Delta and Delft Integraal often write about innovative ideas that offer big promises for the future. But what has happened to such ideas a couple years on? What for instance has happened to the research for non-slippery shoes?
Name: Benjamin Mimoun (25)Nationality: FrenchSupervisor: Professor Ronald Dekker (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Sciences) Subject: Making flexible electronic sensors for cardiology examinations Thesis defense: In about two and a half year“I’m working together with PhD students in Eindhoven, and with dr.
Smooth take off and landing procedures and an efficient reaction to aircraft blocking a runway. Dr. Adriaan ter Mors uses math to combat flight delays at Schiphol airport.
Scotland wants to become the ‘Saudi Arabia of Marine Energy’.
The Scottish Government announced this week that ten wave and tide power
systems capable of generating up to 1.2GW in total will be built around the
Orkney islands, north of Scotland.
Icelanders are currently holding their collective breath as the volcanic eruption that occurred last Saturday could result in a cataclysmic flood. Dr. Andy Hooper, of the faculty of Aerospace Engineering, studies magma flows in order to be able to predict these kinds of events.
Young drivers are four times more likely to be involved in a crash than their middle-aged parents. In her PhD-thesis, titled ‘The X-factor’, dr. Saskia de Craen pursues the question of how experience reduces crash risk over time.
An artificial reef creates great waves at Scheve-ningen Beach, heralds NRC Handelsblad. Protecting the country against flooding while still retaining good surf spots along the coast had long seemed a contradiction in terms.
Together with a team of young TU Delft architecture graduates, Alexander Vollebregt is giving Cordaid and the United Nations a helping hand in Haiti. “Will we make a difference? I don’t know. But it can’t get much worse.”
Delta and Delft Integraal/Outlook often write about innovative ideas that offer big promises for the future. But what has happened to such ideas a couple years on? What for instance has happened to Wingman?