Nibs

Van Andel won the prize for his discovery of a heat-exchanger that allows up to 70 percent in energy savings. His famous ‘Fine Wire Heat Exchanger’ (Fiwihex) will be used in the energy-producing greenhouses in Bemmel. The Speurwerk Prize has been awarded annually since 1954 to a person, group or organization. This year’s theme was energy.
BioProduct Design

TU Delft is to launch its new BioProduct Design program in September 2007. This post-Master’s program enables trainees to make the transition from academic developments in Life Sciences to concrete applications and industrial products, working to meet the industry’s demands for new technologies. Candidates are interested in an application-focused alternative for a promotion path and would like to develop a sound basis for a flying start in an industrial career. Upon graduating in BioProduct, designers will be awarded the title ‘Professional Doctorate in Engineering’, or PDEng. Application of the technological design process for product designs in Life Sciences is new. In addition to its creative aspects, a particular characteristic of the designer program is its systematic, quantitative argumentation for choices made during the designing. BioProduct Design applies this Delft methodology in a variety of Life Sciences disciplines of TU Delft and the University of Leiden. In the first year of the two-year program trainees focus on specialist knowledge, while the second year is devoted to an individual design project in collaboration with a company.
New lectern

A nice, classic design with plenty of volume, is how Professor Jan Jacobs of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) described the winning design for a new lectern for the Aula. Last week IDE student Eleni Soerjo won first prize for her design, which also came with a check for 500 euro. The current lectern has been in use for the past thirty years. “That old ugly thing really needed to be changed,” said Jacobs, who was also one of the jury members. “It’s too small and insignificant for the large stage.”
Bike racks

It will soon become easier to park your bike at Delft Central Station. The Delft municipality has decided to convert 30 paid car parking places into bicycle racks. In February, the municipal council decided to create 300 new bike-parking places. And an action aimed at removing abandoned bikes also created an extra three hundred bike parking places. In April, stickers were placed on all bikes parked at the station. The bikes that were stickered and still there a couple weeks later were removed.
Van Iterson route

The botanical garden in Delft will have a walking path named for a Profesor Gerrit van Iterson jr. The reason for this is that 100 years ago Van Iterson was appointed a professor in the then new for Delft field of microscopic anatomy. From 1917 to 1948, Van Iterson was in charge of the garden and he is the first professor to have a walking path named after him.
Businesswoman

Businesswoman for the year 2006, Esther Raats-Coster, will soon move her company Bandridge to Delft, in order to work together more closely with TU Delft. Bandridge makes innovative accessories for the consumer electronic market. The company’s new headquarters and research and development department will be located in the new Delft Technopolis Innovation Park. Raats-Coster is especially interested in work ling with TU Delft’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science, and with Industrial Design Engineering and Delft Techno-starters.
Scholarships

Five material sciences students will not have to pay tuition next academic year. Corus has sponsored five scholarships for following the two-year Master’s degree. The steel company hopes this will encourage more students to study material engineering. Corus needs more material engineers. “But the students are not required to then go to work for Corus,” says TU Delft’s Marscha Toppenberg. Students from any EU country who have good cvs and grades are eligible for the scholarships.

Speurwerk prize

TU alumnus Dr. Noor van Andel is the winner of this year’s Speurwerk Prize, which is awarded by the engineering society, Kivi Niria. Van Andel won the prize for his discovery of a heat-exchanger that allows up to 70 percent in energy savings. His famous ‘Fine Wire Heat Exchanger’ (Fiwihex) will be used in the energy-producing greenhouses in Bemmel. The Speurwerk Prize has been awarded annually since 1954 to a person, group or organization. This year’s theme was energy.
BioProduct Design

TU Delft is to launch its new BioProduct Design program in September 2007. This post-Master’s program enables trainees to make the transition from academic developments in Life Sciences to concrete applications and industrial products, working to meet the industry’s demands for new technologies. Candidates are interested in an application-focused alternative for a promotion path and would like to develop a sound basis for a flying start in an industrial career. Upon graduating in BioProduct, designers will be awarded the title ‘Professional Doctorate in Engineering’, or PDEng. Application of the technological design process for product designs in Life Sciences is new. In addition to its creative aspects, a particular characteristic of the designer program is its systematic, quantitative argumentation for choices made during the designing. BioProduct Design applies this Delft methodology in a variety of Life Sciences disciplines of TU Delft and the University of Leiden. In the first year of the two-year program trainees focus on specialist knowledge, while the second year is devoted to an individual design project in collaboration with a company.
New lectern

A nice, classic design with plenty of volume, is how Professor Jan Jacobs of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) described the winning design for a new lectern for the Aula. Last week IDE student Eleni Soerjo won first prize for her design, which also came with a check for 500 euro. The current lectern has been in use for the past thirty years. “That old ugly thing really needed to be changed,” said Jacobs, who was also one of the jury members. “It’s too small and insignificant for the large stage.”
Bike racks

It will soon become easier to park your bike at Delft Central Station. The Delft municipality has decided to convert 30 paid car parking places into bicycle racks. In February, the municipal council decided to create 300 new bike-parking places. And an action aimed at removing abandoned bikes also created an extra three hundred bike parking places. In April, stickers were placed on all bikes parked at the station. The bikes that were stickered and still there a couple weeks later were removed.
Van Iterson route

The botanical garden in Delft will have a walking path named for a Profesor Gerrit van Iterson jr. The reason for this is that 100 years ago Van Iterson was appointed a professor in the then new for Delft field of microscopic anatomy. From 1917 to 1948, Van Iterson was in charge of the garden and he is the first professor to have a walking path named after him.
Businesswoman

Businesswoman for the year 2006, Esther Raats-Coster, will soon move her company Bandridge to Delft, in order to work together more closely with TU Delft. Bandridge makes innovative accessories for the consumer electronic market. The company’s new headquarters and research and development department will be located in the new Delft Technopolis Innovation Park. Raats-Coster is especially interested in work ling with TU Delft’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science, and with Industrial Design Engineering and Delft Techno-starters.
Scholarships

Five material sciences students will not have to pay tuition next academic year. Corus has sponsored five scholarships for following the two-year Master’s degree. The steel company hopes this will encourage more students to study material engineering. Corus needs more material engineers. “But the students are not required to then go to work for Corus,” says TU Delft’s Marscha Toppenberg. Students from any EU country who have good cvs and grades are eligible for the scholarships.