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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 Funding for important educational efforts and research are being withdrawn.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

Publications

Wetenschappelijke papers Alle gepubliceerde papers van de leerstoel Publiek Opdrachtgeverschap kunt u vinden door hier te klikken. Intreerede Marleen Hermans heeft op 14 november 2014 ter gelegenheid van de aanvaarding van het ambt van hoogleraar ‘Publiek Opdrachtgeverschap’ aan de faculteit Bouwkunde van de Technische Universiteit Delft de volgende tekst uitgesproken. Klik hier om de tekst terug te lezen. Tools Maturity Model Professioneel Publiek Opdrachtgeverschap in de Bouw. Klik hier voor de toolkit van het maturity model. Publicaties Handreiking professioneel opdrachtgeverschap voor corporaties en andere (semi-)publieke opdrachtgeverschap. Inbedding van opdrachtgeverschap in gemeentelijke organisaties : het uitgebreide onderzoeksrapport Inbedding van opdrachtgeverschap in gemeentelijke organisatie : de samenvatting van het onderzoeksrapport Publieke opdrachtgever als lerende organisatie: een handreiking Symposia De leerstoel heeft de afgelopen jaren de volgende symposia georganiseerd. Voor de verslaglegging kunt u op de titel van het symposium klikken. Symposium Contract Management Symposium Public Values Symposium Circulair Bouwen voor opdrachtgevers Lopende projecten Promotieonderzoek ‘Safeguarding Public Values’ van Lizet Kuitert . Klik hier voor de publicaties van Lizet. Promotieonderzoek ‘Learning Across Boundaries: The Organizational Learning of Public Clients in the Dutch Construction Industry’ van Sarah Kamphuis. Promotieonderzoek ‘Inter-organizational Relations of Public Construction Clients: Capabilities, Governance and Paradoxes’ van Pedram Soltani. Graaf Reinald Alliantie: de meerwaarde van de alliantie als samenwerkingsvorm. Door Marleen Hermans, Hans Wamelink, Leonie Koops, Pedram Soltani, Sarah Kamphuis Afstudeerrapporten De leerstoel is betrokken geweest bij de volgende afstudeeronderzoeken: Miguel Angel Ortega Silva (2020): Modernizing the Dutch Housing Industry using offsite construction: Removing adoption barriers through innovation policy. Nadine Schmidt 2020: Future of cities: A research for the optimization of the application of instruments within a municipality to increase sustainability in area development. Akshay Budhihal Ashokkunar (2020): Implementing the design for disassembly (DfD) principle in the public procurement process of buildings in the Netherlands. Misiu Smits (2020): Developing a decision-making framework to deal with MR&R challenges in a fit-for-purpose manner. Jolanda de Hoog (2020): Client-contractor collaboration in bouwteams: A contractor's perspective. Heleen Joustra (2020: Upscaling circularity in urban area development: A qualitative study in ‘Circular Buiksloterham’. Michael Osseweijer (2020): Outsourcing maintenance using PBMC: Introducing a decision-support method for performance based maintenance contracts. Thom Scheurs (2019): A strategic approach to 'Office as a Service': An explorative study into the optimization of the physical resource in order to obtain maximum added value. Nesaneth van Sobbe (2019): A process framework for the transition to circular urban area development of M4H. Laurens Lancee (2019): Belemmeringen en kansen op weg naar duurzaam woonzorgvastgoed in Nederland. Kevin van der Kruis (2019): The Interplay between the Contract Type and the Management of Cost Groups: Exploring the relationship between the contract type and the management of cost groups in Dutch national infrastructure projects. Scipio Kok (2019): Public Procurement For Innovation: Optimising the preparation phase of the innovation partnership and competitive dialogue procedure for Dutch public authorities procuring for innovation in the Physical domain. Abishah Neeli (2019) : A step towards Successful Implementation of Business Model Innovation: Philips Perspective. Vera van Maaren (2019): In transition towards a circular future in north-east section of Nairobi river: An exploration of potential (re)implementation of circular resource management in Dandora, Kenya. Anouk Slockers (2019: To Bid or not to Bid: that is the Question: Relating Contractor Bid Decisions to Tender Design Related Attributes. Daan de Wit (2019): Enlarging the solution space in infrastructure planning processes: