Posted in 2015
Studying during Christmas break
TU Delft wishes everybody happy holidays and a happy new year! When you are done celebrating Christmas and New Year’s and still want to do some studying during the holidays, keep the different opening hours in mind. During the holidays the opening hours of the Central Library are from 08:00 to 24:00 . During Christmas and New Year’s there are altered opening hours. The Architecture Library and CEG StuDoc however, are closed during the holidays.
Opening hours TU Delft Library
- Friday 25 December 2015: 08.00 – 16.00
- Saturday 26 December 2015: 08.00 – 20.00
- Thursday 31 December 2015: 08.00 – 20.00
- Friday 1 January 2016: 12.00 – 24.00
New pick-up point for readers (lecture notes)
As of 29 December 2015, the TU Delft Library information desk will be the new and only pick-up point for printed and ordered readers. From this date it will no longer be possible to have readers delivered to the faculties. The central pick-up point allows you to pick-up your orders at your convenience. To pick up your reader you will need the dispatch confirmation e-mail and your campus card. Collecting the readers is possible after 08.00. Alternatively it will still be possible to have your readers delivered to your home address (against postal charges).
Downloading and ordering readers
The webshop at readers.tudelft.nl contains all of the TU Delft readers available, arranged per degree course programme. Most readers can be downloaded free of charge. It is also possible to order printed copies.
Christmas Holiday opening hours for campus restaurants from 18 December
Restaurant and Café 015 in Aula close early December 18.
Are you daily enjoying your lunches at the Aula? Or maybe you just made plans to have lunch or a coffee break at Café 015 in the Aula? Then make sure you enjoy your lunch and coffee before 14.00 h. Because TU Delft is celebrating ‘TU Delft retirement day’ in the Aula both the restaurant and Café 015 close early at 14.00.
Opening hours campus restaurants during Christmas Break
If you had planned to celebrate your christmas dinner in one of our campus restaurants, make sure you check the opening hours of all campus restaurant facilities in the schedule below (*click*)!
From Amsterdam to Paris in 30 minutes with Delft Hyperloop
The Hyperloop is the transportation of the future. As fast as a plane, as convenient as a train: the Hyperloop is a revolutionary concept for new high-speed ground transport. The system incorporates a reduced-pressure tube in which pressurized capsules travel. The air resistance in this tube is so low that a vehicle can travel at almost the speed of sound. Traveling this way is cheaper, more efficient and more convenient than airplanes.
With a group of six motivated and experienced students a dreamteam called The Delft Hyperloop started the Hyperloop-project in June. They decided to give this project everything they got to make it a success. Currently they have structured and expanded the team to 33 members, selected as the best of out of almost 200 applicants.
The Delft Hyperloop team, consisting of ambitious students, is currently competing in the Hyperloop-competition. They are working hard on designing the best possible pod. The competition, aimed at university students and independent engineering teams, entailed 360 teams from all over the world designing half-size pods that will be traveling through a test track, built by SpaceX in California. The Delft Hyperloop team made it to the second round of the competition and they will travel to Texas in January. The team will present their digital concept during this second round. They start building a prototype if the design is approved for the third round. Good luck guys!
Teaching blind children navigation via a game
In this new episode of TU Delft TV, Florine Reijndorp interviews Bas Dado and Olivier Hokke about their project that teaches blind children navigation skills via an audio based game. It is often still an issue for blind children to navigate through a space and that makes it scary to go outside for them.
The audio game works with virtual reality glasses and 3D sound simulation to help the children navigating themselves through a space. The virtual reality glasses has head tracking abilities, which means that it monitors how much the children turn their head while playing the game. The character in the game interprets this movement and moves the exact amount. The 3D sound simulation enables kids to distinguish where the sound is coming from and how far it is away.
Don’t miss it: Ugly Sweater Xmas 90’s NOW!

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Do you still have those awful woolly sweaters, maybe even knitted by your mom or grandmother, with ugly Christmas prints? Time to dig it up out of your closet and wear it to the 11/12 Ugly Sweater Xmas: 90’s NOW! on 11 December at the Sports Cafe. Don’t worry you’ll look ridiculous, everybody will! The wearer of the ugliest sweater will win a massive basket filled with goodies to take home!
Are you ready to party like in the 90’s? You better be and bring your best dance moves! 90s NOW! has been the ultimate epic 90’s hit show for the past 10 years. 2 Unlimited, Baywatch, Backstreet Boys, just to name some cult classics of the 90’s are not to be missed on this nostalgic dancing night! SO Get yourself in your tacky sweater, dust off the colourful hairpins and dance the night away with new and old friends like Ginger Spice or MC Hammer.
Friday | 21:00 – 01:00 | at Sports Cafe | €0,-
Will TUD graduation project lead to Dutch victory at the Tour de France?
Have you ever cycled at a speed of 70 km/h? Would you dare to cycle this fast, downhill? It is everyday business for the cyclists of the Tour de France. Good descenders even reach speeds of 90 km/h. And this would become even faster, if you ask Niels Lommens, a TU Delft graduate student.
For his graduation project, Niels Lommens developed the ‘sensorbike’: a racebike that enables tracking of not only power, hart rate and aerodynamics, but also steering angle, leaning angle, brake power, location and speed. With this, Niels will gain insight in the ideal moment to brake and the way to cycle around a bend, saving valuable time for cyclists. Currently, this is all about skill. A cyclists is either good at descending or not. With Niels’ analysis, the technique of all cyclists can be improved; it will become a skill to develop.
Niels cooperates with the professional cycling team Giant-Alpecin, among which the Dutch cyclist Tom Dumoulin. They all see the project as the next step in cycling research, leading to better results for all cyclists. We know who to congratulate when Dumoulin wins next time!
More info or contact details? Click here.
Help mapping world’s forgotten places at the Mapathon
We may take for granted that our entire western world has been mapped and photographed by Google, though large parts of the world remain unmapped up until this day. Nobody knows precisely how much human settlements, but there are still cities of more than a million people in the developing world that aren’t accurately mapped. You might think, why would this be a problem, do they need maps over there? Well they do. To be able to support vulnerable settlements during disasters and to provide humanitarian relief, humanitarian organizations such as the Red Cross and Doctors without borders are in desperate need of accurate maps of crises area.
The Missing Maps project is a collaboration by the Red Cross, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and Docters without borders. They aim to map world’s most vulnerable places in the developing world, so international en local humanitarian organizations can use these maps to better respond to crises affecting the areas. The 10th of December Missing Maps will organize an event at TU Delft, or mapathon as it is also called, where YOU can help putting these forgotten places on the map.
So when you have some time to spare on December 10th and are interested in maps and mapping far away territories? Join the Missing Maps Event at the TU Delft Library, blue room. Just bring your laptop and enthusiasm and enjoy mapping unknown places. Register here!
Competing Robot Hands on an all new episode of TU Delft TV
Robots are appearing in society more and more. For the future generation of engineers it is therefore important to start with the design of robotic parts early on in their studies. In this new episode of TU Delft TV first year students are asked to design a robot hand that is able to pick up several cups filled with either water, metal and pasta. It is the first project where the students actually have to build something instead of drawing a design on paper. It is also a challenge for new students, having to build an actual robot hand in the first quarter of their first year at 3ME but they enjoy working on the project very much.
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