Star astronomer Professor Imke de Pater will serve as a visiting lecturer at TU Delft for the coming three years. De Pater, a world-renowned planetary scientist, will spend four months per year lecturing at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering.
De Pater is a professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. She will lecture on planetary science during her four-month terms in Delft. De Pater is regarded as one of the world’s leading planetary scientists and her research is regularly in the news. This past summer she made headlines with her observations of Jupiter’s Small Red Spot (Red Spot Junior), and last year she was part of a team that discovered a blue ring around Uranus. De Pater is a graduate of Leiden University and has been a professor at UC Berkeley since 1983. Her guest lectures are part of the specialization Earth and Planetary Observation of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering’s Master’s degree program. De Pater’s guest professorship begins in November with the AE4-890 Planetary Sciences lecture.
Back-to-back
During the STW Innovation Market, held in Utrecht on 17 October, the Dutch Technology Foundation STW celebrated its 25th anniversary. At the end of the event, three young PhDs whose research had been funded by STW and who had defended their theses during the past year competed for the ‘2006 Simon Steven Gezel’ award for the best STW PhD candidate of the past year. Michiel Pertijs, of TU Delft’s EEMCS Faculty’s Electronic Instrumentation Laboratory, was one of the three nominees. After Pertijs and the other two nominees each gave a 15-minute presentation of their respective work, Pertijs was voted this year’s award winner. Last year the ‘Simon Steven Gezel’ award was also won by a researcher at TU Delft’s Electronic Instrumentation Laboratory: Kofi Makinwa. Pertijs currently works for National Semiconductor in Delft.
Relaxed rules
Non-EU students who are enrolled in a degree program at a Dutch university or polytechnic no longer need a special work permit for internships. This was decided by the Dutch government’s council of ministers. Applying for these work permits had created administrative problems, with the result that some foreign students had to return to their home countries to pursue an internship. The Dutch migration regulations pertaining to university teachers and post-docs from non-EU countries have also been relaxed.
University mentors
The national ‘ß 1 on 1’ student mentor project began at TU Delft on 25 October. The project involves ten Dutch universities. In the coming two years and at hundreds of secondary education schools across the Netherlands, science and technology university students will help VWO (pre-university education) high students with a science/math based profile choose the university degree programs best suited for them. The university student mentors will also help high school teachers make science-based university degree program more attractive by, for example, teaching design classes. Each university will work together with schools in their own region. Some 40 high schools in the Delft region have responded enthusiastically to TU Delft’s student mentor project. The project aims to help high school students make more conscious decisions regarding their choice of university degree program. The universities hope the project will encourage more students to pursue science or engineering degree programs. The TU Delft project will also specifically focus on female high school students and on students who are the first in their families to attend university.
Chatterton Award
TU Delft PhD candidate Ezra van Lanen has won the ‘2006 Chatterton Young Investigators Award’. He received the award during the ‘International Symposium on Discharges and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum’ held in Japan on 27 September. Van Lanen’s groundbreaking research is an important step in understanding how circuit breakers work in electricity networks that have voltage levels of up to 72.5 kV. These electricity networks are usually located underground and connect cities and industrial areas to the existing high-voltage wires. Van Lanen’s research focused on the circuit-breaking behavior of vacuum circuit breakers. If the production of these vacuum circuit breakers becomes commercially viable, they will provide an environmentally friendly alternative to the SF6 gas filled circuit breakers currently used. The ‘Chatterton Young Investigators Award’ honors the outstanding findings of young researchers in the field of vacuum technology. Van Lanen’s PhD research is a joint partnership between TU Delft and TU Eindhoven. Van Lanen is a PHD candidate in the Electrical Power Engineering department of TU Delft’s EEM&CS Faculty.
Star astronomer
Professor Imke de Pater will serve as a visiting lecturer at TU Delft for the coming three years. De Pater, a world-renowned planetary scientist, will spend four months per year lecturing at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering. De Pater is a professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. She will lecture on planetary science during her four-month terms in Delft. De Pater is regarded as one of the world’s leading planetary scientists and her research is regularly in the news. This past summer she made headlines with her observations of Jupiter’s Small Red Spot (Red Spot Junior), and last year she was part of a team that discovered a blue ring around Uranus. De Pater is a graduate of Leiden University and has been a professor at UC Berkeley since 1983. Her guest lectures are part of the specialization Earth and Planetary Observation of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering’s Master’s degree program. De Pater’s guest professorship begins in November with the AE4-890 Planetary Sciences lecture.
Back-to-back
During the STW Innovation Market, held in Utrecht on 17 October, the Dutch Technology Foundation STW celebrated its 25th anniversary. At the end of the event, three young PhDs whose research had been funded by STW and who had defended their theses during the past year competed for the ‘2006 Simon Steven Gezel’ award for the best STW PhD candidate of the past year. Michiel Pertijs, of TU Delft’s EEMCS Faculty’s Electronic Instrumentation Laboratory, was one of the three nominees. After Pertijs and the other two nominees each gave a 15-minute presentation of their respective work, Pertijs was voted this year’s award winner. Last year the ‘Simon Steven Gezel’ award was also won by a researcher at TU Delft’s Electronic Instrumentation Laboratory: Kofi Makinwa. Pertijs currently works for National Semiconductor in Delft.
Relaxed rules
Non-EU students who are enrolled in a degree program at a Dutch university or polytechnic no longer need a special work permit for internships. This was decided by the Dutch government’s council of ministers. Applying for these work permits had created administrative problems, with the result that some foreign students had to return to their home countries to pursue an internship. The Dutch migration regulations pertaining to university teachers and post-docs from non-EU countries have also been relaxed.
University mentors
The national ‘ß 1 on 1’ student mentor project began at TU Delft on 25 October. The project involves ten Dutch universities. In the coming two years and at hundreds of secondary education schools across the Netherlands, science and technology university students will help VWO (pre-university education) high students with a science/math based profile choose the university degree programs best suited for them. The university student mentors will also help high school teachers make science-based university degree program more attractive by, for example, teaching design classes. Each university will work together with schools in their own region. Some 40 high schools in the Delft region have responded enthusiastically to TU Delft’s student mentor project. The project aims to help high school students make more conscious decisions regarding their choice of university degree program. The universities hope the project will encourage more students to pursue science or engineering degree programs. The TU Delft project will also specifically focus on female high school students and on students who are the first in their families to attend university.
Chatterton Award
TU Delft PhD candidate Ezra van Lanen has won the ‘2006 Chatterton Young Investigators Award’. He received the award during the ‘International Symposium on Discharges and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum’ held in Japan on 27 September. Van Lanen’s groundbreaking research is an important step in understanding how circuit breakers work in electricity networks that have voltage levels of up to 72.5 kV. These electricity networks are usually located underground and connect cities and industrial areas to the existing high-voltage wires. Van Lanen’s research focused on the circuit-breaking behavior of vacuum circuit breakers. If the production of these vacuum circuit breakers becomes commercially viable, they will provide an environmentally friendly alternative to the SF6 gas filled circuit breakers currently used. The ‘Chatterton Young Investigators Award’ honors the outstanding findings of young researchers in the field of vacuum technology. Van Lanen’s PhD research is a joint partnership between TU Delft and TU Eindhoven. Van Lanen is a PHD candidate in the Electrical Power Engineering department of TU Delft’s EEM&CS Faculty.
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