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31 October 2013 | year 56

TU/e picks Coursera as educational platform

Grand opening new accommodation E.S.C well attended Sunday 27 October 2013 - The new home of the Eindhoven Student Corps (E.S.C) at Ten Hagestraat 13 was opened officially last Friday. The student society left the Bunker for a new accommodation in the city center. The opening generated a lot of attention.

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Friday 25 October 2013 - TU/e will be spreading free knowledge through Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Last week, the international educational platform Coursera added TU/e to their list of high-quality universities that step into the limelight by offering free video lectures. The first MOOC of TU/e will be uploaded in April, 2014. It will be put together by prof.dr.ir. Bert Blocken of the Department of Built Environment. The course title is ‘Sports and Building Aerodynamics’. The video lecture production is part of a wide-scale plan to use more digital education at TU/e.

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Thursday 17 October 2013 - Last week, approximately 35 Electrical Engineering freshmen created universal remote controls with a single button: off. After instructions and subsequent soldering, the students headed for Media Markt to test their creations. They split up in groups and made their way for the TVs with the objective to switch them off. Staff was pretty baffled, says Pasquale van Heumen of Volundr - a committee within the Thor study association. “They kept trying to turn the TVs back on.” Volundr is a new committee within the study association that allows students to experience electrical engineering in everyday life. Yesterday’s theme was the art of soldering. The committee intends to organize more workshops like this.

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Last week we celebrated the birthday of the TU/e Common Room (Cosmos). There was a photo contest this year, themed ‘Culture Shock’. As I was scrolling through my photo albums, I found many pictures that would be appropriate for the contest. I asked myself what I consider a culture shock. Coming from India, being almost on the other side of the planet, anything and everything is different from my own culture. Weather, food, dress, religion, festivities - everything! But how much of all that has been an actual ‘shock’ to me? Living in a cosmopolitan city in India, I was aware of what a ‘European’ lifestyle could be like, and what the heritage and culture of the continent might entail. I admired the beauty of Europe and the vibrant lives of its inhabitants - watching it on TV in my home in Kolkata. As I touched down in Europe for the first time during a Dutch summer, the excitement of experiencing it myself came as a thrill. The real shock came with the snow. I loved snow when I was still in India, but now it appeared

plain pale and depressing. On top of that, the sun rose in the afternoon and set way before Dutch dinner time (which is already so shockingly early)! Fortunately, I got a most wonderful ‘shock’ travelling around Europe. The clear water of the Mediterranean, the sharp contrast of the Dutch and German landscape, and the well-preserved Nazi concentration camps - it was a real culture shock to see all of those with my very own eyes. I felt shocked, thrilled, and amazed at the same time during the first year of my stay here, and I’m sure there’s more to come in the upcoming winter and the summer after that! Hey internationals, are you ready?

Bipashyee Ghosh Innovation , Master student Sciences


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