Engineering Systems and Services
The department of Engineering Systems and Services (ESS) operates on the interface where complex systems meet engineering. Energy, mobility and ICT systems and services are continuously converging. The Department therefore contributes to Comprehensive Engineering from a systems integration perspective.
ESS analyses, models and shapes these complex systems, using cutting-edge tools such as Agent Based Simulation and Modelling, ICT-architecting, Choice Behaviour Modelling and Cost Benefit Analysis. Human behaviour, economics, law and regulation and the fact that systems recurrently impact behaviour are all taken into account.
ESS truly integrates the social sciences into systems engineering. We design system architectures and market mechanisms that enable the transition to renewable energy, sustainable mobility and ubiquitous computing.
News
Guest lectures systems engineering by prof. Eswaran and dr. Pollard of NIST & CMU
On 7 May, the Energy and Industry group will host two visitors at the faculty of TPM. Prof. Eswaran Subrahmanian and dr. Blake Pollard, both...
Virginia Dignum in VPRO series ‘Mind of the Universe’
Virginia Dignum is one of the scientists who appears in the VPRO series ‘Mind of the Universe online learning experience’ that has been...
New section leader for TLO
Caspar Chorus will step down as TLO section leader per 1 August 2018.
TIL student Daphne van den Hurk wins ‘Ward Vleugels Q-Park Thesis Award 2017’
At the Thought Leader Event, an event about parking and mobility, Daphne van den Hurk has won the shared 1st prize of the ‘Ward Vleugels...
Solving the mystery of institutions with machine learning algorithms
Amineh Ghorbani has managed to attract funding to do research into the DNA of institutions over a period of 700 years in the project MIDI....
In the media
Virginia Dignum in Politico about AI Ethics
Europe’s secret weapon in the race against the U.S. and China on artificial intelligence is … ethics. The EU Commission wants to spell out...
Bert van Wee en Wijnand Veeneman in de Volkskrant over Lightrail
Vervoerders en wethouders uit de Randstad waarschuwen in een open brief voor een verkeersinfarct. Zij zweren bij lightrailverbindingen. Is...
Bert van Wee in Trouw over budgetoverschrijdingen bij infrastructurele projecten
Het leek allemaal zo mooi, een metro tot aan het strand van Hoek van Holland. Maar door tegenvallers bij de aanleg van de Hoekse Lijn, een...