechanics 1, Elasticity 5 357001 Advanced Fluid Mechanics 5 155115 Numerical Techniques for Partial Differential Equations 5 Additional key courses for students selecting MSc-Mechanical Engineering (ME) 115471 Fluid Dynamics 5 115570 Solids and surfaces 5 Additional key courses for students selecting MSc-Applied Physics (AP) 356500 Capillarity Phenomena 5 358002 Experimental Techniques in Physics of Fluids 5 Elective Courses (ME=30 / AP=20) 115473 Computational fluid dynamics 5 115773 Computational structural optimization 5 115774 Advanced dynamics 5 115776 Solid mechanics 2, Plasticity 5 113170 System identification and parameter estimation 5 115434 Gasdynamics 5 115472 Fluid mechanics of turbo machines 1 5 115476 Fluid mechanics of turbo machines 2 3.6 115477 Wave Motion 5 115540 Aeroacoustics 3.6 358001 Turbulence 5 358002 Experimental Techniques in Physics of Fluids 5 155010 Theory of partial differential equations 5 113173 Dynamics of machines 5 113172 Advanced motion and vibration control 5 115850 Advanced Programming in Engineering 5 1158521 Particle Simulation Methods (CS) 5 1158522 Micro-Macro Methods (CS) 5 112171 Composites 5 115571 Surface Technology 5 115573 Tribology 5 358001 Turbulence 5 357201 Physics of Bubbles 2.5 358003 Granular Matter 2.5 357000 Soft Matter 5 340011 Bionanotechnology 5 340012 Nanofluidics 5 Upcoming (Micro)Rheology of Complex Fluids 5 Upcoming Advanced Molecular Simulation Methods 5 Research training = 20 ECTS credits; MSc graduation project = 40 ECTS credits (ME) / 50 ECTS credits (AP)
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I.4 EM-JMBC PhD course curriculum The PhD course curriculum in EM and JMBC consists of:
• Advanced MSc courses: these courses are particularly required for (external) PhD students who missed essential courses in the field of fluid or solid mechanics in their past curricula.
• PhD courses, organized by the JMBC and EM research schools. This is a 2-years course curriculum for most courses, to attend by all PhD students in the first 2 years of their PhD. • Courses to develop professional skills (technical writing, presentation, etc.).
• External courses, approved by the research schools (e.g. from CISM, Von Karman institute, ERCOFTAC, EUROMECH, etc).
The research schools have developed procedures to balance the amount of courses taken in the curriculum, by putting constraints on the numbers of EC for each category. For the external courses, an approval procedure has been put in place to secure the quality of courses. JMBC-EM PhD course list 1. Reliability & stability in statics and dynamics (3 EC) 2. Nonlinear material Mechanics (3 EC) 3. Advanced Dynamics (3 EC) 4. Multi-scale and micro-mechanics (3 EC) 5. Continuum thermodynamics (0.5 EC) 6. Optimization and parameter identification (1 EC) 7. Solution methods in computational Mechanics (1 EC) 8. Coupled problems in dynamics (FSI, vibro-acoustics) (1 EC) 9. Mechanics in micro-systems (1 EC) 10. Advanced topics in solid mechanics (discontinuities, interfaces, fluid-structure interaction,
multi-phase) (1.5 EC) 11. Experimental engineering Mechanics (1 EC) 12. Mechanics of large deformations (1 EC) 13. Turbulence (3 EC) 14. Computational fluid dynamics (1, 2 and 3) (3 EC) 15. Multiphase flows (3 EC) 16. Compressible flows (3 EC) 17. Geophysical fluid dynamics and 2D turbulence (3 EC) 18. Experimental techniques (3 EC) 19. Flow of granular matter (3 EC) 20. Combustion (3 EC) 21. Particle image velocimetry (3 EC) 22. Cardiovascular in-vitro and ex-vitro experimental techniques (3 EC) 23. Particle technology (3 EC) 24. Fluid-structure interaction (3 EC) Details on the courses and their planning can be found at http://www.em.tue.nl/events/index.php/2 for the courses organized by Engineering Mechanics and at http://www.jmburgerscentrum.nl/education/CourseOverview.htm for the courses organized by the JM Burgers centre. Note that these PhD courses are further complemented by international PhD courses (for details see websites EM and JMBC). The full version of the NWO graduate programme can be found on the CD: Engineering Mechanics – Information 2007-2012.
