Night lecturesIt’s possible that in future TU students will attend lectures in the eventings, according to TU Delft Executive Board member Paul Rullmann.
Rullmann told the Student Council that the university was tackling the problem of a shortage of classrooms, but that it was too soon to build more facilities. Research must first be conducted to evaluate the efficiency of existing facilities. One option is to give lectures in the evenings, he said. The Student Council rejected this idea however, saying the students’ days are already long enough.
Designing business
Fourteen TU Delft professors from a wide variety of disciplines will present their view of designing as part of their research, during the second ‘Delft Science in Design Conference’, which will be held in the TU’s Aula on April 4. Such designing is usually related most intimately with the applications and industry, and therefore also with small and medium-sized businesses. Loek Hermans will give a speech as chairman of the ‘Dutch Federation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises’ on the importance of innovative designs for small and medium-sized businesses, as well as their associated requirements and wishes concerning designing. Design professors at TU Delft work in the fields of architecture, industrial design engineering, mechanical engineering, offshore, organization development, innovative process management and innovation policy. The conference is being organized by the Designing Platform, whose patron is TU Delft’s Rector Magnificus Prof. Jacob Fokkema.
Senz umbrella
The storm-proof Senz umbrella has won the world’s most prestigious design prize: The Red Dot Award. This quality label is awarded annually to products of exceptionally innovative design. This year 2,500 products from 43 countries were entered into competition for this much-coveted award. Former TU Delft Industrial Design students Philip Hess, Gerard Kool and Gerwin Hoogendoorn were very happy and surprised to have won the award. “For a designer, this is the ultimate achievement,” Hess said.
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Douwe Breimer
Professor Douwe Breimer will become a member of TU Delft’s Supervisory Board on 1 April, 2007. He will succeed Mr. H.N.J. Smits, who has been a member of the board since 1 June 2003. Douwe Breimer was the Rector Magnificus of Leiden University from 2001 until 8 February 2007. From September 2005, he had combined this position with that of Chairman of the Executive Board. Breimer began his career at Leiden University in 1975, as a professor of pharmacology. In addition, from 1996 to 2001, he was the vice-chairman of the General Board of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), and until 1 September 1999, he was the chairman of the Medical Science Section of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He has also been a member of the Innovation Platform since September 2003. Breimer has more than 500 published books and articles to his name. He has received various honorary doctorates for his scientific work. In 2000, he was named a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion, and on 8 February 2007, an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau.
Dean sacked
A prestigious Chinese university has fired one of its deans after he complained about being sidelined for bold remarks on academic freedom and berated the country’s higher education woes on the Internet. Zhang Ming, dean of political sciences at Renmin University of China, posted articles attacking the “bureaucratization of Chinese colleges” on his well-read blog. Zhang was formally stripped of his post last week, the Southern Metropolis Daily newspaper reported. “They told me that I should be punished for breaking the ‘hidden rules’,” Zhang said. Zhang will however remain a professor at the university. In his March 12 blog post, Zhang said he had irritated his superior with his comments. “Universities have become an officialdom. The over-intervention and manipulation of academia by power definitely fetters its growth,” Zhang wrote. “How is China’s academia doing now? Does anybody overseas read papers written by Chinese scholars? Plagiarism and theft are rampant. Obedient kids are being taught to be minions.” Renmin University’s School of International Studies, which administers Zhang’s department, dismissed his blog posts as “lies” which had “brought great pressure to the school and damaged its reputation.”
Night lectures
It’s possible that in future TU students will attend lectures in the eventings, according to TU Delft Executive Board member Paul Rullmann. Rullmann told the Student Council that the university was tackling the problem of a shortage of classrooms, but that it was too soon to build more facilities. Research must first be conducted to evaluate the efficiency of existing facilities. One option is to give lectures in the evenings, he said. The Student Council rejected this idea however, saying the students’ days are already long enough.
Designing business
Fourteen TU Delft professors from a wide variety of disciplines will present their view of designing as part of their research, during the second ‘Delft Science in Design Conference’, which will be held in the TU’s Aula on April 4. Such designing is usually related most intimately with the applications and industry, and therefore also with small and medium-sized businesses. Loek Hermans will give a speech as chairman of the ‘Dutch Federation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises’ on the importance of innovative designs for small and medium-sized businesses, as well as their associated requirements and wishes concerning designing. Design professors at TU Delft work in the fields of architecture, industrial design engineering, mechanical engineering, offshore, organization development, innovative process management and innovation policy. The conference is being organized by the Designing Platform, whose patron is TU Delft’s Rector Magnificus Prof. Jacob Fokkema.
Senz umbrella
The storm-proof Senz umbrella has won the world’s most prestigious design prize: The Red Dot Award. This quality label is awarded annually to products of exceptionally innovative design. This year 2,500 products from 43 countries were entered into competition for this much-coveted award. Former TU Delft Industrial Design students Philip Hess, Gerard Kool and Gerwin Hoogendoorn were very happy and surprised to have won the award. “For a designer, this is the ultimate achievement,” Hess said.
www.senzumbrellas.com
Douwe Breimer
Professor Douwe Breimer will become a member of TU Delft’s Supervisory Board on 1 April, 2007. He will succeed Mr. H.N.J. Smits, who has been a member of the board since 1 June 2003. Douwe Breimer was the Rector Magnificus of Leiden University from 2001 until 8 February 2007. From September 2005, he had combined this position with that of Chairman of the Executive Board. Breimer began his career at Leiden University in 1975, as a professor of pharmacology. In addition, from 1996 to 2001, he was the vice-chairman of the General Board of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), and until 1 September 1999, he was the chairman of the Medical Science Section of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He has also been a member of the Innovation Platform since September 2003. Breimer has more than 500 published books and articles to his name. He has received various honorary doctorates for his scientific work. In 2000, he was named a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion, and on 8 February 2007, an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau.
Dean sacked
A prestigious Chinese university has fired one of its deans after he complained about being sidelined for bold remarks on academic freedom and berated the country’s higher education woes on the Internet. Zhang Ming, dean of political sciences at Renmin University of China, posted articles attacking the “bureaucratization of Chinese colleges” on his well-read blog. Zhang was formally stripped of his post last week, the Southern Metropolis Daily newspaper reported. “They told me that I should be punished for breaking the ‘hidden rules’,” Zhang said. Zhang will however remain a professor at the university. In his March 12 blog post, Zhang said he had irritated his superior with his comments. “Universities have become an officialdom. The over-intervention and manipulation of academia by power definitely fetters its growth,” Zhang wrote. “How is China’s academia doing now? Does anybody overseas read papers written by Chinese scholars? Plagiarism and theft are rampant. Obedient kids are being taught to be minions.” Renmin University’s School of International Studies, which administers Zhang’s department, dismissed his blog posts as “lies” which had “brought great pressure to the school and damaged its reputation.”
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