Industrial Design

Welcome to the department of Industrial Design

We offer students and staff an international and academic, in other words intellectually stimulating, study and working environment that will inspire them to broadly-based personal development, social and cultural engagement and an entrepreneurial attitude. We are shaping a new discipline: designing and creating intelligent systems, products and related services. We combine cutting edge research in several domains to educate a new type of engineer.

Our industrial designers create connected solutions, combining products and services to suit individual needs. Both students and researchers can work with all stakeholders, customers and producers alike, who are not only involved, but are also essential contributors to the future sustainability of our world. Their role will be to mediate the developments in technology, the needs of people (culture & society) and the responsibility for properly using the power of ideas and values.

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Our unique educational model brings together learning and working. Right from their very first day students learn, apply and develop the appropriate attitude, while functioning as ‘junior employees’. They intensively collaborate with research staff in squads, dedicated to specific research topics.

Our department regards it as its task to train engineers possessing a sound basis of knowledge, as well as a rich set of competencies that will enable them to develop successful careers in Industrial Design and a wide range of functions within the community. 

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Research at the department focusses on six clusters:

  • Computational Design Systems
  • Design of Empowering Systems
  • Designing with Intelligence
  • Interactive Matters
  • Making With...
  • Transdisciplinary Research & Design
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At the Departement of Industrial Design researchers and students can use several labs to support their research and educational activities. We offer Generic Make-Labs, Specific Make-Labs and Research Labs.

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At the department of Industrial Design we are shaping a new discipline: designing and creating intelligent systems, products and related services. We combine cutting edge research in several domains to educate a new type of engineer.

Find out more about collaboration with students of Industrial Design, examples of research and student projects and Industrial Design's spin offs.

News

Miguel Bruns in Universiteit van Nederland

What if you could feel this video?

Everything around us is desgined: from the chair you sit on to the phone you're watching this video on. Designers mostly focus on visual aspects, but Miguel Bruns (Eindhoven University of Technology) explains how we could also design for touch so that in the future you might feel instead of watch this lecture.

Events

  • 19 Jun
    kolibri

    EAISI lecture by visiting Professor Ericka Johnson

    A lecture about a collection of interdisciplinary approaches to robots and emotions.

  • 19 Jun
    kolibri

    EAISI lecture of visiting Professor Julia Stoyanovich

    A lecture about data: Follow the data! Responsible AI starts with responsible data management

  • 24 Jun
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    É«ÖÐÉ« Research Day: Celebrating Science

    June 24, 2025 1:30 PM / Blauwe zaal Auditorium

  • 26 Jun
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    Information Session 26 06 2025 - Data Science & AI for Professionals

    June 26, 2025 6:30 PM / EAISI, Neuron Building - É«ÖÐÉ«

  • 30 Jun
    01 Jul
    city of Eindhoven
    Fourth European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness

    EWAF'2025

    A 3-day interdisciplinary workshop bringing together researchers in algorithmic fairness.

  • 01 Jul
    kolibri

    EAISI lecture of visiting Professor Benjamin Cowan

    A lecture about Perspective Taking, Partner Models and User Behaviour in Conversational Interface Interaction

  • 04 Jul

    BeNeRL 2025

    The BeNeRL is an informal one-day workshop bringing together reinforcement learning researchers from the Belgium-Netherlands region.

  • 26 Aug
    kolibri

    EAISI lecture of visiting Professor Francis Bordeleau

    A lecture about What is the role of AI/ML in Digital Twin Engineering?

  • 31 Aug
    02 Sep
    KU Leuven.AI

    Leuven.AI Conference

    A historic gathering of renowned AI pioneers, celebrating 70 years of Artificial Intelligence & 600 years of KU Leuven.

  • 04 Sep
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    Information Session 04-09-2025 - Data Science & AI for Professionals

    September 4, 2025 6:30 PM / EAISI, Neuron Building - É«ÖÐÉ«

  • 30 Oct
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    Information Session - 30 10 2025 Data Science & AI for Professionals

    October 30, 2025 6:30 PM / EAISI, Neuron Building - É«ÖÐÉ«

  • 13 Nov
    ai summit brainport

    AI Summit Brainport 2025

    Save the date for the AI Summit on November 13, 2025!

  • Contact

    • Visiting address

      Department of Industrial Design
      Atlas 3 South
      Groene Loper 3
      5612 AE Eindhoven
      The Netherlands
    • Postal address

      Department of Industrial Design
      Atlas 3 South
      PO Box 513
      5600 MB Eindhoven
      The Netherlands