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Students unravel acoustic secrets theaters ancient Greece 3 March - What’s the acoustic secret of ancient Greek theaters? It’s the question six Built Environment students will try to answer in and around Athens in late March. They want to know whether there’s a scientific explanation for the supposedly excellent reputation of the acoustics in the outdoor theaters. To that end, they’ll be conducting measuring experiments in the theaters of Argos, Epidaurus, and the Odeon of Herodus Atticus. The three theaters that will be researched are large: the outer ring of Argos is sixty meter from center stage. Epidaurus could seat 14,000 people, Argos no less than 20,000. When trying to measure all those seats, using cables is pretty much impracticable. A method developed by Constant Hak, which he tested in the Muziekgebouw during the 2014 Dutch Design Week, enables the group to conduct reliable wireless measurements in these theaters.
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TU/e employee dies after fire in apartment 2 March - A fire in his Cederlaan apartment killed TU/e employee Özhan Coskun last Saturday morning. After the fire, which had started in the kitchen, the 29-year old PDEng trainee of the Department of Mathematics & Computer Science was taken to the hospital in critical condition. He died from his injuries. Özhan Coskun was a Professional Doctorate in Engineering trainee in the first year of the two-year design program Automotive Systems Design (ASD), which is coordinated by dr. Peter Heuberger. The ASD group is devastated at the loss of their Turkish colleague who was known as one of the most talented, helpful, and spirited people within ASD. Also check page 10 in this Cursor for an ‘In Memoriam’ (in English) dedicated to Özhan Coskun.
Exhibition 100th anniversary Philips Research
25 February - April wi ll see a rerun of the Massive Open Onlin by TU/e professor Wi e Course on Data Sc l van der Aalst. The ience first edition of the MO November to Christm OC, which ran from as, was ‘attended’ by mid more than 40,000 pe countries. Striking de ople from over 160 tail: data of the partic ipants of this MOOC by Bert Blocken are and that on aerodynam currently being analy ics zed using methods course. taught in the data sc ience The short period be tween the first and second bro adcast of the MOOC has every thing to do with its popularity, says Va n der Aalst. “After we closed the MOOC, we received many co mplaints of people who wanted to complete the course at their ow n pace. Those people can co ntinue in April.”
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20 February - The incandescent light bulb, the radio, the television, the cassette player, the CD and many more trailblazing technological innovations from Philips NatLab will be on display at MetaForum until April 2. Studium Generale will be presenting a selection of the original exhibition ‘100 Year of Inventions, Made by Philips Research’, showing objects and images. The exhibition can be visited on floor 1 MetaForum. No entrance fee.
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Deadlines, if you cross the line you are dead!
“Class, I want your paper by Friday 5pm”. This is a classical deadline that is put to students who need to return an assignment before or by a certain time. As we all know, time is subject to multiple interpretations based on our cultural background or personal preferences. In my previous column, I dealt with the perception of the concepts of past, present and future that we have around the world. A term like deadline refers to the way we see the present or near future. So what is a deadline? Webster reports its first use in 1864 during the American Civil War as “a line drawn within or around a prison that a prisoner passes at the risk of being shot” (locus). So indeed, if you cross the line, you are dead. But most of us will know the more recent and common use of it as “a date or time before which something must be done” (tempus), which originates from American English newspaper jargon (1920). The shift from its military origin indicating a place (locus) to the figurative meaning nowadays as a time aspect (tempus) makes it largely appealing to our minds. It has resulted in an enormous use of the word in modern life and in films, literature and music. Also, many languages have adopted the English term in their vocabularies.
For many people, especially those from future-oriented and monochronic (doing one thing at a time) cultures, the meaning will be quite clear: they know they basically have to respect the time limit. For others, however, in more polychronic (doing more than one thing at a time) societies, a deadline is a limit that often still is negotiable. Back to my first example in class: for many students around the world Friday 5pm is an indication that can still be negotiated with the teacher into a new limit, e.g. Monday 9am, with the argument: “I’d then have all weekend to work on it, so please, professor…”. They view deadlines as more flexible time limits or sometimes simply as a form of wishful thinking. In monochronic cultures, the management of this kind of regular deadlines is often done using computer support. There, students need to return their papers via intranet and the teacher (who is nice to them) will set up the limit to 5.15pm, giving the late students some additional time. These cultures are often also egalitarian and universalistic (i.e. The Netherlands) and in this way no particular or personal preference is involved, everyone is in the same boat. With one big difference from the original: you don’t get shot if you cross that line!
