Nibs

Five teams of high school students will now compete over the coming months to see who can launch the best CanSat. The winning team will be given an aerial tour of the Netherlands in a Cessna Citation II002E. The self-built CanSats will be launched to a height of one kilometer in May 2007. Two experiments will be conducted onboard the CanSats: one experiment involving atmospheric measurements that all the teams must conduct, and each team’s own experiment. The teams have been set the challenging task of developing the CanSat from an idea to a product. They will be assisted in this by TU Delft’s Electrical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering degree programs. The teams were given ‘CanSat kits’ to take home, containing all the materials and instructions they need to build a CanSat. The CanSat competition originated in the USA; this is the first time it has been held in the Netherlands.

www.cansat.nl
NWO grants

@02 normaal linkslijnend The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Vici grants to thirty leading researchers. Three of these researchers are from TU Delft: Alberto Morpurgo, Jan van Neerven and Paul Planken. In addition, NWO has awarded Rubicon grants to 25 young, promising researchers, including TU Delft’s P. Prinsen. Vici grants are awarded to excellent, experienced researchers who have successfully developed an innovative line of research. Each ‘Vici researcher’ receives a maximum of 1,250,000 euro and must build their own research groups within five years. The three grant-winning TU Delft researchers are Dr. Alberto Morpurgo, whose research project is entitled: ‘Relativistic electrons on a chip’; Professor Jan van Neerven: ‘Stochastic analyse in infinite multiple dimensions and harmonic analysis’; and Dr. Paul Planken: ‘On the way to an imperceptible-light microscope’. P. Prinsen received a Rubicon grant for his research project: ‘How large is a large RNA molecule?’
Ultra-green plane

@02 normaal linkslijnend TU Delft is currently recruiting a special team of researchers who will develop ’the ultra-green airplane’. TU Delft’s Faculty of Aerospace Engineering will launch this large and ambitious project in April 2007. The university will assemble a group of researchers who will spend four years developing an extremely environmentally friendly airplane. This airplane will be able to accommodate 125 passengers. The research team will include PhD researchers, post-docs and undergraduates. The name of the project is called CleanEra.
Foundation Day

@02 normaal linkslijnend The Rector Magnificus of TU Delft will preside over a ceremony on Friday, January 12, celebrating the 165th Foundation Day of TU Delft. The ceremony will take place in the TU Delft Aula, starting at 15:00. This year’s theme will be sustainable technology. What is TU Delft’s actual contribution to a sustainable world? And what are TU Delft’s strengths in the area of sustainable technology? All students and staff members are cordially invited to attend the Foundation Day ceremony.
Chinese lessons

@02 normaal linkslijnendThe Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management (TPM) will begin offering Chinese for beginners language courses to prepare students and staff members who plan to work or study in China. The Chinese language course will begin in February and consist of 14 classes in Chinese language and culture. “Any proficiency in Chinese will only make the contact their easier,” says Dr. Rien Elling, who is the project’s coordinator. “The idea for offering Chinese courses stems for the various visits to China by students and staffers from the TU’s Faculty of Architecture and Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences. They often work together with Chinese universities.” The Chinese for beginners courses will be given in partnership with the DelChi Institute, which organizes projects aimed at improving the communication between Dutch and Chinese people. The students will only learn how to converse in Chinese,” says Yanmin Tao, director of the DelChi Institute. “Speaking Chinese is difficult, because there are four different tones in Chinese. But learning to write in Chinese is even more difficult.”

CanSat

A soft drink can, a foldable parachute and electronics. Those were the ingredients needed for the CanSat competition, which was started at TU Delft on 21 December, with introductory workshops and presentations. Five teams of high school students will now compete over the coming months to see who can launch the best CanSat. The winning team will be given an aerial tour of the Netherlands in a Cessna Citation II002E. The self-built CanSats will be launched to a height of one kilometer in May 2007. Two experiments will be conducted onboard the CanSats: one experiment involving atmospheric measurements that all the teams must conduct, and each team’s own experiment. The teams have been set the challenging task of developing the CanSat from an idea to a product. They will be assisted in this by TU Delft’s Electrical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering degree programs. The teams were given ‘CanSat kits’ to take home, containing all the materials and instructions they need to build a CanSat. The CanSat competition originated in the USA; this is the first time it has been held in the Netherlands.

www.cansat.nl
NWO grants

@02 normaal linkslijnend The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Vici grants to thirty leading researchers. Three of these researchers are from TU Delft: Alberto Morpurgo, Jan van Neerven and Paul Planken. In addition, NWO has awarded Rubicon grants to 25 young, promising researchers, including TU Delft’s P. Prinsen. Vici grants are awarded to excellent, experienced researchers who have successfully developed an innovative line of research. Each ‘Vici researcher’ receives a maximum of 1,250,000 euro and must build their own research groups within five years. The three grant-winning TU Delft researchers are Dr. Alberto Morpurgo, whose research project is entitled: ‘Relativistic electrons on a chip’; Professor Jan van Neerven: ‘Stochastic analyse in infinite multiple dimensions and harmonic analysis’; and Dr. Paul Planken: ‘On the way to an imperceptible-light microscope’. P. Prinsen received a Rubicon grant for his research project: ‘How large is a large RNA molecule?’
Ultra-green plane

@02 normaal linkslijnend TU Delft is currently recruiting a special team of researchers who will develop ’the ultra-green airplane’. TU Delft’s Faculty of Aerospace Engineering will launch this large and ambitious project in April 2007. The university will assemble a group of researchers who will spend four years developing an extremely environmentally friendly airplane. This airplane will be able to accommodate 125 passengers. The research team will include PhD researchers, post-docs and undergraduates. The name of the project is called CleanEra.
Foundation Day

@02 normaal linkslijnend The Rector Magnificus of TU Delft will preside over a ceremony on Friday, January 12, celebrating the 165th Foundation Day of TU Delft. The ceremony will take place in the TU Delft Aula, starting at 15:00. This year’s theme will be sustainable technology. What is TU Delft’s actual contribution to a sustainable world? And what are TU Delft’s strengths in the area of sustainable technology? All students and staff members are cordially invited to attend the Foundation Day ceremony.
Chinese lessons

@02 normaal linkslijnendThe Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management (TPM) will begin offering Chinese for beginners language courses to prepare students and staff members who plan to work or study in China. The Chinese language course will begin in February and consist of 14 classes in Chinese language and culture. “Any proficiency in Chinese will only make the contact their easier,” says Dr. Rien Elling, who is the project’s coordinator. “The idea for offering Chinese courses stems for the various visits to China by students and staffers from the TU’s Faculty of Architecture and Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences. They often work together with Chinese universities.” The Chinese for beginners courses will be given in partnership with the DelChi Institute, which organizes projects aimed at improving the communication between Dutch and Chinese people. The students will only learn how to converse in Chinese,” says Yanmin Tao, director of the DelChi Institute. “Speaking Chinese is difficult, because there are four different tones in Chinese. But learning to write in Chinese is even more difficult.”