On other days, the director of the international atomic energy agency IAEA is mostly busy managing the crisis surrounding the occupied Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizja. But on Wednesday afternoon, 24 April, Rafael Grossi will visit the TU Delft. The purpose of his visit is twofold: to reduce the female shortage in the nuclear
Engineer (ir.) Joep de Jong was surprised to receive a cash prize of EUR 2,000 at the Kooy Symposium (3 April 2024) of the KIVI department for defence and security. (KIVI is the Dutch Royal Institute of engineers). Little did he know that his supervisors from TU Delft and TNO had submitted his thesis to
It is perhaps the most pressing issue in the Netherlands: the housing crisis. The TU Delft Vision Team Wonen has come up with some stimulating ideas in the form of a temporary exhibition.
The new education building GO Zuid that TU Delft is planning to build is supposed to be the centrepiece of the southward expansion of the campus. A natural air conditioning system would have fit in well with the sustainable concept, but was scrapped when the objections outweighed the green intentions. The following is a reconstruction of the events starring an 89 year old alumnus.
Dr Jack Pronk, Professor of Industrial Biotechnology (Faculty of Applied Sciences), will receive this year’s Novozymes Prize from the Danish Novo Nordisk Foundation, worth DKK 5,000,000 (EUR 627,000). Pronk is being awarded the Prize for his fundamental scientific work with yeast cells and their use in the industrial production of biofuels from waste streams. Pronk's
Non-cemented stacked blocks of stone and concrete bridge the waterway to The Green Village. The prototype reusable arch bridge is being field tested here for five years.
An app that lets children take a sneak peek at a hospital received the most votes from the Klokhuis audience on Sunday 17 March. The ‘take a peek’ module was the IDE graduation project of Britt Müller at the Hospital Hero foundation.
Internet via glass fibre is just the beginning. Photons (particles of light) are expected to gradually take over the role of electrons as information carriers. Electronics becoming Photonics. Photo Integrated Circuits (PICs) are expected to be faster and more energy-efficient in transporting and processing data than the ICs we know today. The 4TU programmes in
This Sunday 17 March, the informative youth programme Het Klokhuis will award the Klokhuis Science Prize for the eighth time. There are two nominated research projects from TU Delft. Max van Beek and his professor Peter Rem (Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences) are working on recycling electronic waste. Klokhuis writes: 'Phones and computers are