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Appendix J: Organizational structure
Governing Board (Actual Members)
Advisory Board (Actual Members)
Prof. B. Sluys (chairman) Delft University of Technology
Dr. P. van den Berg Deltaris, Delft
Ir. D.Ph. Schmidt TNO, Delft
Dr. ir.S. Hoekstra M2i, Delft
Prof. E.H. van Brummelen Eindhoven University of Technology
Ir. H.J. ten Hoeve NLR, Marknesse
Prof. F. van Keulen Delft University of Technology
Dr. F.J. Klever Shell Int. Expl. and Production B.V., Rijswijk
Prof. J. Huétink University of Twente
Dr. J. van der Lugt TaTa Steel R&D, IJmuiden
Prof. A. de Boer University of Twente
Dr. R. Woltjer NXP Semiconductors, Eindhoven
Dr.ir. F.J. Blom NRG, Petten
Governing Board (Former members)
Advisory Board (Former Members)
Prof. D.J. Rixen Delft University of Technology
Ir. G. Calis Stork N.V. Naarden until 2010 Arbitrator at Raad van Arbitrage voor Metaalnijverheid en - Handel
Prof. D.H. van Campen Eindhoven University of Technology
Prof. R. de Borst Eindhoven University of Technology
Board of Directors
Board of PhD students
Prof. A. de Boer University of Twente
Ir. J. (Jeroen) van Beeck Eindhoven University of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering
Prof. B. Sluys Delft University of Technology
Ir. E.R. (Erwin) Kuipers University of Twente Department of Engineering Technology
Prof.dr.ir. M.G.D. Geers Eindhoven University of Technology
Ir. M.R. (Farid) Talagani Delft University of Technology Department of Aerospace Structures and Computational Mechanics
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Appendix K: Overview of Input 2006-2011
K.1 Senior Academic Staff
Total Annual
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2006-2011 Average
Group # fte # fte # fte # fte # fte # fte # fte # fte
TU/e-DyCo 19 3.8 17 3.8 17 3.5 17 5.4 18 4.4 9 1.6 97 22.5 16.2 3.8
TU/e-MSFM 14 3.5 10 3.3 10 3.3 10 3.2 11 2.9 12 3.8 67 20 11.2 3.3
TU/e-MANT - - 3 0.5 3 0.7 3 0.7 5 1.8 5 2.1 19 3.7 3.2 0.7
TU/e-CASA 11 1.9 11 1.9 9 1.4 9 1.5 8 1.4 8 1.4 56 9.5 9.3 1.6
TU/e-SyEn - - - - - - - - - - 5 1.5 5 1.5 5.0 1.5
TUD-ASCM 13 5.1 14 5.2 13 3.7 9 2 8 1.7 8 1.7 65 19.4 10.8 3.2
TUD-ApMe 12 3.9 13 4.1 12 4.3 10 3.5 13 5.6 13 5.4 73 26.8 12.2 4.5
TUD-Cost 6 1.8 6 1.7 5 1.5 5 1.5 5 1.5 5 1.5 32 9.5 5.3 1.6
TUD-SoMe 3 0.7 3 0.7 - - - - - - 6 1.4 3.0 0.7
UT-ApMe 8 2.0 7 1.9 8 2.0 9 2.1 9 2.1 10 1.9 51 12 8.5 2.0
UT-Trib 3 0.8 3 0.9 3 0.9 4 1 4 1 6 1.3 23 5.9 3.8 1.0
UT-MeAu 3 0.6 3 0.6 3 0.6 3 0.6 3 0.6 3 0.5 18 3.5 3.0 0.6
UT-ProTe 4 1.1 4 1.1 4 1.1 4 1.1 5 1.4 5 1.6 26 7.4 4.3 1.2
UT-MSM - - - - 3 1.5 4 1.35 4 1.16 4 1.2 15 2.5 3.8 0.6
EM total 96.0 25.2 94.0 25.7 90.0 24.5 87.0 24.0 93.0 25.6 93 25.5 553 145.6 99.6 26.3
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K.2 PhD-Students (fte)
