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Connect with... Erdem Onan A+BE Faculty | IDEE Community For me, taking responsibility for your learning is self-regulated learning. It implies that you are an active learner, you take control of your thoughts, actions, and behaviour. That is my definition of self-regulated learning. Email IDEE Background Being part of the IDEE team on Students Taking Responsibility, Erdem will conduct educational research on, amongst others, what taking responsibility for learning means in an engineering education context. Erdem has a background in learning sciences, focusing on instructional design, technology enhanced learning, and self-regulated learning. Initially, Erdem focussed mostly on questions related to the use of technology in education to enhance learning. During both his MA and especially with his PhD project, Erdem developed a strong interest in the concept of self-regulated learning and (meta)cognitive processes, such as how people learn, retain information, and control their learning activities. He has, for instance, studied sources of student (de)motivation, identified possible barriers and facilitators of effective learning, and worked on the design of instructional manipulations to help students adopt effective learning strategies. Towards IDEE The way Erdem sees it, IDEE seamlessly connects to his earlier work and thus forms a wonderful next step. One phenomenon that Erdem has studied extensively is that of students’ reliance on learning strategies that are considered suboptimal for long-term learning and knowledge transfer (e.g., re-reading, highlighting, verbatim note-taking). This is often based on the erroneous belief that such strategies help them learn better than strategies that are empirically found more effective for students (e.g., retrieval practice, distributed practice, and interleaved practice). Erdem thoroughly enjoys investigating the causes of such educational misconceptions and what interventions can be used to correct them in order to improve students’ self-regulated learning. This ties in nicely with the theme of student responsibility. “For me, taking responsibility for your learning is self-regulated learning. It implies that you are an active learner, you take control of your thoughts, actions, and behaviour. That is my definition of self-regulated learning.” As part of IDEE One of the things that Erdem finds most appealing about IDEE is that IDEE focusses on TU Delft’s own educational landscape and practitioners. Through IDEE, Erdem will be able to feed his research directly into the educational practice of TU Delft, and this opens up the possibility of having a real impact on students. Having a lot of experience with educational psychology and experimental methodologies, a lot of Erdem’s research took place within controlled settings and the question remained whether or not it would get the chance to come into contact with authentic situations and actual educational practitioners. “The prospect of being able to make such an impact, to effect real change, is a strong motivation for me to pursue this line of research”. Did you know that ...? Erdem works independently, but certainly not alone. He looks forward to collaborating with the other IDEE PDs and PhD candidates. Additionally, he is in good hands with his supervisors Aleksandar Staničić and Serdar Așut. Erdem is originally from Ankara, Turkey, but spent most of his time in higher education abroad. During his BA in Computer Education and Instructional Technologies, Erdem spent a year in Germany at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, where he followed courses on computer science, philosophy, and social sciences at the faculty of Informatics. For his MA in learning sciences, he went to Finland, where he studied at the Oulu University. This is where he was first introduced to the concept of self-regulated learning. The TU Delft is not Erdem’s first Dutch University to do research at. Previously, Erdem spent one year as a research trainee at Radboud University, and he conducted his PhD project at Maastricht University. Erdem is one of two Postdoc researchers who will consecutively conduct educational research on the IDEE theme Students Taking Responsibility. Want to know more about the other IDEE PDs and PhD candidates, and when they will join IDEE? You can find more information here.

