Posted in February 2018

On Monday 5 March the Education & Student Affairs building (building 30a) will be closed. Due to an event that all employees of E&SA will attend all services are unavailable during the afternoon. In case of emergencies please try to find help at your faculty first.

The Swappuccino pop-up opened at Coffee & Bikes on Monday 12 February 2018. This coffee bar and bike repair service is a cooperation between Sodexo, OATZ and Swapfiets (the bikes with blue tyres). The Swappuccino pop-up will be open from Monday – Friday from 8:00 to 18:00. It will not only provide coffee and breakfast, but also bike repairs even if you don’t have a Swapfiets.

This facility is aligned with TU Delft’s new catering vision as well as the targets for a sustainably accessible campus. A bike repair shop was high on many staffers and students’ wish lists.

Temporary
The term pop-up says it all: Swappuccino will be temporary. The new catering company for TU Delft will be announced this spring and it will take over all the catering facilities on campus according to the new catering vision in a phased manner, starting this summer. The definitive substantiation of Coffee & Bikes’ food & beverage provision will follow in September when the Pulse educational building with its new food market will be taken into use.

Bicycle parking facilities
The lower deck of the bicycle parking facilities at Coffee & Bikes is now in use. The top deck still needs to have a coating applied, however this requires higher than current outdoor temperatures. As soon as this has been completed, two–tier bicycle racks will be installed there too. The mound will be sown with grass in spring.

More information on the catering vision can be found here.

Are you interested in contributing to a sustainable world? Don’t miss your chance to learn everthing about the opportunities for you as a TU Delft student: visit the Studens4Sustainability week from 5 to 9 March. During this week, a lot of activities will be organized. You can visit different workshops, participate in a case day or join an excursion. All the activities have one thing in common: they’ll inspire you to use all your skills for a sustainable world!

Students4Sustainability is a student organization which stimulates students to use their creative engineering brain to make the world more sustainable. They organize activities regarding sustainability every month and finance projects for students in developing countries.

Want to know more about the S4S-week? Check out this website!

On the 28th of February 2018, the 8th edition of the Entrepreneurship Day Delft will take place in the Aula of the TU Delft. The Entrepreneurship Day Delft is Europe’s largest student-organized entrepreneurship event! The event starts at 17:00 and consists of three elements; a start-up playground, a symposium and champagne drinks! Register for your FREE ticket now via http://entrepreneurshipdaydelft.nl/register/ 

The Entrepreneurship Day Delft will kick-off with the start-up playground where you can interact with YES!Delft start-ups and their cool innovative prototypes. Next, the symposium will take place. During this amazing show various founders and scale-ups will tell you about their company: the ups, the downs, the good, the bad and the ugly of entrepreneurship. This year Lotte Leufkens (co-founder Cloudcuddle), Julian Jagtenberg (co-founder Somnox), Marnix Broer (co-founder Studeersnel) and Michiel Muller (co-founder PicNic) will inspire you with their stories on stage! After the show, we will celebrate entrepreneurship with champagne drinks!

Check out the TRAILER of our event.

We all know it’s difficult to picture a career after the TU Delft. What will my future be like? How to find a job? All kind of questions that probably popped up in your head before.

The TU Delft Career and Counselling Services is building an online platform, with the goal to support you 24/7 with study skills and preparation for the job market. To make this platform the best suitable for you, they need your help! In different brainstorm sessions with TU Delft students, PHD’s and alumni you have the chance to talk about your preferences for the ideal platform.

And pssst: lunch, snacks and refreshments are provided for free.

Sign up here!

Academic freedom is under pressure around the globe. Scholars are threatened for their ideas and research and there is an urgent need for support. The Foundation for Refugee Students UAF coordinates the SAR network in the Netherlands and Belgium and helps threatened scholars to continue their work in a safe environment.

