Professor Adriaan Beukers is at the forefront of the drive towards using composite materials to improve energy efficiency. He’s also striving to find other areas within TU Delft’s faculties that could benefit from this knowledge.

“Imagine getting to crib for a modest fee. Whatever did TU Delft do to get you to hate it so much? Perhaps someone more mature than I would avoid replying to such jibes I have received in response to my columns.

Survey The Netherlands is fairly well known among non-EU students who want to study in Europe. One in ten prospective students said that they were familiar with higher education in the Netherlands.

Dutch talk’Hij kijkt de kat uit de boom’ (literally: ‘He is staring the cat out of the tree’). When a native English speaker says, ‘He’s waiting to see which way the wind blows’, they mean the same as when the Dutch use the expression, ‘Hij kijkt de kat uit de boom’, which basically means, ‘He’s not doing anything, but merely waiting to see what happens’.

Over een jaar opent een nieuwe Delftse nanofaciliteit haar deuren. De bouw en inrichting zijn een miljoenenoperatie. Om bij de tijd te blijven zal de TU over zo’n vijftien jaar opnieuw verbouwen. Noodzakelijk, vindt ze, ‘om onze concurrentiepositie te behouden’.