Head of Department: We're no longer just educating students for the industry – we're educating them together with the industry

We're creating a much closer connection between the university and industry. That means new knowledge can make its way into the construction sector more quickly, while the challenges faced by the industry find their way back into our classrooms and research environments just as fast.

For years, we've been working to bring the university and industry closer together. Now we're introducing a degree programme where that collaboration is built into the model itself.

With the new industry-based Master's programme, students are employed by a company while completing their Master's degree. This allows them to develop their professional expertise in close collaboration with both the university and the industry.

As Head of Department, that's perhaps the aspect I find most exciting.

Normally, it can take years for new knowledge generated at a university to be widely adopted in practice. This model significantly shortens that timeline.

Students bring the latest research and knowledge into their companies, while bringing real-world experience, challenges and insights from industry back to the university.

That creates a much stronger exchange between research and practice – to the benefit of the entire construction sector. It's a genuine win-win.

If it also makes it easier for more engineering students to pursue a Master's degree because they can combine it with relevant employment, it could help address another pressing need:

More highly qualified engineers for the construction industry.

To me, the industry-based Master's programme is therefore more than just a new educational model. It's an attempt to bridge the needs of students, businesses and society alike.

I see enormous potential in this new initiative.

You could say that instead of educating students for the industry, we're now educating them with the industry.

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