Engineering

1. ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE AND ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES
1.1 ASSESSMENT SCOPE
The Assessment Committee was asked to assess the research of the Faculty of
Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology. This assessment
covers research in the period 2007-2012. In accordance with the Standard
Evaluation Protocol 2015-2021 for Research Assessments in the Netherlands
(SEP), the Committee’s tasks were to assess the quality, relevance to society, and
viability of the research programmes on the basis of the information provided by
the Faculty and interviews with Faculty management and research groups.
Following this, the Committee was to make recommendations for the future.
1.2 COMMITTEE COMPOSITION
The members of the Committee were:
Prof. Hans van Trijp, Committee Chair, Professor of Marketing and Consumer
Behavior at Wageningen UR.
Prof. Tracy Bhamra, Dean of Loughborough Design School, and Professor of
Sustainable Design at Loughborough University.
Prof. Moniek Buijzen, Professor of Communication Science, Radboud Universiteit
Nijmegen.
Prof. Alex Duffy, Professor of Systems Design, Director of the Computer
Aided Design Centre, and Head of the Department of Design, Manufacturing, and
Engineering Management at the University of Strathclyde.
Prof. Ken Friedman, former Dean of the Swinburne University of Technology
Faculty of Design in Melbourne, and current Chair Professor of Design Innovation
Studies at the Tongji University College of Design and Innovation in Shanghai, and
University Distinguished Professor at Swinburne.
Prof. Scott Klemmer, Associate Professor of Cognitive Science and of Computer
Science and Engineering at the University of California at San Diego.
Prof. Patrick Whitney, Dean of the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of
Technology, and Professor of Design.
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