On November 11, 2014, TU Delft will host their first-ever university research exhibition. The exhibition will feature over 80 research projects from across campus, offering visitors a look at the breadth and scope of things going on in different faculties.
In order to finalise the list of 80 projects, a team from the Valorisation Centre of the university reviewed hundreds of projects. “We started planning the event in September 2013 and finally had the programme ready in August of this year. We spoke to over 700 scientists during this time, and starting in February, we spent one week per faculty,” said Susanne Sleenhoff, Project coordinator of DIG-it!
Held at the TU Library, the event is divided into two halves – a morning session that is open to the public and a closed afternoon session. “We really encourage students to come in the morning and see what their colleagues are doing in other faculties and areas of research,” she added.
The afternoon session features presentations on select research topics and invitees include technical companies and entrepreneurs outside of TU Delft. “We are presenting ourselves as a research partner. This is a platform for interested parties to get a sense of all the projects being worked on here and talk about future collaborations,” said Sleenhoff.
The afternoon session will feature 15-minute ‘Speed Lectures’ by six researchers, moving from topics of fundamental research to more applied and market-oriented research. Topics for these include Quantum computing and Teleportation, Robotics, Big Data Science, Serious Gaming, Water Management, and the PDEng programme.
“We worked with the researchers to help make their presentations more accessible to all the visitors. From 3D models to infographics, whatever could help make it more tangible,” Danielle Ceulemans, project leader of DIG-it, added. “One of our researchers, Mark Voorendt, is developing a generic method for atypical flood defences to create present design and assessment guidelines. He had a lot of examples of these atypical flood defences and it was difficult to visualise all these flood defences in one image. Therefore we decided to create the rotatable blocks that can form types of flood defences. These blocks can be turned around to visualise all the different a-typical flood defences. Furthermore, he analyses and evaluates the different flood defences using mathematical models. And we added an extra block for the formulas and a small visualisation,” she explained.
At 12:30, the very first DIG-it! Award will be given to the most innovative research project from TU Delft. “The winner will be chosen from the 700 researchers we spoke to during our tour around the faculties,” adds Sleenhoff. “Eventually we hope to make the exhibition a bi-annual event and maybe even bigger next time,” she added.
What: TU Delft Research Exhibition
Where: TU Delft Library
Admission: Morning session open to everyone for free.
Those interested in the afternoon session need to register. Admission is free.
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