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The Next Generation of Infrastructure
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 7 Sequences
- Intermediate Level
Course details
Syllabus
Module 0: Warming-up
Module 1: The socio-technical complexity of critical infrastructures and the need for a systems approach
Module 2: Fuzzy borders: interconnectedness and interdependencies of critical infrastructures and the role of standards
Module 3: Complex theory for assessing infrastructures
Module 4: Key infrastructural challenges: considerations from a systems approach
Module 5: Smart grids, ICT-architecture and cybersecurity
Module 6: Governance and regulation of complex infrastructures
Module 7: Tools, instruments and frameworks for policy making
Prerequisite
Analytical skills, curiosity about new developments, and an interest in the design and governance of infrastructures.
Instructors
Margot Weijnen
Chair of Process and Energy Systems Engineering
TU Delft
Ernst ten Heuvelhof
Professor of Public Administration
TU Delft
Editor
Delft University of Technology (in Dutch: Technische Universiteit Delft), better known as TU Delft, is the oldest and largest public university in the Netherlands.
It is based in Delft, in the Netherlands. In the QS World University Rankings 2022, it is ranked among the top 10 engineering and technology universities in the world. In architecture and civil engineering, it was ranked 2nd in the world, after MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
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