No more overlapThere should no longer be an overlap between the start of the new academic year and the ‘Introduction week’ (Owee) for the various TU student societies, according to the TU Executive Board.
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The Executive Board sent a letter to the various societies and organizers of the Owee introduction week, stating that “the overlap of the Owee, especially regarding the large student societies, and the first week of the new academic year, means that many students are exhausted when they attend their first week of lectures.” The Executive Board believes this has a detrimental effect on the students, who run the risk of falling behind in their studies at the very start of their degree programs. The Executive Board has therefore decided that next year there will be no such overlap. In the letter, the Executive Board presented the students societies with various alternatives. One alternative is to start the Owee week earlier. Another alternative, according to the Executive Board, is for student societies to “cut down” on some of their Owee activities.
Payment
Students who are interested in helping TU Delft devise a strategy for the future of ICT in education will receive a payment of 47.50 euro from the university. In return, these students are expected to participate in one of the four, all-day ‘working conferences’ that the university will be organizing this month. The TU is searching for people who have ideas about how to make ICT a more interesting and more interactive subject, about how the virtual educational tool Blackboard can be better utilized and about how to allow students to follow video lectures from their own homes. The TU will then publish the students’ ideas in an ‘ICT in Education’ report for the years 2006 to 2010.
blackboard.tudelft.nl
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Technostarters
YES!Delft will host a ‘Week of the Techno-Starter’, from November 8 to the 11th. This program is organized by students, techno- starters and companies, and is an opportunity for students to learn about starting their own business (techno-starting). Special guests Michiel Frackers, (founder of Planet Internet) and Rein Willems (Director of Shell Netherlands) will lecture about becoming an entrepreneur. There will also be various workshops and a company marketplace.
www.yesdelft.nl
ID-NL Prize
Four submissions from TU Delft have been nominated for this year’s ID-NL Prize. The winner of this prestigious prize for the best invention of the year will be announced on November 3rd. TU Delft’s nominations include the Delfly, a micro observation aircraft; Flycam, a lightweight, compact helicopter with onboard cameras; a Biological UV Filter, which protects plants from harmful ultra-violet rays; and Actiflow, a company founded by two TU Delft alumni who have designed a system for improving the aerodynamic performance of streamlined designs.
No more overlap
There should no longer be an overlap between the start of the new academic year and the ‘Introduction week’ (Owee) for the various TU student societies, according to the TU Executive Board. The Executive Board sent a letter to the various societies and organizers of the Owee introduction week, stating that “the overlap of the Owee, especially regarding the large student societies, and the first week of the new academic year, means that many students are exhausted when they attend their first week of lectures.” The Executive Board believes this has a detrimental effect on the students, who run the risk of falling behind in their studies at the very start of their degree programs. The Executive Board has therefore decided that next year there will be no such overlap. In the letter, the Executive Board presented the students societies with various alternatives. One alternative is to start the Owee week earlier. Another alternative, according to the Executive Board, is for student societies to “cut down” on some of their Owee activities.
Payment
Students who are interested in helping TU Delft devise a strategy for the future of ICT in education will receive a payment of 47.50 euro from the university. In return, these students are expected to participate in one of the four, all-day ‘working conferences’ that the university will be organizing this month. The TU is searching for people who have ideas about how to make ICT a more interesting and more interactive subject, about how the virtual educational tool Blackboard can be better utilized and about how to allow students to follow video lectures from their own homes. The TU will then publish the students’ ideas in an ‘ICT in Education’ report for the years 2006 to 2010.
blackboard.tudelft.nl
TU Delft improves
The research qualities of TU Delft have earned the university a high ranking on the UK’s ‘Times Higher Education Supplement’ ranking of international universities. In the Top 100 for Science, TU Delft improved from 84th place last year, to 70th place this year. In the ranking for the best technological universities, TU Delft was ranked 15th. TU Delft’s five partner universities in the IDEA League were, according to the Times, among Europe’s seven best universities of technology.
Technostarters
YES!Delft will host a ‘Week of the Techno-Starter’, from November 8 to the 11th. This program is organized by students, techno- starters and companies, and is an opportunity for students to learn about starting their own business (techno-starting). Special guests Michiel Frackers, (founder of Planet Internet) and Rein Willems (Director of Shell Netherlands) will lecture about becoming an entrepreneur. There will also be various workshops and a company marketplace.
www.yesdelft.nl
ID-NL Prize
Four submissions from TU Delft have been nominated for this year’s ID-NL Prize. The winner of this prestigious prize for the best invention of the year will be announced on November 3rd. TU Delft’s nominations include the Delfly, a micro observation aircraft; Flycam, a lightweight, compact helicopter with onboard cameras; a Biological UV Filter, which protects plants from harmful ultra-violet rays; and Actiflow, a company founded by two TU Delft alumni who have designed a system for improving the aerodynamic performance of streamlined designs.
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