Name: Chongxin Yuan (27)
Nationality: Chinese
Supervisor: Professor Adriaan Beukers (Composites section of the faculty of Aerospace Engineering)
Subject: Mechanical and acoustic properties of composites sandwich
Thesis defense: In one and a half years

“Nowadays, the fuselage of an airplane is built and the acoustic properties of the structure are improved afterwards by adding layers of foam on the inside of the fuselage.

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Why do some people complain about aircraft noise while their neighbours do not? Dr Maarten Kroesen discovered that mistrust and loss of control intensify the impact of noise.

Wind turbines could do with some more fresh air. Huge kites hovering in the skies above could deliver that to them. This anyway is the idea put forward by a group of BSc students at the faculty of Aerospace Engineering who came up with this concept as part of their final BSc project.

Thorium is a better nuclear fuel than uranium. It is the safest and relatively inexhaustible energy source for the near future, according to an open letter published last week in the NRC newspaper.

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Nine TU Delft students have won a Dutch aviation award for their idea of having airliners fly like geese: in formation. They calculated a 50 percent fuel reduction.

Casper Harteveld, one of the pioneers of serious gaming, has recently published a book on the holy trinity of game design: reality, meaning and play.