On their daily drudge to the office, suburbanites seldom get lost. But they do get stuck along the way. Their travel pattern demands another type of navigation information.

Polders are soggy and swampy, and so is the Dutch policymaking approach called the polder model, Shi Nan (25) believes. For her Master’s thesis Nan investigated whether a policymaking instrument – a serious game, called ‘the World-Café’ – could pull the Dutch out of the administrative swamp.

After three months of invisibility, the tunnel boring machine, named Molly, appeared once again, emerging at exactly the right place in Ceintuurbaan station, one of the stations of the North/South Line in Amsterdam.

Range anxiety holds people back from buying electric vehicles. But what if the road itself would keep the batteries charged?
In the laboratory, MSc student Swagat Chopra places his model car above a square coil of electric wire.

It’s the dream of every computer manufacturer: being able to cheaply produce a flexible and stretchable display. Shou-En Zhu believes this is possible using graphene.

The Delft start-up companies 3Delft and BMO
Offshore tested a model of an anemometer tower for its seaworthiness at Deltares’ Atlantic basin last week.

Dr Marijke Melles (Industrial Design Engineering) created the cover together with her partner Robert Morcus. Melles searched the internet for a strong image that would capture people’s attention.

Name: Chajoong Kim (37)
Nationality: South Korean
Supervisor: Dr Henri Christiaans (Faculty of Industrial Design)
Subject: Usability problems: The influence of user diversity
Thesis defence: Next year

“Despite the enormous progress over the last decades in technology and design, consumers are complaining more and more about electronic products.