Voor ongeveer zeven ton heb je hem, ‘s werelds eerste speedboot op zonne-energie. Studenten maritieme techniek Nils Beers en David Czap zaten vorig jaar in het TU-team dat een zonneboten-race in Friesland won.

DrukkerProf.dr. Jan Willem Drukker heeft deze week afscheid genomen van de TU Delft. Twintig jaar lang werkte hij bij Industrieel Ontwerpen, waar hij hoogleraar mens-productrelaties was.

Last week the university honored the top graduates of its eight faculties. Representing the TU’s foreign student contingent was Mariya Krymskaya, from Russia, who was deemed the best graduate of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, while Helma van Rijn of the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering took home the overall award as the ‘Best TU Delft graduate’ of the year.

“The phenomenon of technology outsourcing for cutting costs is becoming more relevant for TU graduates. All in all, we can agree that ‘outsourcing’ is here to stay for quite sometime and that we had better understand and cope with it, rather than let its complex implications affect us.