Name: Valentina Koschatzky (29)
Nationality: Italian
Supervisor: Professor Bendiks Jan Boersma (faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering)
Subject: Sound produced by turbulence
Thesis defense: In about one year
“You know those films in which burglars try to rob a place and use smoke to see the detection lasers? Well, look at my setup, it’s somehow similar: I used a laser beam to visualize smoke particles.
Delta and Delft Integraal often write about innovative ideas that offer big promises for the future. But what has happened to such ideas a couple years on? What for instance has happened to Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy?
According to MIT’s Technology Review, Google, eBay and Walmart have all bought 100-kilowatt fuel cell modules, made by a secretive company called Bloom Energy.
The electrification of transportation demands an upgrade of the current power infrastructure. With innovative smart grid technology, vehicles will no longer just demand but also supply energy.
With ‘solar chimneys’ buildings can become completely energy self-sufficient. Or so Ben Bronsema and his colleagues are trying to prove in a small wooden cabin in Limburg.
Students in 3mE’s Toptrack programme have improved the design of a super-silent autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). Last Friday they presented their results and were rewarded a ‘9’.
With container ships flooding the ocean and becoming bigger and bigger, accidents are more prone to happen. A TU Delft researcher found that the rules for the maximum amount of stress that these ships must be able to withstand may not be strict enough.
Name: Marc Harleman (28)
Nationality: Dutch
Supervisors: Professor Thomas van Terwisga and professor Jerry Westerweel (both of the faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering)
Subject: Drag reduction by air bubbles
Thesis defense: In about eighteen months
“For centuries people have been designing ships ways aimed at minimizing the effect of wave and pressure forces; for instance, by streamlining ships.
Belgium experienced its worst railway crash in thirty years. At least eighteen people died last Monday in a collision between two passenger trains at Halle, just southwest of Brussels.
