It’s been a busy week for Professor Molenaar (CEGS), having three PhD defences under his supervision. So is Road Engineering such a booming discipline? Well, it depends.
Proton therapy
A gamma-camera can monitor a proton beam during therapy in real-time. Proton therapy is regarded as a promising new form of radiotherapy for cancer patients.
The Netherlands will probably be the first country to be fully mapped in three dimensions.
It may be one of the flattest countries in the world, yet still it’s not completely smooth. And what’s more, the Netherlands is prone to severe water problems.
The background photo shows the bending test for 12-inches steel pipes in action, explains Annemiek Hilberink (MSc), who works with Heerema Marine Contractors.
Name: Wangwang Liu (25)
Nationality: Chinese
Promoters: Professor Weiren Wu (Beijing Institute of Technology) and temporarily Prof.
While the economic news dominates the editorial pages, delegates at the climate summit in Durban face their own failures. At last year’s summit in Cancun they agreed on a maximum global heating of 2ºC. Now + 3.5°C by 2100 seems a more accurate estimate.
TU Delft’s best 24 innovations were presented at the first-ever ‘Delft Innovation Award’ ceremony, held last Tuesday. Delta presents the winner and two other favourites of the newspaper’s science desk.
Army of Agents
Imagine a fleet of 10,000 nanosatellites, or a team of cooperating robots in the field. You will want them to operate and co-operate intelligently within the network.
Development aid is not a one-size-fits all affair. In order to devise the best development strategy, one should look at how poverty is distributed within a country, says Rutger van den Noort, who will defend his thesis ‘Towards the end of global poverty‘ this month.
