Education
SDWA considers that strong research capabilities and activities are essential to education and training. As such students and course participants are exposed to mature reflections on the results generated through the research projects in which SDWA members are involved, and also to results from research done elsewhere.
As part of this approach SDWA is spearheading a new double M.Sc. degree program in Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management in collaboration between the National University of Singapore and the Delft University of Technology. The programme is based on an institutionally innovative concept under which students spend one year of study in both Singapore and The Netherlands and receive separate M.Sc. degrees from both Universities.
The inaugural intake for this double M.Sc. degree program started in August 2009. Details are available for students interested in registering NUS or TU Delft as their home universities.
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