Total Annual
Group 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2006-2011 Average
TU/e-DyCo 16.0 16.8 13.6 16.5 9.6 9.6 82.1 13.7
TU/e-MSFM 15.2 15.2 12.0 13.6 16.0 16.0 88.0 14.7
TU/e-MANT - - - 1.6 4.0 4.0 9.6 1.6
TU/e-CASA 6.4 8.0 8.0 7.0 4.8 4.8 39.0 6.5
TU/e-SyEn - - - - - 2.4 2.4 2.4
TUD-ASCM 13.6 15.2 19.2 16.0 15.2 16.0 95.2 15.9
TUD-ApMe 20.0 23.2 25.6 25.6 22.4 23.2 140.0 23.3
TUD-Cost 10.0 10.8 10.0 10.8 13.2 11.6 66.4 11.1
TUD-SoMe 3.6 3.6 - - - 7.2 3.6
UT-ApMe 14.4 15.2 15.2 18.4 13.6 15.2 92.0 15.3
UT-Trib 4.8 8.0 13.6 15.2 12.8 16.0 56.0 9.3
UT-MeAu 4.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 8.8 14.7
UT-ProTe 3.2 3.2 4.0 5.2 7.2 5.5 28.3 4.7
UT-MSM - - 1.6 1.6 4.8 4.8 12.6 3.2
EM total 112.0 120.0 123.6 132.3 124.4 129.9 727.6 140.0
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K.3 Postdocs (fte)
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Group 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2006-2011 Average
TU/e-DyCo 0.4 0.8 1.6 1.1 2.1 0.8 6.8 1.1
TU/e-MSFM 2.9 0.8 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.0 16.3 2.7
TU/e-MANT - - - 0.3 1.0 2.0 3.3 0.6
TU/e-CASA 1.0 1.0 1.6 2.6 2.0 0.5 8.7 1.5
TU/e-SyEn - - - - - 0.8 0.8 0.8
TUD-ASCM 2.8 0.3 0.8 0.1 0.0 0.3 4.3 0.7
TUD-ApMe 3.2 4.0 2.4 3.2 4.0 4.0 20.8 3.5
TUD-Cost 0.9 0.3 1.6 0.0 0.4 0.4 3.6 0.6
TUD-SoMe 1.0 1.0 - - - 2.0 1.0
UT-ApMe 0.8 0.8 1.6 3.2 3.6 3.2 13.2 2.2
UT-Trib 0.3 2.0 2.4 0.8 0.8 0.8 7.1 11.8
UT-MeAu 0.4 0.1 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.3 3.2 0.5
UT-ProTe 0.0 1.0 2.4 4.1 5.0 4.0 16.5 2.8
UT-MSM - - 0.00 3.2 1.3 2.7 7.2 1.8
EM total 13.7 12.1 18.4 22.6 24.2 22.8 113.8 31.6
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K.4 Total Input in fte (Staff +PhD + Postdoc)
Total Annual
Group 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2006-2011 Average
TU/e-DyCo 20.2 21.4 18.7 23.0 16.9 12.0 112.2 18.7
TU/e-MSFM 21.6 19.3 18.5 20.0 22.1 2.4 104 17.3
TU/e-MANT - 0.5 0.7 2.6 6.8 8.1 18.7 3.1
TU/e-CASA 9.3 10.9 11.0 11.1 8.2 6.7 60.5 10.1
TU/e-SyEn 4.7 4.7 4.7
TUD--ASCM 21.5 20.7 23.7 18.1 16.8 18.0 118.8 19.8
TUD-ApMe 27.1 31.3 32.3 32.3 32.0 32.6 187.6 31.3
TUD-Cost 12.7 12.8 13.1 12.3 15.1 13.5 79.4 13.2
TUD-SoMe 5.3 5.5 - - - 10.8 5.4
UT-ApMe 17.2 17.9 18.8 23.7 19.3 20.3 117.2 19.5
UT-Trib 5.9 10.9 16.9 17.0 14.6 18.9 84.2 14.0
UT-MeAu 5.8 1.5 2.2 2.2 2.2 1.6 15.5 2.6
UT-ProTe 4.3 5.3 7.5 10.4 13.6 11.1 52.2 8.7
UT-MSM - - 3.9 6.2 7.5 8.7 26.3 6.6
EM total 150.9 158.0 167.3 178.9 175.1 158.6 992.1 175
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Total Annual
Group 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2006-2011 Average
TU/e-DyCo 23 23 (1*) 28 26 27 9 136 22.7
TU/e-MSFM 35 (1*) 31 (1*) 27 (2*) 32 33 35 193 (4*) 32.2 (0.7*)
