Engineering geologists are increasingly involved in major infrastructure developments. In the near future, new sensors and computer programs will even enable builders to undertake virtual tours of the subsurface they wish to build in, according to Professor Keith Turner.

‘TU Delft should make greater efforts to prevent mouse arms’At least ninety students and employees of TU Delft have severe symptoms of repetitive strain injury (RSI), or mouse arm.

With some help from TU Delft, the Cochin University of Science and Technology, in India, has automated their library system. Now, both universities have embarked on a joint project to start a documentation centre for rural development and appropriate technology.

Private companies should invest in bringing clean water to people who do not have easy access to water, says Professor Cees van den Akker, one of the discussion leaders of the World Water Forum.

“We only won one match out of five and of course would’ve liked to win more, but we had a great time in Enschede”, says Nivaldo Neira Cervantes, of the TU Delft football team.

Last week the first issue of Page 4 of Delta came out and I am very pleased that the English page came true. Especially, because I am one of the people who stressed the importance of having such a page in the newspaper of an international university.

Student council fears DTO reads their e-mailsStudents are allowed to use their university e-mail accounts for private e-mailing, but not for commercial activities.

Announcements, in English, by Aegee, Ifes and the University of Amsterdam can be found on page 24.If you have short announcements to place, please send them to: redactie@delta.t

The Civic tower, in Pavia, built nine hundred years ago, fell down in 1989. Dr. Gideon van Zijl knows how engineers and architects can prevent this from happening in future.

When Ubaldo Aleriano arrived from Mexico to begin his two-year MSc course, everything turned out less well organised than glossy TU brochures had conjured up.