New rectorIn addition to the new class of incoming students, TU Delft will also be welcoming a new rector this year. Professor Karel Luyben, the current dean of the university’s faculty of Applied Sciences, is succeeding professor Jacob Fokkema as rector magnificus of TU Delft.
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Fokkema has served as rector since 2002. Luyben studied chemical engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology, before becoming a researcher at Wageningen University. He later worked as a contract researcher with Bayer in Germany, and Cehave in the Netherlands. In 1983, Luyben was first appointed professor of biokinetics at TU Delft, and from 1988, served as professor of bioprocess technology. From 1993-1999, he was scientific director of the Delft-Leiden Biotechnological Sciences Graduate School and has also held many other leading positions in the world of biotechnology and process technology. A dedicated researcher and tutor, Luyben has published over 200 articles in leading scientific journals, has four patents to his name and has supervised more than 30 doctoral students.
,Nuon team
TU Delft’s Nuon Solar Team left for Australia this week, where the student team will begin preparing for the World Solar Challenge, a race involving more than 30 solar-powered vehicles from universities and institutes around the world. The solar cars will race 3,000 kilometers across Australia. The race begins in Darwin on 25 October and ends in Adelaide on 28 October. With Nuna5, the latest generation solar-powered vehicle built by TU Delft students, the Nuon Solar Team is confident of winning the World Solar Challenge for the fifth time. The team members will now use the coming months in Australia to develop their race strategy and acclimatize themselves to the local conditions and highways. The team’s progress and the race can be followed on the Nuon Solar Team website.
,Moosa Hatami
This summer the university community lost one of its esteemed members. A tragic accident on Saturday, August 8 in Delft, claimed the life of Moosa Hatami, who had recently received his PhD from TU Delft. Hatami, an Iranian, was employed by the university’s Kavli Institute of Nanoscience and is remembered by his colleagues as a warm, caring person and gifted physicist.
,Gifted BSc students
TU Delft will receive €1,950,000 from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science to fund a new teaching program called ‘Challent’ for gifted BSc students. Challent is an integral part of TU Delft’s international ambitions: the university expects that this new initiative will make it more attractive to top students and researchers from around the world. It is expected that
between 5 and 7% of the students following BSc courses at TU Delft will participate in the Challent program, which consists of one part linked to the students’ own degree courses, and a general part. The latter aims to develop the students’ academic skills and personality, to inculcate in them a wider vision of their studies and to develop their leadership and entrepreneurship abilities. Building up a community of gifted students and their mentors is another important objective of the program. The gifted students from the various courses will be brought together for example to perform multidisciplinary research in collaboration with public and private parties.
,Erasmus Mundus
The European Commission has approved the use of the Erasmus Mundus label for two degree programs that TU Delft and its foreign university partners are participating in. One program is the EEMCS faculty’s ‘Computer Simulation for Science Engineering’ (COSSE). The other is the TPM faculty’s joint doctorate program in Sustainable Energy Technologies and Strategies. Each Erasmus Mundus program is conducted by a consortium of European universities.
,Help wanted
Freelance jobs available writing for Delta’s English Pages. 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 and photographs. Interested, please send a brief introductory email to: d.mcmullin@tudelft.nl
New rector
In addition to the new class of incoming students, TU Delft will also be welcoming a new rector this year. Professor Karel Luyben, the current dean of the university’s faculty of Applied Sciences, is succeeding professor Jacob Fokkema as rector magnificus of TU Delft. Fokkema has served as rector since 2002. Luyben studied chemical engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology, before becoming a researcher at Wageningen University. He later worked as a contract researcher with Bayer in Germany, and Cehave in the Netherlands. In 1983, Luyben was first appointed professor of biokinetics at TU Delft, and from 1988, served as professor of bioprocess technology. From 1993-1999, he was scientific director of the Delft-Leiden Biotechnological Sciences Graduate School and has also held many other leading positions in the world of biotechnology and process technology. A dedicated researcher and tutor, Luyben has published over 200 articles in leading scientific journals, has four patents to his name and has supervised more than 30 doctoral students.
Nuon team
TU Delft’s Nuon Solar Team left for Australia this week, where the student team will begin preparing for the World Solar Challenge, a race involving more than 30 solar-powered vehicles from universities and institutes around the world. The solar cars will race 3,000 kilometers across Australia. The race begins in Darwin on 25 October and ends in Adelaide on 28 October. With Nuna5, the latest generation solar-powered vehicle built by TU Delft students, the Nuon Solar Team is confident of winning the World Solar Challenge for the fifth time. The team members will now use the coming months in Australia to develop their race strategy and acclimatize themselves to the local conditions and highways. The team’s progress and the race can be followed on the Nuon Solar Team website.
Moosa Hatami
This summer the university community lost one of its esteemed members. A tragic accident on Saturday, August 8 in Delft, claimed the life of Moosa Hatami, who had recently received his PhD from TU Delft. Hatami, an Iranian, was employed by the university’s Kavli Institute of Nanoscience and is remembered by his colleagues as a warm, caring person and gifted physicist.
Gifted BSc students
TU Delft will receive €1,950,000 from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science to fund a new teaching program called ‘Challent’ for gifted BSc students. Challent is an integral part of TU Delft’s international ambitions: the university expects that this new initiative will make it more attractive to top students and researchers from around the world. It is expected that
between 5 and 7% of the students following BSc courses at TU Delft will participate in the Challent program, which consists of one part linked to the students’ own degree courses, and a general part. The latter aims to develop the students’ academic skills and personality, to inculcate in them a wider vision of their studies and to develop their leadership and entrepreneurship abilities. Building up a community of gifted students and their mentors is another important objective of the program. The gifted students from the various courses will be brought together for example to perform multidisciplinary research in collaboration with public and private parties.
Erasmus Mundus
The European Commission has approved the use of the Erasmus Mundus label for two degree programs that TU Delft and its foreign university partners are participating in. One program is the EEMCS faculty’s ‘Computer Simulation for Science Engineering’ (COSSE). The other is the TPM faculty’s joint doctorate program in Sustainable Energy Technologies and Strategies. Each Erasmus Mundus program is conducted by a consortium of European universities.
Help wanted
Freelance jobs available writing for Delta’s English Pages. 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 and photographs. Interested, please send a brief introductory email to: d.mcmullin@tudelft.nl
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