The course Basics of RE&IS equips Master’s students with core skills in scientific writing. Central is the full writing cycle, supported by peer- and self-review. Students learn to critically evaluate literature, argue pros and cons, create simple visualizations, and present their work. Generative AI is examined for its potential and risks at each step.

This course provides a foundation in the key concepts, techniques, and tools essential for effective construction project management (PM).

The planning of maintenance activities helps ensure that infrastructure provides adequate levels of service. This course introduces the development of maintenance strategies, the conversion of strategic guidance into system plans, and the selection of an intervention portfolio across multiple systems. The course consists of weekly lectures, a group project, and help sessions.

This course provides tools to predict the service being provided by infrastructure in situations where the infrastructure is expected to1) to evolve slowly with relatively little uncertainty over time, e.g. due to the corrosion of a metal bridge, and2) to change suddenly with relatively large uncertainty, e.g. due to being washed away from an extreme flood.

This course will provide an introduction to the methods and tools that can be used to determine optimal inspection and intervention strategies and programs for infrastructure.

This course explains how ideas for infrastructure emerge from strategic planning (macro scale), are taken up in the planning of systems (meso scale) and progress to approval through project evaluation (micro scale). It also provides infrastructure planners with principles for the appraisal of possible projects with and without the explicit valuing of costs and benefits.

The Interdisciplinary Project Activity (IPA) forms the key feature of the MSc RE&IS. Students work on an interdisciplinary task from the field of spatial development and infrastructure systems in a real-life application . The interdisciplinary cooperation and strong communication skills are crucial skills required in practice to communicate with and between relevant actors and other stakeholders.

General introduction to the development, the life cycle and the characteristics of projects. Introduction to, and experience with, the methods and tools to help with the preparation, evaluation, organisation, planning, controlling and completion of projects.

• Systems Engineering is a way of thinking that helps engineer sustainable systems, i.e., ones that meet the needs of stakeholders in the short, medium and long term.• This course provides an overview of the main principles of Systems Engineering, and includes an introduction to the use of operations research methods in the determination of optimal systems.

• Systems Engineering is a way of thinking that helps engineer sustainable systems, i.e. ones that meet the needs of stakeholders in the short, medium and long terms.• This course provides an overview of the main principles of Systems Engineering, and includes an introduction to the use of operations research methods in the determination of optimal systems.

• Systems Engineering is a way of thinking that helps engineer sustainable systems, i.e., ones that meet the needs of stakeholders in the short, medium and long term.• This course provides an overview of the main principles of Systems Engineering, and includes an introduction to the use of operations research methods in the determination of optimal systems.