Research & Outreach

The section has a long and successful tradition of leading and contributing to national and international research projects. Since the beginning of this millennium, we have published more than 750 journal articles, conferences contributions, books, book chapters, data sets, and scientific and policy reports. For a detailed and permanently updated overview of our research output, visit this website . We focus our current and future research on three interrelated research topics following our interdisciplinary orientation: · Territorial metabolism , which includes: questions on circularity; the relation between energy and resources flows and the built form, from the building scale to the region; the invastigations of the food-energy-water nexus; · Urban climate adaptation and mitigation which includes: urban microclimate studies, urban heat island studies and water related climate adaptation and mitigation. · Biophilic Design : which includes designing with direct and indirect nature, including the study of wastescapes and how biophilic design and nature-based solutions contribute to regenerative strategies. We collaborate with public and private partners to achieve a high societal impact and aim at bridging the gap between research and its application. Two successful spin-offs, The New Raw and geoFluxus , of ET&D PhD candidates are exemplary for this ambition. Research Coordinator Dr. Fransje Hooimeijer f.l.hooimeijer@tudelft.nl New European Bauhaus STAvangeR NEB-STAR In NEB-STAR, 16 partners will join forces to make the transition to climate-neutral cities inclusive, beautiful and sustainable - for, by and with all stakeholders. SARCC Sustainable and resilient coastal cities This project has received funding through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Urban Sensing Lab Sensing noise and the urban microclimate in airport regions Circular Built Environment Hub Development and exchange of knowledge towards a circular built environment, enabling the design of future buildings, cities and infrastructures Showcase 'P-lab' Urban raw materials in a small-scale circular economy All Risk Spatial adaptation in coastal environments REPAiR Resource Management in Peri-urban Areas: Going Beyond Urban Metabolism Adam Acoustics by parametric Design and Additive Manufacturing Green Blue cities Robust, synergistic and multi-functional green infrastructures that will address today’s and tomorrow’s climate change in dynamic urban areas. Concept house (Village) The first Concept House demonstrates a new way of living and acts as a living lab. Innovative designs and technology can be studied in context by allowing people to stay several days or more in the house. Subsurface Equilibrium Subsurface Equilibrium: Transformation towards synergy in construction of urban systems Subsurface Infrastructure Intelligent use of subsurface infrastructure for surface quality Hybridity vs Closed city A study about the impact of applying "Hybridity" as a concept of understanding in designing a decentralized water circulation urban model called "Closed City" Longue Durée of WEF in post-extraction landscapes Learning from Gauteng and Limpopo Regions to develop an interdisciplinary approach CINDERELA New Circular Economy Business Model for More Sustainable Urban Construction This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 776751 Biopolis BIOphilic MetroPOLIS, a holistic model for urban planning and building climate resilience Climate Action Programme Improving the sustainability of the TU Delft campus Van Leeuwenhoekpark Designing a climate-resilient park in the centre of Delft CITY-ZEN a balanced approach to the city of the future SPACERGY Space-energy patterns for smart energy infrastructures, community reciprocities & related governance Better Airport Regions Models and development pathways for sustainable urban transformation DIEMIGO I & II Integration of electric mobility in the built environment Amsterwarm Amsterwarm: Gebiedstypologie warmte-eiland Amsterdam Hotterdam: How space is making Rotterdam warmer, how this affects the health of its inhabitants, and what can be done about it. Haagse Hitte: Het Haagse warmte-eiland in kaart gebracht NBS in vulnerable geographies Applicability of NBS in socio-economic unequal urban/peri-urban contexts with water-related challenges Verrijking van het Ruimtelijk Uitvoeringsplan met de ondergrondse dimensie ontwerpend onderzoek voor de Vlaamse Overheid Delta Futures Lab This project has been partially financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Articles

