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Delft Outlook 2011-3
Delft Outlook 2011-3
In this edition, Delft Outlook 2011 nr.3:
In Brief
- Helter skelter robot
- Scanning tree skeletons
- Programmable implants
- Superbus
- Tinkering scientist on tour
- Shaken Japan
- Demo opens micro-workshop
- High ropes
- The occasional cyclist
- Balancing bicycles
- Reducing congestion
- Roadmap 2020
- Cooking with solar radiation
- TU in China
- Spotlight
- Coach Café
- New website TU Delft Library
- Best Advisor
- Marina van Damme Grant
- Gaming
- UfD-E.ON Team Work Award 2011
- Best Graduate
- Wanted Alumnus of the Year
- Alumni Symposium 7 October
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Background
Purely based on character
In Epe, the Veluwe Water Board is pioneering a new generation of sewage water purification. The Nereda granular sludge technology saves around a quarter of the energy, while taking up just a quarter of the space. “In ten year’s time, this will be the standard.”
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Driving in a womb
Drive thousands of kilometres on just a litre of fuel? During the annual Shell eco-marathon at the end of May, schoolchildren and students – including a team from TU Delft – demonstrated that it can indeed be done.
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A battery charger with feelings
Many of Crijn Bouman’s friends were sceptical when he launched his company, Epyon, which develops fast battery-charging systems. ‘Electric cars are for hippies,’ they claimed.
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New gas, new opportunities?
Reports regularly appear in the news about shale gas: gas extracted by a process known as fracking. This could more than triple the global supplies of available natural gas. In the Netherlands, the first test drilling was viewed with suspicion.
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Realist
Joris Thijssen (37) is campaign director at Greenpeace, where he started as a volunteer during his aerospace engineering studies.
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A factory at home
Professor of process intensification, Andrzej Stankiewicz (3mE), believes that by 2050 we may have small-scale food, chemical or energy factories at home.
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Living in a lab
Once a place where thousands of trainee physicists studied, the Technical Physics Laboratory is now home to 95 students. “It’s like living in a castle.”
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Interview
'A building kissed back to life'
Karin Laglas has been Dean of the Architecture Faculty since January 2011. She sees the wide-ranging nature of the faculty as a strength, but would also like to reduce ‘fragmentation’.
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Column
Superbike
Tonie Mudde(1978) studied Aerospace Engineering and is a science journalist and writer. His work has been published in Quest, nrc.next, Het Parool and de Volkskrant newspapers and elsewhere. In 2009 he was awarded a Tegel, the annual prize for journalism. Last year saw the publication of his debut novel, Spaghetti Spoetnik.
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People
An overview of the most important awards, appointments and other remarkable personal milestones at TU Delft
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Hora est
The proposition
A PhD student doing his/her research in finance is often blamed for the financial crisis.
Lech Aleksander Grzelak, mathematical engineer
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