Fred van Keulen will continue as Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (ME). This has been decided by the Executive Board. Van Keulen started in this role in July 2022. His second term will commence next month and is set to run until November 2029. Van Keulen has been affiliated with TU Delft since
What do you do when your student association is celebrating its anniversary and is based in a 90-metre-high building? You go abseiling. On 8 June, the big day finally arrived for twenty members of the Elektrotechnische Vereeiniging, after first the weather and then the hands of the EEMCS clock had thrown a spanner in the works.
The seat allocated to Dé Partij on the Central Student Council goes to Lijst Bèta. This brings the party’s total to four seats, whilst ORAS remains the largest party with six seats. At the same time, voter turnout has fallen.
Three months after the Executive Board gave the go-ahead for the lease of two TU buildings to the Ministry of Defence, many practical details regarding the planned innovation centre are still unclear. For instance, it is not yet known exactly when the centre will open or under what conditions companies will be admitted.
TU Delft acted in a seriously culpable manner towards an Architecture Faculty employee who had raised concerns about social unsafety. It must pay substantial compensation. That is what the court ruled in April. The Faculty now states that it will ‘do everything in its power to prevent recurrence’ but is not attaching consequences in this case for specific individuals involved.
Six employees of Applied Sciences have serious health complaints caused by low-frequency vibrations. They have reported sick, been relocated or have left TU Delft. The Faculty is carrying out extensive research into causes and solutions, but for those affected this is not happening fast enough. What is going on?
A European commission of the World Health Organization (WHO), of which Ernst Kuipers – Chair of the TU Delft Supervisory Board – is a member, calls for far-reaching measures against the health effects of climate change. The recommendations have been published in The Lancet. According to the report, warming is accelerating worldwide, with Europe being
The fire brigade extinguished a small fire on Wednesday afternoon 13 May at the Faculty of Applied Sciences on the South Campus. Given the date, the incident brings back memories of the devastating fire at the Faculty of Architecture on 13 May 2008. (Photo: District8) The fire at the Chemical Engineering department within Applied Sciences
Carin van der Hor has stepped down as an external confidential advisor at TU Delft. She is leaving behind an organisation where transgressive behaviour is reported more often, yet where cultural change is progressing slowly. “If the behaviour does not change, confidential advisers will remain very busy.”