TU/e-MANT - 7 (7*) 9 (4*) 5 (3*) 12 (4*) 7 (2*) 40 (20*) 6.7 (3.3*)
TU/e-CASA 14 18 29 16 22 21 120 20.0
TU/e -SyEN - - - - - 13 13 13.0
TUD-ASCM 27 20 (7*) 24 (3*) 29 (6*) 29 18 147 24.5
TUD-ApMe 14 (1*) 30 24 25 25 14 132 (1*) 22.0 (0.2*)
TUD-Cost 14 16 22 18 21 14 105 17.5
TUD-SoMe 0 0 - - 0 - 0 0.0
UT-ApMe 6 10 (1*) 13 15 14 (5*) 20 (4*) 78 (10*) 13.0 (1.7*)
UT-Trib 4 8 3 4 10 11 40 6.7
UT-MeAu 2 3 3 2 6 2 (2*) 18 (2*) 3.0 (0.3*)
UT-ProTe 4 3 (1*) 4 9 9 2 31 (1*) 5.2 (0.2*)
UT-MSM - - 5 12 8 19 44 11.0
EM total 143 (2*) 169 (18*) 191 (9*) 193 (9*) 216 (9*) 185 (8*) 1097 (38*) 197.5(6.4*)
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L.2 Scientific publications: Books, chapters in books
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Group 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2006-2011 average
TU/e-DyCo 5 3 1 1 9 19 3.2
TU/e-MSFM 0 0 1 4(1*) 6 1 12 2
TU/e-MANT - 1 (1*) 5 1 9(3*) 1 17 2.8
TU/e-CASA 1 0 3 1 2 3 10 1.7
TU/e-SyEn 4 4 4
TUD-ASCM 1 1 (1*) 1 9 7 2 21 3.5
TUD-ApMe 1 2 2 3 5 1 14 2.3
TUD-Cost 0 0 1 4 1 1 7 1.2
TUD-SoMe 1 1 - - - 2 1
UT-ApMe 1 2 0 1 2 4 10 1.7
UT-Trib 1 1 0 0 0 1 3 0.5
UT-MeAu 1 1 0 1 1 4 0.7
UT-ProTe 6 2 0 0 0 1 9 1.5
UT-MSM - - 1 2 0 3 0.75
EM total 18 14 (2*) 15 27(1*) 42(3*) 19 135 26.9
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L.3 Scientific publications: Refereed Proceedings
total annual
Group 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2006-2011 average
TU/e-DyCo 34 44 39 37 27 11 192 32
TU/e-MSFM 16 (1*) 20 26 12 22 19 115 19.2
TU/e-MANT - 11 (+11*) 0 7(6*) 2(1*) 20(1) 3.3
TU/e-CASA 10 10 11 12 35 6 84 14
TU/e-SyEn 12 12 12
TUD-ASCM 44 43 (11*) 16 (1*) 51(8*) 11 16 181(20) 30.2
TUD-ApMe 47 (1*) 38 45 69 40 25 264(1) 44
TUD-Cost 16 26 30 37 20 28 157 26.2
TUD-SoMe 4 6 - - - 10 1.7
UT-ApMe 21 22 31 (3*) 20(2*) 29 (5*) 30(6) 153(16) 25.5
UT-Trib 6 4 (1*) 9 19 15 16 69(1) 11.5
UT-MeAu 7 3 6 6 6 6 34 5.7
UT-ProTe 7 6 (1*) 11 6 15 19 64 7.1
UT- MSM - - 3 6 6 5 20 5
EM total 212 (2*) 233 (24*) 227(4*) 282(16*) 228(6*) 193(6) 1375 237.4
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L.4 Scientific publications: PhD Theses Completed total annual
Group 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2006-2011 average
TU/e-DyCo 2 4 7 5 4 1 23 3.8
TU/e-MSFM (MaTe) 2 3 2 3 2 7 19 3.2
TU/e-MANT (NuMe) - 0.5 2 (2*) 5(5*) 0 - 7.5(7) 1.3
TU/e-CASA 0 1 3 1 1 4 10 1.7
TU/e-SyEn 1 1 1
TUD-ASCM (Aes) 5 1.5 4 (2*) 9(5*) 2 5 26.5(7) 4.4
TUD-ApMe (PME) 5 3 2 2 5 5 22 3.7
TUD-Cost 2 1 1 1 3 1 9 1.5
TUD-SoMe 0 0 - - - -
UT-ApMe 1 2 3 4 8 3 22 3.7
UT-Trib 3 0 0 0 3 3 9 1.5
UT-MeAu 1 4 1 - - - 6 1
UT-ProTe 2 1 0 0 2 5 0.8
UT-MSM - - 0 1 0 1 0.3
EM total 23 21 25 (4*) 30 (10*) 30 30 161 27.9