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Jan-Willem Weber | Applied Physics 1 | cover The cover shows graphene crystals as they light up against a specific background. The different purple hues are exactly what enabled the two 2010 Nobel Prize winners to discover graphene (one atomic layer of graphite) in 2005. The Greek letters and are the measurement parameters of ellipsometry, an optical measuring technique. The hourglass symbolizes the dispersion of electron energy in graphene, and the three light grey crystals in the top right show the transparency of graphene. 2 | parties Graphene is an extremely thin (three million times thinner
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cians, we wouldn’t have succeeded in our set up, which would have meant the greater part of our research project couldn’t have been done. The spectroscopic ellipsometers and the Raman microscope have also been indispensable, as they enabled us to optically characterize graphene.
4 | society benefit The optical techniques we’ve developed can be used for contactless, in situ, real-time monitoring of the large-scale production of graphene for a wide variety of uses.
than a millimeter), extremely strong, great electrical conductor with many applications, especially in future electronics like flexible touch screens. We’ve constructed a unique set up to grow graphene of a few centimeters in size. To monitor the quality and further processing of the graphene, we’ve combined several optical measuring techniques as well as a number of methods for data analysis.
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Trends in extreme rainfall
1 | cover The cover of my thesis shows various stages of the heavy 3 | essential Apart from the invaluable support from my supervisors rainfall event of July 28, 2014, which covered large parts of the Netherlands. Starting in the upper left and going clockwise, one can see the impressive rain cloud over Deventer, pouring rain in Utrecht, an flooded dike in Alphen aan den Rijn, and finally a flooded street in Amsterdam.
2 | parties The characteristics of extreme rainfall are likely to alter
owing to climate change. Standard techniques to estimate these characteristics do not reflect this. Building on previous work, we developed methods to estimate extreme rainfall characteristics and their trends. To achieve high accuracy we exploited the fact that the precipitation regime does not vary much over the Netherlands. Therefore, slightly modified rainfall extremes from multiple measurement sites, e.g. the above mentioned Deventer, Utrecht, Alphen aan den Rijn, and Amsterdam, can be combined in the estimation process.
Kevin van Eeten | Chemical Engineering 1 | cover
We see the flow around a bubble. Inside of the bubble there is a tea cup with tea leaves being stirred. When you do this, you’ll notice that the leaves will move towards the center of the cup and pile up there. This may seem odd, as one would expect that the heavy leaves will move outwards like in a centrifuge. An explanation for this was given by none other than Einstein; by stirring, a recirculation forms in the cup where there exists a flow towards the center in the bottom of the cup, dragging the leaves along.
2 | parties Just like Einstein’s solution of the tea leave paradox, my thesis deals with the rotational flows of liquids, gases and solids. This is relevant for the further development of an innovative chemical reactor; the rotor-stator spinning disc reactor. In this reactor, a disc, about the size of a CD, rotates at high velocities in a narrow encasing. This results in extremely good mixing and intensification of chemical processes.
I relied heavily on resampling techniques, such as bootstrapping and permuting. With these techniques one can obtain uncertainty measures, e.g. confidence bands, without exactly knowing the underlying distributions.
4 | society benefit The presented methods can be used in the planning of hydrological infrastructure, such as sewage systems. Moreover, an adapted method could be valuable for prediction purposes.
Rotating currents 3 | essential Thanks to prof. Gert-Jan van Heijst I‘ve learnt a lot, and I could set up the necessary collaborations for doing research on the interface of chemical reactor engineering and fluid dynamics.
4 | society benefit We now know why exactly the rotor-stator spinning disc reactor performs so well. With this knowledge we can make better reactor designs for chemical processes, more efficient and safer compared to conventional reactors.
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“A wedding at Gas TU/e: a home away from home for about thirteen thousands of employees and students. The international community is a relatively small one, with infinite connections between its members, be they professional or private. In ‘Linked’, two community members talk about their mutual relationship and their connection to the university.
