Pavement opportunities worldwide in education and research ft cn2050

Project information

Objective

The main goal of the international Joint Master is to support the society towards a climate resilient and sustainable pavement infrastructure. Transport infrastructure is one of the important assets needed to develop countries to a higher level for future generations. The environmental and societal impact is significant and can only be improved by engineers with a multidisciplinary approach and a broad vision on future availability of technologies, materials, people and processes. This multidisciplinary approach can be presented for example the use of sensor technology to estimate asset maintenance, digitalisation processes related to materials and processes to increase circularity, quality and effectiveness of the infrastructure sector, selectionand recycling of materials in order to secure health of workers, users and surrounding residents now and in the future. This Joint Master will deliver the next generation masters who will decide on infrastructure for the next 100 years. The Joint Master will collaborate with several Associated Partners* from all 5 continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and America. A transfer of skills and expertise are clustered to develop sustainable solutions for the complex future challenges.

• - Presenting guest lectures,
• - Hosting and connecting visiting students to industry,
• - Supervising 'Industrial Training Project' and 'Dissertation'.

*You can become an Associated Partner by signing the letter of Intent.

Structure of the joint master

The Joint Master is composed by 4 semesters: a first semester to gain basic knowledge and skills on Pavement Engineering in Antwerp. For semester 2, the students select one track (and destination) related to their interest:  Smart Pavement Engineering  (UMinho, Guimarães -Portugal), Sustainable Pavement Engineering (UNIPA, Palermo -Italy) or Climate Resilience and Sustainability in a Global Perspective (MAHE, Manipal – India). The 3^rd semester is an internship at an associate partner (more than 30 destinations) and online courses to prepare for the dissertation. The master is finished by a dissertation at one of the partners or an associate partner of the Joint Master (30 destinations) in the 4^th semester.