EngD Training and Education
In the first year of the EngD programme, the emphasis will be on the course component. The amount of time spent on the design assignment will increase over time.Training activities can be followed within Wageningen University & Research or at partner institutes.
EngD Training activities at Wageningen University & Research
Compulsory general and methodological courses
- Principles of Design
- Grasping sustainability
Compulsory competency/skills training courses
- EngD introduction days (1-2 times per year)
- Project and time management (2 times per year)
Philosophy and ethics in science and design where one can choose from the following:
- Scientific integrity (6 times per year)
- Ethics and Animal Sciences (3 times per year)
- Ethics in Plant and Environmental Sciences (2 times per year)
- Ethics for Social Sciences Research (2 times per year)
- Philosophy and Ethics of Food Science and Technology (once per year)
- Inter-transdisciplinary approaches
Free choice competency/skills training courses
- Introduction to WUR Library (online training) (monthly)
- Communication with media and general public (2 times per year)
- Bridging across cultural differences (online Course) (once per year)
- Effective behaviour in your professional surroundings(3 times per year)
- Mobilising your - scientific - network (once per year)
- Searching and Organising Literature (online training) (5 times per year)
- Stress Identification & Management (in-person training) (4 times per year)
Career development (3-5 ECTS min)
- Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial skills (2 times per year)
- Exploring Teaching Outside Academia: orientation and reflection (once per year)
- Career assessment (continuous)
- Career perspectives (4 times per year)
Free choice methodological courses (4 ECTS min)
Statistics
- Basic Statistics (2 times per year)
- Linear Models (once per year)
- Generalized Linear Models (once per year)
- Mixed Linear Models (once per year)
- Meta-analysis (once every two years)
- Multivariate Analysis (once per year)
- Bayesian Statistics (once per year)
- Geo-statistics (once every two years)
- Design of Experiments (2 times per year)
Modelling and Programming
- The Art of Modelling (once every two years)
- Dynamic models in R: Programming, parameter estimation and model selection (once every two years)
- Uncertainty Propagation in spatial and environmental modelling (once every two years)
- Statistical Uncertainty Analysis of Dynamic Models (once every two years)
- Companion Modelling (once every two years)
- R and Big Data (once every two years)
- Intermediate Programming in R (once every year)
Other
- Hands-on Digital Soil Mapping (once every year)
- World Soils and their Assessment (once every year)
- GIS in Practice (once every two years)
- Introduction to Machine learning (once every two years)
- Tidy data transformation and visualization with R (once every year)
- Introduction to R and R studio (2 times per year)
MSc courses offered by Wageningen University (All once per year)
- Biosystems design
- Deep learning/machine learning
- Control methods for precision farming
- Climate science meteorology
- Greenhouse technology
- Postharvest technology/physiology
- LED lighting in greenhouses and vertical farms
- Product quality measurements and analysis
- Advanced methods in plant-climate research in controlled environments
- Automation for bio-production
- Machine learning
- Artificial intelligence
- Mechanics
- Robotics
- Big data analysis in the Life Sciences
- Statistics analysis for life sciences
- Trade-offs in design
- Statistics for data scientists
- Bayesian data analysis
- R for statistics
- Interview techniques