Spaghetti BridgeOn Friday, March 7, 2008, Okanagan College (British Columbia, Canada), will host its 25th annual Spaghetti Bridge Building contest.
Students are invited to participate in what promises to be our biggest and best competition yet. Building bridges of spaghetti is a fun and entertaining way for students to enhance their knowledge of science and technology. Information, rules and entry forms are available on the website.
www.okanagan.bc.ca/spaghettibridge.
www.okanagan.bc.ca/spaghettibridge.
DEWIS symposium
On October 9, the first DEWIS (Delft Women in Science) symposium will take place: ‘Women Sustaining the Future’. Symposium speakers include Professor Nancy Hopkins (MIT, Department of Biology), Professor Klaas van Egmond (Director of Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency) and Dr. Mineke Bosch (University of Maastricht, Centre for Gender and Diversity). The symposium is on Tuesday, October 9, from 13:00-18:00, at TU Delft’s Cultural Centre. During the symposium, the first DEWIS-prize will be awarded to the best female PhD of the year.
Wasub 3
The Wasub 3-team is looking for people to design, build and race a new human powered submarine. The team will compete at the International Submarine Races held at the David Taylor Model Basin, Bethesda, Maryland (USA) from June 22-26, 2009. The team needs designers, researchers and builders in the field of hydrodynamics, mechanics, material science, electronics, control systems, ergonomics, computer science, etc. The team is also highly dependent on non-technical members acquainted with management, planning, public relations, sponsoring, website building, etc. Team members can work part-time or full-time, depending on their schedules. The opportunity also exists to gain some credits for the time that you spend in Wasub. In the past, internships and thesis projects have been devoted to Wasub. Those interested in joining the team should attend a presentation on Tuesday, November 6, at 13:00 in room A of the Aerospace Engineering faculty; or on Wednesday, November 7, at 13:00 in room D of the Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering (3mE) faculty.
http://wasub2.tudelft.nl
Core Values
The recently established social committee to propagate the core values of Dutch law is awarding a price of EUR 3,000 for the most appealing digital presentation on the core values of the rule of law. The committee is preparing an advisory opinion to help the public at large become more aware of, and familiar with, these core values, but considers it important that others can also make a contribution to increase this awareness. Contributions must be received before 1 November 2007.
http://english.justitie.nl
Hema cake-plate
A fifth-year Industrial Design student at TU Delft, Annet Hennink, has won first prize in the HEMA Design Competition for Students, in the section ‘hardwares’. Hennink designed a take-away cake plate for Hema’s very popular and well-known cakes. The jury . consisting of Hema’s designers and employees . said the design was in keeping with the festive theme of the year: Hema is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year, and the design competition its 20th anniversary. The cake plate is made of 1-millimeter thick cardboard, is cheap to mass produce and fits in well with Hema’s ‘party goods line’. Hennink is not the first TU student to win the design competition, however. In 2004, Industrial Design student Jurre Groenenboom won first prize for his ‘Tuit’ service. For Hema, Groenenboom designed a combination of a shopping cart and a rollator. Hennink’s cake plate, Tast Toe, is now for sale at the Hema.
Campus supermarket
TU Delft is negotiating with Spar and Albert Heijn about opening a mini-supermarket on campus, as part of the Mekelpark project. The supermarket should cover about two-hundred to three-hundred square meters, and be a place where TU students and staff could do their daily shopping and buy ready-made meals. Spar recently opened a ‘Spar Express’ on the University of Utrecht’s campus. TU Delft’s plans for a campus mini-supermarket are still in the early stages, and any such supermarket wouldn’t open until 2008 at the earliest.
Spaghetti Bridge
On Friday, March 7, 2008, Okanagan College (British Columbia, Canada), will host its 25th annual Spaghetti Bridge Building contest. Students are invited to participate in what promises to be our biggest and best competition yet. Building bridges of spaghetti is a fun and entertaining way for students to enhance their knowledge of science and technology. Information, rules and entry forms are available on the website.
www.okanagan.bc.ca/spaghettibridge.
www.okanagan.bc.ca/spaghettibridge.
DEWIS symposium
On October 9, the first DEWIS (Delft Women in Science) symposium will take place: ‘Women Sustaining the Future’. Symposium speakers include Professor Nancy Hopkins (MIT, Department of Biology), Professor Klaas van Egmond (Director of Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency) and Dr. Mineke Bosch (University of Maastricht, Centre for Gender and Diversity). The symposium is on Tuesday, October 9, from 13:00-18:00, at TU Delft’s Cultural Centre. During the symposium, the first DEWIS-prize will be awarded to the best female PhD of the year.
Wasub 3
The Wasub 3-team is looking for people to design, build and race a new human powered submarine. The team will compete at the International Submarine Races held at the David Taylor Model Basin, Bethesda, Maryland (USA) from June 22-26, 2009. The team needs designers, researchers and builders in the field of hydrodynamics, mechanics, material science, electronics, control systems, ergonomics, computer science, etc. The team is also highly dependent on non-technical members acquainted with management, planning, public relations, sponsoring, website building, etc. Team members can work part-time or full-time, depending on their schedules. The opportunity also exists to gain some credits for the time that you spend in Wasub. In the past, internships and thesis projects have been devoted to Wasub. Those interested in joining the team should attend a presentation on Tuesday, November 6, at 13:00 in room A of the Aerospace Engineering faculty; or on Wednesday, November 7, at 13:00 in room D of the Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering (3mE) faculty.
http://wasub2.tudelft.nl
Core Values
The recently established social committee to propagate the core values of Dutch law is awarding a price of EUR 3,000 for the most appealing digital presentation on the core values of the rule of law. The committee is preparing an advisory opinion to help the public at large become more aware of, and familiar with, these core values, but considers it important that others can also make a contribution to increase this awareness. Contributions must be received before 1 November 2007.
http://english.justitie.nl
Hema cake-plate
A fifth-year Industrial Design student at TU Delft, Annet Hennink, has won first prize in the HEMA Design Competition for Students, in the section ‘hardwares’. Hennink designed a take-away cake plate for Hema’s very popular and well-known cakes. The jury . consisting of Hema’s designers and employees . said the design was in keeping with the festive theme of the year: Hema is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year, and the design competition its 20th anniversary. The cake plate is made of 1-millimeter thick cardboard, is cheap to mass produce and fits in well with Hema’s ‘party goods line’. Hennink is not the first TU student to win the design competition, however. In 2004, Industrial Design student Jurre Groenenboom won first prize for his ‘Tuit’ service. For Hema, Groenenboom designed a combination of a shopping cart and a rollator. Hennink’s cake plate, Tast Toe, is now for sale at the Hema.
Campus supermarket
TU Delft is negotiating with Spar and Albert Heijn about opening a mini-supermarket on campus, as part of the Mekelpark project. The supermarket should cover about two-hundred to three-hundred square meters, and be a place where TU students and staff could do their daily shopping and buy ready-made meals. Spar recently opened a ‘Spar Express’ on the University of Utrecht’s campus. TU Delft’s plans for a campus mini-supermarket are still in the early stages, and any such supermarket wouldn’t open until 2008 at the earliest.
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