However eco-friendly they may be, wind turbines are not very popular with people – unless these people happen to own them. For his graduation project Hengfeng Chi (Industrial Design and Engineering) set out to design a turbine that is like candy to the eyes.
Engineering agency LBP|Sight has won the Vernufteling award, organised last week by NLIngenieurs and the engineers’ association KiviNiria. LBP|Sight’s acoustical floor in the Dutch Maritime Museum saves visitors from drowning in sound in the courtyard.
Motion cues help pilots steer their airplane. For his PhD research Peter Zaal investigated how important these cues are, in order to then fine-tune simulators.
Student teams worked on commissioned educational games for six weeks. Last week they presented the results of this interfaculty ‘Building Serious Games’ project.
Satellite
The launch date for the second TU Delft satellite has been set. A Russian Dnepr-rocket is scheduled to will bring the nano satellite Delfi-n3Xt into orbit in September 2012, together with dozens of other small satellites.
Professor Geert-Jan Witkamp will receive the DOW Energy Prize on Thursday. His separation technology based on freezing uses only 15 percent of the energy needed for evaporation.
Name: Matthieu Spekkers (29)
Nationality: Dutch
Promotors: Professor Francois Clemens and Dr Marie-Claire ten Veldhuis (Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Urban Drainage section)
Subject: Urban flooding due to heavy rainfall
Thesis defense: In 2.5
Bangkok’s city centre may be spared from heavy floods, but suburban residents want to open up the dikes to allow water out. Anger grows, but officials can do little to help.
The Amsterdam district Watergraafsmeer gets flooded every year. There is no master plan to solve this problem. Instead local residents are supposed to come up with ideas.