On February 22^nd, the UAF offers a lecture in which two scholars will share their experiences concerning the importance of academic freedom. One is a teaching assistant for the class of  World heritage: Historical sites, contemporary debates and  for the class of Architectural and Town Planning Heritage. His colleague is doing research in pavement engineering. The lecture will be held at the Commissiekamer 3 at the aula from 16.00h – 17.00h. We will end the lecture with drinks. You can register here for the lecture (first come, first serve).

Every two years, the US-based Emerson Automation Solutions organizes the Emerson Global Users Exchange. Companies from industries such as Life Sciences, Oil & Gas, Power, Refining & Petrochemical and Metals & Mining come together to network and discuss new innovations in process automation. This year’s conference (7-9 March) takes place in The Hague, right next to Delft.

On Thursday March 8 from 18.00 until 20.00 hours, Emerson will organize a special Women in STEM session for female students and young professionals. A perfect way to network with companies and experience new technologies in process automation such as virtual reality. With a nice drink and a bite-to-eat of course. The best part? It’s free!

Interested? Apply via the Emerson Exchange website: http://www.emersonexchange.org/emea/registration/. Make sure to enter STEM in the ‘company’ input field of the online registration form. This way you can skip the usual payment step in the application.

For more information, send an e-mail to: Linda.denboer@Emerson.com

As of 13^th January 2018 we have welcomed a new Rector Magnificus to the TU Delft: Tim van der Hagen! Our former president, Karel Luyben, bid farewell to our university at the start of 2018 after 8 years of energetic leadership.

Tim van der Hagen, Rector Magnificus

It is the second time van der Hagen is Luybens’ successor, in 2010 he also followed Luyben up as Dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences. Maybe this means we can already congratulate the new Dean of Applied Physics with his position as Rector Magnificus in a few years?

Our new president, who started his TU Delft career with an Applied Sciences PhD in ’89, has an extensive history with the university, which includes being Director of the Reactor Institute Delft and Chairman of the Department of Radiation. In May 2016 he was appointed President of the Executive Board and has now followed on to become the Rector Magnificus.

His predecessor, Karel Luyben was one of the people responsible for introducing the TU Delft numerus fixus, an intake restriction on the maximum amount of students per faculty. Next to that, Luyben understood the importance of connecting with the students and regularly partook in ‘Krant lezen met de rector’ (‘Reading the newspaper with the President’), in which he visited various student houses and openly discussed educational issues and problems with students. Our new President has the same mentality: ‘I look forward to taking on this challenge and improving our university where students and researchers deem necessary.’

Karel Luyben visiting students in their home

Finished with your (re-sit) exams and waiting for the results? Then you should know that your registration at TU Delft will not be terminated automatically when you are graduated. When you are graduating, you should file a request for deregistration during the month of graduation. You do not have to wait until graduation; you may submit the request as soon as you can, preferably even a couple of weeks prior to your graduation date. You pay tuition fees up to and including the last month of your registration. Retroactive deregistration is not allowed

So, have you passed your exams and are you officially done studying? Time to deregister and celebrate! Visit the CSA website for more information regarding deregistration and/or a possible refund of tuition fees.

If you terminate your enrolment as of 1 July or 1 August you will not be entitled to a refund. For more information, click here.

Imagine a city in which traffic lights autonomously organize the mobility flows in a city, where dynamic infrastructures know where and when to create temporary bridges during crowded events, and where smart grids independently distribute renewable energy sources. What is the added value of sensing for the city of Amsterdam? Can we create fully autonomous cities? What will they look like, and what is it like to live in one?

‘The autonomous city’ lectured by MIT Prof. Carlo Ratti will be on organized 5 February at 20.00 in Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam

During this session of AMS Science for the City, you will look at the future of our increasingly smart urban spaces.

Together with special guest and AMS Principle Investigator Carlo Ratti (MIT Senseable City Lab), you dive into the challenges, possibilities, and prospects of senseable and autonomous cities.

The lecture is one of the lecture series of Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute).