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27 May 2019

Arno Smets appointed Mission Innovation Champion

Arno Smets appointed Mission Innovation Champion

Professor Arno Smets has been named one of the first Mission Innovation Champions, a new initiative to honour pioneers in the field of clean energy.

27 May 2019

TU Delft scientists create world’s smallest autonomous racing drone

TU Delft scientists create world’s smallest autonomous racing drone

TU Delft scientists have created the world’s smallest autonomous racing drone.

24 May 2019

Cooperation with German GFZ further strengthens geothermal research TU Delft

Cooperation with German GFZ further strengthens geothermal research TU Delft

During a working visit of King Willem Alexander and Queen Maxima to the German state of Brandenburg, TU Delft and the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) signed a memorandum of understanding concerning research into geothermal energy.

24 May 2019

Vidi grants for seven leading TU Delft researchers

Vidi grants for seven leading TU Delft researchers

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to seven TU Delft scientists. The NWO grant offers them the possibility of developing their own line of research and building their own research group.

23 May 2019

Joop Roodenburg TU Delft Alumnus of the Year 2019

Joop Roodenburg TU Delft Alumnus of the Year 2019

Joop Roodenburg, president of Huisman Equipment, has been elected TU Delft Alumnus of the Year 2019.

15 May 2019

New software for the design of robust stated choice experiments

New software for the design of robust stated choice experiments

TU Delft researcher Sander van Cranenburgh, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Sydney, has developed an upgrade for leading software package Ngene. Ngene is used by researchers and professionals to design stated choice experiments. Such experiments are used to gain insight into how people weigh up various aspects when making a choice, for example travel time and travel costs. This software upgrade makes it possible to design statistically accurate choice experiments for so-called regret models, a choice behaviour model developed at Delft.

14 May 2019

Two winners receive Marina van Damme Grant 2019

Two winners receive Marina van Damme Grant 2019

On Wednesday May 13th, Delft University Fund organised the award ceremony of the Marina van Damme Grant 2019. This grant is made possible thanks to dr.ir. Marina van Damme and enables young female engineers to develop and boost their personal career.

09 May 2019

Inaugural speeches: For truly sustainable design a new approach is needed

Inaugural speeches: For truly sustainable design a new approach is needed

Materials getting scarce, and oceans full of plastic: a radical redesign of our business models, production processes and consumer behaviour is needed.

08 May 2019

MOOCs: still lots to be learned about learning

MOOCs: still lots to be learned about learning

The potential of massive open online learning environments is vast, but the accompanying learning analytics are still in their infancy.

01 May 2019

Definitive place in the BIG law for Technical Medicine Professionals