They fit together like a hand in a glove. Mark Graus (31) and Lana Borukova (27) have been together for three years now. They’re looking forward to their wedding in August, which will take place on TU/e grounds if it’s up to them. It’s their second home: they live a stone’s throw from campus, both are TU/e graduates, and now they’re working on their PhDs. A portrait of a (future) marriage. With her big blonde hair she caught his eye immediately during spinning class at the Student Sports Center. And she noticed Mark, too, after he posted a Facebook comment about the tough spinning class she’d given one day as a substitute instructor. The comment was followed by dinner at her place, which wasn’t a huge success. “Chewy Thai curry”, Lana - full name Svetlana - says, laughing. Her choice in music that night, DJ Jack Sparrow, made up for most of dinner however. Mark loves electronic music and is an amateur DJ himself, so he took her to see Sparrow and DJ Ruckspin in OT301 in Amsterdam. It was their first real date. “That’s when we really hit it off”, he tells us. Svetlana was born and raised in Uzbekistan, and attended a Kazakh-Turkish secondary school. Since she didn’t have access to a student grant, she applied for the Technical University in Ankara. With a Turkish student grant, she completed two chemical engineering majors in four years’ time. Thanks to her Turkish roommate she spoke Turkish
fluently within four months. “I had to, as nobody knew English.” After four years, she moved to the University of California in Riverside for her PhD. She didn’t feel challenged there, so after a year she switched to TU/e in the Netherlands through the Talent Scholarship Program. Here, she received her master’s degree in Process Technology, and then embarked on her PhD. Lana thinks the Netherlands are a perfect country for women with careers. “In Uzbekistan, women have to take care of their husband and children, cook and clean, and work. Here that’s something husband and wife do together.” Mark’s mother has roots in Vietnam, but he was born in Zwolle. After secondary school he went on to study at TU/e. “I tried Electrical Engineering, but that wasn’t for me. I needed social context. Studying technique in a vacuum just isn’t as much fun as doing so when it’s linked to human thinking, behavior, and actions. So I switched to the Department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences. I have a master’s degree in Human-Techno
logy Interaction, and I’ve been a Studium Generale and Virus volunteer for years.”
“I don’t have to compromise with him” His future wife’s most striking feature is het enthusiasm, he says. “She’s up for anything, big or small. It’s heartwarming, really. She’s very open and honest, too.” To her, he’s a warm person who’s very supportive of her. “I don’t have to compromise; I feel free around him. And he’s completely supportive of my ambitions.” She refers to the many (nightly) hours she spends in the lab of Micro Flow Chemistry and Process Technology. She wants to develop and implement methods to synthesize active ingredients in medication continuously. “It’s my goal to create ways to produce medication more environmentallyfriendly, sustainable, and safer”, the PhD candidate explains. Mark, in the meantime, spends hours on end behind his computer collecting data to analyze the behavior of website visitors - three years as a part-time employee at a company at first, but when that went bankrupt he landed a full-time PhD position that’s resulted from a collaboration between Philips and
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slab would be perfect” TU/e. They discuss their research often, because they’re going through the same. “Research is never-ending”, Lana says. “We motivate each other when one of us is going through a rough patch. When I’m low and I see Mark at his computer, I tell myself ‘just do it’ and go back to work.”
Work hard, play hard The principle of work hard, play hard fits both of them, witness their regular city trips, adventurous journeys, festival visits, and parties. Mark: “We celebrate whatever we can, be it birthdays, publications, papers, a new job or our first real date on January 22 - we even celebrated a DJ gig and the short period I was jobless after my employee went bankrupt.
It’s all Lana. She sees the positive in everything.” Celebrations vary. “Sometimes it’s dinner or chocolate fondue”, Mark laughs, slightly embarrassed. “But special occasions, like when Mark proposed, are celebrated with champagne at the small lake in Eckartse Bos”, Lana adds. They challenge and inspire each other, and are both very active. The cycling holiday through Sardinia was Lana’s idea, as was the surfing trip to Portugal - which also happens to be their honeymoon destination. He loves music
with energy, she prefers more melodious tunes, but Mark has come to appreciate her taste as well. Lana can be found in the SSC as an instructor three times a week, and Mark mounts his bike three times a week to train for his trip to Zwolle on April 27.
