Archive
07 May 2019
Mark van Koningsveld on the radio next week
Mark van Koningsveld will be on the BNR radio on Tuesday the 14th of May. BNR broadcasts ‘The Big Five’ about ports in The Netherlands that week. Mark will give a one-to-one interview of one hour on Tuesday.
01 May 2019
Vote for Matthieu de Schipper as New Scientist 2019
Matthieu de Schipper has been nominated for the ‘New Scientist wetenschapstalent 2019’ award.
01 May 2019
New Research Project: WOODY
In september 2019, a new project will be started with help of NWO about the full scale hydraulic and ecological optimisation of a dike-forest combination.
09 April 2019
Student project opportunity: modelling dike failure using DIANA Finite element software
The company Diana FEA BV is looking for students to model a dike failure using DIANA Finite Element software. This project could be suitable for an internship, additional thesis or master thesis project. As part of the project, there are opportunities to have your participation in a benchmark workshop in Milano(Sept 2019) funded.
09 April 2019
Rijkswaterstaat and TU Delft are collaborating to investigate how the sandy Houtribdijk shores behave
![Rijkswaterstaat and TU Delft are collaborating to investigate how the sandy Houtribdijk shores behave](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/0/5/csm_meetpalen-ijsselmeer-houtribdijk_desktop_generated_tcm21-215459_69e230fb49.jpg)
Together with TU Delft, Rijkswaterstaat is starting a monitoring program along the new sandy banks of the Houtribdijk. During 2 years the waves, currents and sand displacement at the sloping banks of the IJsselmeer and Markermeer will be measured.
22 March 2019
Building with Nature: Common cordgrass and grassweed help dikes
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Vegetated foreshores can strongly reduce wave loads on coastal dikes, meaning these dikes may not have to be built so high. On Wednesday 27 March, Vincent Vuik will be awarded his PhD at TU Delft for his work on this subject.
02 March 2019
Poster Presentation Event Hydraulic Engineering
![Poster Presentation Event Hydraulic Engineering](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/1/b/csm_poster%20event_f53e4b742c.jpg)
You are all invited to this year’s first Poster Presentation Event of the Hydraulic Engineering department. This is a great opportunity for PhDs and Postdocs to get to know each other, share your work and learn about possible research connections. For Master students this is a good chance to learn a bit on what research is being done in our department, especially if you are interested in pursuing a research career yourself or if you are looking for a graduation topic! Supervisors and other HE-staff are also more than welcome.
26 February 2019
Four fields of study at TU Delft in global top 10 of QS Subject Rankings
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22 February 2019
New MSc graduation topic at Deltares
Topic: field measurements on scour by propeller jets
22 February 2019
MSc thesis at AXA PARIS on modelling of coastal flooding due to Tropical Cyclones
Objective: To assess tropical cyclone (TC) risk by developing a TC database with a hydraulic model combined with probabilistic or machine learning techniques