Posted in 2021

Come join the hackathon in the TU Delft Library and help us get back to campus! During the hackathon you work in teams with students from different faculties, to develop concepts based on pedestrian flow data from the library. This helps us bring back on-campus education. During this weekend multiple speakers will share their views on how to reopen the campus.

When and where?

• Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 May from 8 am to 8 pm.
• At the TU Delft Library

Why join?

It’s a great opportunity to develop your skills and network and, of course, get out of the house. Lunch and dinner will be provided. It will be a great experience!

What can I expect?

Participants will be divided in groups of around 4 to 5 people. With your group you will do a brainstorm session, work out interesting concepts and present the results to the other participants, professors and the organization of the hackathon. During the two days professionals and professors will come by to provide you their expertise and experiences and to discuss your ideas and concepts.

How to sign up?

Subscribe here! Do you have questions? You can contact Jasper Poortvliet from Dispuut Verkeer. Limited spots available!

When you browse and search the internet for articles, journals or databases you may find content licensed by TU Delft Library. However, if you are not on campus or not connected to the campus network, the website you visit does not know and will not give you access to web pages or publications. Or worse, asks you to pay for access (paywall).

In these cases, the Library Access Browser Extension will automatically show you a notification and give you access to the licensed content offered by the library.

The benefits are:

1. Simplified browser access

2. Alternative options

3. Accessible from anywhere

4. Time saving

5. Search the Library catalogue

And are you concerned about your privacy? No need. By using the Library Access browser extension you will remain completely anonymous. The extension doesn’t collect any personal information unless you actively share it. And it doesn’t collect your IP address or your device’s unique device IDs either.

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English Below

We zijn blij met het Kabinetsbesluit om vanaf 26 april weer meer studenten toe te mogen laten op de campus. Dat betekent dat er weer meer zelfstudie, groepswerk of fysiek onderwijs op de campus zal worden gegeven vanaf die datum. We raden studenten aan om goed Brightspace in de gaten te houden. 

Om deze versoepeling zo goed mogelijk te laten verlopen worden door het ministerie zelftesten beschikbaar gesteld voor studenten.

We doen een beroep op iedereen om deze zelftesten goed te gebruiken, omdat het kan helpen in de preventie en bestrijding van het coronavirus. Het gebruik van zelftesten is geheel vrijwillig en is geen toegangsbewijs voor het onderwijs. Zelftesten zullen binnenkort digitaal te bestellen zijn en zijn gratis.

Hou de corona studentenwebsite in de gaten voor updates.

Ook met de inzet van zelftesten blijven algemeen maatregelen gelden en is het belangrijk deze in goed in acht te blijven nemen voor je eigen en andermans gezondheid. 

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Update: 21 April

We are pleased with the government’s decision to allow more students back on campus from 26 April onwards. This means that from that date more self-study, group work or physical education can be offered on campus again. We advise students to keep a close eye on Brightspace.

In order to ensure that this easing of measures will go as smoothly as possible, self-tests are being made available by the Ministry for students and staff.

We call on everyone to make good use of these self-tests, because this can help in the prevention and control of Covid-19. The use of self-tests is completely voluntary and is not needed as an admission ticket for education. Self-tests will be soon available to be ordered digitally and are free of charge.

More information will be shortly available in the corona students page.

Even with the use of self-tests, the current measures still apply and it is important to continue to observe them for your own and other people’s health.

Fugaku, Titan, Pangea all supercomputer names evoke something powerful and significant. We are searching for a name for our TU Delft supercomputer which will be available from autumn 2021. We are looking forward to receiving your suggestions! Please summit your proposal here by 23 April 2021.

The winner will receive a bol.com gift voucher of 100 euros.
Details:

• The contest is open to all TU Delft staff and students;
• The jury will consist of the supercomputer’s Advisory board and 2 ICT colleagues;
• We will contact the winner within about 2 weeks after the closing data;

Can you come up with the best name?

Looking for more information about the supercomputer? Visit the website.

A new free online course helps students prepare for their university studies. Watch the video and spread the word.

As you’ve probably realised, Physics, similar to Calculus, is a crucial subject in many engineering studies, applicable across programs and faculties. But although the laws and principles of physics do not change once a student arrives at university, it can be tough to understand a more formal approach and abstract language. 

