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TU restructures research

More than one hundred researchers at TU Delft will quit working on the research topics they are currently working on, because the belong to research groups that aren’t performing well enough or are doing research that’s also being done elsewhere.

Some of these unlucky researchers will be allowed to refocus their research, but some will lose their jobs. That’s the preliminary result of the so-called ‘portfolio discussion’. The money that is saved by this purging operation will be reinvested in a defined number of spearhead subjects, like nanotechnology, life science and technology, ICT-research and aerospace engineering’s steering research. The board also plans to invest in wind energy, but only if they are presented with a good research plan for it.

Read more about this story on our website: www.delta.tudelft.nl

Publish or perish

There is to be a new assessment for industrial designers and architects. Designers will no longer be judged by their number of publications. The University board plans to introduce separate quality measurements and a different way of financing these faculties. Read more about this story on our website.

PhD degrees within four years barely attainable

Only fifteen to twenty percent of Delft PhD students finish their research in four years. Elsewhere in the country the figure is ten percent. Promood, the TU’s club for PhD’s, believes that with good guidance, it should be possible to finish a PhD degree on time. Promood has therefore distributed some helpful suggestions to PhDs and their overseers. Promood’s advice: Make a good plan in advance, use papers and concept chapters to track progress in the interim, and meet regularly.

More than one hundred researchers at TU Delft will quit working on the research topics they are currently working on, because the belong to research groups that aren’t performing well enough or are doing research that’s also being done elsewhere. Some of these unlucky researchers will be allowed to refocus their research, but some will lose their jobs. That’s the preliminary result of the so-called ‘portfolio discussion’. The money that is saved by this purging operation will be reinvested in a defined number of spearhead subjects, like nanotechnology, life science and technology, ICT-research and aerospace engineering’s steering research. The board also plans to invest in wind energy, but only if they are presented with a good research plan for it.

Read more about this story on our website: www.delta.tudelft.nl

Publish or perish

There is to be a new assessment for industrial designers and architects. Designers will no longer be judged by their number of publications. The University board plans to introduce separate quality measurements and a different way of financing these faculties. Read more about this story on our website.

PhD degrees within four years barely attainable

Only fifteen to twenty percent of Delft PhD students finish their research in four years. Elsewhere in the country the figure is ten percent. Promood, the TU’s club for PhD’s, believes that with good guidance, it should be possible to finish a PhD degree on time. Promood has therefore distributed some helpful suggestions to PhDs and their overseers. Promood’s advice: Make a good plan in advance, use papers and concept chapters to track progress in the interim, and meet regularly.

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