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Appendix M: Report of 2006 peer review panel
Peer Review Committee
Assessment
of the
Graduate School
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Engineering Mechanics
Contents page no Executive summary 2 1 Introduction 3 1.1 Composition of the Peer Review Committee 1.2 Schedule, methods and information used by the Peer Review Committee 2 Assessment of the Engineering Mechanics (EM) Graduate School 4 2.1 Assessment of the educational/courses program 2.2 Assessment of the research program 2.3 Assessment of the EM Graduate School’s role in national coordination 2.4 Assessment of the EM Graduate School’s finances 3 Future prospects 6 4 Recommendations of the Peer Review Committee 6 Appendix 1 Information on the members of the Peer Review Committee 8 Appendix 2 Program of the Peer Review Committee visit to the EM Graduate School 9
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Executive summary The research and education in Engineering Mechanics in The Netherlands are clearly at a high level of quality and visibility worldwide. The Engineering Mechanics Graduate School plays a key role in maintaining and promoting these high standards. The Peer Review Committee feels it had sufficient information to assess the program. The committee members spoke to the academic staff, the PhD students and the industrial advisors, and were impressed by the open atmosphere and the uniformly positive response from these various perspectives. The overall organisation of the Engineering Mechanics Graduate School is excellent. The research program is well-balanced between fundamental research, current engineering topics and industrially relevant applications, thereby serving society. The objectives as defined in the mission statement are clearly satisfied. The Engineering Mechanics Symposia play a central role in the activities of the Engineering Mechanics Graduate School. It was a pleasure for the Peer Review Committee members to feel the strong involvement and enthusiasm of the student participants. The courses cover topics at the forefront of international research and are received positively by the students, the staff and the industrial advisory board. The Peer Review Committee fully supports the future plans of the Enginering Mechanics Graduate School, in particular the 3TU master program in fluid and solid mechanics, which we hope will be started without delay. However, the Peer Review Committee is concerned by the lack of balance between fluids and solids within the proposed Centre of Excellence, because important research opportunities could be lost. On the basis of our assessment the Peer Review Committee enthusiastically recommends that the EM Graduate School be reaccredited for the period 2008–2013.
