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The department of Industrial Design of the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e), founded in 2001, is a rapidly growing department with over 400 students, both Bachelor and Master, and around 80 staff members. With a strong emphasis on research the ID department focuses on the design of intelligent products, systems, services and networks. These innovative products enable people to interact with their environment in an optimal and flexible way. The TU/e ID engineer, who has developed a wide range of competencies during his/her education, is capable of integrating technology, user aspects, design and business/marketing insights. This MSc-program is practice oriented, capable to deal with and aware of relevant issues as formulated by industry and society at large. Ambient Intelligence and Ambient (health) Care draw special attention within the TU/e and ID particular, and is an important research and application field. ID encompasses four areas in the near future: Technology covered by the Designed Intelligent (DI) group, User aspects, covered by User Centered Engineering (UCE) group, Design and Business.

The positions are situated within the DI Group, which is a multidisciplinary group addressing the design of the intelligence in adaptive systems, products and related services. The cooperating disciplines include computer science, electrical engineering, software engineering, psychology and industrial design. Compared to the other groups of the department ID, the DI group has the strongest emphasis on technology.