To help high-school students bridge the gap between their knowledge and the way this is presented and used at university, a new online course – Pre-University Physics – is launching on 7 June. Check out the video!

Formal doesn’t mean boring
This new online course makes university level physics approachable and fun. The exercises and examples draw from a variety of real-life situations that students can easily relate to. For example, how the boundary conditions of waves lead to different tones in various musical instruments.

The MOOC consists of three modules: Mechanics, Electricity & Magnetism, and Waves.

Students get used to the new language but also learn a new way to understand and apply physics: not to take things for granted, but to ask questions about particular situations. “Students come to appreciate that the meaning of a certain symbol – for example m for mass ­– is not defined globally, but refers to a particular object in a given situation. Asking, “what does m mean?” may at first sound dumb, but it’s often an excellent question”, says Sander Otte, the Professor of Physics at the Faculty of Applied Sciences behind the MOOC.

A winning combo
TU Delft also offers a MOOC on Pre-University Calculus that prepares high-school students for university level mathematics, showing them how it is used in different engineering and science disciplines.

Do you have a friend or know a high-school student who could be interested in these preparatory courses? Tell them to check them out.

Wisselen studentenreisproduct

Door de coronamaatregelen maak je nu waarschijnlijk niet veel gebruik van je studentenreisproduct. Maar ga je er straks weer gebruik van maken en reis je dan liever met een ander abonnement?
Wacht dan niet te lang! Vraag je wissel vóór 1 mei aan in Mijn DUO. Nadat je de wissel hebt aangevraagd, heb je 6 weken de tijd om je nieuwe abonnement bij een ophaalautomaat op je OV-chipkaart te zetten. Van 1 mei tot 25 augustus kun je geen wissel aanvragen. Kijk voor meer informatie op duo.nl.

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Exchange student travel product

Because of the corona measures, you probably don’t use your student travel product much now. But will you soon be using it again and do you prefer to travel with another pass?

Then don’t wait too long! Apply for your exchange before 1 May in My DUO. Once you have requested the exchange, you have 6 weeks to add your new season ticket to your OV-chipkaart at a ticket collection machine.
It is not possible to request a switch between 1 May and 25 August. For more information, please visit duo.nl.

Do you want to tell TU Delft what you like and don’t like about the current system? And how you would like to transition from online education to hybrid education? 

We want your help to equip the people in charge of our education for a post-pandemic world!

Join the discussion with @best_delft on April 22nd, 18:30.

Find the link to register in their bio!

The Housing survey students 2021 (Wonen als student 2021) is a national survey to find out how many students will be studying where in the coming years and how these students want to live. This survey is carried out in collaboration with the Ministry of the Interior, colleges and universities.

If you want to contribute to more and better suited student housing, please participate in the survey by clicking on the following link: www.wonenalsstudent.nl

The questionnaire consists of about 40 questions and takes around 10 minutes.

Participants have the chance to win several prizes:
■ Airpods Pro with wireless charging case (worth € 279)
■ The North Face Base Camp Duffelbag – Large (worth € 135)
■ 2x pimp your room with the Ikea gift card (worth € 50)
■ 4x Bol.com gift card (worth € 25)

How will your answers be used?
The results of the housing needs survey will be processed along with information from other sources in the
Student Housing Report. Thanks to this report the organisation will know how many students will be living in the various student cities in the upcoming years and especially how they would like to live. This knowledge is used to
determine the required number and type of student housing per city and then adjust the building plans for
the coming years.

How will you be kept up to date with the results?
The questionnaire will remain active up to April 23. After the summer the results will become available on
the website www.wonenalsstudent.nl

Academics working in fields including physics, biology and mobility increasingly require computing power to solve and analyse complex problems. To clear the way for such research, TU Delft is building the Delft High-Performance Computing Centre (DHPC). This supercomputer complements existing national and cloud-based facilities, and offers academics and students greater flexibility when conducting their research. The arrival of the supercomputer is accompanied by a comprehensive training programme addressing the effective use of computing facilities. The contract with supplier Fujitsu was signed this week, and the facility is expected to be operational in autumn 2021.

Read here more about it