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1 Introduction The Engineering Mechanics (EM) Graduate School, i.e. the 3TU research school for engineering mechanics, will apply for re-accreditation by the ECOS committee of the Royal Academy of Sciences (KNAW) in 2007. A positive recommendation as a result of an international peer review is a prerequisite for receiving this re-accreditation. The EM Graduate School has invited an international Peer Review Committee to assess the quality of the research school. 1.1 Composition of the Peer Review Committee The international Peer Review Committee consisted of the following members: • Professor Olivier Allix (ENS Cachan/CNRS/Paris 6 University, France), chairman, • Professor Jürg Dual (ETH Zürich, Switzerland), • Professor Alan Needleman (Brown University, USA), • Professor Paul Sas (KU Leuven, Belgium), • Professor Bob Svendsen (University of Dortmund, Germany), and Dr. Miguel Gutiérrez (Delft University of Technology), Secretary to the Peer Review Committee. Professor O Allix is Director of LMT-Cachan, Paris, France. He is an expert in the field of Multiscale approaches for buckling, cracks and delamination. Professor J. Dual is Head of the Institute of Mechanical Systems at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland. He is an expert in the field of Mechanics of micro and nano systems. Professor A. Needleman is Professor of Engineering in the Division of Engineering at Brown University, USA. He is an expert in the field of computational modeling of deformation and fracture processes in structural materials. Professor P. Sas is Head of the Noise and Vibration Research Group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the KU Leuven. He is an expert in the field of noise and vibration engineering. Professor B. Svendsen is Professor of Mechanics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Dortmund, Germany. He is an expert in the field of continuum mechanics and thermodynamics. Dr. M.A. Gutiérrez is Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Delft University of Technology. 1.2 Schedule, methods and information used by the Peer Review Committee Before starting the review procedure, the Peer Review Committee (PRC) members were provided with the following documents, delivered by the EM Graduate School: • EM Annual Reports 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005, including the course programs 2002-2005 and
2006-2008, as well as the research programs and the lists of publications 2001-2005 of all EM research groups
• Self-evaluation report, written by the Management Team of the EM Graduate School, including the Peer Review Committee assessment of the EM Graduate School in 2001
• Research program of the 3TU Centre of Excellence on Multiscale Phenomena in Fluids and Solids as well as the EM’s website http://www.em.tue.nl During the two-day review of the EM Graduate School, the PRC had discussions with • representatives of the Management Team of the EM Graduate School: Prof. R. de Borst (TUD), Prof. D.
van Campen (TU/e), Prof. A. de Boer (UT), Prof. M. Geers (TU/e), Prof. D. Rixen (TUD), Dr. H. van Dommelen (TU/e), • representatives of the Scientific Staff of the EM Graduate School: Prof. H. Nijmeijer (TU/e) , Dr. R.
Peerlings (TU/e), Dr. A. Suiker (TUD), Dr. H. Goosen (TUD), Dr. L. Warnet (UT), Dr. Y. Wijnand (UT) ,
• representatives of the PhD students of the EM graduate School: M. van de Bosch (TU/e), S. Tosserams (TU/e), J. Remmers (TUD), R. Pedersen (TUD), W. Hakvoort (UT), M. Hannink (UT),
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• and representatives of the EM Advisory Board: Dr. S. Hoekstra (NIMR), Dr. F. Klever (Shell), Dr. J. van der Lugt (CORUS).
Preliminary conclusions were drawn on Friday, 27 October 2006, and the PRC report was made available to the EM Management Team in November. A detailed time schedule of the Peer Review Committee days can be found in Appendix 2. 2 Assessment of the EM Graduate School The organisation of the Peer Review Committee visit was excellent. The PRC feels there was sufficient information to assess the program. The Committee spoke with representatives of the Management Team, the academic staff, the PhD students and the industrial advisors. The open atmosphere and the uniformly positive response from these various perspectives were impressive. The PRC notes that the recommendations of the previous Peer Review Committee were positively reacted to, for example: . - the reconsideration of all the contents and the lecturers of individual courses in order to ensure a coherent treatment of topics and the fact that now two course per year are scheduled, - the strong involvement of different groups of the EM School in areas such as thin film, multi-layers and MEMS since the previous assessment. 2.1 Assessment of the educational/courses program The courses provided by the EM Graduate School are regarded as excellent. They are given by the leading experts of the participating groups and provide a uniformly high level of education, with timely and well-chosen topics. The courses attract many students from the participating universities and from other institutions inside and outside the country, including researchers from industry and technological institutes. In addition to their educational function, the EM graduate courses have an important networking role for the PhD students in engineering mechanics. The PRC considers the courses to be of such a quality that they would be suitable for graduate students throughout Europe, although we are aware that this could lead to a greater number of participants than can be effectively accommodated. Experimental Mechanics, although already addressed in some courses, e.g. Micromechanics, should gain visibility. This could be done either by emphasising the topic in the course programs or by developing a dedicated course. Also, the EM Graduate School could play a role in gathering information about courses offered by other Graduate Schools that could be regarded as meaningful for the students. The two-day annual EM Symposium plays a central role in the activities of the EM Graduate School, where the staff and PhD students of the EM graduate School meet, discuss and exchange ideas and experience. It was a great pleasure for the PRC to see the strong involvement and enthusiasm of the participants, in particular of the students. 2.2 Assessment of the research program Dutch engineering mechanics research is at a very high level of quality and visibility worldwide. This is indicated by the leading role played by Dutch professors in their corresponding international communities and in major international conferences. It is also observed that EM group leaders have raised an important amount of 2nd and 3rd money stream research funding. In the coming years, the 3TU Centre of Excellence on Multiscale Phenomena in Fluids and Solids will play a major role in the direction of new research through establishment of new chairs at each of the three technological universities. This issue is further addressed in Section 3 below.
