Survey on Research Integrity Time pressure, strange outcomes, hierarchy, requests for funding – there are many factors that can put pressure on scientific integrity. What are your experiences as a researcher? The NSRI (National Survey on Research Integrity) survey has posed that question to 40,000 researchers in the Netherlands. The survey started…

Met de verkiezingen in aantocht brokkelt het draagvlak voor het leenstelsel steeds verder af. Deze week wakkeren studenten het vuurtje aan met nieuwe ludieke protestacties. Ze bouwen wankele torens en dwalen als ‘schuldenspoken’ door de stad. De protesten zijn bedacht door jongerenorganisaties en studentenbonden, waaronder FNV Young & United en de Landelijke Studentenvakbond. Onder de noemer…

Three million registrations for MOOCs TU Delft has welcomed the three millionth registration for online courses (MOOCs). Registrations for the worldwide available Massive Open Online Courses peaked in mid-March, when the first lockdown started in many countries. The number of registrations then tripled from around six thousand to around twenty thousand per week. This peak…

Robotic building at Dutch Design Week The Delft Robotic Building Lab has two entries for the Dutch Design Week (17-25 October) in Eindhoven. The first project, Componential Hybridity, concerns a plant-like stairwell for a former Philips factory hall in the Brabant capital of Eindhoven. Henriette Bier (Architecture and the Built Environment)…

The German offshore windpark Riffgat. (Photo: Impériale) If it were up to energy economist dr.ir. Laurens de Vries (TBM), offshore wind will become even cheaper in the future. De Vries took part in the European research consortium PROMOTioN. A recent study looked at a potential network of large offshore wind farms (100-200 GW) in…

The German offshore windpark Riffgat. (Photo: Impériale) To encourage offshore wind farm operators to minimise costs. That is the goal that Energy Economist Dr Laurens de Vries (TPM) set himself as part of the PROMOTioN European research consortium. A recent study looked at a potential network of large offshore wind farms (100-200 GW)…

The Delft Robotic Building Lab has two entries for the Dutch Design Week (17-25 October) in Eindhoven. The first project, Componential Hybridity, concerns a plant-like stairwell for a former Philips factory hall in the Brabant capital of Eindhoven. Henriette Bier (Architecture and the Built Environment) and her team entwined 3D printed metal…

TU Delft Library expands opening hours   As of Saturday, October 24, the TU Delft Library will expand its opening hours. The Library will be accessible daily from 8:00 a.m. to midnight for borrowing and returning books. There is also a limited number of study places available. Students are required to book a study place in…

Veel mondmaskers laten te wensen over. Hoogleraar binnenmilieu Philomena Bluyssen en haar collega postdoc-onderzoeker Marco Ortiz (beiden van Bouwkunde) hebben samen met het Nederlands-Duitse windtunnelinstituut NLR/DNW een testopstelling gemaakt waarbij ze een kunststof hoofd waterdamp, een nevel van verschillende druppels, door mondmaskers heen laten uitademen. De meeste maskers laten heel veel kleine druppels…

Duizenden studenten van de Universiteit van Amsterdam kunnen vandaag geen online tentamen maken. Ze kunnen sinds vanochtend niet inloggen in de systemen. Ook veel medewerkers komen er niet in. Het is tentamenweek, dus de storing komt bijzonder slecht uit. Voor vandaag zijn alle toetsen afgelast. Duizenden studenten missen een tentamen en promovendi kunnen hun proefschrift niet…