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Only in Dutch - Op 23 mei houden professor Bas Jonkman (hoogleraar integrale waterbouwkunde) en professor Matthijs kok, (hoogleraar waterveiligheid) hun inaugurele redes tegelijk met de afscheidsrede van professor Han Vrijling (hoogleraar waterbouwkunde) in de Aula van de TU Delft. Het thema van de middag is Kentering in de Waterbouw. De bijeenkomst zal online live te volgen zijn via...
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After four years of research and testing, the small wind turbine designed by TU Delft spin-off Windchallenge is ready for its market launch. The Windchallenge 1.7 can now be ordered and delivered. Interested parties can see the turbine in action from 15 May onwards. An example of this lightweight, quiet and affordable turbine will be present on the roof of incubator company Yes!Delft in Delft.
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Five grammes per 100 kilometres. This is how little fuel the extremely energy-efficient hydrogen Ecorunner3 vehicle consumes. A team of students from TU Delft will be entering the vehicle in the Shell Eco-marathon in Rotterdam, from Wednesday 15 to Sunday 19 May. More than 200 teams from all over Europe will be competing in this fuel-efficiency competition at the Ahoy event centre. The team that...
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Buildings can be air-conditioned using entirely natural means, without mechanical ventilation systems. This is the claim made by 78-year-old Benjamin Bronsema, who will be awarded his PhD for his thesis on the subject at TU Delft on Thursday 7 June. He wants to create an energy-positive office environment using sun, wind and cascading water. Bronsema is now looking for a building in which to...
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Protecting consumers’ privacy or opt for easy billing with a smart electricity meter? Address concerns about environment and safety for local communities or choose profits and nationwide CO2 reductions in the case of shale gas production? How can the interests of different stakeholders be taken into account when developing or implementing new energy technology? Is it possible to meet conflicting...
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TU Delft students Willem Kesteloo, Koon Hooning and Gijs van Vrede have won the International CleanTech Challenge 2013 for their power window concept. Power windows are regular windows coated with a luminescent foil that scatters light particles to small PV solar cells situated on the window frames. The students scooped a £10,000 prize to develop their idea for coated windows that produce clean...
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Please consider submitting an abstract before May 30, 2013 for Mobile Ghent ‘13 which will be held in the city of Ghent (Belgium) from October 23 to 25, 2013.
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It is now possible to register for the first free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) at TU Delft. The courses being offered are Solar Energy and Introduction to Water Treatment, both of which start on 16 September. These courses provide free online access to the knowledge of TU Delft for anyone, anywhere in the world. Anyone may attend the courses, without prior education or entrance tests.
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Scientists at TU Delft have made an important advancement in a new microscopic technique that is widely used in medical research. They demonstrate what the resolution of this localisation microscopy is and how the best resolution can be achieved as quickly as possible. This week their findings are being published online in the scientific journal Nature Methods.
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Royal honours for Delft professors Teun Klapwijk, Bruno Ninaber van Eyben and Marcel Stive in 2013.
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In order to drive automatically, a car must first be able to see what's happening around it. With his VisLab team, the Italian professor Alberto Broggi is one of the leaders in the competition when it comes to developing sensor technology for automatic cars. He was recently in Delft by invitation of Bart van Arem to exchange knowledge and to discuss collaboration: the TU Delft Transport Institute...
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Researchers at TU Delft have managed to bring two electrons, three metres from each other, into a quantum- entangled state. This result marks a major step towards realizing a quantum network that can be used to connect future quantum computers and to send information in a completely secure way by means of ‘teleportation’. The results have been published online on 24 April in Nature.
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