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2.3 Assessment of the EM ’s role in national cooperation The EM Graduate School is an active networking organization, in particular through the EM graduate courses and the annual EM Symposium, as mentioned in Section 2.1. The intensive cooperation between the different groups of the EM Graduate School is highly valued, although this is not directly reflected in a high number of joint publications. The Peer Review Committee met with the Industrial Advisory Board whose members were very pleased with the interaction between the research groups involved in the EM School and Dutch industries. Moreover the relationship with various research institutes is very strong. On a managerial level, regular contacts exist with the Netherlands Institute for Metals Research (NIMR), the Graduate School JMBC for fluid mechanics, the Netherlands Mechanics Committee (NMC), and the Royal Institute of Engineers (KIvI). In particular, the intensive collaboration with the NIMR is emphasised. Various specific issues were discussed regarding the relationship with industries. One concerns the substantial number of PhD student vacancies in engineering mechanics that there are currently. Since the funding is available and industry is eager to recruit well-educated PhDs coming out of the EM program, it would seem to be desirable to fill these vacancies with excellent students as soon as possible. In view of the shortage of PhD students it could be beneficial to increase the recruiting of PhD students from abroad. This is in line with the Bologna Model which aims at increasing the exchange of students between different countries, in Europe in particular. The EM Graduate School could be an efficient instrument for this. In order to discuss industry/academic issues on regular basis, a more active participation of the industrial partners within the courses and at the Annual Symposium, e.g. through lectures illustrating practical applications, is desirable. 2.4 Assessment of the EM Graduate School’s finances Currently, the financing of the EM Graduate School takes place in a clear and simple way with a minimum amount of overhead. The three universities, even if working in engineering mechanics, are focussed on different research areas and target applications. For some innovative application common projects should be encouraged to support the needs of industry and society in The Netherlands. However, the budget for additional activities is very small. The Peer Review Committee recommends that additional funds be provided to foster further scientific interaction between the three universities participating in the EM Graduate School. The Peer Review Committee is confident that any additional financial resources provided would be effectively and wisely used in this context. 3 Future prospects The Peer Review Committee was impressed by the flexibility of the program to adapt to the changes in the field and the changing needs of the students. This has been clear through the evolution of the courses and the research themes, along with the adaptation of the symposium format. The PRC endorses the proposed selection of research themes, having a mixture of computational mechanics and experiments and the extension to reliability and optimisation. Contacts with other research schools, both national and international, such as the Belgian school GraSMech, provide a way to broaden the education of the students and to prepare them for the future challenges of society. Particularly important is the prospective interaction with the JMBC research school through the proposed Centre of Excellence. The Peer Review Committee fully supports the future plans of the EM Graduate School, in particular the 3TU master's degree program in fluid and solid mechanics, with the hope that it will be started without delay. Based on the quality of the groups involved, it is expected that this master's degree program will attract students from whole Europe and will be a meaningful alternative to the international master's degree programs in Computational Mechanics offered by other European universities. Because the 3TU Centre of Excellence will dominate new directions of research in the coming years, it is particularly important that a balance between fluid and solid mechanics be attained. In addition, the proposed
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Centre of Excellence provides a unique opportunity to develop research on materials that cannot be characterised as conventional solids or fluids. Research on such materials is likely to have a large impact on emerging technologies, for example biomedical engineering and the development of flexible electronic devices. The Peer Review Committee recommends that the EM Graduate School take advantage of these opportunities through the Centre of Excellence. 4 Recommendations of the Peer Review Committee 1. The Peer Review Committee strongly and unanimously recommends that the Engineering Mechanics
(EM) Graduate School be re-accredited for the period 2008-2013. 2. The Peer Review Committee recommends that there be an additional budget to foster further scientific
interaction between the three universities participating in the EM Graduate School, in order to enhance the impact of the Engineering Mechanics community on industry and society in The Netherlands.
