TU Delft Student News

An ICT maintenance weekend has been planned on 24th and 25th March, a number of ICT applications and services won’t be available for short periods of time.

Next to the malfunctioning of applications and services, the maintenance could cause some short-term network disruptions. More details can be found here.

Please keep this maintenance in mind when planning your online activity; it will start on Saturday morning. If necessary, it will continue on to Sunday. Please excuse us for any inconvenience this may cause.

For additional question you can contact your faculty’s/building’s service desk.
Would you like to say up to date on all maintenance issues and disruptions, visit ICT Notifications.

The Changemaker Challenge is an opportunity for graduate students (art, business, design, science, all kinds of students MA and Bachelor) to change the world and win a research grant of up to 5000 euro if their research is somehow related to the issues of water and/or plastic waste.

The challenge is an initiative of the Dopper Foundation, which aims to inspire students to find solutions for these issues and help them to make their research ground breaking. The research grant should be spend to increase the impact of the research or improve the potential, students are free to come up with creative ideas for doing this.

There are some things you can’t learn in a classroom. That’s why students have organised HEX: a 32-hour hackathon in Eindhoven which highlights self-development, one of the three key factors of innovation, next to creativity and collaboration.

THE THEME OF HEX 2018 IS 2050: 32 HOURS TO BEE YOUR FUTURE.

The Hackathon has many different challenges, like:

– E-commerce
– VR & AR
– Robotics
– Smart Cities
– Future Society
– Entertainment
– Artificial Intelligence
– Manufacturing 4.0
– Health Tech
– Future Mobility

For more information and signing up visit: http://joinhex.com/#challenges

Are you happy with the beautiful TU Delft campus and its facilities? Or the amount of study spaces now available in exam periods? Perhaps you have some doubts concerning your timetable? This is your opportunity to speak up!

Fill in the ‘Nationale Studenten Enquete’ and in the process get a chance to win a Kilroy holiday cheque worth € 2.000,-. You also get to help improve on education ;)

The entire survey won’t take more than 8 min. to complete (trust me, even though it says 10-20 min) and you get to actively reflect on practically everything TU Delft related; you’ll enjoy it!

Just click on the personal link you received in your TU Webmail to get started.
P.S. You can stop halfway through and continue later on
P.P.S. The survey closes March 11^th 23:59

Thanks for helping the TU Delft improve on education!

Het College van Bestuur maakt het volgende bekend: De verkiezingen van de leden van de Studentenraad (SR) en de Facultaire Studentenraden (FSR) vinden via het internet plaats op woensdag 23 mei en donderdag 24 mei 2018. De verkiezingen vangen aan op woensdag 23 mei 2018 om 9:00 uur en eindigen op donderdag 24 mei 2018 om 17:00 uur.

Het College heeft voor de organisatie van de verkiezingen het onderstaande tijdschema vastgesteld. De deadline voor het indienen van de kandidatenlijsten is maandag 9 april 2018 om 17:00 uur.

Tijdschema verkiezingen SR en FSR op 23 en 24 mei 2018

01-03-2018 Publiceren verkiezingsdatum  1*
26-03-2018 t/m 03-04-2018  Inzage lijst met kiesgerechtigde en verkiesbare studenten  2*
26-03-2018 t/m 9-4-2018 Indienen kandidatenlijsten
24-04-2018  Bekend maken kandidatenlijsten  3*

Verkiezingen 23 en 24 mei 2018

25-05-2018 Vaststellen voorlopige uitslag
04-06-2018 Vaststellen en bekendmaken definitieve uitslag  4*

*Bezwaarschrift binnen één week na:
1) 1 maart 2018 2) 3 april 2018 3)  24 april 2018 4) 4 juni 2018

Elections to the Student Council and Faculty Student Councils

The Executive Board hereby announces that the elections of the members of the Student Council (SR) and the Faculty Student Councils (FSR) will take place via the internet on Wednesday the 23rd and Thursday the 24th of May 2018. The elections begin on Wednesday the 23^rd of May 2018 at 09.00 hrs and finish on Thursday 24^th of May 2018 at 17.00 hrs.

The Board has laid down the timetable for organising the elections (see below). The deadline for submitting candidate lists is Monday the 9^th of April 2018 at 17.00 hrs.

01-03-2018 announcement of election dates 1*
26-03-2018 to 03-04-2018 perusal of the list of students entitled to vote, and students entitled to stand 2*
26-03-2018 to 9-4-2018 submission of candidate lists
24-04-2018  publication of candidate lists 3*

23rd and 24^th of May 2017 elections

25-05-2018 provisional results determined
04-06-2018 final results determined and announced 4*

*Objections to be submitted no later than one week after:
1) 1st of March 2018 2) 3^rd of April 2018 3) 24^th of April 2018 4) 4^th of June 2018

Professor Rob F. Mudde has been appointed Vice Rector Magnificus/Vice President of Education (VRM/VPE), also vice-chairman, of the Executive Board of TU Delft. The Supervisory Board has appointed Rob Mudde with effect from 1 March 2018.

Rob Mudde is Professor of Multiphase Flows and interim chairman of the ‘Imaging Physics’ department at the Faculty of Applied Sciences of the TU Delft. He is also Distinguished Professor in Science Education at the TU Delft and he leads the TU Delft Teaching Academy and the Teaching Lab.

The Supervisory Board is pleased that Professor Mudde has agreed to fill the position of VRM/VPE. “Rob Mudde is strongly committed to the education of ‘the Delft engineer’. He knows TU Delft very well and has broad, operational and strategic experience in the field of education at our university. Rob is a worthy successor to Anka Mulder in the field of education,” says Jeroen van der Veer, chairman of the TU Delft Supervisory Board.

Rob Mudde has a long track record at TU Delft. He has filled various scientific and managerial positions with the university over the past almost 30 years. In addition to the aforementioned positions, he has also been Director of Education at the Faculty of Applied Sciences for almost ten years. As chairman of the Education Taskforce, Mudde had a leading role in the development of the TU Delft Vision on Education in the run-up to the ‘TU Delft Strategic Framework 2018-2024, impact for a better society’.

The Board has looked for a candidate who fits well with the revised university administration model that came into effect on 1 January 2018. This model foresees the appointment of a Vice Rector Magnificus/Vice President Education, in addition to a Rector Magnificus/President of the Executive Board (Tim van der Hagen) and a Vice President Operations (Nicoly Vermeulen).

The Supervisory Board requested a formal recommendation from the Works Council and the Student Council and has received a positive recommendation on the appointment.

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.