What happens when you have to dodge a robot instead of a human? At Highlight Festival, TU Delft postdocs Olger Siebinga (Mechanical Engineering) and Wilbert Tabone (Industrial Design Engineering) will conduct live research into how humans and robots can share the same space without collisions.
On Monday morning 9 February, trains between The Hague and Delft were cancelled and traffic lights were not working due to a power outage. Is this an isolated incident or a sign of an increasingly vulnerable electricity grid? Power grid professor Peter Palensky: “Overall, the infrastructure is improving.”
The shipping industry needs to be less polluting and even become emission free. How can this be achieved at a time where everyone orders everything from Temu? By falling back on the wind. Researchers are testing the aerodynamics of a cargo ship in a wind tunnel to determine the best place to position rotor sails.
Humans will soon be heading back to the moon, but the launch of Artemis II, which was planned for this week, has been postponed until March due to technical problems. What makes this launch unique and why is launching so difficult? Five questions for Sebastien Welters from student rocket association DARE.
Japan joined Horizon in January, the European research programme that distributes billions of euros in funding. It is the latest non-European country to have joined in recent years. “Science is being used as soft power.”
Make the amount of time used for teaching measurable; monitor PhD candidates better during their doctoral programme; and, reserve enough time for supervision. These are the recommendations of PhD candidates and their representatives in the face of faculties’ austerity plans.
The budget cuts planned by TU Delft will also affect PhD candidates. By 2028, at least 148 PhD positions will be scrapped from the first money stream. In addition, faculties want PhD candidates to teach more and complete their PhDs faster.
While Mechanical Engineering students and workshop employees were busy building a sturdy igloo, roofs elsewhere in the country are collapsing under the weight of heavy snow. How do you build safe, snow-resistant structures?