A study into the factors that influence the planning of infrastructure and new working processes within that planning process. Ditte Gerding (2019): Design for Disassembly - a way to minimize building waste: A design for a transformation of an office building into dwellings taking into account circularity, demonstrating how circularity offers freedom for (non-traditional) households. Anna van Veenen (2018 ): A Best Value approach to public procurement: Stimulating the transition towards a circular infrastructure in the Netherlands. Jesse van der Mieden (2018): Setting up the Innovation Partnership: Designing a guide for project managers for Dutch contracting authorities with a demand for construction-related innovation. Robbert van Staveren (2018): A co-creational approach in the Dutch infrastructure sector: Exploring the added value of implementing a co-creational approach in the pre-contractual phase. Zarifa Abbasova (2018): Adopting circular innovative technologies in the construction supply chain of the MRA: Supply Chain through the lenses of the service dominant logic’s foundational premises. Jasper Meijsen (2018): Creating line-of-sight in performance management: A search for and application of a practical method for brownfield asset management organisations. Dirk van Wijck (2018): Early Contractor Involvement in the Netherlands: The potential of ECI in public construction projects. Dawn Tulling (2018) : Conflicts in Best Value: A research into the causes of conflicts in the execution phase of Best Value projects and what actions to take to prevent them. Joost Den Hoed (2017): Capture and storage of performance information: How contractors in the water construction industry can capture and store performance information to present in Best Value tenders Eirini Papatriantafyllou (2017): Trust and Contractual Governance: Managing Relationships in the Offshore Industry Christine Siedenburg (2017): Freedom for Contractors – Cross-border analysis on the solution space for contractors within infrastructure projects Wouter Eitjes (2017): Contract Management: Managing Conflict Escalation in the Dutch Building Sector Tine Nientker (2017): Corporate Real Estate Alignment in Practice: A study on how corporate real estate is aligned by multinational corporations in different industries in practice and its relation to theory Lisette de Jonge – van Wijngaarden (2017) : Contract management competencies Esther Korvinus (2017) : Conflicts between client and contractor Raoul Rutten (2016): Demand specification within Integrated Contracts. Identifying and avoiding key issues. Wester Regelink (2016) : Disputes in infrastructure projects Anne de Jager (2016) : Collaborative procurement in the construction sector Marcos Solís Madrigal (2016) : Contract management for Dutch wastewater industry Mariya Ivanova (2016) : Building new roads in tendering: Towards selection based on values and competencies Leon de Jong (2016) : The tender as investment: A qualitative study on contractor perception of tender costs in integrated infrastructure projects Thu Hoan Nguyen (2015) : Uitbesteding door publieke opdrachtgevers in de bouw­ en vastgoedsector. Een onderzoek naar de relatie tussen organisatiespecifieke overwegingen voor uitbesteden en de ontwikkeling van een gedeelde uitbestedingsstrategie en –beleid bij samenwerking. Farah Puspita Sari (2015) : Maturity Model for Maintenance Organisations in Public Sector. Rudolf Stam (2015) : Concentration in office environments Cornelis Ryan Kaal (2015) : Besluiten over samenwerkingsvormen: De realisatie van een besluitvormingsmodel voor de keuze van samenwerkingsvormen bij herontwikkeling van monumentaal gemeentelijk vastgoed Jiska Schimmelpennink (2015) : Professionaliseren van het opdrachtgeverschap. Naar een weloverwogen keuze op organisatieniveau ten behoeve van een passende samenwerkingsvorm bij het beheer en onderhoud van bestaand vastgoed. Alireza Rahat (2014) : Organizational barriers for adopting project alliancing. An investigation in the Dutch public infrastructure procurement organizations. Charlotte Ipema (2014) : Designing the perfect tender. Michelle Ham (2014) : Het gebruik van wetenschappelijke kennis bij het managen van vastgoed in de gemeentelijke sector. Arnold Bosch (2014) : Beheer 2.0. Een onderzoek naar het informatiemanagement in de beheerfase en de mogelijke rol van BIM in de beheerfase bij organisaties in de publieke sector.

