New OrleansMarten Hillen and a group of colleagues from TU Delft have made a substantial contribution to the full restoration .
physical, organizational and conceptual . of the system of levees and water catchment areas around New Orleans, following hurricane Katrina and its terrible aftermath in the Mississippi delta and the city itself. This was the motivation behind news site ‘ScienceGuide’ and the student organizations ISO and LSVb naming Hillen ‘ScienceGuide Student of 2007’. Hillen was honoured by Minister Plasterk of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science on December 11. In New Orleans, Hillen worked together with the Dutch company Royal Haskoning, and was supported by the US Army Corp of Engineers, which was responsible for rebuilding the levees and water defenses around New Orleans. Hillen’s input proved invaluable as time and again he succeeded in identifying the connection between the technical approach and solutions and the need to view these from a different perspective in order to prevent a repeat of the disaster.
Christmas spirit
Some foreign students at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science (EEMCS) will celebrate Christmas at faculty staff members’ homes. Students sitting home alone is not in the Christmas spirit, says Dagmar Stadler, EEMCS’s coordinator of foreign MSc students. Stadler has already paired up twelve students with faculty staff members. Many Chinese students do not return tot China for the Christmas vacation. “This is so easy to do and is great for integration”, Stadler says.
DUT08
TU Delft Racing Team presented its new ‘DUT08’ car design on Wednesday, 19 December at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering. Encouraged by the success of the 2007 car, which came second in the Formula Student Event at Silverstone in England, an enthusiastic team has started work on its successor and has chosen bioethanol as fuel that will allow the team to demonstrate how well sustainability and motor sport can go together.
Launch
The launch of TU Delft’s Delfi-C3 satellite is now set for 25 January, 2008. On January 7 the team will travel to the Sriharikota launch site in India. The satellite, which weighs only 2.2 kilograms and is powered by only 3 watts of electricity, will attempt to test three new technologies: a new type of thin film solar cell; a wireless solar sensor; and a miniature sender/receiver. The Delft-C3 will remain in orbit for three months.
New Orleans
Marten Hillen and a group of colleagues from TU Delft have made a substantial contribution to the full restoration . physical, organizational and conceptual . of the system of levees and water catchment areas around New Orleans, following hurricane Katrina and its terrible aftermath in the Mississippi delta and the city itself. This was the motivation behind news site ‘ScienceGuide’ and the student organizations ISO and LSVb naming Hillen ‘ScienceGuide Student of 2007’. Hillen was honoured by Minister Plasterk of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science on December 11. In New Orleans, Hillen worked together with the Dutch company Royal Haskoning, and was supported by the US Army Corp of Engineers, which was responsible for rebuilding the levees and water defenses around New Orleans. Hillen’s input proved invaluable as time and again he succeeded in identifying the connection between the technical approach and solutions and the need to view these from a different perspective in order to prevent a repeat of the disaster.
Christmas spirit
Some foreign students at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science (EEMCS) will celebrate Christmas at faculty staff members’ homes. Students sitting home alone is not in the Christmas spirit, says Dagmar Stadler, EEMCS’s coordinator of foreign MSc students. Stadler has already paired up twelve students with faculty staff members. Many Chinese students do not return tot China for the Christmas vacation. “This is so easy to do and is great for integration”, Stadler says.
DUT08
TU Delft Racing Team presented its new ‘DUT08’ car design on Wednesday, 19 December at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering. Encouraged by the success of the 2007 car, which came second in the Formula Student Event at Silverstone in England, an enthusiastic team has started work on its successor and has chosen bioethanol as fuel that will allow the team to demonstrate how well sustainability and motor sport can go together.
Launch
The launch of TU Delft’s Delfi-C3 satellite is now set for 25 January, 2008. On January 7 the team will travel to the Sriharikota launch site in India. The satellite, which weighs only 2.2 kilograms and is powered by only 3 watts of electricity, will attempt to test three new technologies: a new type of thin film solar cell; a wireless solar sensor; and a miniature sender/receiver. The Delft-C3 will remain in orbit for three months.
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