Delft University of Technology

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Founded in 1842, The Technical University of Delft (Dutch Delft University of Technology; until 1986 Technical Hogeschool van Delft) in Delft is the oldest technical university in the Netherlands.

Work at the University 2,700 scientific staff, including 229 professors, and study more than 16,000 students, of which 14% come from abroad. They are divided into eight faculties, one of which is partly operated jointly with the University of Leiden. Delft is one of the most prestigious universities in the Netherlands and is a member of the European University of composite IDEA League. In the QS Ranking 2012, the university is by world standards a total of 103 site while reaching number 18 in the Engineering Department.

  • 4.1 Architecture / Art Studies
  • 4.2 technology / natural sciences
  • 4.3 Politics / Economics

Faculties

Delft University of Technology consists of eight faculties:

  • Faculty of Architecture
  • Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences
  • Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and computer science
  • Faculty of Industrial Design
  • Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Marine Engineering and Materials Science
  • Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management
  • Faculty of Natural Sciences

In the Delft Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of innovative entrepreneurs are trained and incubated start-ups.

The building of the Faculty of Architecture was after a short circuit in a coffee machine in the morning of May 13, 2008 completely destroyed by fire. The Minister of Education, Culture and Science Ronald Plasterk, described the fire as "the greatest disaster that has ever experienced in the Netherlands, the universities "

Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics

The Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands combines the two worlds of aviation and aerospace in a study. The aeronautical part of the course deals with the technology in and around the aircraft and aerospace technical part of the course deals with rockets and satellites. Both parts are treated at the Faculty in detail.

General information on the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

The Faculty is one of the largest faculties at TU Delft and one of the largest faculties in North West Europe, dealing exclusively with aviation and space technology. Moreover, it is the only institute in the Netherlands, which conducts research and education in aviation and space technology. Today, the faculty has approximately 2300 bachelor's and master's students, 237 academic staff and 181 graduate students. Approximately one- third of the students who study at the Faculty are international students.

Research

Currently, the faculty conducts research in the following directions: novel materials, particle image velocimetry, the CubeSat and many others. The ten departments are part of the following four areas:

  • Aerodynamics, wind power, flight performance and drive ( AWEP )
  • Control and Operation ( C & O)
  • Lightweight construction and materials (ASM )

Equipment

Extensive laboratories and test facilities are used for research and teaching. The Faculty has wind tunnel for supersonic speed, hypersonic speed and subsonic, a highly sensitive navigation simulator and a material testing laboratory. These facilities make it the Faculty possible to perform experiments in the direction of human-machine interaction, air traffic control, lightweight materials, aerodynamics, simulation and navigation. The faculty has and used a Cessna Citation jet aircraft as a flying classroom. The Citation is used for research and for teaching. Since the interior of the aircraft can be changed, you can simply switch from one configuration to a research classroom configuration for students. Simona, the flight simulator is one of the most unique facilities of aviation and aerospace engineering faculty. The simulator can be programmed so that it can simulate any aircraft, but can also mimic new characteristics of new designs. This allows the behavior of the aircraft to simulate extremely realistic. The simulator is used for research and also for master's theses.

National and international cooperation

The Faculty is a member of the Partnership of a European Group of Aeronautics and Space Universities, the European Network of aviation and space technology universities. She also takes part in the Erasmus program and at the IDEA League, an association with the universities of ETH Zurich, RWTH Aachen and ParisTech.

Ranking

The TU Delft has achieved in the "Engineering and Technology" - QS World University Ranking 2013 the 15th Place. 2012 was the TU Delft at the 33rd place in the " Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering " category in the same ranking. 2013, this category has been expanded and is now called "Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacturing Engineering". In the year, the TU Delft has made in this ranking a jump on the 18th place ( 6th in Europe).

Honorary Doctors

  • Abraham Kuyper (1907 )
  • Cornelis Lely (1907 )
  • Peter Cuypers (1907 )
  • Gerard L. F. Philips (1917 )
  • Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1918 )
  • Hendrik P. Berlage (1925 )
  • Albert Plesman (1947 )
  • Z.K.H. Prins Bernhard ( 1951)
  • John Douglas Cockcroft (1959 )
  • Gerrit Rietveld Th (1964 )
  • Santiago Calatrava (1997)

Known students and professors

Architecture / Art Studies

  • Han van Meegeren (1889-1947), Dutch painter and art forger
  • Dirk Bolt ( born 1930 ), architect and town planner
  • Tzonis Alexander ( * 1937 ), Greek architecture critic

Technology / natural sciences

  • Louis Aronstein (1841-1913), German chemist
  • Martinus Beijerinck W. (1851-1931), Dutch microbiologist
  • Dirk Coster (1889-1950), Dutch physicist
  • Cees Dekker ( born 1959 ), Dutch physicist
  • Jacobus Henricus van ' t Hoff (1852-1911), Dutch chemist
  • Alexandre Horowitz
  • Joost Kalker
  • Warner T. Koiter
  • Leo P. Kouwenhoven ( born 1963 ), Dutch physicist
  • Simon van der Meer (1925-2011), Dutch physicist
  • Walter Lewin ( b. 1936 ), Dutch physicist
  • Felix Andries Vening - Meinesz (1887-1966), Dutch geophysicist
  • Willem van der Poel
  • Bernard Tellegen (1900-1990), Dutch electrical engineer
  • Johan van Veen

Politics / economics

  • Jan van Bemmel ( b. 1938 ), Dutch computer scientist
  • Wim Dik
  • Karien van Gennip
  • Pieter Hofstra
  • Frederik Bernard s'Jacob
  • Abdul Kadir Khan ( born 1935 ), Pakistani engineer
  • Anton Mussert (1894-1946), a Dutch civil engineer
  • Cornelis Lely (1854-1929), Dutch hydraulic engineer
  • Johan Friso of Orange- Nassau (1968-2013)
  • Gerard Philips (1858-1942), a Dutch entrepreneur
  • Frits Philips (1905-2005), a Dutch industrialist
  • Jo Ritzen ( born 1945 ), Dutch economist
  • Diederik Samsom
  • Willem Schermerhorn (1894-1977), Dutch cartographer and politicians
  • Egbert Schuurman
  • Henk Slebo
  • Paul Smits
  • Jeroen van der Veer ( born 1947 ), Dutch manager
  • Bas van der Vlies
  • Frits van Vlissingen Fentener

University partnerships

Delft University of Technology has partnerships with, among others, the following European universities:

  • Rheinisch- Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
  • Technical University of Berlin
  • Technical University of Wroclaw
  • University of Exeter
  • Technical University of Freiberg
  • Helsinki University of Technology
  • Technical University of Košice
  • Imperial College London
  • University of Miskolc
  • ETH Zurich
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