News in brief

The students, competing in a new car, the ‘DUT06′, will attempt to win the top prize in this competition for the design, construction and driving of the best, fastest and safest car. The new DUT06 race car is unveiled and test-driven at the Zandvoort racetrack last Tuesday. This year’s model is the sixth race car developed by TU Delft. Last year, for the third year in a row, the TU Delft team finished in the top two of this design competition. For this year’s car, the TU team focused on reducing the weight of the car. By removing every extra gram of weight in the car’s design and production, the design team succeeded in constructing a car that weighs only 125 kg. The TU Delft car is the lightest car in the field. The final scores in the Formula Student Competition are not only based on the performance of the car in terms of acceleration, handling and durability during the race, but also on the race car’s design, cost and presentation mechanics. Approximately 60 students from TU Delft’s Aerospace Engineering and Industrial Design faculties, as well as other faculties, contributed to the TU race car project.

www.dutracing.nl
Deadly sins

An American university professor, writing under the pseudonym of Thomas H. Benton, has published a list of the seven deadly sins of professors. The list includes greed (as in the refusal of senior faculty to support higher compensation and benefits of part-time colleagues); anger (cultivated for decades by faculties bound together in stifling departments); lust (which now restrains even beneficial faculty-student relationships); gluttony (alcohol abuse); envy (social climbing, condescension); and pride (knowing more and more about less and less confers the right to pontificate about everything and anything).
Two million

TU Delft’s EEMCS Faculty has signed a contract with the STW Technology Foundation. Under the terms of the contract, researchers from the Micro-Electronics & Computer Engineering department will work together with ASML and Seiko in a project to produce 3D-IC’s. STW will contribute 1.5 million euro, and the two industrial partners 550,000 euro. 3D-IC’s are efficiently stacked electronic circuits, which, for example, can be used for artificial retinas. The four-year project will be carried out by TU Delft’s ECTM (Electronic Components, Technology and Materials) laboratory.
Lower caste

The Indian government has set off protests by proposing to reserve more higher education seats for lower-caste citizens in government-run universities. Violent protests have already broken out, led by students who say that, taken together, set-asides for members of “Other Backward Classes” and “Scheduled Castes and Tribes” would amount to 49.5% of university seats being reserved, too high in their estimation. Institutions involved would include the elite Indian Institutes of Technology, universities such as Jawaharlal Nehru University, and six medical colleges.
Chamber Music

TU Delft will sponsor this year’s International Delft Chamber Music Festival. The festival will be held from Friday, August 4th, to Sunday, August 13th, at the Prinsenhof Museum Delft. The festival will be led by impassioned artistic director Isabelle van Keulen. Accomplished musicians will perform well-known chamber music pieces by composers such as Mozart, Bartok, Beethoven, Britten and Bach. Englishman Mark-Anthony Turnage (1960) is the ‘Composer in residence’. Turnage’s music is performed around the world. He works with classical ensembles, but also with pop and jazz musicians.
Mijnbouwstraat

The Faculty of Civil Engineering & Geosciences’ Applied Earth Sciences program officially left its grand old academic building on Mijnbouwstraat 120. The program has been located in this building since 1912. TU Delft’s mining engineering program was first established in 1842 and changed its name over the years, from Mining Engineering to Mining Engineering & Petroleum Extraction, to it current name: Applied Earth Sciences. This program has relocated to Stevinweg 1. The Geotechnology department hosted a special farewell party to the Mijnbouwstraat building on June 3 for staff members, alumni and students. The farewell party began with a photo exhibition. Presentations were given in the lecture halls focusing on the past and future of the faculty, and a boat tour of Delft ended at ‘Het Noorden’ (the cafe of the program’s student association). All the guests then proceeded to the Markt, where they sang the ‘Gluck Auf’ (the Miner’s song), accompanied by the New Church’s carillon bells, before returning to the Mijnbouwstraat for a final dinner and party.

