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Hoogendoorn received this professorship for excellent, young researchers for his high international profile and superior research and teaching abilities. Hoogendoorn researches the dynamics of traffic flows and then establishes them in mathematical models and simulation tools. “The current methods are not optimal for predicting the consequences that traffic laws can have,” Hoogendoorn says. “The 80 kmph rule, which came into effect for the Randstad in an effort to improve local air quality, has led to unforeseen long traffic jams in and around Utrecht and Den Haag.” Hoogendoorn’s models and simulation tools can be used for calculating new designs for roads or sidewalks, for allowing traffic control centers to predict the effects of traffic laws, and also for the (online) forecasting of journey times. In 1995, Hoogendoorn graduated Cum Laude in Applied Mathematics from TU Delft. The Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professorships was established in 1999 and is a personal professorship that young researchers qualify for if they meet all the criteria for the position of professor.
Design history

Why do products look like they do, and why has product design changed over the years? These are some of the questions that will be addressed at the Annual Design History Society Conference, the foremost international conference on design history, which will be held at TU Delft’s Faculty of Industrial Design from August 31 to September 2. The conference features three international keynote speakers: esteemed American historian, Professor Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University) this year’s winner of KNAW’s prestigious Heineken Prize; technology historian, Professor Henry Petroski (Duke University), the author of the highly acclaimed book, ‘The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things’; and Professor Philip Steadman, professor of Urban and Built Form Studies (University College, London). In 1977, design history was institutionalized as a scientific discipline with the founding of the Design History Society, which organizes this annual scientific conference. “This international conference has quickly grown into the premier international meeting place for design historians from around the world,” says TU Delft’s Timo de Rijk, who is one of the conference’s organizers.
Low-noise amplifier

The novel low-noise amplifier for ultra-broadband communications designed in CMOS technology won the ‘Best Student Paper Award’ at the 2006 IEEE RFIC Symposium in San Francisco. The paper, entitled ‘A 1.2V Reactive-Feedback 3.1-10.6GHz Ultra wideband Low-Noise Amplifier in 0.13μm CMOS’, was co-authored by TU Delft PhD student Michael Reiha and Professor John Long of the Electronics Research Laboratory/Dimes, of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS). This year’s symposium exhibited over 125 papers from top research centers, 70 of which were eligible for the award.
Mobile

The TU Delft Executive Board signed a contract on Wednesday, August 16 with new providers of landline and mobile telephony. This European tender identified KPN as the provider for landlines and Orange for mobile telephony, based on the best price-quality ratio. Voice over Internet Protocol, or Voip, will be used on the landlines. By opting for a single mobile provider, it will be easier to integrate landline and mobile telephony, and bring additional functionality within reach, such as one telephone number for both the mobile and landline.
Promoting plagiarism

Zhu Qingshi, president of the University of Science and Technology in China, said during his recent address to the Chinese-Foreign University Presidents’ Forum in Shanghai, that Chinese government mandates promote plagiarism, because the Chinese government requires Master’s and PhD candidates to publish a set number of articles per year. The result is that students frequently lie about their publications and many papers are poorly written and plagiarized.
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Part-time jobs available writing for Delta’s English Page. We seek foreign students/staff to write articles in English, for payment, on a freelance basis. No experience necessary. We’re looking for enthusiastic, creative foreign students/staff to contribute articles, cartoons, illustrations, photographs. Interested, please send a brief introductory email to: d.mcmullin@tudelft.nl

Van Leeuwenhoek

TU Delft’s Executive Board has appointed traffic flow specialist Serge Hoogendoorn as an Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor. Hoogendoorn received this professorship for excellent, young researchers for his high international profile and superior research and teaching abilities. Hoogendoorn researches the dynamics of traffic flows and then establishes them in mathematical models and simulation tools. “The current methods are not optimal for predicting the consequences that traffic laws can have,” Hoogendoorn says. “The 80 kmph rule, which came into effect for the Randstad in an effort to improve local air quality, has led to unforeseen long traffic jams in and around Utrecht and Den Haag.” Hoogendoorn’s models and simulation tools can be used for calculating new designs for roads or sidewalks, for allowing traffic control centers to predict the effects of traffic laws, and also for the (online) forecasting of journey times. In 1995, Hoogendoorn graduated Cum Laude in Applied Mathematics from TU Delft. The Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professorships was established in 1999 and is a personal professorship that young researchers qualify for if they meet all the criteria for the position of professor.
Design history

Why do products look like they do, and why has product design changed over the years? These are some of the questions that will be addressed at the Annual Design History Society Conference, the foremost international conference on design history, which will be held at TU Delft’s Faculty of Industrial Design from August 31 to September 2. The conference features three international keynote speakers: esteemed American historian, Professor Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University) this year’s winner of KNAW’s prestigious Heineken Prize; technology historian, Professor Henry Petroski (Duke University), the author of the highly acclaimed book, ‘The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things’; and Professor Philip Steadman, professor of Urban and Built Form Studies (University College, London). In 1977, design history was institutionalized as a scientific discipline with the founding of the Design History Society, which organizes this annual scientific conference. “This international conference has quickly grown into the premier international meeting place for design historians from around the world,” says TU Delft’s Timo de Rijk, who is one of the conference’s organizers.
Low-noise amplifier

The novel low-noise amplifier for ultra-broadband communications designed in CMOS technology won the ‘Best Student Paper Award’ at the 2006 IEEE RFIC Symposium in San Francisco. The paper, entitled ‘A 1.2V Reactive-Feedback 3.1-10.6GHz Ultra wideband Low-Noise Amplifier in 0.13μm CMOS’, was co-authored by TU Delft PhD student Michael Reiha and Professor John Long of the Electronics Research Laboratory/Dimes, of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS). This year’s symposium exhibited over 125 papers from top research centers, 70 of which were eligible for the award.
Mobile

The TU Delft Executive Board signed a contract on Wednesday, August 16 with new providers of landline and mobile telephony. This European tender identified KPN as the provider for landlines and Orange for mobile telephony, based on the best price-quality ratio. Voice over Internet Protocol, or Voip, will be used on the landlines. By opting for a single mobile provider, it will be easier to integrate landline and mobile telephony, and bring additional functionality within reach, such as one telephone number for both the mobile and landline.
Promoting plagiarism

Zhu Qingshi, president of the University of Science and Technology in China, said during his recent address to the Chinese-Foreign University Presidents’ Forum in Shanghai, that Chinese government mandates promote plagiarism, because the Chinese government requires Master’s and PhD candidates to publish a set number of articles per year. The result is that students frequently lie about their publications and many papers are poorly written and plagiarized.
Help wanted

Part-time jobs available writing for Delta’s English Page. We seek foreign students/staff to write articles in English, for payment, on a freelance basis. No experience necessary. We’re looking for enthusiastic, creative foreign students/staff to contribute articles, cartoons, illustrations, photographs. Interested, please send a brief introductory email to: d.mcmullin@tudelft.nl