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Research mission

Engineering management is a broad field of research, ranging from technical and methodological subjects (operations research, ddata mining), via engineering, to management and poilicy aspects (sustainability, entrepreneurship, innovation, energy and environment). For this reason , the departement Engineering Management consists of five subgroups, that cover together the most important subdomains of the field of Engineering Management:

ANT/OR - Operations Research
- Focus on applications of Operations Research
- Senior academic staff members: Kenneth Sörensen, Trijntje Cornelissen, Johan Springael
Applied Data Mining
- Focus on mining behavioural data for marketing and risk management applications
- Senior academic staff member: David Martens
Active Perception Lab
- Focus on the development of biomimetic sensors
- Senior academic staff member: Herbert Peremans
Risk Models in Innovation
- Focus on the discovery of the characteristics of successful and failing projects
- Senior academic staff member: Johan Braet
Environmental Economics
- Focus on economic and sustainability assessments of environmental, agricultural and energy systems and technologies and safety and security
- Senior academic staff members: Steven Van Passel, Herbert Peremans, Genserik Reniers, Tine Compernolle