Racecar

TU Delft students will participate in the International Formula Student Competition in Great Britain, from July 5th to 8th. The students, competing in a new car, the ‘DUT06′, will attempt to win the top prize in this competition for the design, construction and driving of the best, fastest and safest car. The new DUT06 race car is unveiled and test-driven at the Zandvoort racetrack last Tuesday. This year’s model is the sixth race car developed by TU Delft. Last year, for the third year in a row, the TU Delft team finished in the top two of this design competition. For this year’s car, the TU team focused on reducing the weight of the car. By removing every extra gram of weight in the car’s design and production, the design team succeeded in constructing a car that weighs only 125 kg. The TU Delft car is the lightest car in the field. The final scores in the Formula Student Competition are not only based on the performance of the car in terms of acceleration, handling and durability during the race, but also on the race car’s design, cost and presentation mechanics. Approximately 60 students from TU Delft’s Aerospace Engineering and Industrial Design faculties, as well as other faculties, contributed to the TU race car project.

www.dutracing.nl
Deadly sins

An American university professor, writing under the pseudonym of Thomas H. Benton, has published a list of the seven deadly sins of professors. The list includes greed (as in the refusal of senior faculty to support higher compensation and benefits of part-time colleagues); anger (cultivated for decades by faculties bound together in stifling departments); lust (which now restrains even beneficial faculty-student relationships); gluttony (alcohol abuse); envy (social climbing, condescension); and pride (knowing more and more about less and less confers the right to pontificate about everything and anything).
Two million

TU Delft’s EEMCS Faculty has signed a contract with the STW Technology Foundation. Under the terms of the contract, researchers from the Micro-Electronics & Computer Engineering department will work together with ASML and Seiko in a project to produce 3D-IC’s. STW will contribute 1.5 million euro, and the two industrial partners 550,000 euro. 3D-IC’s are efficiently stacked electronic circuits, which, for example, can be used for artificial retinas. The four-year project will be carried out by TU Delft’s ECTM (Electronic Components, Technology and Materials) laboratory.
Lower caste

The Indian government has set off protests by proposing to reserve more higher education seats for lower-caste citizens in government-run universities. Violent protests have already broken out, led by students who say that, taken together, set-asides for members of “Other Backward Classes” and “Scheduled Castes and Tribes” would amount to 49.5% of university seats being reserved, too high in their estimation. Institutions involved would include the elite Indian Institutes of Technology, universities such as Jawaharlal Nehru University, and six medical colleges.
Chamber Music

TU Delft will sponsor this year’s International Delft Chamber Music Festival. The festival will be held from Friday, August 4th, to Sunday, August 13th, at the Prinsenhof Museum Delft. The festival will be led by impassioned artistic director Isabelle van Keulen. Accomplished musicians will perform well-known chamber music pieces by composers such as Mozart, Bartok, Beethoven, Britten and Bach. Englishman Mark-Anthony Turnage (1960) is the ‘Composer in residence’. Turnage’s music is performed around the world. He works with classical ensembles, but also with pop and jazz musicians.
Mijnbouwstraat

The Faculty of Civil Engineering & Geosciences’ Applied Earth Sciences program officially left its grand old academic building on Mijnbouwstraat 120. The program has been located in this building since 1912. TU Delft’s mining engineering program was first established in 1842 and changed its name over the years, from Mining Engineering to Mining Engineering & Petroleum Extraction, to it current name: Applied Earth Sciences. This program has relocated to Stevinweg 1. The Geotechnology department hosted a special farewell party to the Mijnbouwstraat building on June 3 for staff members, alumni and students. The farewell party began with a photo exhibition. Presentations were given in the lecture halls focusing on the past and future of the faculty, and a boat tour of Delft ended at ‘Het Noorden’ (the cafe of the program’s student association). All the guests then proceeded to the Markt, where they sang the ‘Gluck Auf’ (the Miner’s song), accompanied by the New Church’s carillon bells, before returning to the Mijnbouwstraat for a final dinner and party.