Delta often writes about innovative ideas that offer big promises for the future. But what has happened to such ideas years later? What for instance has happened to the special moulds that help surgeons drill or saw at exactly the right place.
3D Modelling
Want to help put The Hague on the map in 3D for Google Earth? And get firsthand instructions in the use of Google Sketchup Pro and Google Building Maker while doing so?
Google and design agency Design8 are organising a one-day workshop in 3D modelling for students.
Words are like drugs. They must be appropriately dosed to be effective.
‘Dry self-alignment for discrete components exploiting combinations of electrostatic fields and mechanical features’, PhD-thesis by Iwan Kurniawan.
In 2012 bicycles in the Dutch town of Krommenie will travel on a road paved with innovative solar panels. This 100 metre-long SolaRoad will serve as a source of electricity.
A new European Union directive requires member states to devise plans for the long-term storage of radioactive waste. TU Delft wants to be involved in designing the Dutch solution.
Synthetic biology is the hottest thing in microbiology. No surprise then that the Kluyver Centre invited Dan Gibson, the first man to create a synthetic cell as the keynote speaker of its annual symposium.
Graphic designer and TU-alumnus Joost Steenkamer made the cover for Dr. Arjen Jansen’s PhD-thesis. “Steenkamer has a talent for producing single images which tell a whole story”, Jansen explains.
Name: Herdis Heinemann (35)
Nationality: German
Supervisor: Professor Rob van Hees (Architecture)
Subject: Conservation of historic concrete in the Netherlands
Thesis defense: In one year
“Concrete is a fascinating material that tells many stories.
‘No CO2 leakage’
Reacting to the news that CO2 gas had escaped from Canada’s Weyburn oil field, the Petroleum Technology Research Centre has published its own findings.
