Are you passionate about high-end technological design? Do you want to continue developing your skills with a combination of education and work?
The Professional Doctorate in Engineering (PDEng) programme Business & IT (BIT) offers you a 2-year position combining post-MSc education and a design project to be carried out at the University of Twente and the Twente Fire Brigade. The Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of
Twente, The Netherlands, invites applications for a Professional Doctorate in Engineering (PDEng fellowship) in the project 'Data driven risk management for fire services' funded by the Dutch Research Council. The envisaged start date is September 1st, 2022.

The educational programme, carried out at the University of Twente, will have an in-depth and broadening character with ample attention for professional development and will be partly tailored to the design project. The PDEng is a two-year post-master design programme focussing on the direct needs of industry. It combines an educational component with a research project in a professional context.

The project - Data Driven Fire Risk Management
Your main goal is related to prediction of various types of fires. You will develop a user friendly, preferably web-based, software tool that implements a statistical hierarchical model for the analysis and prediction of various types of fires in close cooperation with the Twente Fire Brigade. You will cooperate closely with a PhD who is developing the mathematical models, your tasks is to translate these models to software that can be used in the operational practice of the Twente Fire Brigade. In addition you will cooperate with the Business Intelligence Department of the Twente Fire Brigade.

• You should have good programming skills, and affinity with programming, an excellent command of English, and preferably at least a reasonable command of Dutch and good academic writing and presentation skills;
• You hold a MSc degree in: Mathematics, Computer Science, Software Technology, Business Information Technology (BIT), Interaction Technology, or a related specialization;
• You have demonstrated affinity with design and multidisciplinary assignments;
• You have a passion for finding solutions for complex IT-related issues;
• You have knowledge of the programming language C(.NET framework);
• You have excellent collaboration and communication skills;
• You are self-starting and self-motivating, willing to take initiatives and feel the responsibility for your own project;
• Applicants with a non-Dutch qualification and who have not had secondary and tertiary education in English can only be admitted with an IELTS-test showing a total band score of at least 6.5, internet TOEFL test (TOEFL-iBT) showing a score of at least 90, or a Cambridge CAE-C (CPE).

• The University of Twente offers you a very challenging full-time position for two years in an inspiring multidisciplinary and international environment. In this time we will provide you with a tailor made post-master design programme that has an educational component (~50%) as well as a design project (~50%). You will be supervised by a team of experts from both Twente Fire Brigade and the University of Twente.
• The salary will be € 2.009,- gross per month.
• A holiday allowance of 8% of the gross annual salary and a year-end bonus of 8.3%.
• A solid pension scheme.
• Minimum of 29 holidays in case of full-time employment.
• On successfully completing the programme, you will receive a certified degree. You will be entitled to use the academic degree PDEng and will be registered as a Technological Designer in the Dutch register kept by the Royal Institution of Engineers in the Netherlands (KIVI).

The researchers working on this project are experts in the area of Stochastic Operations Research (SOR), the analysis of mathematical models and methods for the design, control and optimization of complex (stochastic) systems. The SOR group studies a variety of phenomena with as common theme the impact of randomness on system performance, both at the theoretical level, obtaining a deeper mathematical insight, and at the practical level by applying relevant knowledge to real-world phenomena and problems.

Twente Fire Brigade (TFB) is one of 25 regional fire services in the Netherlands governed by the law on safety regions. The brigade serves about 627,000 inhabitants in 14 municipalities. Improving fire safety, response to incidents as well as crisis and disaster management are the organization's main tasks. 24/7 preparedness is organized through a network of 29 fire stations with 1,000 colleagues, of which 700 are trained volunteers. In 2021 the brigade responded to approximately 4,000 incidents. The TFB positions itself as an innovative safety organization. In recent years it pioneered several ideas in the field of fire services like the use of drones in firefighting, development of a virtual reality suit for training of fire fighters, the start of a 'Risk factory' for educational purposes and the use of incident data as a resource for planning, educational and operational purposes. Their Twente Safety Campus serves as a training location for first responders, as facility for risk-education and as a safety field lab.
For more information see [http://www.brandweertwente.nl](http://www.brandweertwente.nl) or [http://www.twentesafetycampus.nl](http://www.twentesafetycampus.nl)