“TU/e is out second home” Although Lana will be applying for a Dutch passport, both see their post-PhD future abroad. They both feel job opportunities - IT for him, chemistry for her - are better elsewhere. But first, there’s the wedding. To seal their love, they’ll be tying the knot in August. And since he played a part in their becoming a couple, the famous DJ Ruckspin will be performing at their party. “When we told him our story
at the Outlook Festival in Croatia, he was so excited he promised to be there. If there’s a way to secure Gaslab for our wedding, that would be perfect; TU/e is our second home, after all. We’re
trying really hard to make it all happen.”
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Pulling the strings of your own future Text | Judith van Gaal Will you be a researcher, will you join the business community or are you going to set up an enterprise of your own? As of September Master students at TU/e will be given more opportunities to shape their own careers. Freedom of choice and creating your own future are important ingredients of the Graduate School - all the education coming after the Bachelor’s program. Various TU/e employees are plodding away to get it all ready before September.
Jan Fransoo, dean of the Graduate School, cannot emphasize it enough: at the introduction of the Graduate School - the new bundling of all the education after the Bachelor’s program - Master students are definitely not guided all the way. “By now many students know what they can expect, but I’ve noticed that they don’t always know what is not going to happen. For instance, interim tests are not required and otherwise there will be few central regulations. The Graduate School students are responsible for their own fate to a far greater extent than within the Bachelor College. They must be given the chance to shape their own careers.” And that is the heart of the matter: a great deal of initiative will have to come from the
Master students themselves. The switch to the Graduate School is less rigorous than the one to the Bachelor College. Even so a large number of TU/e employees are pulling out all the stops to get everything in order. How far are they with the different constituent projects ?
Master’s degree programs reorganized If you start your Master’s program in September, nearly all your courses count 5 ects and are clustered in quartiles. In addition, the education
is timetabled in slots. All study programs are comprised of 120 credits and a maximum of 30 ects can be timetabled for required courses. You select specialist courses in consultation with your mentor or thesis supervisor and you must be able to follow at least 15 credits worth of free elective courses at Master’s degree level. At least 15 ects must consist of international experience and a final project has 30 and/or 45 credits. An earlier obligation for students to go abroad has been abandoned. Now students must be given the opportunity within their degree programs to gain international experience - for example by following courses abroad or doing a traineeship.
All new Master’s degree programs were approved in January. This was preceded by a lot of work indeed, which involved Graduate Program Directors having to think of an adjusted program for their Master’s degree. This was easier for some programs than for others. Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, for instance, had been working on adjustments to its curriculum for a while already, so that it was possible to start the Master’s degree course in the new setup at the beginning of this academic year. Those responsible for the adjustments at Computer Science and Engineering had also made a lot of progress already. Architecture, Building and Planning was among the Departments where changes
Miguel Bruns (Program Director Industrial Design):
“The proportion between projects and following courses will not change” The new setup has to be in line with the Graduate School and the identity of Industrial Design needs to be preserved. This was the goal to be realized by Program Director Miguel Bruns within his department. Meanwhile there is a program and an overview of courses. Bruns about the changes: “Within our department students now spend almost two-thirds of their time on projects and one-third on courses and that will stay as it is. As of September there will be 20 ects for project learning and two elective subjects of 5 ects each. The greatest change that we will carry through is that we will abandon the modules of 1, 2 or 4 weeks, in order to ensure that students from other departments can also attend courses at our department. Lecturers will have to spread their courses over several weeks. They can convert the teaching material into electives of 5 ects or integrate them with project learning.” Master students can choose straight away from three profiles or a combination: Design Strategy and Entrepreneurship, R&D on Design of Interactive Systems and Constructive Design Research. All Master students also need to attend a course that probes the research within the department to a greater depth. “Another new item is that we are starting a multidisciplinary group project, in order to make sure that non-ID students also feel very welcome”, says Bruns. Not everyone is enthusiastic about the plans just yet, the Program Director admits. “A number of lecturers see an increase in the workload. Courses need to be adjusted, which will take more of an effort for some than for others.”
were more drastic, because its program left too little space for elective courses initially, as Jim Bergmans, policy officer at the Student Education and Service Center (STU), explains. He is a member of the project team that has checked the plans of the study programs for the new Master’s degree education. The project team checked especially whether the plans fit in with the setup of the Graduate School. Sufficient elective scope for students was an important criterion there. It was left to the departments themselves to arrange the subjects and to determine which subjects were preserved or amalgamated (see the box below about the adjustments at Industrial Design).
