Mud plus dung makes eco house If you want to build affordable, durable and desirable houses, consider mixing clay or mud with dung to use as a building material, says Dr Yask Kulshreshtha. He defended his PhD thesis on Thursday, 6 October 2022. “People here tend to think that earthen houses are…
Nobel Prize in Physics for quantum computers research The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to research on quantum mechanics, which is believed will lead to the advent of quantum computers. The laureates are Frenchman Alain Aspect, American John F. Clauser and Austrian Anton Zeilinger. The three scientists build on the work of John…
Blown-up gas pipes, unprecedented energy prices and winter looming. What can we expect Delta asked three energy experts. Simply put: saving. How to keep it affordable?
Partial TU Delft solar cell most efficient Researchers from TU Delft, TU Eindhoven, TNO and semiconductor specialist Imec raised eyebrows at the WCPRC-8 world solar conference in Milan. United in the Dutch Solliance partnership, they presented a hybrid solar cell with a record efficiency of 30%. The solar cell is composed of…
English only Art or science? – The calculated wake of a ship’s jet propiusion (Image: DCSE) The TU Delft Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (DCSE) celebrates its first lustrum and the recent launch of the DelftBlue supercomputer in the ‘The art of scientific computing’ event on Friday 30 September in…
The Brunel Solar Team is currently playing leapfrog with the Belgian Agoria Team in the Sasol Solar Challenge in South Africa.
This year, at least 50 students chose the master’s Environmental Engineering programme at the CEG Faculty. Professor Merle de Kreuk talks about the how and why.
Artificial intelligence improves the prediction of heavy summer rainfall. Five Computer Science bachelor students built a web app for it: RainGuRu.
At the festive event, the TU Delft’s blue was accentuated with red: the colour that represents the lifelong bond that TU Delft pursues with its students and alumni.
NVR honours Emeritus Professor Heinz Stoewer The Dutch Space Society (NVR) will present the NVR Space Award on Wednesday evening 7 September to Emeritus Professor Heinz Stoewer. The NVR grants the Space Award to individuals who have made a major or pioneering contribution to Dutch space travel, according to NVR secretary Pieter Batenburg.…
