A large zipper slowly unveils reality. This is the image that PhD candidate Robert Jan de Boer (MSc) chose for the cover of his thesis. He likes to depict clear insight with the clear skies that appeal to him as an aeronautical engineer ...
Dr Sjaak Verdoold took the picture of this cover himself inside the rectangular spraying reactor. There were two nozzles on opposite sides, electro-spraying tiny but highly charged particles towards each other. Not only did the ...
“I’m going to put a self-portrait on the cover,” said mathematician Dr Sonja Cox (EEMCS) to her friends when she was preparing her thesis. They protested she couldn’t do that, but she did so nonetheless. She drew a self-portrait ...
PhD student, and now Dr. Andre Neumann, made the cover together with his girlfriend, Sylvie Thues, using strings of wool of different colours, representing a number of designers. Their ideas, depicted as a pattern of threads between the ...
The three circles can be seen as mountain peaks in a flat landscape with white isolines describing their height. However, these are no ordinary mountains. The height of peaks in an evolutionary landscape corresponds with the fitness or ...
Well, actually the cover picture was chosen in a bit of a hurry, Dr Fernao Beenkens (TPM) admits. When his favourite picture, a mountaineering photo taken by a friend of his, turned out to have too low resolution, he quickly had to ...
The background photo shows the bending test for 12-inches steel pipes in action, explains Annemiek Hilberink (MSc), who works with Heerema Marine Contractors. She used the massive set-up to study the bending effect of 80-tonnes of ...
“I found the picture on internet,” says Dr Chenggang Shen. “I chose this one called ‘particles’ because it shows small particles, degrees of separation and light. Just like in my PhD research.” The real pictures from his ...