Professional Profile

The professional profile course runs during four consecutive weeks in the second year of the MADE program. The course will function as the linking pin between the Amsterdam Living Lab course (YMS70324) and the MADE MSc Thesis (YMS80330). Students will reflect on the interrelation between the domains of research, design and engineering on the one hand and their own talents, interests, and future role in society on the other. During the course, students look back on the MADE program and look forward to their professional careers to formulate their professional identities and translate these into preliminary plans for their possible future careers.

Please note that this course is offered at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions in Amsterdam. Students who are not studying the master MADE but who would like to participate in this course should contact the course coordinator prior to registration.

• Explore the spectrum of possible career paths of MADE graduates and identify how they have dealt with these in their studies so far.

• Position themselves at the spectrum and articulate how their personal professional profile is built upon the courses done in the first year of the program and in their on-going thesis and Living Lab work.

• Translate their identified profile to possible concrete steps for starting off their careers.

• Convincingly present their professional identities, reflecting on their work done so far (in and outside the study program) and their future aspirations.

• ? (%) This is assignment for job interview simulation
• ? (%) This is two assignments for research domain and entrepreneur domain.
• ? (%) This is the assignment for the policy domain.

First year MSc MMD courses.