‘Eindhoven poaches our employees’Chairman of the executive board, Dr. Nico de Voogd, is enraged by the way Eindhoven University of Technology used ‘strong arm tactics’, demanding that Dr.
M.K. Smit’s research group work at Eindhoven university, if the group wants to receive money that was given by the Dutch government to both Eindhoven and Delft. Smit’s group, a well-known and respected research group in photonic integrated circuits, will be transferred to Eindhoven at the end of 2001.
Hydrogen makes cars more efficient
Cars can start driving on hydrogen in the very near future, according to Prof. K. de Jong, of Utrecht University. Last week, he delivered a lecture at the symposium ‘The New H2’, organised by students of TU Delft. Cars will still have to use petrol, however, because the petrol is not being burned in the engine but converted to carbon dioxide and hydrogen in three chemical reaction steps. The hydrogen then reacts with oxygen to produce the electricity that is used by an electric motor. “This leads to a much more efficient use of petrol,” says De Jong.
Faculty of Architecture should improve its quality
The dean of the faculty of Architecture, Prof. H. Beunderman, agrees with the criticism of the examination committee that visited TU Delft last year. In its official report, the committee stated that the faculty should invest more in ICT and the didactic training of its teachers, and that the faculty building is too small for the amount of students working in it. Furthermore, the faculty should teach more about building sustainable, according to the committee. Beunderman hopes that the report will support his attempts to convince people of the need to make changes at his faculty.
‘Eindhoven poaches our employees’
Chairman of the executive board, Dr. Nico de Voogd, is enraged by the way Eindhoven University of Technology used ‘strong arm tactics’, demanding that Dr. M.K. Smit’s research group work at Eindhoven university, if the group wants to receive money that was given by the Dutch government to both Eindhoven and Delft. Smit’s group, a well-known and respected research group in photonic integrated circuits, will be transferred to Eindhoven at the end of 2001.
Hydrogen makes cars more efficient
Cars can start driving on hydrogen in the very near future, according to Prof. K. de Jong, of Utrecht University. Last week, he delivered a lecture at the symposium ‘The New H2’, organised by students of TU Delft. Cars will still have to use petrol, however, because the petrol is not being burned in the engine but converted to carbon dioxide and hydrogen in three chemical reaction steps. The hydrogen then reacts with oxygen to produce the electricity that is used by an electric motor. “This leads to a much more efficient use of petrol,” says De Jong.
Faculty of Architecture should improve its quality
The dean of the faculty of Architecture, Prof. H. Beunderman, agrees with the criticism of the examination committee that visited TU Delft last year. In its official report, the committee stated that the faculty should invest more in ICT and the didactic training of its teachers, and that the faculty building is too small for the amount of students working in it. Furthermore, the faculty should teach more about building sustainable, according to the committee. Beunderman hopes that the report will support his attempts to convince people of the need to make changes at his faculty.
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