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Tracing ancient settlements in Colombia with remote sensing

A team of the LDE alliance (Leiden University, TU Delft, and Erasmus University Rotterdam) asked whether it might be possible to search for signs of ancient settlements in the jungle with affordable remote sensing techniques. For an expedition in a Colombian dense forest, the team, including remote sensing expert Felix Dahle of TU Delft, joined forces with archaeologists and drone experts from Colombia. In mountainous forests, drones provide affordable access to areas that would otherwise be unreachable from the ground. A LiDAR laser scanner already proved its value in coastal observation . The big question was whether LiDAR could bypass the many treetops. Trees reflect the laser, so it was crucial to fly close so it found its way through the foliage. The team mounted a highly portable LiDAR laser scanner to a drone and went on expedition nearby ancient terraces of the Tairona culture in the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta. “We had to find the sweet spot. Close to the archaeological sites and still secure above the canopy”, says Felix Dahle. And it passed the test. The LiDAR laser scanner create a point cloud and a detailed 3D model of the landscape. “We were able to detect ancient terraces in the jungle. We discovered that we can scan through the forest when it is not too dense, but some areas remained unfathomable. We could also distinguish several types of vegetation, which might be of great use too to find undiscovered archaeological sites.”

PRELIFE consortium receives NWA funding to investigate the origin of life

The interdisciplinary research consortium PRELIFE has been awarded an NWA grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to investigate the origin of life on Earth and in the universe, one of science’s greatest unsolved puzzles. The consortium will receive €6.7 million to explore this question and comprises scientists from sixteen universities and research institutes across the Netherlands.

Kwartetspel maakt seksisme bij politie bespreekbaar

IO alumnus Noortje Kwakernaak bezocht twee politiekantoren om er de rol van vrouwelijke agenten te onderzoeken. Ze merkte dat er wel eens sprake was van grove en seksistische humor. Om spelers over deze grappen te laten reflecteren, en misschien gedrag te veranderen, ontwikkelde ze een kwartetspel.

What trees teach us about sustainable production of materials

Trees are excellent teachers when it comes to making materials for load-bearing structures with as little resources and energy as possible. One of their secrets? When a tree grows, the direction of the wood grain adapts itself to fit the load that part of the tree is going to bear.

Exhale Sluitingsweek: A week of free events to say goodbye to Exhale and cosy up for Winter

De allerlaatste Exhale Week vindt plaats van 25 november tot 1 december en staat volledig in het teken van afscheid nemen van Exhale en het omarmen van de winter.

TIL student Laura Drechsel wins Q-Park thesis award

TIL student Laura Drechsel wins the 2024 Q-Park Student Award with her thesis called: Stories of Aging and Access - Exploring capabilities and challenges of accessibility for urban elderly through microstories. Her award-winning thesis can be found here .

TU Delft jointly wins in XPRIZE Rainforest competition in Brazil

TU Delft jointly wins in the XPRIZE Rainforest competition in the Amazon, Brazil Imagine using rapid and autonomous robot technology for research into the green and humid lungs of our planet; our global rainforests. Drones that autonomously deploy eDNA samplers and canopy rafts uncover the rich biodiversity of these complex ecosystems while revealing the effects of human activity on nature and climate change. On November 15, 2024, after five years of intensive research and competition, the ETHBiodivX team, which included TU Delft Aerospace researchers Salua Hamaza and Georg Strunck, achieved an outstanding milestone: winning the XPRIZE Rainforest Bonus Prize for outstanding effort in co-developing inclusive technology for nature conservation. The goal: create automated technology and methods to gain near real-time insights about biodiversity – providing necessary data that can inform conservation action and policy, support sustainable bioeconomies, and empower Indigenous Peoples and local communities who are the primary protectors and knowledge holders of the planet’s tropical rainforests. The ETHBiodivX team, made of experts in Robotics, eDNA, and Data Insights, is tackling the massive challenge of automating and streamlining the way we monitor ecosystems. Leading the Robotics division, a collaboration between TU Delft’s Prof. Salua Hamaza, ETH Zurich’s Prof. Stefano Mintchev and Aarhus University’s Profs. Claus Melvad and Toke Thomas Høye, is developing cutting-edge robotic solutions to gather ecology and biology data autonomously. “We faced the immense challenge of deploying robots in the wild -- and not just any outdoor environment but one of the most demanding and uncharted: the wet rainforests. This required extraordinary efforts to ensure robustness and reliability, pushing the boundaries of what the hardware could achieve for autonomous data collection of images, sounds, and eDNA, in the Amazon” says prof. Hamaza. “Ultimately, this technology will be available to Indigenous communities as a tool to better understand the forest's ongoing changes in biodiversity, which provide essential resources as food and shelter to the locals.” . . . .

Moving the Closet

You simply cannot miss it, it is big and magenta: the Pink Closet . On 12 November 2024 the Pink Closet will head to the Main Hall of the TU Delft Library for the first time! The Pink Closet will take its place at the Nook, where it will feature as part of the Studium Generale programme on loneliness. More information on events that coincide with and incorporate the Pink Closet at TU Delft Library will soon be available on the website of Studium Generale .

Green ammonia remains a challenge, but researchers make significant progress

The production of ammonia, essential for fertiliser production, is responsible for almost 1.5% of global carbon emissions. This needs to be greener, which is why researchers have been looking for sustainable alternatives for years.

"Measuring brain activity through the skull with ultrasound opens new doors"

PhD Candidate Rick Waasdorp is looking for ways to correct the distortion caused by the skull when using Ultrasound technology. ‘’My goal is to develop an adaptive method for skull corrections that automatically measures the skull of new patients.’’