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In the period ahead lecturers will get started on transforming their courses to 5 credits and the timetables will be drafted. In addition, the role of the mentors, who will be role models and coaches at once, will be determined further.
Access to ‘the brains of TU/e’ via the Honors Academy As of September, all ‘excellent’ Master students can obtain extra credits. That honors track is going to look different within the Master’s degree program, says Paul Koenraad - professor at Applied Physics and one of the founders of the Honors Academy. “The specifics will be strongly individually oriented and students themselves will be in charge”, is his sketch of the essence. The track is comprised of 20 ects and comes on top of the Master’s program. A portion of that comprising 5 ects must be elaborated by students by developing personal leadership. Koenraad: “This means that we go and look what students are good at.
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What are their character traits and where do they want to realize growth? This extends beyond the development of skills within the SkillsLab is focused much more on the development of talents. Students must draw up an action plan.” Within the other 15 ects you elaborate your idea; this is where it is about the substance. Koenraad: “You conceive of something and we ensure that you get access to the brains of TU/e, and to the relations that we have as a university.” That plan can be a variety of things: from setting up an enterprise of your own, to a traineeship abroad, attending courses at another university or gathering specific knowledge about a certain subject. It is also possible to follow an existing honors program of the course. Mentors keep tabs on the students’ progress. Students wishing to qualify must first go through a selection procedure. “As a student you really need to be top of the class. Think of students who have done a double Bachelor’s degree program, or of students who are making nominal study progress and have followed an honors track in the Bachelor stage. Anyone interested needs to write a letter and we then check to
see whether it meets the criteria. We shall also have a close look at the plan. The details of those criteria are still waiting to be determined and we also need to see how we can cooperate with the departments in the selection process.” On March 16 the setup for the Honors Academy will be presented to the University Council.
Development of skills within the SkillsLab It is described clearly in the plans for the Graduate School: students should be able to hone their skills. In order to comply with this desire, the Education and Students Service Center (STU) is working on a so-called SkillsLab: an on-line platform where users can test how far they have progressed with certain skills, where they can find teaching materials and can give and receive feedback. The idea of presenting the development of skills online was expressed earlier, but the vision and ambition of the Graduate School made it urgent - explains Larisa Camfferman,
coordinator Professional Skills & Coaching at STU. By now the construction of the website has progressed substantially. Within a month after having started their programs, Master students need to establish their command of different skills by means of a self-assessment. Then they discuss with a mentor in what way they are going to work on their skills. Subsequently there is a more detailed test enabling them to find out how good they are at presenting, cooperating and writing. Online they can find exercise materials in the form of courses of STU or instruction films from YouTube. In the course of 2016 more skills will probably be added. Camfferman: “What skills they are will be determined in consultation with the Graduate School. If students need certain skills, they can indicate this.” The on-line platform has a strongly interactive component. Users can upload films and exercise materials themselves and make assessments. They can also get in touch with each other. Camfferman: “If you grant permission for that, others can see how good you are at something. That way someone who is less skilled in presenting can ask more
about this to a fellow student who is better at it.” Camfferman expects that businesses will also be keenly interested in cooperating. “We are asking companies what skills they think you need to master if you want to work for them. Students then have a goal to aim at.” A number of pilots will be done on the platform over the next few months and as of September all Master students can get cracking with it. Later it will also be made accessible to PhD candidates and trainee design engineers. The website is active for two years and will then be fully integrated into the new Learning Management System, so that students will be able to do everything on one platform.
Turning TU/e into one close community “A sense of community, the sense of belonging to a certain group, proves to be tremendously important”, argues Yvonne de Kort - professor of Environmental Psychology at the Department of Industrial Engineering
Student Jip Baltissen (IE&IS):
Student Roderick van Gils (TN):
“I also expect few problems combining top sport and my studies in the Master’s program”
“I have the impression that there are not really going to be many drastic changes”
“In September I’m beginning on my Master’s program. I’m still not sure whether it will be Innovation Sciences or Human-Technology Interaction. I attended presentations of both study programs and some information about the Graduate School was given there as well. It is great that you can compose your own cluster of subjects. I want to look purely at the subjects that look fun to me and base my choice on that. I’m a top sportsman, I take part in athletics at a high level, and I train mostly in the evening. So far I’ve had few problems combining studies and sport. I have always worked together closely with the student adviser and for the Master’s program I’m also going to check with him whether there are any obstacles to be expected.
