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Bert van Wee is Professor of Excellence 2020

On Monday 31 August, Bert van Wee, Professor of Transport Policy at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management (TPM) is named Professor of Excellence 2020 by Delft University Fund. Van Wee receives this prestigious prize for the indelible mark he has left on the Delft, national and international transport communities. He displays a continuous drive to improve education, including his own. He is committed and critical, yet always positive and constructive in his supervision of graduate (198!) and PhD students (28). Professor van Wee has been nominated by prof. drs. Aukje Hassoldt, Dean of Faculty TPM, Study Association Curius, (current and former) PhD students and a large number of internal and external colleagues from the transport community, including organisations such as Oxford University, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, Institute for Road Safety Research (SWOV) and TRAIL - Research School for Transport , Infrastructure and Logistics. Not only are his qualities as a researcher recognized, he is also highly praised for his positive attitude, unbridled enthusiasm, accessibility and unyielding dedication. Bert is one of the most cited TU Delft scientists in national and international media. Prof.dr.ir. Fred van Keulen, Chair selection committee Professor of Excellence “The selection committee was very impressed with the nomination. Bert van Wee has an extensive and comprehensive track record. Of special interest to the committee was how his role as coach and mentor has impacted so many others in the transport domain. The committee further recognized how Bert van Wee continues to have a positive impact on society at the national and international level.” Prof. drs. Aukje Hassoldt, Dean Faculty TPM “With a unique mix of research, educational and administrative qualities, Bert makes a unique scientific and social contribution to his field that is difficult to overestimate. With a broad palette of methodologies at his disposal, he has time and again developed new, integrated viewpoints that in turn inspire others. The faculty is privileged to have someone like Bert, with his high scientific caliber and engaging personality, as a key member of our community.” Thomas van Gerven, President Study Association Curius “Bert is a real educator. Within the transport domain of our faculty, he is truly a walking encyclopedia, constantly coming up with beautiful examples that appeal to the imagination. It is thanks to lecturers like Bert that more students are attracted to our faculty each year, allowing more students to experience the inspiring combination of technology and policy.” Best of TU Delft Delft University Fund has awarded the prestigious Professor of Excellence Award (in Dutch: Leermeesterprijs) since 1994. A Professor of Excellence is someone who excels in both research and education, and who knows how to inspire and motivate the next generation of Delft engineers. Recipients of the award are reckoned among the top of TU Delft. Professors of Excellence are not elected on the basis of yield figures or impact scores, nor are they selected top-down. You can only receive this honorary title on the recommendation of your colleagues and your students, who consider you to be their ‘Leermeester’. The prize The Professor of Excellence receives the silver Leermeester medal and a check for € 15,000. Also, KLM bestows two business class tickets for a destination of choice. The award ceremony Due to corona measures, the award ceremony will take place later. Bert van Wee Motorway speed limits of 100 km/h largely advantageous

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Bert van Wee is Professor of Excellence 2020

On Monday 31 August, Bert van Wee, Professor of Transport Policy at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management (TPM) is named Professor of Excellence 2020 by Delft University Fund. Van Wee receives this prestigious prize for the indelible mark he has left on the Delft, national and international transport communities. He displays a continuous drive to improve education, including his own. He is committed and critical, yet always positive and constructive in his supervision of graduate (198!) and PhD students (28). Professor van Wee has been nominated by prof. drs. Aukje Hassoldt, Dean of Faculty TPM, Study Association Curius, (current and former) PhD students and a large number of internal and external colleagues from the transport community, including organisations such as Oxford University, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, Institute for Road Safety Research (SWOV) and TRAIL - Research School for Transport , Infrastructure and Logistics. Not only are his qualities as a researcher recognized, he is also highly praised for his positive attitude, unbridled enthusiasm, accessibility and unyielding dedication. Bert is one of the most cited TU Delft scientists in national and international media. Prof.dr.ir. Fred van Keulen, Chair selection committee Professor of Excellence “The selection committee was very impressed with the nomination. Bert van Wee has an extensive and comprehensive track record. Of special interest to the committee was how his role as coach and mentor has impacted so many others in the transport domain. The committee further recognized how Bert van Wee continues to have a positive impact on society at the national and international level.” Prof. drs. Aukje Hassoldt, Dean Faculty TPM “With a unique mix of research, educational and administrative qualities, Bert makes a unique scientific and social contribution to his field that is difficult to overestimate. With a broad palette of methodologies at his disposal, he has time and again developed new, integrated viewpoints that in turn inspire others. The faculty is privileged to have someone like Bert, with his high scientific caliber and engaging personality, as a key member of our community.” Thomas van Gerven, President Study Association Curius “Bert is a real educator. Within the transport domain of our faculty, he is truly a walking encyclopedia, constantly coming up with beautiful examples that appeal to the imagination. It is thanks to lecturers like Bert that more students are attracted to our faculty each year, allowing more students to experience the inspiring combination of technology and policy.” Best of TU Delft Delft University Fund has awarded the prestigious Professor of Excellence Award (in Dutch: Leermeesterprijs) since 1994. A Professor of Excellence is someone who excels in both research and education, and who knows how to inspire and motivate the next generation of Delft engineers. Recipients of the award are reckoned among the top of TU Delft. Professors of Excellence are not elected on the basis of yield figures or impact scores, nor are they selected top-down. You can only receive this honorary title on the recommendation of your colleagues and your students, who consider you to be their ‘Leermeester’. The prize The Professor of Excellence receives the silver Leermeester medal and a check for € 15,000. Also, KLM bestows two business class tickets for a destination of choice. The award ceremony Due to corona measures, the award ceremony will take place later. Bert van Wee Motorway speed limits of 100 km/h largely advantageous
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Students Amos Yusuf, Mick Dam & Bas Brouwer winners of Mekel Prize 2024

