More than forty percent of Muslim terrorists have an engineering degree, say two sociologists. Are engineers indeed the best terrorists, as the Dutch newspaper De Pers heralds?
Predicting earthquakes was long thought to be impossible. But thanks to a new TU Delft algorithm, this is no longer so far fetched. For geophysicists it’s a dream come true.
Name: Peter Buist (36)
Nationality: Dutch
PhD supervisor: Professor Peter Teunissen (Aerospace Engineering)
Subject: Relative positioning and attitude determination for formation flying
Thesis defence: One year to go
“Last year we let the faculty airplane fly circles above the buildings of TU Delft.
A first group of cancer patients in Utrecht will be injected this week with radioactive microparticles that have been irradiated in Delft. This is a first step towards a promising new form of radiotherapy.
Waste plastic from ‘throwaway’ carrier bags can be readily converted into carbon nanotubes, the New Scientist reports in last week’s issue.
The newly appointed assistant professor, Elif Genceli-Güner, developed a technique that separates salts from liquids by freezing the mixtures. It can potentially save huge amounts of energy and water.
Not everybody believes in global warming by human causes. Last Monday, the free newspaper Metro ran the headline: ‘The earth is getting colder’. Professor Salomon Kroonenberg, a geologist at TU Delft, stated in this article that we might even be heading towards a small Ice Age.
In Copenhagen, delegates discuss emissions reductions of 80 to 90 percent by mid-century. Delta asked a number of TU experts: suppose you are going to be the first minister of Energy in the next Dutch cabinet, Balkenende V, how would you proceed?