“I finished my Bachelor’s degree program last year. This academic year I only attend a few courses because I’m in the executive committee of a study association. I want to discuss with the student adviser how the subjects that I’m doing this year fit in with the whole program for next year. If I can use those subjects in my program - possibly by doing some extra work for a subject because its study load is increased from 4 to 5 ects - that would be great. If it is difficult to implement, it’s not a problem for me if the subjects I finish this year are not taken into account.
First I did have the impression that our class would serve as guinea pigs, but now I’ve seen that there’s not really that much changing in the programs themselves. I suspect that it’s mainly the switch from passively attending lectures to participating in more interactive and dynamic courses, in which there is more discussion taking place. I really like the possibility that is given in the Master’s program of HTI of conducting small research projects in businesses, so that you can really get the feel of the business community.”
By now I have heard quite a lot about the Graduate School. I know quite some people who have information about it, I always pop in on and off at the course administration and on January 10 there was an information meeting at our department. The setup looks fine to me and I don’t have the impression that there are going to be many drastic changes for us. For one, we already had a mentor. The SkillsLab sounds like a good initiative and a fine compromise has been found for gaining international experience: no longer obligatory, while you do have the option. I think it’s a good thing that we have lots of options available. That will be a puzzle later. Now I think I’m mainly going to attend plasma courses within Applied Physics and then move towards the business community. I find it very convenient that access to courses at Industrial Engineering, for instance, is facilitated. I don’t really worry about it, I’ll just wait and see how things turn out.”
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& Innovation Sciences. “A good social network has a positive effect on people’s well-being. They drop out less easily and perform better.” This insight was gained earlier by De Kort and dean Fransoo also understood how important it is. At Fransoo’s request De Kort along with other TU/e employees tried to find out how the sense of togetherness at TU/e can be reinforced. “We have a great many communities within the community. Whilst we have an active life in associations and clubs, you see that in study associations for instance it is mostly Bachelor students who play active parts. And different nationa lities have their own associations. We have talked to many employees and students and have had brainstorming sessions, all of which resulted in a lot of concrete ideas. To name just a few examples: a huge graduation ceremony, pimp the elevators, matches against other universities, organize a pick nick and a buddy system to familiarize international students with the lie of the land.” The Community formation taskforce has categorized all the ideas in ten themes, including ‘membership awareness’, ‘training and education’, ‘campus site’ and ‘relations
with the outside world’. Now the next step is to draw up an action plan in consultation with the dean of the Graduate School. De Kort: “As far as we’re concerned there are now two matters that should be given priority. Firstly, we want to get the administration in order: we want to be able to write at once to all persons coming under the Graduate School. Secondly, we find it very important that new students and employees should be welcomed and can find and reach each other more easily.” It still needs to be determined who is going to take on which tasks. De Kort: “It turned out to be constricting to focus only on the Graduate School, so now the aim has become to turn TU/e as a whole into one close community. We will not be the only ones who will undertake those tasks, so we shall look very carefully at their division.”
Do you want to know more: www.tue.nl/studeren/tue-graduate-school/graduate-programs/ Photo | Bart van Overbeeke
Jan Hensen, professor of Building Physics and Services:
“A good moment to hold the courses up to the light”
Professor Jan Hensen is one of the lecturers who is going to convert his courses to 5 credits. He had soon found the solution: two courses will be combined. “I teach State of the art in building performance simulation for integrated solutions and Sustainable energy systems for the built environment and intrinsically those subjects fit in with each other very well. The aim is to arrive at the course Building performance and energy system simulation. That will take some more brainwork, though, it’s not as if we can simply sweep everything up into one big heap. Still, I don’t expect any major problems. We have many years of experience with those subjects and have also received a great deal of feedback. Now we are also going to see whether we can fit in other forms of teaching and for this subject we are considering Enriched skeleton maps (a method in which students themselves can add insights on the basis of teaching materials, ed.). I think that this will make the arrangement of courses clearer for students and it is a good thing to have uniformity across the courses. Moreover, for us this is a great opportunity to hold everything up to the light.” Photo | Bart van Overbeeke
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