3. The Peer Review Committee recommends that the visibility of Experimental Mechanics in the EM
courses be increased. 4. The Peer Review Committee fully supports the 3TU Centre of Excellence, although it is concerned about
the lack of balance between solids and fluids. In addition, topics involving complex materials that can not be characterised as traditional solids or fluids are of increasing scientific and technical importance. This Centre of Excellence provides a unique opportunity to develop a major research activity in these emerging areas that should not be missed.
5. The Peer Review Committee fully supports the future plans of the EM Graduate School, in particular the
3TU master program in fluid and solid mechanics, which we hope will be started without delay. 6. The Peer Review Committee encourage to develop ways to improve the interaction with industry in the
EM Graduate School, e.g. through lectures by industrial representatives in courses or industrial participants in the annual meetings.
7. The Peer Review Committee encourages the EM program to keep a close relation with related areas.
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Appendix 1 Information on the members of the Peer Review Committee Professor O. Allix • Director of LMT-Cachan, Paris, France (2005 - ) • Medal of the French Association of Mechanics (2005) • Fellow of the European Mechanics Society (2006) • Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (2006) Professor J. Dual • Head of the Institute of Mechanical Systems at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland • Honorary Member of German Association for Materials Research and Testing DVM (2000) • Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2004) Professor A. Needleman • Professor in the Division of Engineering and Florence Pirce Grant University Professor at Brown
University, USA • Member of the National Academy of Engineering • Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers • Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics • Honorary Member of MECAMAT (Groupe Français de Mecanique des Matériaux) • Foreign Member of the Danish Center for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics Professor P. Sas • Head of the Noise and Vibration Research Group at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the
KU Leuven • Fellow of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (2006) • Laureate of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences (1984) Professor B. Svendsen • Professor of Mechanics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Dortmund,
Germany. • Dean of the Graduate School for Production Engineering and Logistics, • University of Dortmund • Member of the American Physical Society (APS) • Member of the European Society of Mechanics (EUROMECH) • Member of the German Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM) • Member of the German Society for Computational Mechanics (GACM)
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• Appendix 2 Program of the Peer Review Committee visit to the EM Graduate School Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16.30-18.30 Preparation by Peer Review committee (PRC) + discussion about procedures +
discussion of Self Assessment Report 18.30-21.30 Dinner for PRC members + continued discussion of Self Assessment Report Thursday, 26 October 2006 08.45-10.00 PRC to interview representatives of EM Management Team (Governing Board and
Local Directors: R. de Borst, D. van Campen, A. de Boer, M. Geers, D. Rixen, H. van Dommelen) :
- Discussion about Self Assessment Report, Annual Reports and strategic choices 10.30-12.30 PRC members to attend Opening Lecture EM Symposium and presentations by
Workshop Organizers 12.35-13.40 Lunch with representatives of the scientific staff (H. Nijmeijer, R. Peerlings, A. Suiker, H. Goosen, L. Warnet, Y. Wijnand) 13.45-14.45 PRC members to attend first part of Workshops EM Symposium 14.45-15.15 Break; PRC members to informally discuss with participants EM Symposium 15.15-15.45 PRC members to attend second part of Poster Discussion Session I 15.45-16.45 PRC members to interview representatives of PhD students (M. van de Bosch, S.
Tosserams, J. Remmers, R. Pedersen, W. Hakvoort, M. Hannink) 16.45-17.45 PRC members to interview representatives of Advisory Board (S. Hoekstra, F. Klever, J. van der Lugt) 17.45-19.30 Dinner for PRC members Wrap-up + first conclusions 19.30-21.15 PRC to write a preliminary draft report 21.15-21.45 PRC members to attend second part of Poster Discussion Session II
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Friday, 27 October 2006 09.00-09.50 PRC members to attend presentations by Workshop Organizers 09.55-11.40 PRC to write an updated draft report 11.45-12.25 Final discussion of PRC with representatives of EM Management Team (Governing
Board and Local Directors: R. de Borst, D. van Campen, A. de Boer, M. Geers, H. Huétink, D. Rixen, H. van Dommelen)
12.30-13.45 PRC to attend Closing Session of EM Symposium + lunch 14.00 PRC members to leave for return destinations
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