Rocky soil gives excavation and tunnel-boring machines a hard time. The machine’s expensive cutting tools quickly wear out or break. With neuro-fuzzy modelling, Dr.

MoviesFilmhuis Lumen:The Limey, directed by Stephen Sonderbergh, thurs to wednesday, 22:15: Terence Stamp plays an old limey (American slang for a Brit) criminal in America.

Dutch Olympic rowers use TU’s speedstripsThe Dutch rowers in Sydney have speedstrips attached to their oars to reduce air resistance. In speed skating the same sort of strips, which were developed at the TU Delft, have already proven their effectiveness.

Everything has been tested over and over again in the flight-simulator. After ten years of software programming and testing with pilots and the aerospace industry, it’s come this far.

Six MSc courses only enrolled one or two freshmen. Why? And how are tutors going to manage these small audiences?A new course, Mathematics (Risk & Environmental Modelling), attracted only two students.

Dinero Leaving home to work or study abroad is an adventurous leap into the great unknown, especially if your destination is a remote, lawless Mexican village in the middle of nowhere. Two Dutch gringos, Marcel Plomp and Fashad Soleymani, put their undergraduate Industrial Design studies to good use this summer, designing wheelchairs for children in Mexico.

The following are translations of the captions in the newspaper version of Delta, in order of appearance.Front pageStrong blondTjalling van den Bos, once the strongest man in the Netherlands, is still capable of pulling a truck by himself.

Adviseur kennis- en informatiemanagementBibliotheek TU Delft1 , 0 fteschaal 11 .Inl. R.J. Zwart, tst.

MoviesFilmhuis Lumen :The Limey, directed by Stephen Sonderbergh, thurs to wednesday, 19:30: Terence Stamp plays an old limey (American slang for a Brit) criminal in America.

New company for patentsTU Delft’s law department is setting up an internal company to manage the TU’s patents. Delft Enterprises Ltd. will be a virtual organisation with the TU and venture capitalists as shareholders.