Less traffic jams and time to read the newspaper while on the road: the self-driving car promises motorists a lot. This autumn, universities and car manufacturers will be busy testing intelligent vehicles and road systems. But do drivers really want this new technology?
De waarde van wetenschap laat zich niet zomaar in economische termen uitdrukken, meent de Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen. Dat zouden politici ook in verkiezingstijd moeten beseffen.
During her first month in the Netherlands, Dorina Pojani says her legs were covered in bruises. Although she learned how to ride a bike in Albania when she was nine, she had not ridden in almost 20 years.
Pao-Hsuan Chu, 30, and her mother were prepared for Dutch weather. Before she moved from Taiwan this year to finish her M.Sc. in Industrial Ecology and Technology in the Technology, Policy and Management faculty, she went shopping with her mother for a rain coat for her backpack.
Students are often on the lookout for bargains. TU Delft Ph.D. candidate Le Li uses the SuperDeals, an Android app to find the best deals in Delft.
When Kaveri Iychettira, a 23-year-old India native, considers a question, she becomes quiet, focused. She cradles her head in her hands and thinks deeply before looking up.
The search for new energy just got a big boost. TU Delft’s Kavli Institute of Nanoscience has a new partner – University of California Berkeley – in the search for energy solutions.
Fancy a mid-week pub crawl? Or a Friday night borrel? Don’t bike all the way to the city centre, check out some of the bars on campus.
During the Amsterdam Innovation relay on 12 November, the TU and the company Algae Food & Fuel signed a contract for a six-year research project into algae production. Algal Food & Fuel intends to upscale the Delft technology into a production line for algal oil.
