For his MSc thesis, Roeland Visser took a close look at the methods used to train air traffic controllers.
Over the course of his 18 months of research, Visser examined the Solution Space Diagram.
Quinton Jie, of the Industrial Ecology master’s programme, studied how business model innovation can make construction processes in the building sector more circular and resource efficient.
Some welding places are dangerous for humans. How can we teach robots to reach those places and weld when humans can’t?
People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. Unless that house was built by TU Delft. Thanks to research done at TU Delft’s Architecture and the Built Environment faculty, a glass brick facade has been installed at the new Chanel boutique in Amsterdam, which is up to ten times stronger than the original brick wall.
Our present linear economy depletes global resources and fouls up the environment. The circular economy concept proposes an efficient alternative to maximise the utility and value of resources by closing loops, designing for reuse and recycling and generating less overall waste.
The gap between academic research and commercial applications can sometimes be difficult to bridge. The European Research Council’s (ERC) Proof of Concept grant purports to do just this, providing grantees eighteen months and €150 thousand to explore what the ERC calls the ‘innovation potential’ of their research.
Ongeacht je postuur; een langeafstandsvlucht is nooit comfortabel. Heb jij je weleens afgevraagd of die Boeings en Airbussen tegenwoordig íets ruimer ingedeeld kunnen? Lucht- en ruimtevaarttechnicus Roderick Moerland wel, dus hij ontwierp het interieur gewoon opnieuw.
Een Belgische veldrijdster werd vorige week tijdens het WK-veldrijden in België betrapt met een motortje in haar fiets. ‘Het is de eerste keer dat mechanische doping is bevestigd in het wielrennen’, meldde nu.nl.
At the congress Deltas and Ports of the Future
organised by the Delft Deltas Infrastructures and Mobility Initiative (DIMI) the speakers outlined the complex challenges for successful integrated delta management of the 21st century.
