New chiefFrans Godfroy (57) is the new editor-in-chief of Delta and the external magazines Delft Integraal and Delft Outlook.
Godfroy has previously been the editor-in-chief of various publications, including Kri en Punt, the magazine of the Avans Hogeschool. From 1987 to 1995, Godfroy was a journalism instructor at the Academy for Journalism and Information in Tilburg. Godfroy succeeds Richard Meijer as Delta editor in chief. Meijer retired last year.
Safety gap
Safety is always achieved by trading off with other goals. This requires transparent models of how danger arises and validated research results about the effectiveness of risk control measures: in practice this is rarely the case. That was one of the statements made Professor Andrew Hale during his valedictory speech as professor of Safety Science at TU Delft on Friday September 15. Whilst emphasizing that safety levels have improved in most sectors in developed countries over the last forty years, Professor Hale generally signals a gap between policy and practice when it comes to safety. “Safety and risk control is irreducibly complicated. Managers who ask for a safety management system on ‘one sheet of A4’ are kidding themselves. Safety will not of itself take root in the practices of a university, company or a government. We need dedicated safety professionals in research, teaching and practice, but above all a leadership in all of those, and in government, committed to implementing its safety goals.”
Bike race
The ‘2006 Centric NSK Bicycle Race’ will be held on Saturday 23 September on the TU Delft campus. The racers are HBO and university students from all over the Netherlands. The race course for this – the 2006 Dutch Student Championship . is a 2.5 km long course around the TU campus. The start/finish line is on the Mekelweg, in front of the Aula. The first race starts at 10 a.m., followed by races at 12:00, 13:45, and 15:30. Both men and women will compete.
Wall of Fame
The newly refurbished lobby of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering building was officially opened last week. The lobby’s most eye-catching feature is a Wall of Fame, which honors the faculty’s remarkable people, projects and individual researchers. The wall features an outline of the world, on which colored discs denote the faculty’s successful people and projects. In addition to the Nuna 3 racing team, researchers like Professor Rene de Borst (Spinoza Prize) and Professor Adriaan Beukers (Descartes Prize) have been given places of honor. The wall also has space available for honoring other researchers and students in future. The plexiglass disc reserved for each honoree on the wall symbolizes a laurel wreath. The complete refurbishment of the lobby was done in an effort to modernize and improve the dissemination of information and communication with the faculty’s students, personnel and visitors. Various large plasma screens have been integrated in the space to provide students with course information and reports of current events taking place within the faculty. Students from TU Delft’s Faculty of Industrial Design designed the Wall of Fame.
Shell prize
Shell Netherlands and the three Dutch universities of technology . TU Eindhoven, TU Twente and TU Delft – are jointly organizing the 2006 Shell Bachelor Master Prize for the best Bachelor’s and Master’s theses on the subject of sustainable development and energy. The objective is to encourage students to make sustainability their future. The Shell Bachelor Master Prize consists of two awards: the best Bachelor’s thesis (2,500 euros), and the best Master’s thesis (5,000 euros). Students who are or were working on their graduation projects between 1 January and 31 December 2006 are eligible to enter, provided their thesis was completed on or before 31 December. The theses have to meet two conditions. The first is that the subject must be related to Shell’s fields of work, such as energy generation, sustainable development, petrochemicals, renewables and transitions from fossil fuels to renewables. The second condition is that the theme of the thesis must be ‘sustainability & energy’: using natural resources in such a way as to preserve prosperity and the quality of nature and the environment for the generations after us.
New chief
Frans Godfroy (57) is the new editor-in-chief of Delta and the external magazines Delft Integraal and Delft Outlook. Godfroy has previously been the editor-in-chief of various publications, including Kri en Punt, the magazine of the Avans Hogeschool. From 1987 to 1995, Godfroy was a journalism instructor at the Academy for Journalism and Information in Tilburg. Godfroy succeeds Richard Meijer as Delta editor in chief. Meijer retired last year.
Safety gap
Safety is always achieved by trading off with other goals. This requires transparent models of how danger arises and validated research results about the effectiveness of risk control measures: in practice this is rarely the case. That was one of the statements made Professor Andrew Hale during his valedictory speech as professor of Safety Science at TU Delft on Friday September 15. Whilst emphasizing that safety levels have improved in most sectors in developed countries over the last forty years, Professor Hale generally signals a gap between policy and practice when it comes to safety. “Safety and risk control is irreducibly complicated. Managers who ask for a safety management system on ‘one sheet of A4’ are kidding themselves. Safety will not of itself take root in the practices of a university, company or a government. We need dedicated safety professionals in research, teaching and practice, but above all a leadership in all of those, and in government, committed to implementing its safety goals.”
Bike race
The ‘2006 Centric NSK Bicycle Race’ will be held on Saturday 23 September on the TU Delft campus. The racers are HBO and university students from all over the Netherlands. The race course for this – the 2006 Dutch Student Championship . is a 2.5 km long course around the TU campus. The start/finish line is on the Mekelweg, in front of the Aula. The first race starts at 10 a.m., followed by races at 12:00, 13:45, and 15:30. Both men and women will compete.
Wall of Fame
The newly refurbished lobby of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering building was officially opened last week. The lobby’s most eye-catching feature is a Wall of Fame, which honors the faculty’s remarkable people, projects and individual researchers. The wall features an outline of the world, on which colored discs denote the faculty’s successful people and projects. In addition to the Nuna 3 racing team, researchers like Professor Rene de Borst (Spinoza Prize) and Professor Adriaan Beukers (Descartes Prize) have been given places of honor. The wall also has space available for honoring other researchers and students in future. The plexiglass disc reserved for each honoree on the wall symbolizes a laurel wreath. The complete refurbishment of the lobby was done in an effort to modernize and improve the dissemination of information and communication with the faculty’s students, personnel and visitors. Various large plasma screens have been integrated in the space to provide students with course information and reports of current events taking place within the faculty. Students from TU Delft’s Faculty of Industrial Design designed the Wall of Fame.
Shell prize
Shell Netherlands and the three Dutch universities of technology . TU Eindhoven, TU Twente and TU Delft – are jointly organizing the 2006 Shell Bachelor Master Prize for the best Bachelor’s and Master’s theses on the subject of sustainable development and energy. The objective is to encourage students to make sustainability their future. The Shell Bachelor Master Prize consists of two awards: the best Bachelor’s thesis (2,500 euros), and the best Master’s thesis (5,000 euros). Students who are or were working on their graduation projects between 1 January and 31 December 2006 are eligible to enter, provided their thesis was completed on or before 31 December. The theses have to meet two conditions. The first is that the subject must be related to Shell’s fields of work, such as energy generation, sustainable development, petrochemicals, renewables and transitions from fossil fuels to renewables. The second condition is that the theme of the thesis must be ‘sustainability & energy’: using natural resources in such a way as to preserve prosperity and the quality of nature and the environment for the generations after us.
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