Master students Amos Yusuf, from the ME faculty (Mick Dam, from the EEMCS faculty and graduate Bas Brouwer have won the Mekel Prize 2024 for the best extra scientific activity at TU Delft: the development of an initiative that brings master students into the classroom teaching sciences to the younger generations. The prize was ceremonially awarded by prof Tim van den Hagen on 13 November after the Van Hasselt Lecture at the Prinsenhof, Delft. They received a statue of Professor Jan Mekel and 1.500,- to spend on their project. Insights into climate change are being openly doubted. Funding for important educational efforts and research are being withdrawn. Short clips – so called “reels” – on Youtube and TikTok threaten to simplify complex political and social problems. AI fakes befuddle what is true and what is not. The voices of science that contribute to those discussion with modesty, careful argument and scepticism, are drowned in noise. This poses a threat for universities like TU Delft, who strive to increase student numbers, who benefit from diverse student populations and aim to pass on their knowledge and scientific virtues to the next generation. It is, therefore, alarming that student enrolments to Bachelor and Master Programs at TU Delft have declined in the past year. Students in front of the class The project is aimed to make the sciences more appealing to the next generation. They have identified the problem that students tend miss out on the opportunity of entering a higher education trajectory in the Beta sciences – because they have a wrong picture of such education. In their mind, they depict it as boring and dry. In his pilot lecture at the Stanislas VMBO in Delft, Amos Yusuf has successfully challenged this image. He shared his enthusiasm for the field of robotics and presented himself as a positive role model to the pupils. And in return the excitement of the high school students is palpable in the videos and pictures from the day. The spark of science fills their eyes. Bas Brouwer Mick Dam are the founders of NUVO – the platform that facilitates the engagement of Master Students in high school education in Delft Their efforts offer TU Delft Master Students a valuable learning moment: By sharing insights from their fields with pupils at high school in an educational setting, our students can find identify their own misunderstandings of their subject, learn to speak in front of non-scientific audiences and peak into education as a work field they themselves might not have considered. An extraordinary commitment According to the Mekel jury, the project scored well on all the criteria (risk mitigation, inclusiveness, transparency and societal relevance). However, it was the extraordinary commitment of Amos who was fully immersed during his Master Project and the efforts of Brouwer and Dam that brought together teaching and research which is integral to academic culture that made the project stand out. About the Mekel Prize The Mekel Prize will be awarded to the most socially responsible research project or extra-scientific activity (e.g. founding of an NGO or organization, an initiative or realization of an event or other impactful project) by an employee or group of employees of TU Delft – projects that showcase in an outstanding fashion that they have been committed from the beginning to relevant moral and societal values and have been aware of and tried to mitigate as much as possible in innovative ways the risks involved in their research. The award recognizes such efforts and wants to encourage the responsible development of science and technology at TU Delft in the future. For furthermore information About the project: https://www.de-nuvo.nl/video-robotica-pilot/ About the Mekel Prize: https://www.tudelft.nl/en/tpm/our-faculty/departments/values-technology-and-innovation/sections/ethics-philosophy-of-technology/mekel-prize

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