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Joint Interdisciplinary Project (JIP)

Course
2024-2025

Admission requirements

See below under 'remarks'.

Description

The aim of the Joint Interdisciplinary Project is to prepare students to contribute to solving impactful technological challenges. The projects not only demand good engineering working knowledge but also experience with interdisciplinary and systems theory, and both knowledge and mindsets of innovation and entrepreneurial behavior. The project brief is provided by renowned companies like Airbus, Arcadis, etc. Teams of interdisciplinary student teams guided by a company coach and offered academic and industry expertise, are invited to realise an innovative problem solution to a complex problem and contributing to the sustainable development goals.

JIP consists of three sets of activities:
1. The project which takes place at a company. Students are responsible for the project work (collaboration, integration of different perspectives, the content quality of their work). They plan their activities via a scrum method, are challenged to realise field trips, consult with experts and realise the necessary research work. The team keeps a Scrum log, run a blog for interaction with the outside world and every team member keeps a personal development log.
2. Meeting Professionals – lectures and workshops about specialised topics, by academic staff or senior professionals from the companies involved.
3. Plenary meetings and design reviews for all the teams, company coaches and academic staff. At the meetings the students present their intermediate resp. final outcomes and plans, and are provided with feedback.

Course objectives

  1. Cognitive abilities attributable to interdisciplinary learning

  • Demonstrate the ability to engage in perspective-taking;

  • Develop structural knowledge pertaining to the problem;

  • Integrate knowledge and modes of thinking drawn from two or more disciplines;

  • Produce an interdisciplinary understanding of complex problem or intellectual question.

  1. Scientific and intellectual development
  • Capable to analyze scientific and societal consequences (economic, social, cultural, environmental) of the innovation;
  1. Research and design capabilities

  • Demonstrate engineering skills: technical skills, interpreting results, creativity, usability for company/institute;

  • Demonstrate that they are capable to independently apply relevant theory and/or knowledge to research and/or design;

  1. Collaboration and communication in an interdisciplinary team

  • Demonstrate behavioral competences and skills: taking initiative, responsibility, showing communication skills, independency, collaboration and the ability to respect different disciplines and adapt to different cultures);

  • Show ability to write a technical report: structured/consistent, language proficient, with correct use of literature/references, use of figures/tables/equations, and has a concise format (30 pages);

  • Present work performed in a structured way through an oral presentation to their peers and customer.

  1. Self-adjustment and reflection capabilities

  • Plan and control the project efficiently considering resources and methodology;

  • Being able to reflect on personal functioning in an evaluation report: reflect on personal objectives, indicate personal strengths/weaknesses. Indicate future personal improvement, drawing conclusions for future career.

Cognitive abilities attributable to interdisciplinary learning;

  • The ability to integrate (scientific and practical technological)knowledge from different disciplines to solve complex problems
    Scientific and intellectual development

  • The capacity to evaluate the ethical, scientific and societal consequences of the proposed innovation
    Research and design capabilities

  • The ability to create reasonable and relevant research or design , according to the academic standards of the involved disciplines
    Collaboration and communication in an interdisciplinary team

  • Demonstrate behavioural competences and skills relevant for teamwork and effective communication with different stakeholders
    Self-adjustment and reflection capabilities

  • To carry out regular reflections on professional and personal development and being able to improve upon those reflections

  • Understand contemporary and societal issues in their work.

Timetable

In MyTimetable, you can find all course and programme schedules, allowing you to create your personal timetable. Activities for which you have enrolled via MyStudyMap will automatically appear in your timetable.

Additionally, you can easily link MyTimetable to a calendar app on your phone, and schedule changes will be automatically updated in your calendar. You can also choose to receive email notifications about schedule changes. You can enable notifications in Settings after logging in.

Questions? Watch the video, read the instructions, or contact the ISSC helpdesk.

Note: Joint Degree students from Leiden/Delft need to combine information from both the Leiden and Delft MyTimetables to see a complete schedule. This video explains how to do it.

Mode of instruction

Full-time project work in an interdisciplinary team of about five students. The project work is interspersed with some just in time seminars and workshops about specialized subjects, methods or practical situations that play an essential role in interdisciplinary project work.

Assessment method

The assessment criteria pertain to the process, product and presentation and are assessed at an individual and team level, during 3 review sessions at three levels of accomplishment (each review assesses at a different level):

  • Interdisciplinary work

  • Scientific reasoning and ethical mindset

  • Innovation process

  • Presentation and communication

Academic staff, supported by the input from company coaches, grade the students during the Problem Statement, the Midterm and the Final Review.
The final group mark for JIP is differentiated per person and is based on:

  • The team presentations - 30%

  • The Problem definition, progress report and final report – 30%

  • The individual contribution to the team – 20%

  • The final individual reflection report – 5%

  • The Blog – 5%

Project Outcomes (product, model, system) are presented at:
1. Problem Statement Review
2. Midterm meeting
3. Final Review
4. Symposium presentation

Reading list

Registration

As a student, you are responsible for enrolling on time through MyStudyMap.

In this short video, you can see step-by-step how to enrol for courses in MyStudyMap.
Extensive information about the operation of MyStudyMap can be found here.

There are two enrolment periods per year:

  • Enrolment for the fall opens in July

  • Enrolment for the spring opens in December

See this page for more information about deadlines and enrolling for courses and exams.

Note:

  • It is mandatory to enrol for all activities of a course that you are going to follow.

  • Your enrolment is only complete when you submit your course planning in the ‘Ready for enrolment’ tab by clicking ‘Send’.

  • Not being enrolled for an exam/resit means that you are not allowed to participate in the exam/resit.

Contact

Remarks

This is a course organised by TU Delft, for admission requirements and course information please see https://studiegids.tudelft.nl/a101_displayCourse.do?course_id=64240.

For detailed information and enrollment see: Brightspace course Opleiding Biologie.

Software
Starting from the 2024/2025 academic year, the Faculty of Science will use the software distribution platform Academic Software. Through this platform, you can access the software needed for specific courses in your studies. For some software, your laptop must meet certain system requirements, which will be specified with the software. It is important to install the software before the start of the course. More information about the laptop requirements can be found on the student website.