Delta and Delft Integraal/Outlook 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 ‘RollerLift’, a wheelsystem that makes it easier to pass over a threshold?
Satellite positioning systems can be much more reliable if they correct for irregular ionospheric variations due to atmospheric gravity waves and geomagnetic storms, says PhD student Yahya Memarzadeh.
The ecological score of buildings can be expressed in one number: the environmental index. One of its founding fathers, Professor Michiel Haas, recently presented his vision for Delft in his inaugural address.
Just twelve hours after the tunnels of the A73 freeway near the city of Roermond where officially opened, they had to be closed again because a truck got stuck.
Name: Durandus Vonck (31)Nationality: DutchPhD supervisor: Dr. Richard Goosens (Industrial Design Engineering)Subject: Safer surgery with vacuum techniqueThesis defence: In less than two years“Minimal invasive surgery is tricky.
Civil engineering constructions are primarily functional. The Climate Adaptation Lab aims to add functions to weirs, sluices and bridges by encouraging civil engineering and architecture students to work together.
Due to heavy rainfall last Friday in northwestern England two bridges collapsed and 16 were closed for precautions, the BBC reports.
With their latest genetically modified yeast, TU Delft researchers think they can boost bioethanol production from agricultural waste. “Within two years the first full-scale plants for second generation bioethanol will have started production.”
One of the largest laboratories for nanotechnology research in Europe lies right here in Delft; TNO’s and TU’s Van Leeuwenhoek Laboratory. It became fully operational last summer.