Vancauwenberghe, G., K. Valeckaite, B. van Loenen & F. Welle Donker (2018). Assessing the Openness of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI): Towards a Map of Open SDI . International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructure Research 13, pp. 88-100. Dalla Corte, L., van Loenen, B., & Cuijpers, C. (2017). Personal Data Protection as a Nonfunctional Requirement in the Smart City’s Development . 13th International Conference on Internet, Law & Politics: Managing Risk In the Digital Society. Anglès Juanpere, B. & Balcells Padullés, J. (eds.). Barcelona, pp. 76-92. van Loenen, B., Ubacht, J., Labots, W. & Zuiderwijk-van Eijk, A.(2017). Log File Analytics for Gaining Insight into Actual Use of Open Data. Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Digital Government. Borges, V. & Dias Rouco, J. C. (eds.). Lisbon: Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, pp. 238-246 . Indrajit, A., van Loenen, B. & van Oosterom, P. ( 2017) Multi-Domain Master Spatial Data Management for Open SII in Indonesian Smart Cities . The 20th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science: Societal Geo-innovation Celebrating 20 years of GIS research!. Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe (AGILE) 8, p. 91. van Loenen, B. A. Poplin & Crompvoets J. (2017). Open data portals as part of the open data ecosystem? Lessons learned from geoportal research . In: F Benitez, M Medhi Moradi, D Pajarito, Joint Proceedings of the 5th Open Data for Open Cities Workshop on Re-use and discovery level, applied to the spatial point analysis process on linear networks and 4th Geogames and Geoplay International Workshop co-located with the 20th International Conference (AGILE 2017). Vol-1952, ISSN 1613-0073. Ploeger, H., & Bounjouh, H. (2017). The Dutch urban ground lease: A valuable tool for land policy? Land Use Policy, 63, pp. 78-85. DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.01.005. de Jong, A.-J., B. van Loenen, & A.J. Zevenbergen (2016), Geographic data as personal data in four EU member states , XXIII ISPRS Congress, Commission II, Halounova et al. (Eds.), Copernicus Publications. III-2, pp. 151-157 Welle Donker, F., & van Loenen, B. (2016). How to assess the success of the open data ecosystem? International Journal of Digital Earth: a new journal for a new vision, 1-23. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2016.1224938 . Welle Donker, F., van Loenen, B., & Bregt, A. K. (2016). Open Data and Beyond . ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 5(4), pp. 48-64, DOI: 10.3390/ijgi5040048. Welle Donker, F., & van Loenen, B. (2016). Sustainable Business Models for Public Sector Open Data Providers . JeDEM eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government 8(1), pp. 28-61. Loenen, B. van, Stefan Kulk & Hendrik Ploeger (2016), Data protection legislation: A very hungry caterpillar: The case of mapping data in the European Union , Government Information Quarterly (33), pp. 338-345, doi:10.1016/j.giq.2016.04.002. Nushi, B., van Loenen, B., & Crompvoets, J. (2015). The STIG: A new SDI assessment method . International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research, 10, pp. 55-83. DOI: 10.2902/1725-0463.2015.10.art3 . Loenen, B. van & Grothe, M. (2014), INSPIRE Empowers Re-Use of Public Sector Information . International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research, 9, pp. 86-106. Stoter, J. E., Ploeger, H.D., & van Oosterom, P.J.M. (2013). 3D Cadastre in the Netherlands: developments and international applicability . Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 40, pp. 56-67. DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2012.08.008. Kulk, S. & B. van Loenen (2012), Brave New Open Data World? , International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research 7, pp. 196-206. Welle Donker F., van Loenen B. & Zevenbergen J. (2010), Geo Shared licences: a base for better access to public sector geoinformation for value-added resellers in Europe , Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 37(2), pp. 326-343.

5EC Architecture Electives

The second semester starts with two Architecture electives (2 x 5 EC) and Thesis writing (5 EC) in Q3. Check the study guide for the Q3 track specific electives. Download the available elective flyers for more information: Course code Title Download PDF flyer AR0106 Architectural Ethnography PDF AR0107 Housing Studies: An Open Intersectional Archive PDF AR0108 Mastermind: CRASH (Conservation, Reuse, Architecture, Sustainability and Heritage) PDF AR0109 City of Innovations Project PDF AR0110 Adaptive Strategies Past, Present, Future: Topics in the History of Architecture and Urban Planning PDF AR0113 Tools of the Architect PDF AR0114 Architectural Translations: Drawing, Recoding, Tectonic PDF AR0118 Experiments in Drawing Theory PDF AR0119 Figures PDF AR0121 Analytical Models PDF AR0122 1:1 Interactive Architecture Prototypes Workshop PDF AR0126 Bridge Design AR0132 Zero-Energy Design AR0133 Technoledge Glass Structures AR0134 Technoledge Façade Design AR0136 Making PDF AR0137 Technoledge Health and Comfort AR0138 Technoledge Design Informatics AR0141 CSI Heritage (Conservation, Survey, Investigation of the Built Heritage) PDF AR0145 Circular Product Design AR0169 Materialisation: The Future Envelope AR0175 Campus Utopias PDF AR0202 Computational Intelligence for Integrated Design AR0203 Eco-friendly Material Choices AR0215 Form & Inspiration PDF AR0570 Worlding Theories and Concepts AR0796 Ornamatics PDF AR0805 An Archeology of Digital Design PDF AR0815 Idiosyncratic Infrastructures II PDF AR0825 Building Stories: The Heteronomy of Urban Design PDF AR0918 Adaptive Architecture for Public Buildings: Theories and Practices PDF AR0919 Exteriorless: The Design of the Ordinary PDF AR2AA010 Architectural Research and Design Seminar PDF AR2AA010-A Artificial Intelligence in Architectural Design PDF AR2AT041 Architecture and Philosophy Lecture Seminar PDF AR2HA011 Building Green: Past, Present, Future PDF AR2UA010 The Living City PDF

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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”.