When in Delft, do as the Dutch do. That means celebrating the winter holiday of Sinterklaas, or Sint Nicolaas, celebrated on December 5th. Sinterklaas is an elderly man in stately robes who arrives in the Netherlands from Spain every year by boat and tells children if they’ve been naughty or nice.
Student Mateo Martinez has started a petition to change the name of Escobar, the new bar on campus. After all the media attention last week and a lot of reactions from the community, the café is still not thinking of a name change.
How are we going to transport ourselves in the year 2050? TU Delft TV went to the Researchlab Automated Driving Delft (RADD) to see what their vision is and how they are working towards it.
Two hundred students and their other halves were in Madrid for their EIT Digital Master graduation. Everything was taken care of: plane tickets, hotels, the graduation and a gala dinner at an exclusive location in the capital city.
Nederlands damkampioen en EWI-student Martijn van IJzendoorn (20), werd in oktober negende op het WK in Tallinn. Over twee jaar wil hij wereldkampioen worden.
Car manufacturer Renault brought in industrial designer Laurens van den Acker eight years ago to ‘revive’ the brand and ‘give consumers goose bumps’ again. Now 12 TU Delft students are designing Renault’s car of the future.
Een grote lege polder, zo zag het land waar de TU nu staat eruit na de oorlog. De tentoonstelling Rise of a Campus laat zien hoe de universiteit van de stad naar de polder verplaatste. Vrijdag 1 december opent de tentoonstelling op de bovenste verdieping van de Aula.
PhD student Tim van Emmerik showed that radar technology in space can be used to measure how ‘thirsty’ plants and crops are. He found that this could play a key role in improving our understanding of the interrelationship between ecosystems and the water and carbon cycles. Van Emmerik wrote a poem about it.
De fractie van Studenten Techniek In Politiek (Stip) krijgt donderdag twee nieuwe raadsleden, Twan de Nijs en Sybren van der Velde. Delta sprak met Van der Velde over schuldhulpverlening, het TU-gemeenteconvenant en zijn studie.
