Delft Outlook 2011-1

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In this edition, Delft Outlook 2011 nr. 1:

In Brief

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Background

Anatomy of a vulcano
The Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull caused major disruption in European airspace last year. According to his co-author, Freysteinn Sigmundsson, the reconstruction published in Nature six months later by aerospace engineering researcher, Dr Andy Hooper, opens up a new direction in volcanology. “We want to see how the magma moves inside the volcano.”
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'Scrapping? That’s not what we call'
Engineers love tinkering with just about anything. Some however prefer to spend their time dismantling and recycling things. With his business, Aircraft End of Life Solutions, Derk Jan van Heerden is one of them.
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What happened to the nuclear power plants?
‘An expected nuclear renaissance has failed to materialise as plans for new plants are scrapped or delayed’, reports Technology Review.
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Atlas of the cell
‘An expected nuclear renaissance has failed to materialise as plans for new plants are scrapped or delayed’, reports Technology Review.
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Reborn
Michiel Cramwinckel (49) manages an office for international patents firm, Haseltine Lake.
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Traffic jams in 2030
This winter’s early snow nearly led a new record being set for the greatest number of traffic jams in the Netherlands - 975 km in 1999. Will we still be stuck in traffic jams in the year 2030? Professor of Transport and Logistics, Bert van Wee (Technology, Policy and Management), says yes, but believes some improvements are possible.
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Women of talent
On Thursday 24 February 2011, the Delft University Fund presented the eighth ‘Marina van Damme’ grant to a talented and enterprising young female graduate of TU Delft. Entrants have the chance of being awarded the sum of €9000 for a study programme, internship or project. There is also a special incentive award. The winner of the grant must spend their prize money within two to three years, extending or intensifying their university programme or gaining wider international experience.
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Best graduates
Already chosen as the best Industrial Design Engineering graduate, Maarten Kamphuis was also selected as the overall ‘Best TU Delft Graduate’ on 25 November 2010. Kamphuis is fascinated by European sword-fighting. He therefore completed his Master’s in Integrated Product Design by designing a safe competition sword. The sword is made from steel and rubber and has a blade that retracts 10 cm into the handle when it is used.
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Crossing borders
On 8 October 2010, more than 600 alumni attended the Alumni symposium on ‘Cross-border Cooperation’. According to TU Delft’s rector magnificus, Professor Karel Luyben, ‘Cross-border Cooperation’ is a key theme that is reflected across the whole of TU Delft.
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Interview

'Dying on the job'
A quarter of a century ago, Emeritus Professor Hugo Priemus was one of the founders of the OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment. “We may not have developed any fantastic new theories, but we do contribute to the political decision-making process.”
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Knowing where to find top quality
At the end of 2010, Associate Professor Homayoun Nikookar was named TU Delft’s very first ‘supervisor of the year’. He had been nominated by his PhD student, Madan Kumar Lakshmanan, who, in nominating Dr Nikookar, described him as a patient listener, an empathic guide, inspirational mentor and a sympathetic father figure.
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Column

Oracle
Tonie Mudde (1978) studied aerospace engineering and is a science journalist and writer. His work has been published in Quest, nrc.next, and Het Parool newspaper 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 (Spaghetti Sputnik).
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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
In contrast to what modern people want to believe, we still behave like predators. This
prevents us from developing good relationships with prey animals, such as horses.
Heleen Vreugdenhil, engineer in public administration
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