DestructionA 19-year-old TU student broke the windows of four parked cars on the Phoenixstraat last week. The student was so drunk when he left the Lorrre disco club that he began breaking the windows in front of the security guards of the nearby Prinsenhof museum.
The security guards detained the student and handed him over to the police.
Iranians
‘Stop suspecting Iranians! Academic freedom has no nationality!’ This slogan is part of a petition that was recently published on a new website www.iraansestudenten.nl. The site was started by Dutch and foreign researchers and students at Dutch universities, university hospitals and research institutes. Among the groups’ founders are TU Delft PhDers Ali Mesbah and Behnam Taebi, and Delft undergraduate student Sara Emami. The group says that the restrictions that the Dutch government has instructed universities to place on Iranian students are ‘stigmatizing and discriminatory’. The group is especially angry that the University of Twente and University of Eindhoven are excluding Iranian students and PhDs; they have called this action “absurd”. Professors from the three Dutch technological universities, as well as those from other Dutch universities, have signed the petition.
Women
The number of women receiving PhD degrees is steadily increasing. Of all the recent doctoral graduates younger than 35 years old, half were women. Women took on average 5.4 years to complete their doctorial studies, which is nine months less than the average for male PhD students, according to the Central Bureau for Statistics. In 2005, there were 72,000 doctoral graduates in the Netherlands under the age of 70, of which 30 percent were women. Women with PhD degrees were also more likely to have full-time jobs than other women.
@01 kort nieuws kopje:Keyhole surgery
Dr. Jack Jakimowicz has been appointed part-time professor of ‘Safety in Healthcare’ at TU Delft’s Industrial Design Faculty. This chair focuses on the quality and safety of medical technology in general and minimally invasive surgery (keyhole surgery) in particular. A recent report published by the Netherlands Health Care Inspectorate makes it clear that the risks involved in minimally invasive surgery are underestimated.Dr. Jakimowicz (1942) is a leading authority in the field of minimally invasive surgery and is also an expert on ergonomic applications and new technological developments. He worked as a surgeon until June 2007. Since his retirement, he has put his experience and expertise to use as an advisor to the Catharina Hospital’s Education and Research department. At TU Delft he is expected to make a valuable contribution to the development of innovative solutions, focusing on improving interaction between the user and technology. Jakimowicz’s core activities aim to increase cooperation between hospitals, TU Delft and the medical industry.
UNITECH
Applications are now being accepted for the 2008-2009 UNITECH Programmevia the UNITECH website: www. unitech-international.org. Application deadline is February 18, 2008. The UNITECH International Programme gives ambitious, talented students from TU Delft a strong international basis in business and management, with special attention for working in international teams, leadership and cultural awareness. The programme offers sponsored academic exchanges at one of the participating universities: ETH Zúrich, Politecnico di Milano, RWTH Aachen, TU Delft, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, école Centrale Paris, and Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg). Paid internships at one of the participating multinationals, like Shell, ABB, STMicroelectronics, SKF, Sony, and Siemens. Three business courses with professional coaching and training at three different participating universities together with some 90 international UNITECH participants. An information meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 5 at 18:00 at the TPM Faculty (Jaffalaan 5), room A. You can sign up for this meeting until 30 January 2008. Send an email to: internationaloffice@tudelft.nl Please note however that non EU students are not eligible for the UNITECH programme.
Destruction
A 19-year-old TU student broke the windows of four parked cars on the Phoenixstraat last week. The student was so drunk when he left the Lorrre disco club that he began breaking the windows in front of the security guards of the nearby Prinsenhof museum. The security guards detained the student and handed him over to the police.
Iranians
‘Stop suspecting Iranians! Academic freedom has no nationality!’ This slogan is part of a petition that was recently published on a new website www.iraansestudenten.nl. The site was started by Dutch and foreign researchers and students at Dutch universities, university hospitals and research institutes. Among the groups’ founders are TU Delft PhDers Ali Mesbah and Behnam Taebi, and Delft undergraduate student Sara Emami. The group says that the restrictions that the Dutch government has instructed universities to place on Iranian students are ‘stigmatizing and discriminatory’. The group is especially angry that the University of Twente and University of Eindhoven are excluding Iranian students and PhDs; they have called this action “absurd”. Professors from the three Dutch technological universities, as well as those from other Dutch universities, have signed the petition.
Women
The number of women receiving PhD degrees is steadily increasing. Of all the recent doctoral graduates younger than 35 years old, half were women. Women took on average 5.4 years to complete their doctorial studies, which is nine months less than the average for male PhD students, according to the Central Bureau for Statistics. In 2005, there were 72,000 doctoral graduates in the Netherlands under the age of 70, of which 30 percent were women. Women with PhD degrees were also more likely to have full-time jobs than other women.
@01 kort nieuws kopje:Keyhole surgery
Dr. Jack Jakimowicz has been appointed part-time professor of ‘Safety in Healthcare’ at TU Delft’s Industrial Design Faculty. This chair focuses on the quality and safety of medical technology in general and minimally invasive surgery (keyhole surgery) in particular. A recent report published by the Netherlands Health Care Inspectorate makes it clear that the risks involved in minimally invasive surgery are underestimated.Dr. Jakimowicz (1942) is a leading authority in the field of minimally invasive surgery and is also an expert on ergonomic applications and new technological developments. He worked as a surgeon until June 2007. Since his retirement, he has put his experience and expertise to use as an advisor to the Catharina Hospital’s Education and Research department. At TU Delft he is expected to make a valuable contribution to the development of innovative solutions, focusing on improving interaction between the user and technology. Jakimowicz’s core activities aim to increase cooperation between hospitals, TU Delft and the medical industry.
UNITECH
Applications are now being accepted for the 2008-2009 UNITECH Programmevia the UNITECH website: www. unitech-international.org. Application deadline is February 18, 2008. The UNITECH International Programme gives ambitious, talented students from TU Delft a strong international basis in business and management, with special attention for working in international teams, leadership and cultural awareness. The programme offers sponsored academic exchanges at one of the participating universities: ETH Zúrich, Politecnico di Milano, RWTH Aachen, TU Delft, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, école Centrale Paris, and Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg). Paid internships at one of the participating multinationals, like Shell, ABB, STMicroelectronics, SKF, Sony, and Siemens. Three business courses with professional coaching and training at three different participating universities together with some 90 international UNITECH participants. An information meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 5 at 18:00 at the TPM Faculty (Jaffalaan 5), room A. You can sign up for this meeting until 30 January 2008. Send an email to: internationaloffice@tudelft.nl Please note however that non EU students are not eligible for the UNITECH programme.
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