NWO funding for flexible power demand in electrically driven industry

NWO is funding two projects to explore ways to make the power demand of industry more flexible, allowing it to better align with future energy supplies. One of these projects, “DEFLAME,” is led by Machteld van den Broek from TU Delft.

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

The ENHANCE Diversity Seed Fund

Are you a student at TU Delft or another ENHANCE university with a passion for promoting diversity and inclusion? The ENHANCE Diversity Seed Fund is your chance to turn that passion into action. ENHANCE provides funding to support innovative, student-led projects that address key challenges related to inclusion and diversity within our academic communities. Key Details: Funding Available: Up to 1500 Euros per project in the 1st round! Eligibility: Students from ENHANCE member universities. Staff can also join student-led initiatives. Application Deadline: 8 January 2025. More information: Join the online Information Event on the 26 November 2024 16:00-17:00 CET on Zoom . More information: enhanceuniversity.eu/diversity/diversityseedfund/

New catheter technology promises safer and more efficient treatment of blood vessels

Each year, more than 200 million catheters are used worldwide to treat vascular diseases, including heart disease and artery stenosis. When navigating into blood vessels, friction between the catheter and the vessel wall can cause major complications. With a new innovative catheter technology, Mostafa Atalla and colleagues can change the friction from having grip to completely slippery with the flick of a switch. Their design improves the safety and efficiency of endovascular procedures. The findings have been published in IEEE. Catheter with variable friction The prototype of the new catheter features advanced friction control modules to precisely control the friction between the catheter and the vessel wall. The friction is modulated via ultrasonic vibrations, which overpressure the thin fluid layer. This innovative variable friction technology makes it possible to switch between low friction for smooth navigation through the vessel and high friction for optimal stability during the procedure. In a proof-of-concept, Atalla and his team show that the prototype significantly reduces friction, averaging 60% on rigid surfaces and 11% on soft surfaces. Experiments on animal aortic tissue confirm the promising results of this technology and its potential for medical applications. Fully assembled catheters The researchers tested the prototype during friction experiments on different tissue types. They are also investigating how the technology can be applied to other procedures, such as bowel interventions. More information Publicatie DOI : 10.1109/TMRB.2024.3464672 Toward Variable-Friction Catheters Using Ultrasonic Lubrication | IEEE Journals & Magazine | IEEE Xplore Mostafa Atalla: m.a.a.atalla@tudelft.nl Aimee Sakes: a.sakes@tudelft.nl Michaël Wiertlewski: m.wiertlewski@tudelft.nl Would you like to know more and/or attend a demonstration of the prototype please contact me: Fien Bosman, press officer Health TU Delft: f.j.bosman@tudelft.nl/ 0624953733

Design and imagination as essential tools during the climate crisis

In Nature Partner Journals, ten researchers advocate the use of imagination in tackling the climate crisis. They focus specifically on urbanising river deltas, which are of great social and economic importance and highly vulnerable to climate change. "We scientists should not merely outline doomsday scenarios," says Professor Chris Zevenbergen. "Create a vision for people to believe in and work towards.”

How comfortable are cargo bikes actually for children?

It’s impossible to imagine the Dutch street scene without the cargo bike. It’s ideal for transporting goods and especially popular for shuttling children from A to B. Surprisingly, however, no real research has been done on the comfort of children during cargo bike rides. Mechanical engineering students Jelmer, Renate, Dirk-Jan, Santo and Alexander set out to change this. The final project for their bachelor’s degree is the first step in this unexplored area of research.

Inaugural address: machine optimisation key to more efficient logistics system

The processing and transport of materials can be made much more efficient, says TU Delft professor Dingena Schott in her inaugural address, ‘Advancing Transport and Processing: from Model to Impact’. She will deliver her address on 15 November. Her research focuses on the interaction between machines and materials, with a special emphasis on granular materials.

FAST University Fund invites all TU Delft students

FAST University Fund invites all TU Delft students to apply for the Ambitious Project Grant or the Event Grant of up to €15.000!

Education demonstration in Utrecht cancelled

Safety cannot be guaranteed In our post of 22 October , we announced that students and staff of TU Delft will have the opportunity to take part in protests against the cabinet's plans to cut higher education. Today it has been announced that the demonstration against the cuts to higher education and science on 14 November in Utrecht has been cancelled because the safety of the demonstrators cannot be guaranteed. Read the reaction of Universiteiten van Nederland to the cancellation of the education demonstration in Utrecht (Dutch only).

Young Investigator Award for Gabrielle Laloy-Borgna

Gabrielle has won the technical Young Investigator Award at Euroson 2024 (congress of the European Federation of Ultrasound Societies in Medicine and Biology) with her presentation entitled: “Ultrasound imaging in bones: tissue characterization, anatomical images
and blood flow measurements”.