Ambulance uniformSonja Evers, a graduate of TU Delft’s Industrial Design Faculty, has won the 2006 UFD Marina van Damme grant for her graduation research project: a design of a new uniform for ambulance crews.
This annual grant is given to a talented female graduate of TU Delft whose parents were not university graduates. Evers must spend the grant money within two years of winning the award and must spend it on continuing her education or broadening her international experience.
Safety manager
Ron Massink was recently appointed to a newly created position at TU Delft: Safety & Security Manager. Creating this new position will allow TU Delft to take a comprehensive approach to safety and risk and be aware on all levels of any possible threats to TU Delft, as well as how risks can be controlled and reduced. “My first impression of TU Delft is of an interesting and complex organization,” Massink says. “I see working on a comprehensive risk management concept as a fascinating task.”
Bite project
TU Delft’s ‘Bite’ project will compete in the ‘Battle of the Universities’, a competition in which the winning team can win 100,000 euros for the best translation of a scientific research for the general public. The TU’s project team is from the BioMechanical Engineering department (3mE Faculty). The team’s objective is “to promote technology and generate interest in engineering”. To achieve their objective, the team will focus on biology-inspired medical technology, which is socially important and popular with the general public. The ‘Bite’ project aims to bring this technology to national attention and make it accessible to the general public. The team will give this technology to people to experience for themselves, and in this way, the public will experience firsthand how fascinating technology can be and discover the useful things that can be done with it. The TU project team includes, MSc students Arjo Loeve and Arjan Knulst, Dr. Paul Breedveld, of the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences (KNAW) and a TU Delft researcher, and Marloes Platzek, of 3mE’s Marketing & Communication department.
Heskett
A prestigious visit to the TU’s Industrial Design Faculty: the world renowned design professor John Heskett is in Delft on Friday to give a lunchtime reading at the faculty. The ambitious title of his reading is: ‘To design is to be human; an attempt to redefine design history’. For the past year, Heskett has been teaching at the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong. Prior to this, he taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Heskett is perhaps best known for his books, such as his ‘Industrial Design Handbook’ (1980) and his bestseller, ‘Toothpicks and Logos (2002), a book in which Heskett examined the social, economic and political history and significance in the design of a variety of everyday products.
China run
A team of 20 TU students, researchers, teachers and Delft politicians will run the Great Wall Marathon in China on May 20. The team hopes their run will focus attention on ‘young entrepreneurship, Delft Knowledge City and technological studies’. Two TU students, Tim Anten and Jorre Bonjer, came up with the idea of running in the marathon. The students, who are techno-starters and have a company (Bekerbedrukking Delft) in Delft, see entrepreneurship as a professional sport. The team’s motto for the marathon is: ‘Are the Chinese going to stay ahead of you?’ This initiative is being sponsored by Delft municipality, Zuid-Holland province, TU Delft, the Techno-starters club ‘YesDelft’, the Chamber of Commerce and the West-Holland Foreign Investment Agency. This week Anten and Bonjer assembled a team of 10 potential participants, including two who are uncertain whether they will participate. This means that there is still place in the team for 10 runners. Anten and Bonjer ask all those who are interested in participating and are physically fit to sign up at their website.
Ambulance uniform
Sonja Evers, a graduate of TU Delft’s Industrial Design Faculty, has won the 2006 UFD Marina van Damme grant for her graduation research project: a design of a new uniform for ambulance crews. This annual grant is given to a talented female graduate of TU Delft whose parents were not university graduates. Evers must spend the grant money within two years of winning the award and must spend it on continuing her education or broadening her international experience.
Safety manager
Ron Massink was recently appointed to a newly created position at TU Delft: Safety & Security Manager. Creating this new position will allow TU Delft to take a comprehensive approach to safety and risk and be aware on all levels of any possible threats to TU Delft, as well as how risks can be controlled and reduced. “My first impression of TU Delft is of an interesting and complex organization,” Massink says. “I see working on a comprehensive risk management concept as a fascinating task.”
Bite project
TU Delft’s ‘Bite’ project will compete in the ‘Battle of the Universities’, a competition in which the winning team can win 100,000 euros for the best translation of a scientific research for the general public. The TU’s project team is from the BioMechanical Engineering department (3mE Faculty). The team’s objective is “to promote technology and generate interest in engineering”. To achieve their objective, the team will focus on biology-inspired medical technology, which is socially important and popular with the general public. The ‘Bite’ project aims to bring this technology to national attention and make it accessible to the general public. The team will give this technology to people to experience for themselves, and in this way, the public will experience firsthand how fascinating technology can be and discover the useful things that can be done with it. The TU project team includes, MSc students Arjo Loeve and Arjan Knulst, Dr. Paul Breedveld, of the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences (KNAW) and a TU Delft researcher, and Marloes Platzek, of 3mE’s Marketing & Communication department.
Heskett
A prestigious visit to the TU’s Industrial Design Faculty: the world renowned design professor John Heskett is in Delft on Friday to give a lunchtime reading at the faculty. The ambitious title of his reading is: ‘To design is to be human; an attempt to redefine design history’. For the past year, Heskett has been teaching at the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong. Prior to this, he taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Heskett is perhaps best known for his books, such as his ‘Industrial Design Handbook’ (1980) and his bestseller, ‘Toothpicks and Logos (2002), a book in which Heskett examined the social, economic and political history and significance in the design of a variety of everyday products.
China run
A team of 20 TU students, researchers, teachers and Delft politicians will run the Great Wall Marathon in China on May 20. The team hopes their run will focus attention on ‘young entrepreneurship, Delft Knowledge City and technological studies’. Two TU students, Tim Anten and Jorre Bonjer, came up with the idea of running in the marathon. The students, who are techno-starters and have a company (Bekerbedrukking Delft) in Delft, see entrepreneurship as a professional sport. The team’s motto for the marathon is: ‘Are the Chinese going to stay ahead of you?’ This initiative is being sponsored by Delft municipality, Zuid-Holland province, TU Delft, the Techno-starters club ‘YesDelft’, the Chamber of Commerce and the West-Holland Foreign Investment Agency. This week Anten and Bonjer assembled a team of 10 potential participants, including two who are uncertain whether they will participate. This means that there is still place in the team for 10 runners. Anten and Bonjer ask all those who are interested in participating and are physically fit to sign up at their website.
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