Dean

Societal issues are becoming more and more complex, containing as they do a combination of technological, organisational and societal components.

Examples of these can be found everywhere: road congestion, quality of electronic services, sustainability of industrial processes and the country’s spatial development. Issues of this kind involve various parties, often with conflicting interests and ideas. A purely technological approach to such problems, therefore, does not usually produce the desired results.

The Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management (TPM) provides fresh perspectives on how to resolve such issues using a combination of technology and management. The faculty was created in 1998, making it the youngest faculty at Delft University of Technology. All of our educational and research programmes are based on a multidisciplinary approach. Two important themes are: Design and Management of Infrastructures and their associated services and Technological Innovation.

Prof.dr. Th.A.J. Toonen
Dean of TPM